Liton Kazi has over 25 years of experience in network engineering and management. He currently works as a Senior Communications Analyst for Shoppers Drug Mart, where he manages the core network infrastructure for over 2400 stores. Prior to this, he spent 19 years as a Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst for Mackenzie Financial, where he was responsible for their enterprise network. He has extensive expertise in technologies from Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, F5, Radware, and more.

1. Liton Kazi
238 Danzig Street.
Toronto, ON M1E 2L6.
Phone : (416) 439 9838 (Home)
Phone : (416) 671 7483 (Cell)
Email: kalam@shoppersdrugmart.ca
PROFILE:
 Strong team building and leadership skills; able to build and maintain strong and loyal relationships
 Strong Project Management, communication, problem solving and client relation management skills.
 Hands on experiences LAN Technology on Nortel/Avaya and Cisco Router/Switches management.
 Hands on experiences of WAN Circuits and Protocols MPLS, VPN, T1, RAS, WAN Core Topology
 Experience on high speed wireless network EVDO, HSPA circuits and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n
 Network security management PKI, SessionWall-3, ISS RealSecure server and application management.
 7 X 24 on call pager coverage and lead in Conference Bridge.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Senior Communications Analyst March 2007 to date
Shoppers Drug Mart, Head office, Toronto
Managing over 2400 Shoppers Drug Mart stores and 1100 Loblow Store from Corporate office of Shoppers and
Loblaw. Managing Core network – Cisco and Avaya switches, Routers, Firewalls, Load balancer, Internet.
Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst December 1998 to March 2007
Mackenzie Financial Corporation, Toronto
Mackenzie Financial Corporation is a 2nd
largest mutual fund company in Canada with over 5000 employee head
office in Toronto and 5 remote offices with same LAN backbone infrastructure. Mackenzie’s enterprise network is
running by over 200 IT professional in the different groups of ITA maintaining 7/24 Operations, Mainframes,
Storage backup, programming, Developing, Networking, Security and Disaster Recovery.
Current Job Responsibilities:
 7 X 27 hours Managing LAN Infrastructure Firewalls, Switches, Routers, Proxies and Load Balancers.
 Professionally manage enterprise Core switches. Avaya switch and Routers, Cisco Switches and Routers.
Switches Cisco 3500, 4500, 6500, 7200 and Nortel Passport 8100 and 8600 Routing switches.
Avaya 4850GTS Supports up to 10/100/1000 switching and routing, PoE, PoE+, and 10 GbE uplink..
 BMC Remedy Ticket management, escalation and distribution to related groups.
 Management of Network Security infrastructure and Firewall management and Telephone systems of local
and remote offices.
 Manage Change Control Request (CCR) or Change Request CRQ queue, Follow up, Justifications, approval,
implementation.
 Provided professional weekly and monthly IT systems monitoring report to the senior management
Telecommunications network performance of WAN, LAN, MPLS, VPN, Firewall, Router, Switches. Windows,
Sun Solaris, HP and Unix Server. BGP, OSPF, OSPF V3, EIGRP
 Managing Lan extension circuits using VSP7024XLS from Corporate office Data center to DR Data Center.
 Managing BOYD wireless 808.11 WiFi using ClearPass, ArcSight, Aruba Network 7210
 Responsible for network cable (CAT 5E, CAT6) management, equipment cabinets, network cables and switch
port labeling and inventory, Circuit ID inventory.
 Responsible for all Router, switches, Firewall, Load Balancer IOS, Software and Firmware upgrade,
 Prepare CAA purchase using Lawson Financial requirement, recommendation and change management
approval process.
 Managing Akamai application, Blue Cat DNS, Microsoft 360 DHCP, RSA, SSLV and Blue Coat Proxy

2.  Managing NetScout application to Corporate office and all stores
 Manage the day to day and long term operational functions of several multi-node data networks consisting
with Nortel Passport 8100/8600 Routing switch, Cisco 6500, 4500, 4700, 7200, 3500; Nokia Checkpoint
Firewalls; & F5 and Radware Alteon Load Balancers; Mini Google, Mitel PBXs and Voicemail Systems.
 Increased the availability of the networks from 96.00% to better than 99.00% by clearly defining goals and
objectives. Working towards increasing the availability to more than 99.99%.
 As Team Leader, I motivate and coordinate the activities of a diverse team of eight.I have met and exceeded
service levels by developing processes ranging from monitoring, alarm generation and ticket tracking for
network management and outage assessments.
 Preparing and presenting technical and new business opportunities proposals.
 Managing and coordinating the activities of external telecom, network, security vendors.
 Assess the complexity and extent of each project, and implement a solution that addresses the sponsor’s
requirements in the time allotted. The project will be measured by reviewing the tasks performed against
standard project plan procedures. Also by reviewing the sponsor’s requirements and reviewing the final
support documentation, while adhering to established Project Ownership guidelines.
 Manage projects & implementation of new technology, upgrade of telecom, network & security Infrastructure.
 Participate in the development of IT Security and Network policies for the entire Enterprise.
 Maintain HA Nokia CheckPoint Firewall-1 servers and F5 Load Balancers.
 Install, configure & maintain of IT infrastructure of ISDN, T1, LAN Extension MPLS circuits.
 Provide escalation, notification of network outages, degraded system performance or schedule maintenance.
 Nortel Passport 8600 and Cisco Catalyst switches, Routers.
 Coordinate with different production sites and identify, analyze the needs, recommendation & implementing.
 Delivered IT security programs, including IT security framework application tools for virus, encryption and
firewalls, implementation support, and identification of system vulnerabilities.
 Security network scanning using ISS RealSecure, Session Wall.
 Defined, designed and implemented company wide LAN and WAN Network Security policies.
 Manage IP address, Subnet, VLAN, Public & Private IP addressing & Network Address Translation NAT.
 trunking IST, WAN access implement Frac-T1, DSL,TLS, ATM, LAN-x, Gig-E, carrier backbone technology
Frame, ATM, MPLS and SONET.Security network scanning using ISS RealSecure, Session Wall.
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 Manage Protocol TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, PPP, BRI-PRI, T1/E1, V35, RS-232, VLAN, Spanning Tree, ISL
 Hardware maintain Cisco 806, 1600, 1700, 2500, 2600, 3600, 4000, AS5000, 7000, 7200, 7500 Series Routers , Cisco
1900, 2900, 4500, 5000, 5500 Catalyst Series Switches, Avaya Nortel switches 5500 Series, ERS4800 Series. Avaya
Passport 8600 Series.
 TCP/IP and Routing summarization, Network Authentication.
 VPN Technology (IPSec, Key Management, Client & Site-to-site and remote access solutions).
 Traffic management and Prioritization and Quality of Service (QOS) management of infrastructure.
 Network trouble shooting using Sniffer Enterprise S6040, VitalNet, Device Manager, Optivity, Cisco Works.
Airport Network Manager/ Senior Communication Engineer September 1989 to August 1998
SITA Telecommunications, Dhaka international Airport, Bangladesh
SITA (Society International de Telecommunication Aeronautics) is the world largest private Telecommunication
organization. Operating over 550 centers worldwide with over 5000 employees. https://www.sita.aero. SITA
provides Airlines telecommunications ticketing and reservation services worldwide and also provide data network
telecommunications to the major banks and shipping lines worldwide.
Job Responsibilities: Sep 1995 – Aug 1998
 Management of SITA Dhaka airport office 11 network professional 7/24 roaster staff.
 Management all LAN/WAN network equipment including Switches, Nortel and Westinghouse Rouer and
switches including Cisco 3500, 4500, 6500, 7200 and Nortel 4500, 8100 and Westinghouse 1657.
 Network design and implementation of Dhaka Airport passengers reservation systems.
 Capacity planning and implementation of airlines automated ticketing and secured reservation systems

3.  Capacity planning of main backbone network and bandwidth utilization planning and reporting.
 Network Security Administrator of all SITA infrastructures for airlines users.
 ATM, Frame Relay, ISDN, T1 circuit order, billing, capacity and bandwidth utilization.
 Direct front line customer’s ticketing reservation systems support and management.
 Data communication support of all major airlines operating systems connecting to their host using
 SITA corporate backbone and airlines secured protocol X.25,x .400, X.28, P1024B/C, P3000, SNA,
SDLC, TCP/IP protocol connection and monitoring.
 Support of VPN, FTP, TELNET, SSH, RAS and configuration for SITA user and airline clients.
 Installation and troubleshooting all major airline’s reservation systems, equipments and networking.
 Creating Server & Client based network and maintenance of most of the airlines systems.
 Installation and Support of Windows NT, SCO UNIX, Novell servers and the operating systems.
 Installation and Support of Windows 3.x based network for airlines user.
 Installation and support SITA SCO Unix and Xenix based servers and network platform.
 Installation and maintenance airlines dump terminals, modems, ticket printer and party line network.
 Installation and maintenance of airlines baggage tag and boarding pass thermal printers.
 Network support of different type of secured protocol X.25,x .400, X.28, P1024B/C, P3000, SDLC.
CERTIFICATIONS:
o Nortel Passport Routing switches
o Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch, Passport 8600
o Cisco Installation and Maintenance Cisco Router (IMCR)
o Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
o Cisco Building Cisco Multi Layer Switches Network (BCMSN) Part 1
o Cisco Building Cisco Multi Layer Switches Network (BCMSN) Part-2
o MITEL SX2000 PBX switches management and VOIP (Basic and Advanced Module)
o Bloomberg Technical Training Certification BTTC
o MGM UPS installation and maintenance
o Symbol Wireless network WS5100 and ACP by Motorola
TRAINING:
o Sniffer Distributed Training S6040 Enterprise – Sniffer University Course
o VitalNet and VitalSuit network performance management
o F5 BIG-IP (Basic & Advance Module)
o Check Point Certified Security Administrator Course
o Remedy Ticketing and Reporting (IT service management)
o Nortel Advance BGP
o Cisco Advance BGP
o CiscoWorks 2000 Fundamentals
o Nortel Passport 8100/8600 Configuration and Management (Switching)
o Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting Course (CIT)
o Building Cisco Remote Access Networks E-Learning Edition (BCRANe)
o Advanced Cisco Router Configuration Course (ACRC)
o Cisco LAN Switch Configuration Course (CLSC)
o Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
o LanDesk System management software
o Check Point VPN
o Nortel Contivity PPN
o Symbol switch for Wireless network by Motorola
Obtained Training:
o 3M organized SITA Customer care training - Your Role in Quality- New Delhi

4. o Westinghouse, Canada organized UIS W1657 Commissioning training - Bangkok
o VHF AIRCOM training on Airline Air Ground Data Communication system- Singapore.
o Protocols training P1024B, P1024C, P3000, X.25, X.28, TCP/IP – Singapore
o IER, Paris - IER advanced Imaging for auto boarding systems training – France, Paris
o IER printing image system for Dhaka Airport auto boarding system training - Singapore
o Texas Instruments, USA organized ATB2000 training – Singapore
o Cisco switches, Router Installation and networking on 2500/4000/7200 Model- Singapore
o Merlin-Gerin (MGE) 550KVA UPS Management Systems – Singapore
o Operating system training on Novell 4.1 training – Dhaka
o Commissioning and administering SUN Solaris UNIX system training – Dhaka
o Windows NT 4.0 Administering, Core & Essentials training - Dhaka
Hardware using in work place:
Cisco 1600, 2500, 3000, 4000, & 7000 series routers; Cisco Catalyst 1900, 2900, 3500, 4000,
5500, & 6500 series switches; Cisco PIX Firewall; Cisco LocalDirector; Nortel Accelar 8100 & 8600 Switches;
Nokia CheckPoint Firewall-1 Appliance; Ethernet; Token-Ring; FDDI; CSU/DSU; Bridges & Gateways, Mini
Google boxes, Windows 2000/2003 servers, Pizza boxes, Windows 2003 Blade servers. Nortel Contivity
100/1100/2700, Nortel BayStack 470/5520 Etc.
Software using in work place:
Microsoft Windows (WinXP, NT 4.0 & 2000/2003 server and workstation); MS Outlook; MS Office
Suite; CheckPoint FireWall-1; TCP/IP; SMTP; Frame-Relay; ATM; POP3; PGP encryption; HP Openview; Visio
professional; CiscoWorks 2000 for LAN/WAN; Network Scanner; Nortel Optivity, ISS RealSecure, Session Wall
and Proxy Server, EMC Smart Network Monitoring Tool.
Education:
B.Sc in Engineering and Technology July 1990
Major In Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
Newport University, CA, USA
Member of Professional Society and Institute:
IEEE - Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc, USA
IEE - The Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, UK
SAE - Society of Aerospace Engineering, Inc, USA
PEO - Society of Professional Engineers, Ontario, Canada
Hobbies: Guitarist and professional singer
References: Available upon request.