Gbenga Peter Aramide

https://www.linkedin.com/in/petergaramide/

Summary:
• Gbenga have 15+ years of combined experience with , Capacity Planning, HFC, Head-Ends,
Hubs, and Fiber Networks.
• Manage workload and Capacity, Node split workload with constantly seeking ways to improve team
efficiency.
• Supported capacity by assisting engineering on projects and also Interact with all departments to
resolve any stoppages and ensure Node SLA timelines are met.
• Proven data experience in large fast-paced operations leveraging expertise in data analysis, trending,
forecasting, and problem solving to provide detailed documents, reports, and insight into complex
data sets.
• Advanced skills and proficiency with Excel.
• Experienced in manipulating, interpreting, and summarizing large data sets into useful reports for
clients and management.
• Management, Reporting, Data analytics, Big Data, Problem Solving

Network Equipment:
Cisco Putty, Secure CRT, SSH configuration, Routers, Bridges, Hubs, Modems, Multiplexers, DACS,
Fiber, Patch Panels, DS1, T1, DS3, E1, CSU, DSU, Channel Banks, Clock Devices, Loop Devices,
Network Management Platforms, Analog and Digital Test Equipment, Cluster Controllers, Front-end
Processors, Data analyzers, PC's, MAC's, Laptops, Fractional T1, Compressed T1, Oscilloscopes, Loop
Packages, Smart Jacks, Voice and Data Compression Techniques, Power Supplies, Network Interface
Software and Hardware, Workstations, Breakout Boxes, Fluke Meters, Network Repeaters, Coax Cable,
Twisted Pair, Fiber,OC12,OC3, OC48, REACT 2001, TBERDS (307, 107, 224, 310, 2310, ETC...),Lucents
APX 8000, Lucent’s ICD Softswitch, TITAN 5500 AND 532L, Alcatel 1603, 1612, 1648, 1630, 1631, 1680,
CENTEST 550 AND 650, Fujitsu FLM 600 and 2400, Nortel DMS 100, and Optical Boxes, NORTEL
OPTERA, CIENA COREDIRECTOR, LUCENT DMX, FUJITSU FLASHWAVE 4500, FLM 2400, CISCO
15454, CIENA K2, NORTEL ADM, LUCENT FT2000, LUCENT 400G, SYCAMORE N6000 AND N8000,
OC192 MOR,

Education:
• Full Stack Network Engineering Training – FSNE 2019
• PMP – Certified Active
• CCNA Certified Active
• BSC, Cloud Computing - Western Governors University / USA - In progress
• BSC, History/ Technology (Combined Honors) - University of Ife, NG - 2002
• AS, Computer Science /Engineering - DCT University of Ife, NG - 1999

University Compliance & Certifications:

• Technical knowledge of Ethernet Basic Principles
• MPLS- TP and OTN Switch Fabric - Ciena Training
• Cisco (Routing and Switching) –CCNA certified
• MEF-CECP – Training
• MPLs- TP - Training
• Fundamentals of Carrier Ethernet – Info Sys
• Carrier Ethernet and LAN
• Universal Services Platform Overview. – 4G Volte. – AT&T
• USP Involved Functions and Teams. – Volte – AT&T
• USP Basic Troubleshooting Processes- Volte – AT&T
• AT&T VoIP Architecture – AT&T
• Small Cell Concept for AT&T
• RNC/Node B Process Change
• LTE Network Overview.
• T1 Testing and architecture
• AT&T Ask Yourself.
• FCC Network Outage Reporting Mobility
• E911 Certification Best Practices: Methods of Procedure
• Wide Area Networking with TCP/IP, ATM, and Frame Relay technologies.
• Hands on labs with Cisco and Adtran data devices.
• MME Configuration EPC
• Voice & Video Over IP Overview
• Certification/Major Achieved.
• LINUX& UNIX Training – Summit solutions.
• WCDMA (UMTS) HSDPA: Protocols and Physical Layer- QUALCOMM- USA
• Site Master Line Sweeps Certified REQ F17212K Anritsu USA
• 3G UMTS/AXE Integration and Commission-- Ericsson USA
• WCDMA Integration RBS Certification Ericsson USA
• Microsoft Server Training (MCSE 2003/2008).
• RNC Hardware and Software Structure-- Ericsson
• T-Mobile Certification - Ericsson USA
• LTE Certification – Ericsson USA
• BSS/OSS Network Monitoring- Ericsson
• AT&T ND-502- Certification

Qualifications
• CCNA - Active
• PMP Certified
• Tableau
• MS Office
• Advanced Excel proficiency
• Exposure to SQL
• Data and statistical analysis Report generation 
• Extensive expertise in computer and IT systems
• Ability to work as part of a team or as an individual contributor

Good knowledge of IPv4, IPv6, routing, switching, various topologies, Access points, WLAN Controllers,
in-Home Router, IPv4 / IPv6, TR-069, IPSEC, QoS, 802.11. 
Great understanding of Network Implementation Engineering documentation and implementation worked
on different configuration and operating system upgraded Ciena, DACS Titan 5500, DAC, Cisco and ALU
7705, 1830 equipment that tie together a complex, multivendor nationwide data network - Vendor
Hardware - Cisco, Nokia, Cisco IOS-XR, NXOS, Nokia SROS.
Great understanding of Network Test Engineer and for E2E testing and certification testing of Wireless
Wi-Fi, LTE, and IP core network elements.
Knowledge of fabric networking and 2G,3G, 4G and IMS systems, SIP call flow, systems such SGW,
PGW, MME. 
Strong hands-on experience in installing, troubleshooting, configuring of Cisco 7200, 3800, 3600, 3400,
2800, 2600, 2500 and 1800 series Routers, Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 2950 and 3500XL series
switches.

Provisioned, maintained, and provided Test & Turn-up, RFC 254 ADVA from remote network management
platform, using Lucent Technologies OSS, Tellabs Titan 5500, Hikemian React 2001 on UNIX and NT
based workstations, for the activation and commissioning of ATM, Frame Relay, Network Infrastructure,
and Private line circuits in the Ericsson Long Distance Division.

Expert level knowledge of troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing and testing of static and dynamic
routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and ISSI ability to interpret and resolve complex route table
problems.
Strong understanding of fiber installation, testing and deployment from Operational perspective and
technical.
Trouble issues related to shaper/ color blind which can cause delays and jitters when CIR goes of EIR...
due to over utilization.

Professional Experience:
Gbenga Peter Aramide-2

Hargray Communication (contract) Feb 2020 – Feb 2021

• Decommissioned Huawei GPON ONT and OLT and deployed Calix systems, built new
services for new installs.
• Troubleshooting of Wrong fiber connectivity’s and configuration of triple play
services in GPON, troubleshooting of new customers added in GPON network, and
Operation and maintenance of GPON network using iManager UU2000.
• Troubleshooting of ONTs and OLTs and reporting to internal and external customer
• Respond to, diagnoses and resolves technical issues in relation to the Internet
delivery systems, Data, Voice over IP, Video and other offered services.
• Creates and maintains logs, records, diagrams, and reports of any and all network
transport systems VISIO.
• Worked as part of a group with other engineering departments on issues relating to
all company products as it pertains to Network transport. Participates in special
projects and performs other duties as assigned
• Provided design and implementation support for data routers, Ethernet backhaul
• Troubleshooting of Wrong fiber connectivity’s
• Configuration of triple play services in GPON
• Operation and maintenance of GPON network using iManager U2000
• Troubleshooting of new customers added in GPON network
• GPON system and network fault rectification and reporting
• Operation and maintenance of GPON network using iManager BMS N2000
• Troubleshooting of new customers added in GPON network
• GPON system and network fault rectification and reporting
• Optical Line Terminal Management through iManager N2000 (BMS)
• Configuration of FTTH, FTTB, VLANs. Wifi and 3G,4g,5g

Cox Communication - Atlanta, GA 12/2018 – 1/2021

Multi Systems /Capacity Analyst (Office/Remote)
• Collaborated with Network Architects and Product Development Teams, solutions for business and
technology requirements and assess vendor solutions to address the requirements and create use
cases for certification. 
• Estimated new virtual infrastructure capacity demand to support incoming workload migrations
enabling the justification of ordering and purchasing decisions based on real data to ensure the virtual
infrastructure had sufficient capacity to stay ahead of the demand curve.
• Produced right sized server hosting solutions based on data from historical resource utilization,
trending, and business inputs for various projects types, ensuring business application teams are able
to meet their user demand and SLAs while operating within their annual technology budget.
• Supported partner teams during application outages and reported application performance
degradation, providing analysis of historical performance data and data from real time server
monitoring to identify possible server resource bottlenecks.
• Validated net new server requirements based on vendor recommendations and internal pilot or load
test data to ensure that new hardware being requested is right sized and meets internal certified
platform standards.
• Volunteered for role as the primary point of contact for an internal business sector, apprising
approximately 12,000 servers, hosting monthly meetings to review the environment overall, discuss
validation, coordination, and prioritization of requests coming into the team queue.
• Provided monthly status of the virtual environment by analyzing and summarizing monthly data
dumps to operations management.
• Experience with data networking protocols including TCP/IP, OSI, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, BFD, SIP and
other LAN/WAN protocols.
• Serve as a spokesperson, to communicate obligations, delays, while ensuring all applicable
departments maintains a high level of productivity.
• Manage workload and Capacity, Node split workload with constantly seeking ways to improve team
efficiency.
• Triage of capacity augment plan and selecting correct plan for implementation
• Supported capacity by assisting engineering on projects and also Interact with all departments to
resolve any stoppages and ensure Node SLA timelines are met.
• Knowledgeable of ARRis, ALU, Cisco and Nokia Switches and Routers. Wireless voice and data
services like CDMA, LTE and 4G/5G.
• Troubleshooted events on ADVA FSP 150 and 250 ADVA, Colorblind, Policer and Port Shaping,
packet loss, jitter, latency that can cause SLA violations which can result into customers RFO i.e.
Reason for outages.
• This allowed management to see the overall health of the environment, workload distribution across
clusters, and remaining capacity enabling more expeditious decisioning such as workload balancing,
opening/closing clusters to additional workloads, and ordering additional cluster capacity.
• Invented a response time modelling methodology for physical systems used by the capacity planning
forecasting team leveraging data generated from a vendor performance modelling tool and Excel.
• Worked with the Network development teams to create detailed test plans, test and reports issues to
developers and prepare certification reports, analysis of performance criteria and also discussed with
technical operations staff on system design, troubleshooting, configuration and training needed to
achieve the business goals.
• This allowed us to assist applications teams in right sizing their production environments, ensuring
there is sufficient capacity to meet SLAs with minimal waste.
• Aided in the study and establishment of virtual infrastructure operational policies, resource utilization
thresholds, and resource allocation ratios using performance data from the existing virtual
infrastructure enabling more efficient use of the existing infrastructure without impacting workload
performance.

Cisco Systems (Remote) - Atlanta, GA 3/2016 – 11/2018

Migration Engineer/Support Engineer/ Change Management Project
I participated in lab network planning, design and engineering, evaluate and certify Methods of
Procedures (MOP) and Installation Guide (IG) in new network solutions for production deployment and
delivered Test Certification reports for CenturyLinks.
• Worked as part of a team and operating in a fast paced, changing and challenging 24x7
internetworking environments. Among the team that implemented configurations/design/network
management systems for the new century links network for Aruba Platforms, Cisco IOS XR platforms
from the Catalyst 7600 to ASR 9K and also worked service support for vendors EQPT like
Ciena/Cisco -Nexus Switches / Alcatel- Nokia.
• Amongst the team that migrated 7600 over router to new ASR 9K that worked for Cisco Systems
delivering services to Century link migrating over 150,000 circuit.
• Troubleshoot issues on the Sonet - OC 192, OC 12, OC 3, DS 3, T1 before migration, site verification
and Tems transmit validation, also trouble multilink, vrf, bgp, static routes on ASR 9k.
• Troubleshoot issues on Titan 5500 & Alcatel-Lucent DACS II, be it port errors mapping, ac-B or C
using TL1 commands to verify path before migration.
• Troubleshoot issues on IP/Ethernet networking i.e. ARP, broadcast storms, L2 Loop avoidance
mechanisms
• Turned up BGP session after migration, troubleshoot compatibility issues on CPE advise customer to
 update the CPE firmware of ADVA demark device.
• Responsible for maintaining and installing computer networks based around
• Microsoft Server Technologies - router /server disk space, check out memory, caching, metrics to
ensure that all servers are operating at peak efficiency or not over utilized.
• Troubleshoot issues on port for ASR9Ks and IOS-XR port by using manipulation commands and
check the status of the Router processors i.e. RPM, RSP, CPU.
• Tested newly installed Ciena 6500 facing Cisco ASR9Ks for production readiness to verify device
ready to accept new, active, circuits and xconnects.
• Advised senior officials on automation as to cut down human error during migrations.
• Verified all console connections to the priv routers & RPMs and FPDs upgraded are up to date for
IOS XR module for 10GigE fibers are terminated to the pcors & Lateral routers and all interfaces are
up/up.
• Worked with client groups to ensure that end users have all required equipment properly installed and
configured based on specific project requirements.
• Monitored printer servers and troubleshoot and resolve all network printing issues.
• Among the team that recommended news or upgraded products to enhance the performance of the
LAN/ WAN.

Spirit Communications - , SC 6/2015 – 2/2016

NOC Transport Tech Engineer III
• Troubleshoot issues on the DWDM and Sonet using protocols for troubleshooting wavelengths and
circuit diagrams of 2.5G, 10G, 40G, and 100G.
• Troubleshoot issues on port for ASR9Ks and IOS-XR port by using manipulation commands.
• Tested newly installed 6500, ASR9Ks for production readiness to verify device ready to accept new,
active, circuits.
• Proactively responded to fiber cut- and troubleshoot issues with field tech remotely by check the laser
light, checked if it was a false alarm or disconnected circuit and also used google maps to track down
possible cut location.
• Troubleshoot fiber cut issues on Sonet/Dwdm and Ethernet/ GPON, Verified the fiber laser levels are
good, run diagnostic tools to verify transmission of the active customer circuit on the Cisco ASR9K,
Cisco 7600,6500 routers and configured ports on Cisco ASR9K and Cisco 7600, 6500 routers.
• Resolved issues on Rx receive Power out of Range/ light - bouncing - advised technicians to pad/ or
add attenuation to SFP connections to be able to lower or adjust light levels.
• Perform troubleshoot on Adva dying gasp and EMOTR restore network on the NNI, Epipes, UNI and
EVC such has ADVA- MEP and duplex mismatch, loss of frames, MIP alarms CRC, UAS and drops.
• Configured demarc devices access port for DCS after fiber grooming on ASR9Ks Titan 5500 and
1830 Alcatel-Lucent.
• Troubleshoot issues on Classic Oc48 Rings such has 5540 DX used presides, Site Manager and FSP
for ADVA demark devices--> NNI, EVC, UNI and Ciena 3500, 6500, 5400, 4200, 3930, 3630 –
Monitoring through One Control, making changes through Site Manager.
• Troubleshoot events on ADVA FSP 150 and 250 ADVA, Colorblind, Policer and Port Shaping, packet
loss, jitter, latency that can cause SLA violations which can result into customers RFO i.e. Reason for
outages.
• Check the light level on fiber that goes into the EQPT if they are bad LC connectors SFP, XFP plus on
10 G/ 40G/100G tested fiber on EQPT… put EQPT on AINs during circuit groom, Check light levels
on Fiber Optics and related alarms that can caused circuit outages and Network Visio drawing to
troubleshoot and 7200 and 6500, 4200 Alcatel 1630 and 1631 Cisco, DSC/DEXCS, Juniper, Alcatel
1633, DWDM 40G, Flashwave 9500, Hatteras or Adtran, Titan 5500, DACS- Tellabs 6500, DDM
1000, DDM2000, Ciena CN 4200, Nortel OC192, Optera, DMS Transport Node (NE’s), ATM, 5ESS,
LAN, DS3 WAN CARD.
• Schedule maintenance’s, check impacted sites for DTO/DSIT, UNI, EVC and NNI for Verizon towers
and Windstream’s.
• Solved Fec issues, uncorrected RX/ TX errors such has uncorrected on Ciena 6500, 1830,
dispatched to change LC on SFP for 10 Gig – XFP on 10 Gig NNI.
• Verified traffic on F10-A, M6 -before cold reset during maintenance and performed back plane map
reset to clear alarms on circuit on f10-A &m6.
• System Integration testing and Q/A for Layer 1 thru 7 networks.
• Wrote and developed detailed test cases and test plans.
• Experienced technical writing skills sufficient to produce test cases, test plans, design documents,
and
• technical diagrams.

Fairpoint Communications - Atlanta, GA 10/2014 – 3/2015

NOC Technical Analyst Transport III
• Amongst the group that supported during deployment of the metro Ethernet, e-LAN, e-Tree, e-Line,
Long back hauling Ethernet and career Ethernet over pack wireless, TDM over Ethernet such as
Sonet, Bonded Copper, WDM fiber, HFC, Direct fiber, Carrier Ethernet over packet wireless and
Carrier Ethernet and active line access.
• Support 24x7 operations Sonet / DWDM and answer calls from the customers on network
maintenance’s and outages and resolve issues using Remedy Ticketing and Metasolv M6, TEMS.
• Tested and turned up T1, T3, DSL, 10G, 100G, 1G, DSL 2H2000- DWDM 40G of FDF and ADM for
simplicity with good understanding of fiber high speed.
• Tested and monitored using NMA and Remedy for 5es Switches, DWDM and, DSL, TDM, WDM,
CWDM, Sonet Rings –CISCO 15454, MPLS, ATM, IPv4, ipV6, DACS, T1, T3, OC3, OC-12, OC-48
---Telcordia (Lucent) Technologies Installed and manage Cisco Catalyst 3500XL, & 2960 series
Switches and Cisco 1800, 3900 series routers.
• Cleared Wave key alarms, log into ALU 1830 EQPT to check alarms on 10 Gig port AINs or Laser is
off, made request.
• Performed OPEX on Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) Services, UNI MTU Size, EVC Type, E-
LINE, E-LAN, or E-TREE EVC passes through is called an Ethernet Flow Point (EFP) and RFC test
254.
• Upgraded Cisco 7200, 3600 Router IOS Software, backup Routers and Catalyst 3560, 4500 switch
configurations.
• Worked on Cisco Layer 2 switches (spanning tree, VLAN) WAN Infrastructure running OSPF & BGP
as core routing protocol.
• Hands on Experience in Inter-vlan routing, redistribution, access-lists and dynamic Natting.
• Troubleshoot AIS issues with communication service units’/data service units, station packages,
repeaters, multiplexer, NIU/CSU/DSU inverse-multiplexer and router to aid fault detection and
isolation.

AT&T Mobility - Atlanta, Georgia February 2014 to October 2014

Network Support Specialist - GA307V

Moved within the company AT&T same company but different to positions above.
Network Technician Nov 2013 - Feb2014

United Postal Services - Global Network Operations Sept 2012-Sept 2013

Network Support /Services

AT&T Telecom Atlanta, Georgia Jan 2012 - Aug 2012

Network Service Support

T-Mobile Feb 2010 -Dec 2011

Network Analyst II

Ericsson International Jan 2004 – Dec 2007

Network Technician