Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
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Hrisiyana Koteva

Sofia

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
1
1
Language

Work History

Customer Support Engineer - STAC Team

IBM
02.2024 - Current
  • Supporting Cisco Business Switches, Routers and Wireless devices, and IP phones.
  • Configuring Site to site, Client to site and SSL VPN.
  • Troubleshooting issues related to VLANs, Routing, ACLs, Radius authentication, Switch Firmware Update, DHCP, Port Forwarding.
  • Troubleshooting Wireless configuration, Firmware Update issues.
  • Troubleshooting different issues like IP Phone registration to a 3rd party Call Control, firmware update, firmware migration.
  • Analyzing Logs and Wireshark captures.
  • Utilizes lab setups to recreate and solve issues
  • Hardware replacement of faulty devices.

Customer Support Engineer - Cisco TAC Security Tea

IBM
02.2023 - 01.2024
  • Deep troubleshooting of hardware and software on Cisco security devices as: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA); Firepower Thread Defense (FTD) ; Cisco Firewall Management Center (FMC)
  • Troubleshooting under Linux:

*Modifying, removing, creating different files and directories. Applying bug fixes and workarounds.

*Taking pigtail and tcp dump traces
*Checking CPU usage, memory, disk utilization
*grep different errors, warning under different files to find the root cause of the issue

  • Troubleshooting deployment and configuration issues as well as traffic issues using Wireshark captures and firewall traces - delays, no access, blocked traffic, QoS, etc

Cisco Webex Cloud Engineer

IBM
06.2021 - 01.2023

Deep technical support on Cisco Webex platform.

  • Analyzing Webex logs and Wireshark pcaps
  • Troubleshooting UCM calling and Hybrid calling
  • Control Hub management and Cloud device management - troubleshooting various issues as permissions, configuration, QoS
  • Escalation point to development team

Customer Support Engineer - Jabber Application

IBM
08.2016 - 01.2019
  • Supporting Cisco Jabber application, Cisco Unified IM and Presence, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unified Communication Manager, Cisco Unified Attendant Console, Cisco IP Communicator
  • Providing technical support for enterprise voice technologies
  • Apply analytical skills and technical knowledge to solve product and network issues
  • Utilizes lab setups to recreate and solve issues
  • Find defects and escalate them to the backbone team to get them resolved
  • Protocols/ applications: SIP, DNS, LDAP, XMPP, CTI, Wireshark

Customer Support Engineer - Hardware Team

IBM
11.2015 - 07.2016
  • Ability to troubleshoot and isolate the issue to a specific part. This involves logs reading and researching of the technical specifications of different Cisco products.
  • Very good knowledge of Cisco's hardware equipment as:
    LAN switches, Data Center Switches, Virtualization, Security
  • Taking ownership of issues and set proper and realistic expectations to deliver prompt solutions.

Customer Service Representative

General Invest
08.2013 - 10.2015
  • Answering customer emails promptly to avoid wait times.
  • Offering advice and assistance to customers, paying attention to special requests.

Education

Bachelor - Telecommunications

Technical University of Sofia
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Konstantin Fotinov School
Samokov
04.2001 -

Skills

Self-motivated

Teamwork and Collaboration

Attention to Details

Analytical and Critical Thinking

Dependable and Responsible

Problem Solving

Troubleshooting and Diagnosis

Telephone and Email Etiquette

Friendly, Positive Attitude

Certification

CCNA Routing and Switching

Timeline

Customer Support Engineer - STAC Team

IBM
02.2024 - Current

Customer Support Engineer - Cisco TAC Security Tea

IBM
02.2023 - 01.2024

CCNP Collaboration

10-2021

Cisco Webex Cloud Engineer

IBM
06.2021 - 01.2023

Customer Support Engineer - Jabber Application

IBM
08.2016 - 01.2019

CCNA Routing and Switching

07-2016

Customer Support Engineer - Hardware Team

IBM
11.2015 - 07.2016

Customer Service Representative

General Invest
08.2013 - 10.2015

Bachelor - Telecommunications

Technical University of Sofia
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Konstantin Fotinov School
04.2001 -
Hrisiyana Koteva