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Personal
  • Name: Allan Eising
  • Born 29/12/1985 in Dornach, Schwitzerland
  • Place of residence: Copenhagen, Denmark.
Education
  • Copenhagen University, BA Sinology. 2004-2006 (discontinued)
  • Diploma from European Center for Chinese Studies at Peking University, Beijing, China for completion of one semester there.
  • High School: Fredericia Amtsgymnasium, 2001-2004. Linguistic track. High-level courses: German, Music, Danish, History.
Job Experience
  • Nianet A/S - Glostrup, Denmark, September 2011 - present.
    • Position: Network Engineer.
    • Network Operation, planning, pre-sales, NOC escalations, etc.
  • IP Vision A/S - Nærum, Denmark, July 2008 - August 2011.
    • Position: IP network and Development engineer.
    • Day-to-day operation of service provider network, including router platform, firewalls, servers and OSS services.
    • Chief architect on the development of a mixed-vendor MPLS solution for the service provider core and distribution.
    • Development and implementation of a BGP routing setup, including RIPE administration.
    • Troubleshooting and consulting with VIP customers.
    • System administration of linux server farm.
  • Butler Networks - Brøndby, Denmark, October 2006 - June 2008
    • Position: NOC Operator.
    • Network surveilance, circuit provisioning, some planning, fault finding and correction on customer and backbone circuits.
    • OA&M on wireless last mile circuits as well as high-capacity backbone links, including WiMAX (802.16D), FWA and PDH and SDH wireless microwave links. Platforms include Ericsson Mini-Link BAS, E and High-Capacity, Ceragon FibeAir 1500 series, Ensemble Fiberless and Alvarion BreezeMAX VL.
    • Operation and development of Butler Networks Cisco Layer-2 core, as well as ATM PNNI core.
    • Provisioning and fault finding on an Alcatel-Lucent SDH platform.
    • Some development of OSS tools, notably a layer 2 vlan database tool.
  • ISS Facility Services - Copenhagen, Denmark - February 2006 - June 2006.
    • Telephone support for residential subscribers of Danish ISP Cybercity.
    • General understanding of the core concepts of a DSL-based ISP, including those of DSLAM and BRAS equipment and ATM/PPPoA.
    • Experience with help-desk works.
  • Hørhuskollegiet, Scandis Boligerne and Hørbrækkerhusene - Copenhagen, Denmark - 2005-2007.
    • Position: Chief Network Administrator
    • The administration of a campus network for about 300 students, including server administration, network deployment and the daily operation of the network.
  • Dragonbane - International - 2005-2006
    • Position: System Administrator
    • Remote maintenance on servers
    • Operation of misc. tools to facilitate a network of over 100 volunteers from all over the world could cooperate. Among those tools are Wiki and SVN version control.
  • Fredericia Youth House, Fredericia, Denmark - 2002 - 2004.
    • Position: Volunteer System Administrator
    • Development of custom solution for an internet café with, among other things, "Ghost" functionality.
    • Administration of two servers and a network of approx. 20 MS Windows workstations.
    • Experience with Linux as both Server and Workstation platform.
Key skills
  • Great experience with a large Cisco core network, layer 2 VPN services, switching, routing, vlans (802.1q), QinQ, ATM. Some experience with MPLS and ethernet services through VPLS.
  • Large understanding of routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP and IS-IS. Conversant in next-generation IP networks through IP version 6.
  • Great experience with operation of wireless last-mile links, such as WiMAX, FWA and Microwave Radiolinks.
  • Hands-on experience with SDH (European SONET equivalent)
  • Insight in internet security and operation of firewalls, in particular IPTables under Linux.
  • Extensive knowledge of Linux and UNIX.
  • Responsible and dedicated, with a great sense of customer service.
Diplomas and courses
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) exam 640-802 - passed february 2008.
  • Course at Holm and Bertram: SDH
Platforms
  • Juniper SRX, MX, J, EX
  • Cisco switches: 3560, 6500, ME3400.
  • Cisco routers series: 800, 3600, 3800, 7200, 7600, ASR-1000.
  • Cisco WAN: MGX8850, BPX8600, BPX/SES.
  • HP Procurve switches from 2600 to 5400 series.
  • Mikrotik RouterOS on RouterBoard appliance.
Software Development
  • Ruby, PHP, Python, SQL, Shell (bash), perl
Hobbies and interests
  • I play classical music in my spare time. I play the viola on a high level.
  • I enjoy taking pictures, and own a Nikon DSLR camera.
  • I enjoy travelling, especially around Asia, notably China, Tibet and Nepal.
Notable facts
  • Born and raised in Switzerland and speaks Danish, German and English fluently, and Chinese on a conversational level.
  • Member of the board of the association of Danish high-school students from 2002-2004.
  • Enthusiastic Linux user since 2000, first distribution: RedHat 5.2, now Ubuntu Linux.
  • Having lived half a year in Beijing, China, while studying at the European Center for Chinese Studies - a stay that gave not only linguistic skills but also much more.
  • One of the key persons in the migrational phase of the Butler Networks MPLS core network migration
  • Currently studying for the CCIP certification
Contact information
  • Due to e-mail harvesting spam-bots, I will not write my email address here. However, it consists of my first name, a dot, my last name, followed by an at-sign and then google's mail service. I am also on LinkedIn.