AQEEL ALI

Cell No:
00974-33101211
E-mail:
aqeelalisikander@hotmail.com
Skype:
aqeel.ali1
Address:
23-Ibn Mahmoud, Villa # 1, street # 939- Al Washeej, Doha Qatar
Linkedin Profile: se.linkedin.com/pub/aqeel-ali/27/b35/48a

Career Objective
Highly motivated and passionate about cutting edge technologies, seeking a challenging and
dynamic environment to leverage my skills in an organization where it can be beneficial to
achieve objectives as well as organizational progress. Greatly committed to learn, teach and
improve.

Qualification

September 2008 - May 2012

Blekinge Tekniska
Hogskola (BTH School of Computing) (Karlskrona, Sweden)
Master Degree (MSc) in Computer Science.

January 2002 - December 2004

University (AIOU) (Islamabad, Pakistan)

Allama Iqbal Open

Bachelors Degree (BS) in Information Technology,

Sep 1998 - June 2000

Collage (Kamra, Pakistan)

PAF Falcon

FSC (Higher Secondary School Certificate),

Professional Experience and Responsibilities

November 2013 Present
COMMUNICATION (Doha Qatar)

HAYAT

Working as System and Telecom Engineer for client Ooredoo (QTel) Fttx project in Doha.
Following are the responsibilities in Project.

Configuring and activation of Huawei CPE and Fiber services at Customer end.
Maintaining Huawei SOP on customer end for their fiber services.
Migration of triple play services, High speed internet, IPTV and VOIP for Ooredoo users.
Management of QA tasks and technical teams.
Trouble shooting of CPE triple play fiber services at Ooredoo users.
Management of Fiber network operations and SLA of services.

May 2013 October 2013

Pakistan)

LMKT (Islamabad

Worked as a System Support Engineer, at Client PTCL Data Center Islamabad. Project is
signaling control monitoring system at NOC of PTCL Data Center. Following are the
responsibilities.

Monitoring signaling control system for traffic of protocols SS7, SIGTRAN, H-323, H-248, INAP
and INO.
Managing KPIs and alarms related to performance of monitoring system.
Management of monitoring system if any performance level issues reported by maintaining SQL
server and database, which updates CDRs (call data record) of mentioned signaling
protocols.
Administration of dedicated Linux/Windows servers to maintain protocols data.

May 2005 June 2008

Pakistan)

Averox (Pvt)Ltd (Islamabad

Worked as an Integration & Verification Engineer and System Engineer. Main clients for which I
worked for were Telecommunication Operators, vendors and ISPs such as Telenor, Ufone,
Mobilink, Zong, Warid, Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, Alcatel-Lucent, NOKIA, and Supernet.

Managing and being involved in the integration and verification of the AXE (Digital) telephone
exchange. Also responsible for writing and updating of automated test scripts.
Planning, designing and implementing enterprise network solutions.
Managed network operations to include: troubleshooting connectivity problems. Installed &
maintained routers, firewalls and switches. Adding/terminating users, assigning rights and
access, assessing and reporting operational status. Performed backups and restores and routine
preventive maintenance on hardware and software.
Provided design of both physical and logical network, optimizing performance and
implementation strategies including rebuilding the entire network infrastructure across remote
locations and redesigning all Switches and Routers traffic. Redesigned IP and bandwidth
management strategy.
Developed and maintains technology policies, standards and procedures manual, developed and
maintained related technology checklists.
Setup VLANs and configured ISL trunks and Fast-Ethernet channel between switches. Provided
WAN/LAN/VLAN, NAT support including installation and maintenance to users in a Cisco network
environment. Prepared and developed technical documentation and security policies for the
organization.
Installed, configured, maintained production and AAA (Diameter & Radius) servers, backup
servers, file servers, RAS servers, Linux/Unix based servers.
GSM network. On site software and hardware integration, commissioning and testing for Nokia,
Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, ZTE and Huawei.
Assessed system capabilities, limitations, evaluate and recommended hardware/software solution
to meet clients business needs.
Installed and did integration, verification & validation of provisioning system for communication
service providers (CSPs).
Worked on Lucent PSAX1000 Multiservice Media Gateway. Successfully deployed ATM switches
to three Supernet sites and developed the network.
Installed and configured PSAX1000 multiservice media gateway for voice and data compression
and completed network traffic verification, testing and acceptance.

Successfully installed, configured and tested L3 MaxPro switches for voice and data compression
at Telenor Mobile Switching Center (MSC) and NOC. Used 12:1 scheme for Voice and data
compression.
Successfully installed, configured and tested Cisco and Lucent Stinger (DSLAM) Switches.
Maintained and integrated data traffic ports. Assigned different IP addresses to subscribers for
access services on National Telecommunication Complex Pakistan.

Professional Skills

Programming
C/C++, Java/Eclipse, Socket programming, Bash scripting, agile development
SCRUM.

Networking and Tools

Routing protocols OSPF, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, ATM, MPLS. IP subnetting, VLSM, NAT,
TCP/IP, Frame Relay, Multicasting. Wireshark (Data Packet Analyzer), OPNET (Optimization
and Performance Network Simulator), Network Topologies, Network Management.

Database
PL/SQL Programming, Oracle 8i, Ms Access,
mysql.

Operating Systems
Windows 2000, NT, XP, Windows 9X, UNIX, LINUX (Shell Scripting, C for
Linux)

Configuration Mgt. Tools and Software

Lotus Notes, MS Project Server, CVS, VSS Server, MS Office, GSM network management and
configuration software (troubleshooting, configuration and testing, BTS Manager, HW
configurator, traffic management and cross connections)

Networking Training
CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)

Service Migration
Huawei Services (ftth) Migration Training at
Huawei, Doha.

Language Skills and Personal interests

Fluent in English and Urdu.

Personal Interests: Chess, Football, Manchester United Club and Travelling.
Professional Interests: Networking and Telecommunication.

References
Can be provided on request.