Work Experiences

About Tangerine:

Tangerine Bank is a Canadian direct bank and a subsidiary of Scotiabank. With more than 2 million clients and close to $38 billion in total assets, It is Canada’s leading direct bank. Tangerine offers flexible and accessible banking, innovative products and services, fair fees, and award-winning client service.

Key Responsibilities:

• Taking the lead in Advise, design, develop cloud strategy for network security infrastructure.

• Providing security best practice on how network security technologies should define in the cloud.

• Designing implement administer and maintain network and endpoint security solutions.

• Configuring and maintaining security solution on-premise/cloud/hybrid.

• Reviewing operation logs and event console activity and identifying potential security-related events, determining cause of such events, and recommending respective counter measures.

• Assist in maintaining and testing business continuity/disaster recovery plans, processes, and procedures necessary to recover services in the event of a declared disaster.

About MCCI:

Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran, also known as Hamrahe Aval, is the first and largest mobile operator in Iran. It's the first mobile operator in Iran in both voice calls and mobile internet (3G/4G.4.5G), products, services, and incentive plans for prepaid and postpaid subscribers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinating and leading three IT infrastructure projects including designing, installation, upgrading, 
migration, configuration, integration, and testing.

• 
Technical leading in multiple projects including firewall migration, RD site planning, and testing. 


• Performing activities required to plan, deploy, support, and scale mission-critical 24×7 IP networks. 


• Providing tier-4 support to resolve customer’s and organization’s name service issues as submitted within 
Maintaining security solutions, including firewall, VPN and policy routing, email, and web filtering. 


• Recommending network improvements, including cost/benefit analysis, to meet changing business 
requirements. 


• Participating in the SD-WAN technologies research and the implementation within the MCCI Core 
Network (including NFV and SDN). 


• Designing and executing technology strategies for large-scale and national operations. 


• Contributing to support, training, coaching of other 8 members of the team. 


Key Achievements:

• Working with the planning team to gather requirements and design technical solutions to improve 
network efficiency by 20%.

Technologies Involved:

Cisco Routers, Juniper SRX High-end, F5 Viprion, OSPF, BGP, IPS/IDS, RADIUS, TACACS, DNS, traffic management and optimization, SIEM, Splunk.

About Remis

Remis has turned itself into one of the major hubs of network equipment suppliers of the country during a decade. Now, with more than 400 staff working in different business lines of the company, which proves its capabilities in attracting customers and implementing strategic plans to develop the criteria of IT community in Iran.

Key Responsibilities:

• Helping customers to design their network and troubleshoot problems.

• Designing, implementing and maintaining IP networks for business customers.

• Troubleshooting network problems, escalating problems to vendor.

• Preparing logical and configuration designs and testing procedures.

• Proactive work aiming at improving device performance and security.

Technologies Involved:

PaloAlto, FortiGate, Cisco Firepower, Juniper SRX High-end, Junos Space, Cisco Catalyst, BGP, Anycast, Zebra, IPsec, EIGRP, Ansible, DoS/DDoS Mitigation, OpenStack,

About Morsa

Morsa is involved in consulting, designing, implementing, training and supporting " Turnkey Projects " in the fields of Software, Hardware, Networking & Telecom, Security and special ICT projects. With this many years of experience and the talent of Morsa's team, this company can be considered as the leading Information and Communication Service Provider in IRAN.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and troubleshooting of firewall clusters (Juniper SRXs).

• IGP (OSPF and EIGRP) Configuration and troubleshooting.

• Helping customers to design their network and troubleshoot problems.

• Providing second level support 24/7 for major security operations in MCCI.

• Monitoring systems implementation (PRTG, SolarWinds, Zabbix).

• Preparing logical and configuration designs and testing procedures.

• Writing technical documentation for projects.

• Sharing of the best practices to improve processes, efficiencies, and awareness in the team.

Key Achievements:

• Optimizing end-user experience with higher internet speed and cheaper service up-to 50% lower than before with traffic customization design.

• Customer satisfaction due to fast ticket handling and ticket escalating.

• Decreasing the company's cost by proving open source solutions.

Technologies Involved:

Huawei Routers, Juniper SRX High-end, Junos Space, OSPF, BGP, IPS/IDS, RADIUS, TACACS, DNS, traffic management and optimization, SIEM, Splunk.

About NAK:

NAK, as the main vendor of MCCI, the biggest telecom operator in the Middle east. It is a Telecom Managed Service provider in Iran, offering network roll-out, planning, optimization, network operations, administrative services, as well as project management and consultancy services. Our innovative solutions intelligently manage Telecom Networks helping to negate or minimize operational or business inefficiencies and allowing operators to achieve a significant return on investment via quality enhancement, cost savings, and enhanced customer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the design and development of Cisco datacenter networks in three zones including more than 250 fabrics.

• Retrofitting existing network and routing architectures as required to the latest security standards.

• A key driver in designing, executing and overseeing various initiatives to optimize operational efficiencies.

• Acknowledgment for delivering the first-rate tier-4 support for Escalations and Operation teams and for immediately resolving vendor concerns.

• Actively working on Azure platform to set up 4 new test DR services similar to production servers.

• Hands-on experience with the Palo Alto and FortiGate Firewalls, Cisco Nexus 5K, Cisco Prime.

• Developing scripts and applications to automate common or repetitive tasks.

• Facilitation of internal training for SDN technology and virtualization platforms to develop their skills and further increase support abilities.

• Directing client network infrastructure to achieve changing demands in their industry while adhering to Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) life cycle.

Key Achievements:

• Raising the uptime from 85% in 2017 to 99% in 2018 By modifying and improving the network topology and structure.

• Bring more redundancy and availability in company services by designing redundant datacenter and clustered network services.

• Increasing customer's task response time by providing scripts and automation plans.

• Mentoring 6 junior and tier 2/3 team members to adopt production needs for three years.

Technologies Involved:

Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Nexus 5k,7k & 9k, Leaf & Spine, Cisco ASA, Juniper Net Screen, OSPF, EIGRP, Spanning tree, load balancing, vPC, VLANs, ACS, Prime, NTP, SNMP, PRTG, ISMS, NIST, ICS.

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Farazpajohan, is a leading technology services provider delivering business solutions to its clients. It delivers one of the industry's broadest portfolios of information technology, applications and business process outsourcing services to clients around and within Iran.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementation of new network and routing architectures for more than 10 clients. 


• Developing and maintaining procedural, training, and logical/physical/architectural network 
documentation. 


• Proactively analyzing vulnerabilities in the network and addressing strategy/options for 
mitigation. 


• Monitoring and testing network performance and provide network performance statistics and 
reports. 
Identifying, diagnosing, and resolving complex network problems for 8 enterprise clients. 


• Making sound network recommendations to best facilitate ongoing company technology 
projects; shape solutions through early and active involvement in the project and product 
lifecycles. 


• Utilizing and securing WAN and LAN network architecture with updated CIS standards. 


• Playing a key role in planning and configuring core network for migrating workload and services 
over from existing legacy network. 


Key Achievements:

• Decreasing the clients' cost on projects by restructuring services to use open-source solutions by 
more than 60%. 


• Achieving Network Pentest certificate due to well hardening of network.

• Training clients with latest security procedures to decrease security risks.

• Decreasing companies cost by proving open source solutions.

Technologies Involved:

Cisco Catalyst, Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, FortiGate, UTM, 802.1X, AAA, RADIUS, TACACS, web proxy, EIGRP, STP, Virtualization, ISMS, Microsoft Project, Visio.

Windows Server 2008R2 Services (AD, RMS, NPS, Hyper-V, DHCP, DNS, File Server, IIS Web Server, FTP, Remote Access).

Linux Server (Samba, Bind, DHCP, SFTP, Media Server, rsyslog, freeradius).