Kashif Zafar
NETWORK ARCHITECTURE & AUTOMATION | PROJECT MANAGEMENT | WAN & MPLS | TEAM LEADERSHIP | CLOUD STRATEGY & VIRTULIZATION| DATA CENTER DESIGN | IT SECURITY | TECHNOLOGY & SYSTEMS INTEGRATION | LARGE-SCALE ENTERPRISE OPS
- Role
- Principal Infrastructure Architect at Bloomberg
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kashif Zafar
Results-oriented, customer-oriented IT professional with 20+ years of success establishing and optimizing technologies, systems, teams, and processes. In-depth expertise leading large-scale enterprise programs, network solutions, cloud infrastructure teams, and data centers. US citizen.· Expertise in building networks around the world for large carriers, financial institutions, and enterprises.· Lead full lifecycle design, deployment and management of Global WAN backbone, MPLS infrastructure, Multi-cloud infrastructure, IXP, SDWAN, data center and people centers. Proven ability to design next-generation data centers, within scope and under budget, including Bloomberg’s new data center build out.· Manages multiple business-critical IT projects for diverse Fortune 500 firms, including Bloomberg, Verizon, and Cisco Systems. Aligns IT and project management with business management.· Proven IT expertise with multiple certifications, including Cisco Internet Expert, AWS Solutions Architect, and Linux Administrator.
Experience
Principal Infrastructure Architect
Jan 2016 — Present · NY, US
Serve as a key member of Bloomberg\'s Network Architecture Team developing the future technologies of Bloomberg\'s global networks and applications.· Focus on global next generation infrastructure design for better resiliency and convergence, including Bloomberg’s terminal foot print expansion through Internet/alternate backbone, NFV service automation and creating model for Intent based Networking.· Deploy a next generation data center which resulted in significant cost efficiency.
Education
City University of New York-College of Staten Island
BS, Enegineering
1994 — 1999
Western Governors University
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business/Commerce, General
Wharton Executive Education
CTO program
Skills
- Security
- Routing
- Solution Architecture
- Disaster Recovery
- Data Center
- Bgp
- Wan
- Networking
- Switches
- Juniper
- Mpls
- Network Architecture
- Network Design
- Ccnp
- Infrastructure
- Firewalls
- Cisco Technologies
- Computer Network Operations
- Network Engineering
- Juniper Technologies
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