Senior IT Consultant with Information Systems Graduation and Masters in Business Administration holding 19 years of experience with Global Investment Banks, Services Providers and UK Government Networks. Cisco Certified Internetworking expert (CCIE) since 2003 with wider experience in Architectural, Product Development, Implementation, Training and Support activities. Naturally Customer focused with Organisational and Management Skills. Proven experience leading Technical Teams. BAU management skills include Incident Management and Problem Management. Project skills include Change management, Project management and Stakeholder management. Other skills include Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Network Capacity, Network Management and Reporting Skills. Specialised skills in designing Demilitarized zones (DMZ) for Investment banks with vendor and exchange connectivity, EFX Networks, Global e-commerce and e-services DMZ’s, High Performance Networks, Low Latency Networks, Secure browsing infrastructure and secure extranets. Hands on experience managing large scale secure IP network switches, routers, Network firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, Proxies, DNS servers, Load Balancers. IP Architectural skills include Software Defined Network, Virtualisation, Leaf and Spine designs for Big-data environment, Secure Public and Private Cloud Networks. Network Migration, Upgrades and Refresh, Enterprise Mergers, Customer Network Integration experience since 2003.