Osamah AL-Iessa
Optical Engineer
Doha,DA
Summary
Talented optical engineering professional with DWDM networks. Familiar with building, optimizing and modifying designs to increase usability, control costs and enhance quality. Committed to meeting tolerance standards and maintaining compliance.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Fiber Optics Trainer
Ministry of Interior
Doha, Qatar
02.2021 - Current
- Introduce fundamentals of telecommunications to ministry of interior personnel
- Quickly adapted training plans for client needs, keeping timelines, budgets and desires in mind.
- Scheduled and taught in class and online courses to increase learning opportunities.
- Prepared and presented supplementary learning material to support structured lessons.
- Built a lab to support the training process involved all the test equipment needed for the trainees.
- Worked with OTDR, Power Meters and FIP tools on daily basis to conduct tests and gain insights into photonic properties.
- Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- A part from being Optical specialist, I am Cisco Networking Academy Certified Instructor, I give CCNA,cyber security , linux courses to MOI personnel.
Optical Transmission Engineer
iQ Networks
Sulaymaniyah
09.2015 - 01.2021
- Responsible for designing, installing, and maintaining the backbone of the DWDM optical network in one of the main ISPs in Iraq
- Participated in designing, installing, and configuring one of the biggest regional DWDM network in
- Iraq (80-channel GMPLS (Control Plane) network) with directionless add/drop nodes, with multi- direction nodes using 4-direction and 8-direction ROADMs
- The installation and configuration process are done independently (not by the vendor), and the maintenance of the network is a responsibility of our team
- Participated in designing, installing, and configuring transit fiber project (Interconnecting Turkey with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, 96 DWDM channels GMPLS (Control Plane) network system , using 4-direction and 9-direction ROADMs)
- The installation and configuration process are done independently (not by the vendor), and the maintenance of the network is a responsibility of our team
- Dealt with all the different DWDM equipment of different vendors: o EDFA amplifiers
- ROADMs
- MUX/DEMUXs and filtering equipment
- RAMAN amplifiers
- Transponder and Muxponder (10G transponder, 100G Muxponder)
- 100G CFP and QSFP
- 10G DWDM XFP and SFP
- 1G and 100M SFP (1310nm and 1510nm wavelengths) for managing the equipment
- Being part in designing networks with Control Plane system (GMPLS) for the DWDM equipment: GMPLS with OSPF to design networks with services which recover to different paths in case of a path failure
- High availability for the management of the equipment using routed networks with OSPF, static routes, in addition to RSTP ring topologies
- Dealt with DWDM connections issues: o Linear effects (Dispersion, Attenuation, scattering) o Fiber issues and connectors and diagnosing using OTDR (Connectors losses and reflections, bends, splices)
- Experience with OTDR: o Hands-on experience with EXFO OTDRs, and their application iOLM
- Troubleshooting the fiber issues and guiding the specialized staff to fix it
- Experience with fiber probes: o Hands-on experience with EXFO FIP (Fiber Inspector Probe) using Connector Max 2 and
- Connector Max applications
- This test equipment helps in checking the patch cords connectors using standards
- Experience in doing training: o For new employees
- For the technicians on using measurement devices, following the company’s standards, and providing them with a simplified introduction to fiber optics and DWDM
- Experience with Syslog and SNMP protocols (MIB and OID) and using monitoring applications which assist in faster troubleshooting of occurring issue
- Experience with Networking (Subnetting, VLANs, OSPF, RIP) and for management access to DWDM devices.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering
AL-Nahrain University
Baghdad-Iraq 10.2010 - 07.2014
Skills
Computer Skills : Microsoft Office (Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
DWDM, EDFAs , RAMAN , ROADM, OSC
OTDR,VFL,FIB,OSA test tools
VLANs (Access , Trunk , Voice VLANs) and Inner VLAN routing
OSPF , EIGRP , BGP
DHCPv4 and DHCPv6
STP , MSTP, RSTP and Ether Channels
IPv4 , IPv6 and NAT
Python , Linux and Windows OS
ACL and port security
Control Plane ,NMS
Monitoring softwares : PRTG creating maps, devices, and sensors(using SNMP) , Kiwi Syslog
WLC and APs
Certification
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate
Timeline
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate
09-2025
Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate
09-2025
Fiber Optics Trainer
Ministry of Interior
02.2021 - Current
Optical Transmission Engineer
iQ Networks
09.2015 - 01.2021
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering
AL-Nahrain University
10.2010 - 07.2014