Xolani Terrington Mzanywa

Key Responsibility

Ensuring the successful fulfillment of project technical requirements, resource management, RFP interpretation, SLA compliance, customer-centricity, network security assurance, and high-level/low-level network design. Additionally, I prioritize value-added presentations and effective communication.

IP Domain projects

IPRAN

• IP/MPLS Seamless Solution
• SRv6 BE & TE Policy

IP-Core Domain:

• BNG/MSE/MBN network & service analyses, network reconstruction and service cutover with reduced SLA & optimized downtime.
• Clear & depth understanding of P & PE layer protocol network baseline solutions.
• Telco-Cloud solution Non-SDN scenario to support NFV Core EOR, TOR & DCGW.
• xToB Private Core planning

SD-WAN & WLAN Solution

• AR, SW & AP & WLC installation, integration, service testing and optimization.
• WLAN, Coverage & interference testing 5/6G
• WLAN Roaming & User authentication tests
• WLAN reliability, WIPs Tests & Security

Key Technologies:

• Access, Aggregation and Core layer hardware & protocol design
• SSH, Telnet, Console connection
• IGP ( IS-IS, OSPF)
• BGP (IBGP, EBGP, Attributes etc)
• VLANs, QinQ, Eth-trunks,
• Static and Dynamic BFD
• FRR, DHCP, PPPoE, Radius, AAA,
• QOS, traffic policy, congestion.
• SRv6 & SR-MPLS
• IP/MPLS protocols(LDP, RSVP-TE, MP-BGP)

Key Troubleshooting Expertise:

• L2 Enterprise Services
• L3 VPN & EVPN Services
• Reliability failure caused by failure in IS-IS,OSPF, TE Tunnel, LDP FRR, Inter-ring X2, BGP FRR, BGP, PW Status

Provide technical assistance and support in delivery project

• Advising RTL and TE with technical solution
• License management and operations
• Managing a team of 7 Regional TL engineers
• Daily work arrangements for our technical team
• Liaising with Technical Director (TD) with delivery project
• Service delivery solution design (SOW, working procedure, quality standard and method, cross-product collaboration, key tools, DTR process, etc.)
• NSA and SA 5G Solution
• Provide high level support to variety network issues.
• Training sub-contractors and assure training for customer workshops

Management and Project skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, good team spirit, and adaptability
• Ability to work in a fast pace and demanding environment
• Ability to learn and work independently.
• Integrating and supporting network cutovers, rollout with reduced SLA

• Report to Regional Project Management about delivery progress ( Surveys, Installation and Integration Status)
• Provide technical support to customer in VSWR, PIM, Base station alarms
  related issues
• Provide technical support and training to customers and contractors
• Work with sub-contractors, customers, project managers, sales and supplies
  to ensure project implementation progress
• Writing technical cases
• Good understanding of networking and equipment fundamentals (Ethernet,Cabling standards, TCP/IP)
• KPI monitoring
• 2G, 3G, LTE architecture infrastructure and
• Radio Access network architecture
• Commissioning on local base station using DHCP, LMT, and Smartphone
• Acquire excellent interpersonal and communication skills, good team spirit, and adaptability

• Auditing Material List, Liasing with SBC on-site for Surveys.
• Survey Analysis , BOQ in preparation of Material List.
• Troubleshooting VSWR, PIM, Base station alarms.
• Supporting in technical solutions for Scope of Work , Scope of Work.
• Procedure and technical cases summarization.