ATIF ALI RIZVI

(408) 623 3331,atifrizvi213@yahoo.com

SUMMARY
 Innovative professional with 15+ years of multi-geographical experience with success in Leadership &
Management, Product Management, Customer Advocacy, Quality Assurance, Design, Architecture,
Implementation & Network Consulting. 
 Proven ability to collaborate with the leadership team to develop strategic plans across multiple business groups,
improving process and surpassing standards to drive the business
 Highly experience in define roadmaps and priorities for growing and scaling infrastructure and associated tooling
 Varied industry experience in Management, Tech Lead, consultancy, design & implementation, network
administration, customer solutions testing and quality-assurance of Internetworks.
 Lead SME for Security Portfolio including Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet , Palo Alto , CheckPoint and F5 products
 Lead the Migration, development and design of technical architecture for MSS customers
 Proven ability to inspire, coach, train, and develop team members to consistently provide exceptional
performance and drive for results
 Experienced in managing projects in diverse technology environments, with expertise in the design and
enhancement of large-scale internetworks.
 Plan, Prepare and Assemble both High-Level Designs(HLD) and Low-Level Designs(LLD) documents
 Team player with diverse experience in startup and high growth environments and capable to recruit, motivate
and retain high quality team members.
 Extensive experience on in Proof of concepts in security devices covering customer profile, system integration,
feature, scalability, performance and stress/endurance testing scenarios
 Lead the development and design of technical architecture of multi vendors network products

WORK EXPERIENCE
 NETWORK SECURITY ARCHITECT at HP Enterprise/DXC Technology, Plano, TX
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES May-2014 to date
 Lead the Migration, development and design of technical architecture for MSS customers
 Lead the effort for preparing capability guide, Technical reference guide and Business & Technical Design and
reference guides for leveraged and direct customers
 Build service collateral that describe the service and also details configuration settings to build service globally
 Plan, Prepare and Assemble both High-Level Designs(HLD) and Low-Level Designs(LLD) documents
 Lead SME for Security Portfolio including Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet and Palo Alto, SonicWall and F5 products
 Lead and expert on all features in Firewalls including Routing ( BGP/OSPF) , SDWAN and Security features
 Lead the Migration, development and design of technical architecture for MSS customers in Azure Clouds
 Lead solution development and work closely with Product, Operation Delivery, developers and testers
 Lead the efforts with technical Sales in preparing solutions for large and complex opportunities
 NETWORK SECURITY CONSULTANT at Dell services/NTT Data, Plano, TX
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Feb-2012 to May 2014
 Working as a technical lead and closely with the project manager in leading a team of engineers to deliver
complex solutions including data center infrastructure, and Network Solution Team to Comply with Client
network requirements, security compliance, and solutions redundancy
 Provide consulting services to assess, design, implement and/or troubleshoot highly complex networks
 Work as an escalation( L3) engineer to provide tech support on Cisco, Fortinet & PaloAlto, Juniper products
 Lead technical business groups to develop and implement network and network security solutions
 Recommend technical platforms and solutions that align with the clients and Information Technology requirements
 Working as a lead for consulting teams for resolution of complex technical and network integration issues
 Provides function/business requirements for security solutions/initiatives and identifies areas to improve Network
  TECH LEAD/ CUSTOMER SUPPORT ENGINEER -Security at Juniper Networks, Inc. ,Sunnyvale, CA
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Jan-2007 to Feb2012
 Provide technical support to all Juniper SRX, Netscreen and J-series related issues
 Provide technical support to all features supported on the devices
 Tech Lead of Advance global support team responsible for helping engineers on their complicated issues
 Manage technical escalations for assigned customer issues and provide solution in timely manner
 Train and mentor new engineers to be quick and successful contributors to the product support
 Provide on-site technical support on hot escalations to resolve the customer issues
 Simulate customer environments to replicate network issues
 Provided technical leadership to internal team regarding Customer’s design, technical needs and processes
 Provide Technical training to Tier 1&2
 Share technical knowledge by writing Knowledge Base articles
 Tested performance on Firewalls using IXIA and Spirent Avalanche
 SR. QA/TEST ENGINEER at Dell SonicWALL ,Sunnyvale, CA
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Dec-2005 to Dec2006
 VoIP feature owner and responsible for testing SIP and H323 protocol on SonicWALL firewalls
 Responsible for writing and execution of test plan, conduct test plan review, testing schedule
 Assisting System Level Testing team in setting Test beds
 Responsible for Capacity Numbers Matrix testing for all devices
 SR. TEST ENGINEER at Juniper Networks( Via Net polarity), Sunnyvale, CA
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES June-2005 to Dec-2005
 Worked as member of the System Level Testing team that integrates multi-scoped features of Juniper’s
ScreenOS series firewall based on real-world scenarios and customer profile integration
 Worked closely with TAC and Escalation Teams to resolve customer issues
 Worked on integrating Juniper’s IDP, IPSec VPN, SSL, HA, NSM, Routing Protocols BGP & OSPF in SLT Test beds
 Executed performance, stress and scalability testing using multiple traffic streams
 NETWORK ENGINEER at AMS Voicecom, Inc., Edgewater, NJ.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Jun-2004 to June-2005
 Provide 24x7 technical support at escalation level II for all Network related issues
 Planned, purchased and configured Cisco AS5350 voice gateways
Configured Cisco 7206vxr and implement BGP multihoming
 Configured VoIP technologies, provisioning and setting up H323 and SIP based VoIP networks
CERTIFICATION
 Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer –PCNSE
 Fortinet Network Security Professional- NSE 4 & 7
 Juniper Network Certified Internet Professional-JunOS Security( JNCIP-Security)
 Juniper Network Certified Internet Specialist-JunOS Security( JNCIS-Security)
 Cisco Certified Network Associates - CCNA
COMPETENCIES
Palo Alto: PAN firewalls, PAN Panorama, Prisma Access, Prisma Cloud , Wildfire
Fortinet: All Fortigates , Fortimanager, Fortianalyzer, Fortiswitches, FortiAuthenticator , FortiSIEM
Juniper: SRX-Series Firewalls, MX-Series Routers, IDP, MAG SSLVPN, NSM, STRM
Cisco: ASA Firewalls, Firepower , FTD, FMC, ISE, Nexus , ISR
Checkpoint: CP firewalls
Migration Convertion Tool: PAN Expedition , Forticonvertor, Juniper conversion tool
Routing / Switching / Security: OSPF, BGP, Route Segmentations, VRRP, VLAN, STP, 802.1Q, IPSec-VPN,SSL/TLS,
EDUCATION
Masters of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wichita State University, Kansas