mohammed dawood pasha

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• More than 17 years of IT experience in the field of IT Networking Operation, Infrastructure, Telecom Domain,
• IT Projects manage and executed in India, Australia, UK, KSA, UAE and Qatar.
• Experience in service delivery and service management Leading Team of resources.
• Experience in monitoring application and system performance by using different tools.
• Hands on Experience on Cisco Router, Switches, ASA Firewall, ACI deployment.
• Hands on Experience on SonicWall Firewall, FortiGate Firewall, Palo Alto Firewall.
• Cisco tools used for routers CCP, Cisco Firewall tool ASDM, Authentication tool: ACS 
• Software and hardware installation and troubleshooting on Windows Servers - MCSE
• Strong knowledge of network hardware including servers, routers, and other computer devices.
• Scheduled, coordinated and deployed server updates and preventative maintenance with limited downtime.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project: Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy – FIFA                       Duration: Aug 2022 – Dec 2022

Role: Senior Network Lead / Manager                                                             Location: Qatar

Responsibilities

• SD-WAN Policies, Addressing VLAN, Content Filtering, Access Control, Splash Page creation.
• Cisco Meraki MX450 Firewall, MS425 Core Switch, M44 AP configuration, Test and Turn Up.
• Security Umbrella configuration and Monitoring, logs, ports monitoring.
• Hand on experience on SD-WAN, ACI Deployment, Nexus 9000 series.
• Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) implementation and its dashboard configuration as per requirement.
• Cisco Firewall 5520 model, web application defense, whitelisting of websites, VPN Configuration.
• Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller monitoring and adding AP’S
• Managing Hayya Service Center & Ticketing Center 24x7 and maintaining uptime.
• Troubleshooting of connection on Firewall, checking logs, Malware and Thread Management on Firepower.

Project: Ministry of Labor - RACA                                                                 Duration: Feb 2022 – Apr2022

Role: Senior Network Engineer                                                                     Location: Qatar

Responsibilities

• Test and turn up of Device, Configuration of Router and Switches Verification, overall responsibility to Turn up the site.
• Configuration of VLAN
• Worked on Migration of on premises device to Cloud hosted network - Azure
• Creating the Network Object and Network Group on Cisco ASA Firewall-ASDM, Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel
• establishment, Allowing access to remote to site network.
• Creating the subnet list for the allowed Ingress and Outgress IP Address.
• Static Routing, OSPF, BGP Configuration.
• Working on Azure Migration project for configuration of dual layer of firewall, Palo Alto on the Front

End and Fortigate on the back end.

• Cisco Firepower for the Monitoring and inspection of on premises network.
• F5 Load Balance Monitoring and health check. Cisco Secure Email Gateway (Cisco ESA) whitelisting of
• websites, ports etc.,

Project: MasterCard - Wipro                                                                            Duration: Feb 2021 – Oct 2021

Role: Technical Lead - Security                                                                        Location: India

Responsibilities

• De-commissioning of old devices and proper handover
• Design and commission of Cisco ASA Firewall, Router 9200, Switch Security, Port guard, Port Security.
• Creating the Network Object and Network Group on Cisco ASA Firewall-ASDM, Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel 
• establishment, Allowing access to remote to site network.
• Creating the subnet list for the allowed Ingress and Outgress IP Address. 
• Creating a CR Document with Allowed Ip with port number. 
• Troubleshooting of connection on Firewall, checking logs, Malware and Thread Management on 
• Firepower.

Project: Etisalat Services Holding                                                             Duration: Sept 2016- Jan 2020

Role: Project Manager / Sr. Engg                                                                  Location: Dubai

Responsibilities

• Working with CICPA (Critical Infrastructure Costal Protection Authority) as Etisalat Client
• Maintaining and Managing of Cisco 3945 Routers with Voice and Security Feature
• Catalyst 3750x-24P-E Switch configuration and Maintenance Services
• Network Security Management, Network Security Audit.
• Network Security implementation, RCA (Root Cause Analysis).
• Installation of Network Equipment & Providing Maintenance Services
• Preparation of Security Audit Document and SLA Creation
• Tendering New Project, Costing, Bidding, Negotiation Meeting.
• Taking lead and Decision on Project handling and closer.
• Invoicing, Floating tenders, costing, Applying margin and submission

Project: kaah Express Financial Services FZCO                                      Duration: Jan 2016- Sept 2016

Role: IT Manager                                                                                            Location: Dubai

Responsibilities

• Implementation of Active Directory, Additional Domain Controller for different Sites
• Firewall (SonicWALL) implementation, configuration of VPN for different sites. 
• Fileserver, print server, Citrix Server configuration and monitoring.
• VMWARE ESXi, Cluster configuration. 
• Veam Backup of VMWARE ESXI, File backup for Symantec, 
• NAS Configuration with RAID5 and RAID 0.
• Switch Configuration VLAN, SonicWALL configuration.  
• CCTV, Port Forwarding, troubleshooting and maintaining. 

Project: Arabian Industries LLC (TAKREER PROJECT)                        Duration: Sept 2014- Sept 2015

Role: IT Security Expert                                                                        Location: Abu Dhabi

Responsibilities

• Registration of ADNOC Companies like ADCO, FERTIL, ADMA-OPCO for IT Telecom products and Tender work
• Training for TAKREER On Security Product, MS-SQL scripting, delete, add, tables, schema etc.,
• Installation and implementation of the Security Products OPDS Units with ADNOC Companies.
• Monitoring and backup of running configuration.
• Error detection and correction on logs.

Project: TechMahindra (AT&T / SHELL PETROLEUM / VHA Ericson) Duration: Feb 2009- July 2014

Role: Technical Project Manager                                                    Location: Australia, KSA, India

Responsibilities

• Worked for AT&T/SHELL/VHAS
• Configuring, maintaining router and switches.
• Test and Turn Up of Cisco Router and Switches Globally governed by AT&T.
• LAN migration, logical Move, Add, Change, Delete Sites.
• Troubleshooting Routing Protocols.
• Configuring Cisco 7200, 3845, 2841, 1841 Router 
• Implementing Tacacs on the routers, Adding ACL (Access list) as per the SLA.
• Audit of configuration, design, raising a request and implementing config on the routers
• ASA 5520 Firewall analysis and troubleshooting.
• Time and Attendance delay Network Analysis
• Active Directory configuration, OU, Users and Groups, DNS, DHCP, WSUS (windows server update services).
• Exchange Server configuration, Backup, NFS (Network File Sharing), File Encryption

London College of Computing                                                                              Duration:  Mar 2007 - Mar 2009

System Administrator                                                                                          Location: London, UK

Responsibilities

• Domain Controller promotion in windows 2003 server
• Active Directory, users, groups.
• Group policies, Organizational Unit
• Exchange Server 2003 installation and troubleshooting outlook web access
• Restoring exchange server for small business servers
• ISA Server configuration
• IP Addressing and Sub netting
• VM Ware troubleshooting, Server Installation in VM Ware
• Router and Switch Configuration, rack mounting
• Trouble shooting Router and switches, First level support 
• Static and Dynamic- RIP, EIGRP, OSPF
• Switches- VLAN
• Firewall – Standard and Extended Access list
• Troubleshooting the Router and Switches
• Installing Linux Server accessing windows machines
• Assembling the computer and troubleshooting
• IP Addressing and troubleshooting through tracert, ping, path ping

Church Institute of technology                                                                           Duration: July 2005 – Dec 2006 

System Administrator                                                                                          Location: Hyderabad, India

• Design and laying out cat 5e cables
• Configuring Cisco Switch for VLAN. 
• Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco router and switches.
• Mounting racks for switches and routers
• Building daily report on networking devices and reporting
• Maintaining windows 2003 server, Active Directory, ISA
• Configuring Linux server (fedora v5), installing proxy server by using iptables
• Configuring Thin clients and maintenance
• Maintain all the 200 client machines distributed across 2 labs and departments
• Installing and conducting online exams to all the students of different departments in each term
• Taking incremental backup

ACADEMIC QUALIFCTION

• Master in Computer System Networking from The University of Greenwich- United Kingdom
• Bachelor of Electronic in Electronic & Communication Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

TECHNICAL CERTIFICATION 

• Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE - R & S) – Trained
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Cisco Id: Csco11730845
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA- Voice)
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA-Security)
• Microsoft Azure (Cloud Computing – PaaS, SaaS)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) - Trained
• ITIL V3 Foundation 
• Firewall, Asa, Checkpoint. Training Completed.
• Network Security Associate (NSE 1 & 2) - Fortinet
• Zoom Technologies - Red Hat Linux 9.0, CCIE, CCNA, CISCO - Wireless, Msce