Ali Taheri

Ali Taheri Moghadam-(330)- OBJECTIVE Highly accomplished and motivated Network Engineer with 8 years of experience in designing, provisioning, deploying, migrating, and supporting midsize to large enterprise and service provider networks. Result-driven and goal-oriented professional dedicated to learning and able to adapt to a changing environment. Eager to learn new topics in the field with extraordinary organization and analytical skills. Seeking a Senior Network Engineer or Design Engineer position where I can further develop my skills while researching modern technologies and overcoming new challenges as I ensure the delivery of service promised to the company. EDUCATION Kent State University – Kent, OH, United States MSc Computer Science GPA: 3.90 Graduated: Dec 2015 University of Malaya – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia BS Computer Science, Major: Computer Networks and Systems GPA: 3.83 Graduated: Dec 2013 CERTIFICATIONS: • CCNA R&S (Routing and Switching) • JNCIA-Juno • CCNA-SP • JNCIS-ENT • JNCIS-SP • JNCIP-SP • JNCIP-ENT • JNCIA-DevOps • JNCIS-DevOps • Currently practicing for JNCIE-SP and JNCIE-ENT EXPERIENCES: Everstream Solutions – Cleveland, OH Lead Engineer, Core Engineering June 2019 – Present • In depth knowledge of IGP (OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS), BGP (iBGP, eBGP, MP-BGP), SPRING/Segment Routing, LDP/RSVP Label Signaling • In depth knowledge of VPNs (L2VPN, L3VPN, VPLS, VPWS, EVPN, Carrier of Carrier) • Well understanding of Automation and DevOps tools, languages, libraries and data structure models such as NETCONF, OPENCONFIG, Ansible, Salt, SLAX, XSLT, Puppet, Chef, PyEZ, XML, JSON, YAML • Well understanding of monitoring and Automation tools provided by Juniper such as Healthbot and Northstar • Design and deployment of macro cell towers for T-Mobile/ AT&T • Well understanding of Optical network, Cyan/ Ciena Z-Series Packet-Optical Platforms, DWDM/ CWDM, and services such as EPL/ EVPL/ ELINE/ ELAN/ ERP. • Some of the main tasks/ Projects: o Market expansion across Midwest (IN, IL, WI, MO) and deployment of fully converged backbone (IGP/BGP/MPLS) between all markets o Backbone redesign to minimize impact in case of total isolation of any market o Deployment of Route Reflector in Clusters, and confederations using MX10003 o Deployment of 12 Border routers with full table, meshed with RR, for 2 ASNs for redundancy o Design and deployment of high-speed (200/300G) inter-market P network using ACX6360 and MX2020 o Lead Support for Top20 customers o Detailed analysis of backbone link, identifying most critical links, upgrading to 100/200G LAG o Image upgrade of all Backbone MX routers to 18.4, dual RE with NSB/ NSR/ GRES o Deployment of OcularIP, and Visionmetrix for SLA performance monitoring o Deployment of SkyLIGHT Director Network Performance Management Platform • Design, configuring and deployment of: o Juniper Ex series switches such as 4300, 4500, 4550, 4600 o Juniper MX Series Edge routers such as MX960, MX2020, and MX10003 o Juniper ACX Series Access routers such as ACX2200, and ACX6360 o Juniper vRR and Route Server o Juniper SRX Series Next-Gen Firewalls such as SRX345 o Juniper QFX Series High-End Data Center Switches QFX5100 o NFX Series Network Services Platform such as NFX150, NFX250 o Accedian Metro nodes GT/ GT-S/ LT/ LT-S o Cisco Carrier grade routers such as ASR1000, ASR9000 Everstream Solutions – Cleveland, OH Network Operation Engineer III February 2017 – May 2019 • As a Tier III I was involved in more troubleshooting areas such as Internet, Ethernet transport, BGP, MPLS, VPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN, Dark Fiber, Data Center Colocation • Taking ownership of escalated tickets from Tier I and Tier II team and troubleshooting • BGP Route optimization, advertising IP space to upstream carriers, receiving IP space from peering customers • Good understanding of MPLS and its related protocols such as LDP, RSVP, TE, FRR, L2VPN, L3VPN and VPLS • Provisioning and monitoring: Juniper Ex series switches such as 4300, 4500, 4550, 4600 Juniper MX Series Edge routers such as MX104, MX240, and MX480 Juniper ACX Series Access routers such as 1100, and 2100 Juniper SRX Series Next-Gen Firewalls such as 300 and 320. Juniper QFX Series High-End Data Center Switches QFX5100 Cisco Carrier grade routers such as ASR1000, ASR9000 Everstream Solutions – Cleveland, OH Network Operation Engineer II September 2016 – February 2017 • As a Tier II I was involved in more troubleshooting areas such as Internet, Ethernet transport, and BGP • Taking ownership of escalated tickets from Tier I team and troubleshooting • Provisioning core nodes and re-configuring different head ends based on customer’s need • Responsible for future and current customers deployment designs • Mainly focused on BGP and MPLS configuration and maintenance • Well familiar with Routing Protocols such as RIP, IS-IS, OSPF, BGP and more advanced topics such as Filter based forwarding, Aggregated routes, generated routes, Advanced Routing Policies, virtual routers/instances and logical routers • Expert in Vlan, Inter Vlan Routing, STP, RSTP and MSTP • Experienced with High Availability protocols (Cisco and Juniper) such as Link Aggregation Groups LAG, Redundant Trunking Groups RTG, Virtual Chassis, GR, GRES, NSR, NSB, FHRP protocols such as VRRP/ HSRP/ GLBP, ISSU and NHRP • Installing, configuring and monitoring: Juniper Ex series switches such as 4300, 4500, 4550, 4600. Juniper MX Series Edge routers such as MX10, MX80 and MX240 Juniper ACX Series Access routers such as 1000 and 1100 Juniper SRX Series Next-Gen Firewalls such as 210 and 220 • Configuring and monitoring: Juniper QFX Series High-End Data Center Switches. Cisco Carrier grade routers such as ASR1000, ASR9000. Everstream Solutions – Cleveland, OH Network Operation Engineer March 2016 – September 2016 • Re-applied all my knowledge and syntax from Cisco into Juniper and Accedian as Everstream is vastly a Juniper shop with 10% of gears being Cisco and Accedian • Attending to customer calls, providing tech support and escalating to senior engineers if not able to obtain a resolution to customers issues • Installing, configuring and monitoring: Juniper Ex series switches such as 2200, 2300, 3200, 3300, 4200 and 4300. Cisco 2960, 3550, 3560 and ME Switches Cisco 1841, 2811 routers • Monitoring: backend connections between our head ends and Data centers environmental health of our core nodes with Solarwinds various circuits and ensuring availability using PRTG and Solarwinds. • Obtaining JNCIA-Juno Acuative Corporation – Strongsville, OH Network Engineer Tier II May 2015 – March 2016 • Responsible for taking over escalated cases from NOC • Troubleshooting various issues with global carriers as our clients had more than 2000 branches in East Asia, \ Europe and North America • Route optimization for a single branch or a few geographically grouped sites from main location • Installing, configuring and monitoring: • Constantly modifying and pushing new rules mostly to IBM MX and Cisco ASA Firewalls • Managed central and independent wireless controllers for NextGen or traditional network clients • Monitoring client’s network stability, ensuring QoS to all sites using CA Spectrum • Utilized CA Spectrum to save topologies implemented for each customer Conference Connect Sdn Bhd – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Network Engineer July 2013 – July 2014 • As the first IT team member I oversaw deploying desktops/ Servers/ Routers and Switches • Redesigned the initial proposed topology by a third-party IT consultant as it was not necessary for company to use BGP; a simple internet connection would suffice • Configuring and maintaining Router, Switches and Mobility Agents • Constantly new rules to cisco ASA as we had clients from North America, Europe and East Asia • Gained experience of working with variety of voice bridges • Recognized for achieving the highest ranked individual for quality of services • Significant improvement of communication skills Cisco Systems Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Executive Network Consultant July 2012 – Dec 2012 • Completed 6-month project on healthcare network design/ implementation for Sime Darby Medical Center. • Had the opportunity to learn many L2/L3 protocols • Worked on CCNP-level practices and scenarios • Familiarized myself with most recent/ advances technologies like MPLS, VSS, BGP • Gained a wider understanding of real business environment • Higher knowledge of relations between customers and vendors • Developed skills as a Team player yet mastering administrative skills in individual tasks. • Quick decision making, Excellence in communication skills SKILLS: • Multiprotocol Label Switching-MPLS (LDP, RSVP, TE, FRR, L2VPN, L3VPN, VPLS • Basic knowledge of SDN and OpenFlow (Recently started Learning) • L3 Routing Protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, RIP • L2 Switching Protocols: VTP, STP, RSTP, PVST+, MSTP • Redundancy Protocols: HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, JSRP • Familiar with structure and operation of Hubs, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Wireless controllers, Access Points and DWDM/CWDM • Firewalls: Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, WatchGuard, SonicWall • Intermediate programming skills in Java, C/C++, Python, VHDL, HTML, HTML5, Matlab and .NET • Intermediate programming skills for Android and IOS gears • Intermediate skills in Oracle Database, MySQL, MongoDB and SQLite • Customer relations • Teamwork