Iva Londa

Senior Network Engineer with 5 years of experience in network design, escalation support, network administration, and system administration. Skilled in delivering technical support, managing network operation, and maintaining wide area network across multi-platforms. Knowledge of Firewall setup and administration, VPN, bandwidth management, and quality of service

Senior Network Engineer - Emid/iOCO (Infrastructure services)

(2020-01)

• Managed the network design, installation, and management of organization – wide local area network, wide area network, network segment and internet system
• Optimize network performance and reliability by maintaining hardware and software
• Analyzing technical issues, and ensuring availability to system users
• Implement effective security measures to protect data, software, and hardware
• Deliver Tier 1 and 2 network ticket support to resolve all issues for 500+ users
• Execute the maintenance window changes for multiple locations, performing troubleshooting of routing and switching issues
• Sophos Firewall and FortiGate Firewall implementations
• Configurations of client equipment. Firewall (Fortinet), Juniper switches, Cisco routers and switches
• Security services to be supported such as Managed UTM, Firewall, PS only and Proxy
• Exposure to: Explicit Proxy, NAT Configuration, Port Forwarding, Routing, Route Failover and WAN Link Load balancing, Vdoms configuration, vFaz and FortiManager configuration, Advanced VPN Configurations, SSL, IPEC and tunnel, Firewall Policies, Logging and Monitoring, FSSO Configuration, FortiSASE administration.

Field Engineer - Three6Five

(2017-01 - 2020-12)

• Managing Client networks.
• Configurations of client equipment. Firewall (Fortinet), Juniper switches, Cisco routers and switches
• Equipment installation
• Rack and stack and patching
• Network design

On-site Engineer (Desktop Support Engineer) - Three6Five

(2017-01 - 2020-12)

• User support
• Hardware installation
• Windows 7,8,10 Mac book installation and troubleshoot
• Exposure to (AS400, BPM, CCF, Vitel, AWD) Experience in the JIRA workflow web system and ITSM
• Configuring IPsec Tunnel and GRE
• Configured Juniper EX series
• Security services to be supported such as Managed UTM, Firewall, PS only and Proxy
• Configuring Spanning Tree
• Exposure to: Routing and switching, Explicit Proxy, NAT Configuration, Port Forwarding, Routing, Route Failover and WAN Link Load balancing, Vdoms configuration, vFaz, Advanced VPN Configurations, SSL, IPEC and tunnel, Firewall Policies, Logging and Monitoring

IT Technician - IDS (Information Technology)

(2016-01 - 2017-12)

• IT support and admin for site work
• Setup workstations
• Running of network cable and crimping Rj45 on copper cable
• Installing cabinets
• Installing Huawei Antennas (PRRU) and Switches (RHUB)
• Grounding cabinet and equipment and labelling
• Running of RF cable ½ and 7/8-inch cable
• Receiving and distributing stock
• Assembling DRH and OPM power
• Testing RF cables using Site Master

Intern IP Engineer - Huawei

(2015-01 - 2016-12)

• Maintaining and installing networks based around Huawei Technologies
• Working as part of a team and operating in a fast paced, changing and challenging environment
• Responsible for communication protocols, configuration and integration
• Investigating, diagnosing and resolving all network problems
• Network connectivity troubleshooting, ping, tracert, telnet
• Provide configuration services of IP data networks on a continuous basis
• Performing optimum utilization of network and infrastructure performance and availability
• General technical design documents and diagrams for IP network architecture

Higher Certificate - User Support Service - NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (2012-12)

National Diploma - IT - Communication Networks - NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (2015-12)