1. HOUSE #1089 STREET#95
I-10/1 ISLAMABAD
PAKISTAN 44000
UETIAN1707@YAHOO.COM
KAMRAN.ARSHAD@GMAIL.COM
KAMRAN ARSHAD +92-333-515-5857
+92-51-925-8170
OBJECTIVE
Technical Skills
To obtain a responsible and challenging position where my education and work experience will have
valuable application. Routing&
Switching:
CAREER SUMMARY Juniper, Cisco
Foundry, SMC
A team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who has the ability to work
HP Procurve
independently under pressure can lead, motivate and influence others, can train and mentor ASANTE
subordinates. Currently working as Sr. Network Engineer in Interactive Group. Since November 2004,
have 5+ years of extensive hands on experience of deployment as well as O&M of various IT setups. Firewalls & UTM:
Graduated in 2004 from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore Pakistan. Juniper
Cisco
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
VOIP:
Sr. Network Engineer, www.iacgrp.com June 2008 – February 2010 Asterisk IP-PBX
Interactive Convergence (Pvt) Ltd, Islamabad, PK Digium TDM and
E1 cards
Intel Dialogic
Role & Job Responsibilities:
Cards
 Interactive Convergence is an IT Infrastructure Provider for defense and Interior organizations. I
worked for them on three projects and reported to Manager Networks NOS :
 O&M of network of Tier2 Data Center for PAFIS-FIA deployed by Lockheed Martin, USA *NIX Compatible
 Trained by Lockheed Martin USA on REFS,EFCS applications and RT sites NOS, Windows-NT
Compatible NOS
 Managing the VSAT based network of 60+ remote sites and VoIP setup of PAFIS-FIA
 Deployed the network of Tier3 Data Center for Pakistan Army based on the SUN’s SDN architecture Services:
and preparation of Rack Document (Layer1/2/3) as well as SOP DNS, FTP
 Monitoring of PROMIS (Police Record Office Management Infrastructure) network and preparation HTTP/HTTPS
Mail, Proxy
of Daily/Weekly/Monthly status reports
NFS,NIS
Achievements and Accomplishments:
 Deployed the network of one of the largest data centers of Pakistan. Optimized the SOP for PAFIS-FIA Protocols:
network operations. Prepared extensive Network Status reports for the PROMIS Network TCP/IP,RIP,OSPF
SIP, iAX, SNMP
SMTP,PoP3,IMAP4
Network Engineer mcs.nust.edu.pk January 2007 – March 2008 ESP,AH,IKE
Signals R &D Establishment , Rawalpindi, PK
Databases:
Role & Job Responsibilities: MS-Access
MS SQL Server
 Signals Research & Development Establishment is a part of Signals Corps of Pakistan Army. I worked
MySQL Server
on four R&D projects with them and reported to the Commander
 Setting up Asterisk based open-source VoIP test bed with support for SIP, iAX and functionality to use Network
analog trunking as well as E1 trunking Applications:
 Setting up Open-Source Layer-2 Ethernet Bridging Firewall using providing 256-bit hardware MS Visio, LANFlow
encryption and performance evaluation of firewall using RFC 2544 and 1242 Putty, WinSCP
Wireshark
 Designing and testing of nationwide HA-Clustered E-Mail solution (ISS-7000) using three different Mail TCPDump Nmap

2. Server Solutions and supervising the deployment of ISS-7000 for Pakistan Army IPerf,QCheck
SNMP & WMI
 Providing technical support to customers for the VPN Gateway (NE-8120)
compatible NMS
Achievements and Accomplishments:
 Worked on customized security solutions independently. Did extensive R&D on my projects and Project
created different solutions and benchmarked them Management
Applications:
Primavera & MS
Sr. System Engineer, www.salaar.com August 2006 – January 2007 Project
Salaar Technologies (Pvt) Ltd, Islamabad, PK
Programming
Languages:
Role & Job Responsibilities:
C/C++
 JaguarPC (www.jaguarpc.com) a US-based web hosting company has outsourced its Technical BASH Scripting
Support Department to Salaar Technologies. My role was the system administration of hosting servers
 Provided web-based ticketing Technical support to JaguarPC for Web-Hosting services Hardware:
 Remote system administration of more than 300 *NIX-based as well as 100 Windows servers D-link KVM
Tellabs NTU
 Managing hosting panels like Cpanel, Plesk, Interworx, DirectAdmin Siemens BRI
 Managing Virtual Private Servers like Virtuozzo and Xen Modems
 Coordinated with the Sales department of JaguarPC as well as Data Centers GNAX and CYRUS1 used HP- Proliant
ML-150 and 350
by JaguarPC
Dell Power Edge
Achievements and Accomplishments: 1600SC Servers
 In less than a month I was promoted as the shift in charge. Wrote training manuals and trained the HP 1010 /1300
new team members on web-hosting and Linux Administration. Printers
System Engineer, www.circleone.com January 2006 – August 2006
CircleOne Telecom (Pvt) Ltd, Islamabad, PK
Role & Job Responsibilities:
 CircleOne Telecom was the O&M partner of PTCL (Pakistan’s Premier Landline Telephony provider)
for fixed line SMS and Email Service. My role was to lead the technical Operations department
which comprised a team of three members and managing the F-SMS platform, Call Center as well
as the IT Department
 F-SMS Platform included CT applications, SMPP links, SMS Router and SMTP based Email Server
 CRM-based Call Center included managing the Telephony Server, ACD and H.323 soft phones
 Data logging, traffic reporting and Replication using SQL Server 2000
 IPSec and GRE-based VPN between other operators and F-SMSC
 Media which included 3 DXX Circuits, 14 ISDN PRI’s and 4 BRI’s
 Coordinated with PTCL’s NMS, CCC, VAS, Billing and ITI departments. Cellular operators (Ufone,
Mobilink, Telenor) as well as V-PTCL’s V-SMSC, WIN departments
Achievements and Accomplishments:
 Have the honor of managing the Pakistan’s pioneer fixed line SMSC. Optimized the routing of SMS as
well workflow of the SMSC. Did extensive documentation of all processes and optimized the SOPs
Network Engineer, www.pral.com.pk November 2004 – January 2006
Pakistan Revenue Automation (Pvt) Ltd, Islamabad, PK
Role & Job Responsibilities:
 PRAL is Pakistan’s Largest IT Company owned by Federal Board of Revenue and has large scale
government automation projects. I was involved in the Toll Automation Project of M1, M2 and M3

3. of NHA and reported directly to Manager Operations.
 Support for Client/Server based Automated Toll Confirmation System (ATCS) application and data
logging using MS Access & MS SQL Server
 Maintaining the KDE Multi-purpose Ticket Issuing Machines, KDE Card Readers, Relays and Printers
Achievements and Accomplishments:
 Kept the system up and running 24/7/365 in extremely difficult working conditions. Optimized the
reporting module for ATCS.
EDUCATION
Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science February 1999 – August 2004
University of Engineering & Technology , Lahore, PK
CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS
JNCIA-EX (Enterprise Switching) ,JNCIA-ER (Enterprise Routing) , JNCIS-ER (Enterprise Routing)
JNCIS-ES (Enhanced Services)
IELTS (Listening 7.0,Reading 6.0, Writing 6.5, Speaking 7.5,Overall 7.0)
CCNA from Corvit Systems Lahore, PK
ISP Setup Using Linux from CNT Islamabad, PK
WEB PRESENCE
Experts-Exchange: http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_2273281.html
LinkedIn: http://pk.linkedin.com/in/karshad
Weblogs: http://kamran-arshad.blogspot.com/
REFERENCES
Personal and Professional references available on request