Farhad Foladi

Tel: 09364078396 | Skype: f.fulladi | Email: fulladi@gmail.com

CAREER OVERVIEW

Highly accomplished IT backbone and network security engineer, consultant with over 10 years of experience in operating,
deploying, migrating and supporting countrywide projects. Professional in leading and working in the multi-cultural team.
Strong knowledge in communication & relation with vendors.

CAREER HISTORY

Network Advisor Aug2021 - Present

@ Ministry Of Energy
No. 4, Niayesh highway, Valiasr Street, Tehran, Iran
Knowledge Base: MPLS,L3VPN,L2VPN,VRF

• Network design project for ministry new backbone based on Cisco technology.

Accomplishment and Achievements:

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Network/Security Engineer Feb2021 - Present

@ Tehran Securities Exchange Technology Management.
No 2, 6th St, Sarafraz St, Behesti Ave, Tehran, Iran
Knowledge Base: FortiGate, Splunk, Fortianalyzer, Fortimanager

Responsibilities:

• Operate and manage reliable, available and guaranteed data center services such as:

- Testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities.

- ensuring that the organization's data and infrastructure are protected by enabling the
appropriate security controls.

- Responding to all system and/or network security breaches.

- Troubleshooting security and network problems.

Accomplishment and Achievements:

• security maintenance of a high-ranking website against cyber-attacks.
Network Services Engineer Dec2017 – Feb2021
@ Kish Informatics Services Corporation
Sahel Square, Kish Island, Iran

Knowledge Base: Cloud, FTD, Nexus.

Responsibilities:

• Operate and Manage reliable, available and guaranteed data center services such as:

- Fault handling and alarm correlation for entire network.

- Monitoring of services and performance of our equipment’s in order to provide high quality
service and SLA management.

- Provide daily reporting for activities and managed KPI improvement.

- Managing virtualization infrastructure based-on VMware technologies.

Accomplishment and Achievements:

• Providing backup and DR site of National Card Swith and Interbank POS Switch, developed a private
cloud computing system.
• Providing Edge service security with Cisco product and application balancing with F5 production
.
Cyber Security Consultant Jul2017 – Nov2017
@ Babimeh

Knowledge Base: Pentest,Waf,CVE

Acomplishment and Achievements:

• Website penetration test based on OWASP framework.

Mobile Network IP Operation Engineer FEB2016 – Jun2017

@ Huawei Technologies
Armaghan St, Africa Blvd, Tehran, Iran

Knowledge Base: IP-MPLS Network, Tunneling, OSPF, BGP, NMS, VRRP, GSM

Data Center Interconnect, NFV, VIMS,

Responsibilities:

• Operate and Manage IP network of MTN Irancell Mobile Operator Network which consists of more than
500 NEs with more than 10 engineers.

- Member of Change Management group that established and implemented structured change
for IP technology and application changes affecting network.

- Performing traffic engineering of IP/MPLS and IPRAN networks and Mobile intricate traffic flows.

- Fault handling and alarm correlation for entire network.

 - Handling the necessary changes throughout the network in order to optimize the capacity,
expansion, fix the bugs and future plan.

- Provide daily, weekly and monthly reporting for region activities and managed KPI improvement.

- Upgrading the current IP network in addition of LTE migration.

- Cooperate in operations and maintenance of BSC, RNC, eNodeB, GGSN, SGSN, and VIMS.

Accomplishment and Achievements:

• Providing more than 6 Modern country size projects in IPBB networking projects.
• Expanding the network capacity in IP layer to migrate from 2G to 4.5+G Network.
• Upgrading More than 50 NEs (Routers-Switches) upgrade to make the IPBB network ready for 3G& LTE.
• Master in Huawei iManager U2000 NMS.

IP/Access Engineer JUL2014 – FEB2016

@ Huawei Technologies
169, Tandis St, Africa Blvd, Tehran, Iran

Knowledge Base: IP-MPLS Network, Backbone, BGP, NMS, SDN; IXP, SDH; GPON, DSLAM, DCN

Responsibilities:

• Operating and expanding ONBB DCN Network of TIC. (Talash-Tajmi Projects)

- Designed hierarchical network with the aim of increasing the quality parameters and accessibility
in Edge layer of backbone network.

- Provided DCN network to all visible ONBB devices and related routers via backbone network.
Also, monitored all nodes through the NMS system in TIC control center.

• Supervision and customer support of TCT IP/Access Network.

- Supervision for FTTH network modernization in order to solve the customer issue.

- Cooperated to test FTTx GPON Access Network devices.

Accomplishment and Achievements:

• Successfully finished EPEG project which is allowed telecommunication transit route for traffic re-routing.

• Capacity of data backbone network doubled 100 percentage in core layer and 31 related points
are modernized.

• Provided the 2 pilot core sites in Tehran and Tabriz with E2E connectivity and commissioning.

TERTIARY EDUCATION

2014 Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering – 2014

University of Applied Science and Technology– G.P.A: 15
AREAS of EXPERTISE

TECHNICAL:
• Managing operation IP interconnection/security, maintenance, integration, co-ordination and
troubleshooting of Cisco Product.
• Hands on in data Loss Prevention, IDS/IPS, Web-Proxy, and Security Audits.
• Expertise in Switches/Routers Cisco series 3700,3800, 4500, Nexus N5K, N3K
• Expertise in core router Huawei NE series routers, NE40E/80E, NE5000, CX600, S9300, firewall
• Expertise on OSPF/BGP, VRRP, MPBGP, MPLS VPN, Multicast.

CERTIFICATION & COURSES

2020 CCNP Data Center (Continues training).

2020 SANS Institute Course (Continues training).
2019 VMware Certified Professional 6 - Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV).
2019 Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing & Switching (CCNA).
2017 Huawei Certification Network Professional (HCNP).