Salome Chivima
Harare
Summary
Professional network specialist with robust experience in designing and managing complex network infrastructures. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, adaptable to changing needs. Skilled in network security, routing, switching, and cloud integration. Reliable and resourceful, delivering scalable and secure network solutions.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Network Architect
Powertel Communications
11.2022 - Current
- Design and plan scalable, efficient, and secure network architectures
- Evaluate and deploy appropriate networking technologies, hardware, and software
- Develop network security protocols to protect against breaches and cyber threats
- Optimize network performance through analysis, troubleshooting, and enhancements
- Document network designs and ensure compliance with standards and policies
- Manage risks by implementing redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery plans
- Designing and deploying network monitoring tools that can assist in improving service delivery
- Responsible for the design, procurement, installation, upgrading, operation, control, maintenance and effective use of IT network components and monitor their performance
- Perform network troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common network problems
- Developing network and related architectures and solutions based on requirements from offering, engineering, and operations, as well as key customers
Network Operations Engineer
Powertel Communications
11.2023 - 10.2024
- Responsible for managing ongoing network technology projects and internal improvement initiatives e.g Lorawan Projects
- Experience in Configuring Cisco IOS XR and IOS software
- Network capacity planning and upgrade,network integration, and continual service improvement
- Experience in configuring and administering network servers using virtualization
- Hands-on Experience in configuring and troubleshooting BGP
- Responsible for incident,service request, and change management based on the agreed SLA's
- Experience in vendor coordination for support issues
- Experience in designing and implementing Cisco SDWAN infrastructure to provide secure and efficient carrier-independent WAN connectivity across enterprises
- Hands-on experience in configuring SDWAN edge devices and creating device and feature templates in vManage required for SDWAN implementation
- Responsible for configuring and administering ACL's,route maps,route policies,prefix lists and redistribution between routing protocols on the edge routers
- Full-time
Graduate Engineer
Powertel Communications
11.2022 - 10.2023
- Responsible for setting network operations policies and procedures such as zoning, network security, naming of interfaces, commissioning procedures
- Creating fiber optic testing procedures ensuring the reliability, performance, and quality of fiber optic networks
- Responsible for monitoring network performance through capacity checks to facilitate growth planning
- Provided real time complex technical support interface to customers and multi-service provider interoperability BGP based interoperation
- Plan, execute and manage networks and servers’ technology migrations with minimal impact to company operations
- Responsible for pursuing upstream or last mile service providers for resolution and RFO for customer fibre outages
- Responsible for client service provisioning, upgrades, suspensions, or disconnections of all services
- Deployment and maintenance of network monitoring, analysis and reporting tools , performing daily health check for IP elements in telecom network, Output routine maintenance report, Troubleshoot the IP related outages in telecom network, MOP preparation and implement IP related configuration/upgrading/cut over during maintenance window, cooperate with other teams to handle and resolve telecom outages, take full responsibility for the IP-Networks Domain ensure all IP related KPI/SLA achieve target value, other tasks assigned by Engineering Manager
- Second level Corrective Maintenance (centralized routines), Liaises with subcontractors and3rd parties to resolve faults, liaises with other service providers regarding network outages, End-end support, coordination and control of assigned Trouble Tickets, Ensures planned outages are carried out/rolled back in maintenance window, Ensures Operator Customer Care is fully updated for service affecting outages, Work Order Control (possible execution too) outside normal working hours
- Full-time
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronic Engineering
Harare Institute of Technology
10.2022
Advanced Level -
Howard High School
Chiweshe 11.2017
Ordinary Level -
Howard High School
11.2015
Skills
- Network troubleshooting
- IP addressing
- Data center networking
- Wireless networking
- Network design
- Routing protocols
- Network security
- Switching technologies
Awards
- Hit Book Prize for the best graduating student in Technopreneurship
- 10/2022 Harare Institute of Technology, Best Graduating Student in Wireless Technologies
- 10/2022 Trio Technologies
Timeline
Network Operations Engineer
Powertel Communications
11.2023 - 10.2024
Network Architect
Powertel Communications
11.2022 - Current
Graduate Engineer
Powertel Communications
11.2022 - 10.2023
Bachelor of Technology - Electronic Engineering
Harare Institute of Technology
Advanced Level -
Howard High School
Ordinary Level -
Howard High School
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