Experience

Nacelle

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Network Solutions Architect

  • Jul 2019 - Present



Comair Limited

• South Africa
• Airlines and Aviation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Network Specialist

  • Nov 2020 - Sep 2021



Itec South Africa

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Provisioning Engineer

  • May 2016 - Jul 2019

  • Network Operation: prepare, plan, design, implement, operate , optimize, and maintain standards of the Core Network • Cisco Meraki SD-WAN deployments • Responsible for advertising BGP prefixes to upstream providers • Troubleshooting MPLS, MP-BGP, OSPF and other IP operations • Planning all backbone integration events, control project processes for capacity expansion, node integration and/or new service introduction • Configuring NNIs that support various flavours of QinQ • Administration, maintenance and troubleshooting of hosted Fortigate/Fortianalyzer cluster • Configuring IPSEC VPNs, SSL VPN, VDOMs, application control, webfiltering, security policies • Performing firmware upgrades on the hosted Fortigate cluster • Keeping record of all network changes, handling all backup procedures and operations • Troubleshooting and administration of hosted • Microsoft Visio- making sure that amendments to the core network and client solutions are kept up to date • Customer configuration on core network for voice, data and security service • IP network support for 1st and 2nd line engineers • Liaising and coordinating with Transmission Partners to ensure that site integrations are done in the most efficient way possible • Reporting and investigating service outages Show less



In2IT Technologies

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Network Engineer L3

  • Apr 2015 - May 2016

  • Installation, configuration and maintenance of Huawei routers (high end – NE40) and L3 switches • IP planning for new group of nodes • Designing MPLS TE network for voice services • Responsible for maintenance for MPLS Routers under my cluster • MPLS, OSPF, BGP, route reflector and route redistribution configurations • Co-ordination with upstream service providers ,rollout, transmission team for issues • Adding network devices to the Network Management System (U2000 iManager) through SNMPv3 • MSTP and ERPS configuration and troubleshooting on metro fiber rings interconnecting customer sites. Show less



Azure Communication

• Harare

• Consulting Network Engineer

  • 2010 - Apr 2015

  National Blood Society of Zimbabwe • Secured all routers and switches by changing their passwords and configuring ACLs on the firewall as there was a hacker who had the access to all key Cisco devices as a result configurations were changed randomly causing a DoS attack • Reconfigured Nat and internet access rights on the core router. • Enable ip routing function on the layer 3 switch – a funtion that had been switched off by the attacker • Troubleshooting and resolving of DHCP Reservation issues on the LAN • Currently proposing a redundant failover network using Cisco IP SLA network for their five branches that each have dual links that connect to the head office in Harare Galileo/Travelport Zimbabwe • Set up and managed a shared firewall/proxy server running on linux for 33 Galileo/Travelport Zimbabwe agencies that provided URL filtering (Squid), bandwidth management (open source Traffic Control) and a network monitoring system (Nagios) • Built an ISP style smtp relay server that forwards inbound email traffic to 5 other mail servers that I also administered . This smtp server ran postfix, DNS Bind and Red Hat Linux as an Operating System • Deployed a small office LAN for 8 users at Galileo/Travelport head office and installed Avast Anti Virus Pro • Assisted the Galileo/Travelport IT staff by supporting the LAN and internet problems at travel agencies • Doing cost benefit analysis on choosing the best last mile provider for each of the travel agencies • Implemented Cisco IP SLA for agencies that had two ISP providers for failover purposes Show less



Broadlands Networks

• Core Networks Engineer

  • Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  • LAN/WAN/WLAN design implementation and administration • Planning the sites for new cities/locations as per the customer requirement • BTS and Antenna Installation, BSS radio maintenance • Radio network planning and design. Site Survey and site selection for coverage and capacity • Metro Fibre planning and metro links monitoring • Deployment of DNS and email hosting platform • WASN 9770 (WiMax Access Service Network Gateway), WiMax Base station(BBU3500) AAA (info-x AAA) setup and administration • Huawei Firewalls Eudemon Quidway 300, Switches Quidway s5600, Net Engine Router 40 series configurations • Deployment of AAA Radius server (infoX-AAA) for the WiMax network • Service flow, bandwidth management, QoS/traffic engineering (UGS, ertPS, rtPS nrtPS and BE) implementation • Deployment of Trendnet IP Cameras as a security solution at Womens University in Africa. • Implementation and maintenance of the long range wireless network using Netkrom equipment • Designing and planinng of the fibre optic back-haul network for remote base stations which connected back to the core network • BGP configuration for the independent links to the different upstream providers • IP address allocation to customers • Configuration of Cisco 1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 3700 routers. Cisco catalyst switches 2900, 3550, 3750-e. • Configuration of CPEs and dongles for clients on WiMax • Setting up of the bandwidth manager using TC(Centos 5.2) • Implementation of VoIP system running Asterisk • Network administration with Ipswitch Whats Up Gold v1.1, Webalizer and Wireshark Show less



Benau Zimbabwe

• Systems Engineer

  • Feb 2008 - Jan 2009

  • Responsible for network design LAN/WANs and proposals of the most suitable solution for the client • Administration of the office LAN network composing of a Red Hat 8 proxy server and Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 running Active Directory • Designed Womens University in Africa network with 150 users on WiFi and Cat 5 UTP cable all of them logging on to a Windows 2003 Enterprise Active Directory environment • ZABG Headquarters Samora Machel (Zimbabwe Allied Banking Group) installed a KVM system for their servers and redesigned the LAN • CAAZ (Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe) installed and configured RAD Megaplex 2100 multiplexer • Building scalable and secure wireless infrastructures (WPA-PSK, WPA-PSK2, ) • Technical Sales Support for all networking products • PC hardware and software troubleshooting, anti-virus installation Mcafee, ESET Smart Security Kaspersky and Norton 360 Show less