Azhar Abbas

Azhar Abbas -/- E-mail:- Objective: Seeking for a challenging position in a reputable company where I can demonstrate my skills & knowledge to groom professionally and personally by becoming valued asset of the company. Job Profile: My work experience has been furnished in Telecom and IT infrastructure and Operations & Maintenance & Implementation/Rollout/Swap of Optical Transport Network & IP core Network. Professional Experience Special Communication Organization-Manager Datacom (Technical) Dec 2024-Present. Responsibilities:  Designing, Planning, implementation, cutover & swap, configurations, operation & maintenance and performance monitoring of IPcore Network  Lead Network swap (Cisco to Huawei)  Configuration support MPLS-SR, BGP, MP-BGP, L3VPN, EVPN, Xconnect, EVPN(P2MP), MVPN, ISIS, OSPF, Multicast, IGMP, PIM-SIM, SRV6, PPPoE, IPoE, Radius, AAA, Netconf, SNMP.  Lead meeting with vendor related to Current IPcore project and Cisco to Huawei swap project.  Lead to finalize Network Design for swap, BOQ (as per current network requirement) and complete contract & HLD/LLD finalization with Vendor  Lead to finalize Survey documents, Initial ATP documents and Final services PAT documents with vendor related to network swap.  Lead all the testing with new vendor product related to network swap. Nokia Pakistan (Team Lead/Expert (IPRAN) June 2018-Nov 2024. Responsibilities:  Leading SLM Team of 10 Resources for Managed Services of Telenor IP-RAN Network.  Provide level-2/3 support to regional IP/Datacom team for all major IP/Datacom issues occurred in the network and all the planned major & critical activities in the network.  R&D engagement for all 3rd lines issues which can’t able to resolve by SLM Team and provide logs, details and all coordination with R& for the issue rectification and RCA provide to customer.  Coordination and conduct meetings and join bridges with different domain teams (IPcore, RAN, Microwave, Core) for troubleshooting of different major and critical issues occurred in the network.  Final MOP Review for all major & critical activities.  Perform Quarterly complete Network configuration Audit manually or automation tool(python) and assign tasks to teams to rectify all the issues identified in audit.  Provide support to team for critical Version/patch upgradation activities, Critical Node expansion and reduction activities, Configuration verification of new rollout nodes and Service shifting.  Weekly and Daily Performance Management of Network-KPI (Network Utilization Reports, Optical power/Fiber loss Reporting, Leased Media Reporting, Twamp Reports).  Nationwide Operational Spares Management (Repair & Replacement, Disaster Recovery, Regional Distribution, New ordering, Testing of Repaired Hardware in Testbed).     IP-LLD and Service plan audit and verification as per actual implemented and planning Data. Part of Network Optimization team to check different issues in the network with all domains. Coordination with Planning for all new plans issued, plan verification and configuration as per LLD. Expertise in OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MP-BGP, MPLS L2VPN, L3VPN, MPLS-LDP, RSVP & TE, VRF, QOS, VRRP. ZTE (IPRAN/PTN Specialist) March 2017- June 2018 Responsibilities:  Managed Services of Telenor Transport Network (PTN/IPRAN)  24/ 7 Back-office support for all major and critical issues occurred in the PTN/IP-RAN Network.  Implementation and maintenance of enterprise service in DPLC Network.  Coordinate with 3rd level support team for all critical issues and provide root cause and solution of different issues occurred in the network.  Nationwide spares management and Lead Quarterly preventive maintenance of all sites under Transport domain.  Traffic shifting and testing of all new rollout nodes.  Version/patch upgradation, Network audit, expansion, and reduction activities. HUAWEI (TXN Engineer) Oct 2015 to March 2017 Responsibilities:  Commissioning, integration, and configuration of Huawei PTN -PTN910, PTN3900, PTN3900-8, PTN7900.  Cutover of 2G/3G and 4G traffic on newly integrated PTN nodes and service configuration  Design, Plan, Connectivity, integration, and Configuration for New Lambda’s in both PTN and DWDM.  Maintenance of Newly integrated PTN (l2 and L3) nodes till the handover to CS team.  Coordination with Subcon team for hardware Installation and Power up of new nodes.  Follow up from Subcon of all the work till the complete installation, initial PAT, and final PAT.  Version upgradation, Network expansion and reduction activities. ZTE (BO PTN SLM Engineer ) Feb 2013 - Sep 2015 Responsibilities:  All new Configurations and troubleshooting of all Operational issues and NMS support to all regional issues of Telenor Transport Network (PTN) Managed services.  Service configurations like Tunnel, PW for 2G,3G and 4G services.  Network Optimization, Expansion, reduction, and version/patch upgradation activities.  Network audit, CM, FM, and Performance management of Transport Network.  Conduct ATPs with Project team of newly integrated nodes. Hardware Expertise:       Cisco-NCS5508, NCS55A2, NCS540, A10-FW, FPR4115, FPR9300, Cisco EPNM. Cisco-9000 series and Cisco 4500 series switch. Cisco-7600 series router. Huawei-NE-8000-M4, M8 and M14, NE-8000-X4 and NE-8000-X4(BGN/CGN), NCE ZTE-PTN-9004,9008,6200,6110, ZTE-IPRAN-9000-5E,3E,2E4 and M6000-2S6, U31 Fortinet Firewall-100F, Zabbix & PRTG. Projects:       Telenor Transport (PTN) swap and Managed Services. CMPAK Transport (PTN) rollout and expansion project. Telenor Transport swap from PTN to IPRAN Telenor Managed Services of PTN & IPRAN. SCO CISCO IPCore Managed Services SCO CICSO IPcore swap project (cisco to Huawei). Professional Certification & Trainings: • • • • • • • • • CCNP(Enterprise)-CISCO ID No. CSCO-. Python scripting for Network Automation using Netmiko and Scrapli-EC-Council Network Automation using ansible-Coursea. Palo Alto Firewall -Corvit Training system Advance Excel/Power BI Training - Dice Analytics (Dice camp). Diploma in Cyber Security (6 Months) - National Initiative for Artificial Intelligence & Security CEH-Certified Ethical Hacker (-Neuxus Training Institute) FortiGate Firewall NSE4-Udemy Cisco NGFW Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). Udemy Skills/Expertise:      OSPF, ISIS, BGP, RSVP, MPLS, LDP, RSVP, L2VPN, L3VPN, VRF, Qos, IPsec, GRE, ACLs. VRRP, STP, AAA, SNMP, NTP, DHCP, NAT, Syslog, VTP, Port mirroring, EtherChannel. SRV6, EVPN, MVPN, VXLAN, PPPoE, IPoE, CGNAT, PBR, DNS, PBA (Port block Addressing) Network Automation using python Netmiko, Paramiko, Scrapli and ansibles. Data Analytics using Excel, SQL & Power-BI and Python. Professional Qualification:  BS in Telecommunication and Networking Comsats Institute of Information Technology Cgpa: 3.77/4 (Campus and Chancellor Gold Medalist