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$75 USD / hour
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rawalpindi, pakistan
$75 USD / hour
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Joined June 10, 2010
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Muhammad Hamid A.

@HamidAshraf

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5.0 (42 reviews)
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$75 USD / hour
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rawalpindi, pakistan
$75 USD / hour
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Network and Security Consultant, CISSP CCSP CCIE

Effectual, highly motivated and results oriented Cyber Security Professional having 10 years of extensive technical and leadership experience in designing, implementation and maintenance of Networks and Security Architectures. ● Having profound experience and understanding of different CyberSecurity compliance standards, controls and requirements like ISO27001, PCI DSS, FedRamp, NIST and Cloud Security Alliance. ● Led and Self-driven various networks and security projects for various large and small customers of different verticals including financial institutions, government, enterprises, universities, telecoms among others. ● Profound knowledge and experience of Risk Management, Asset Security, Secure Architecture Design, Business Impact Analysis(BIA),Cost benefit Analysis, Incident response, IAM, SSDLC, BCP/DRP, Cloud Security, OWASP, Configuration & Change management among others.. ● Led team of networks and security professionals for various initiatives taken related to design, implementation, operations and improvement of security posture of organization. ● Took various digital transformation initiatives in networks and security domain to improve the efficiency of resource utilization which resulted in significant business customers and financial gain. ● Provided secure multi-tenant cloud services (XaaS) using various advanced technologies like micro-segmentation, network access control (NAC) and zero-trust architectures. ● Tailored security controls at different levels of networks using DDoS Protections Mechanisms, NGFWs, WAF, Monitoring. ● Secure Migration of workloads and networks from legacy networks to advanced SDN. ● Secure designing of networks in Cloud environments using different tools for IAM, Data Protection (HSM), Logging and monitoring, Incident response. ● Mentoring fresh graduates joining the organization and helping them to grow professionally as well as personal development. ● Directly working with general managers for improvement of business processes which has significantly helped in financial gain and efficient resources utilization. ● Worked with management for preparation of strategic and operational Plans and Budgets for networks and security projects as well as evaluation of different vendors against defined security, technical and quality requirements of organization. SPECIALTIES: ======== Risk Management, Risk assessment, Information Security, Audit, Security Policies, ISO27001, PCI DSS, GRC, Security Assessment, Security Testing, SSDLC, Incident Management, GDPR, OWASP, Cloud Security,ITIL, Project Management.

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$350.00 USD
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2 years ago
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$900.00 USD
Done excellent work. I will hire again for sure
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4 years ago
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Always great work!!!
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4 years ago
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$200.00 USD
Muhammad assisted us with a total core network upgrade in a live service provider network. He is knowledgeable and professional, prompt and punctual. He is a true expert in his field and I would recommend him for any complex network upgrade/transition/configuration project that you may be facing.
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5 years ago
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$30.00 USD
He was able to upgrade the router perfectly! Nice work and always recommended.
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6 years ago

Experience

Team Lead Network and Security

Oman Data Park
Jul 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years, 5 months)
• Actively leading Cisco ACI design, Implementation and migration from legacy DC network. • Automating deployment of ACI Tenants and Tenants policies using Python scripts and Postman by calling APIs. • Working on OpenStack for day-to-day operations and design with respect to Network and Security. • Working on DDoS, Zero Day Protection, Next Gen Fortigate Firewalls, F5 Load balancers, FortiAnalyzer, FortiAuthenticator etc

Asst Manager IT Networks Operations

A Telco in Pakistan
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019 (3 years)
• Plan, deploy and administration and management of deployed core network and security infrastructure in North Region.(Platforms Include: ASR9000, Nexus7k, Nexus 5k, 2k FEXes, Cisco Catalyst 4800 ASA5585 , Juniper J6350, SSG550, SSG20, Catalyst 2900, Catalyst 3550, 3560, 3750 switches and more) Juniper J6350, SSG550, SSG20, Catalyst 2900, Catalyst 3550, 3560, 3750 switches and more

Network Engineer

Gulf Business Machines UAE
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016 (5 months, 1 day)
Outsourced to First Gulf Bank Abu Dhabi for 3 projects. • Worked on CISCO Nexus 7k, 5k series switches, 2k fabric extenders, MDS 9200 series switches, and well enough understanding and implementation knowledge of different data center networking technologies e.g VDCs, vPC, vPC+, OTV, ACLs, UCSM, Fibre Channel, FCoE etc.

Education

BS(Computer Engineering)

Pakistan 2008 - 2012
(4 years)

Qualifications

MCSA Server Infrastructure

Microsoft
2014
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MCSE Private Cloud

Microsoft
2014
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CCNA Routing and Switching

Cisco Systems
2014
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