Muhammad Shahzad Hussain

About Muhammad Shahzad Hussain

Senior Network Security & Infrastructure Architect with 15+ years of extensive…

Experience

1. Network Technical Architect

   Vr Networks Inc

   Jan 2025 — Present · NY, US

   Working as a Network Technical Architect, providing technical consultancy for Network Infrastructure, Network Security, Unified Communications, Unified Computing. Focused on improving services and achieving business goals through the design, administration, upgradation of complex networks.Analyze & preparation of action plan documents (Deployment, Upgrades, Migrations), attend Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings with clients, presenting action plan document to secure the approval for upgrades, migration to enhance network performance & to address the security issues in production networks.Administration, deployment, Upgrades and managing corporate networks including Routers (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS), Switches (VLAN, VTP, STP, CDP, LLDP, LACP, HSRP, Port Security). Administering, upgrading of next-generation firewalls (Palo Alto, Cisco, Fortinet) and securing network devices (Routers, Switches, Servers), Network Access Control with ISE Radius, TACAS, Dot1X, MAB, Guest Access) to enhance customer security, Load balancing (LTM). Implementing advanced security features such as Network Access Control, Antivirus, SSL decryption, URL filtering, NAT, TLS, VPNs, Data Leak Prevention (DLP), DoS/DDoS mitigation, IDS/IPS, and advanced threat protection (ATP), Zero-day attacks, DNS Security (Umbrella).Design, deployment, administration, upgrade & migration of UC Networks (CUCM, CUCME, CUC, IMP, UCCX, PCD, Expressway, CMS, CMM, Voice Gateways, CUBE, SIP, MGCP, H323, PRI WebEx, Jabber, IP Phones, Video End Points & MS Teams integrations).Administration, Management & upgrading of Unified Computing Systems (Fabric Interconnect, UCS Manger, UCSC, UCSB) & VMWARE (ESXi, vCenter).Enterprise Routing & Switching (EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP route redistribution, PBR, QoS,) HA protocols such as HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, L2 technologies VLAN, STP, RSTP, MST, PVST+, PVLAN, VTP, DTP, and EtherChannel (LACP). Experience with application protocols HTTPS, TLS, DHCP, DNS, FTP, SMTP, TFTP etc.

Skills

• Ccie
• Cisco Unified Presence Server
• Cisco Unity Connection (Uc)
• Wan
• Windows Servers 2003, 2008
• Avaya Aura Contact Center
• Voip
• Ccvp
• Firewalls (Juniper & Cisco)
• Cisco Unifies Communication Manager Express (Cucme)
• Cisco Unified Communication Manager
• Cisco Voice Gateways & Gk
• Cisco Nexus
• Windows Server
• Ccna
• Cisco Call Manager
• Catalyst Switches
• Voice Over Ip (Voip)
• Routing & Switching
• Cisco Routers
• Cisco Contact Center Express (Uccx)
• Ccnp Voice
• Cisco Unified Communications
• Vlan
• Ccie Voice Written
• Cisco Technologies
• Firewalls
• Cisco Certified
• Routing
• Troubleshooting
• Network Design
• Networking
• Cisco Systems Products
• Switches
• Juniper Technologies
• Juniper