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Mansoor Ahmed

Senior Unified Communications & Voice Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Unified Communications Engineer with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise voice and collaboration infrastructure across Cisco CUCM, Webex Calling, Microsoft Teams Voice, and multi-vendor PBX environments in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments. Deep expertise in SIP trunking, dial plan architecture, E911 compliance, contact center platforms, and voice gateway configuration. Proven track record managing 24x7 mission-critical voice environments, leading platform migrations, and coordinating with internal stakeholders, vendors, and service providers. CCNP Collaboration and MS-721 certified.

Cisco CUCM 4.x–14.x Unity Connection UCCX Expressway Cisco CUBE Webex Calling Webex Control Hub MS Teams Voice Direct Routing SIP Trunking PSTN / T1 / TDM E911 / CER Avaya VoIP Nortel CS1000 ServiceNow Wireshark / RTMT Solarwinds Orion Active Directory Azure AD / Entra ID BGP / OSPF / VLANs
Collaboration / Voice Analyst (Contract)
May 2026 – Jun 2026
University of Guelph (via TEKsystems) — Guelph, ON
  • Supported Computing and Communications Services team administering enterprise voice infrastructure including CUCM, Unity Connection, and UCCX across campus.
  • Opened and resolved two Priority 1 Cisco TAC cases, restoring service to critical systems with zero extended outage.
  • Troubleshot complex issues spanning DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, switch configuration, and device provisioning.
Senior UC / OT Analyst
May 2023 – Apr 2026
Chartwell Retirement Residences — Mississauga, ON
  • Administered enterprise UC infrastructure across 180+ retirement communities including Cisco Webex Control Hub, CUCM, and Webex Calling hybrid environment.
  • Managed FoIP infrastructure across 55 sites including xMedius fax server, T.38/G.711 configurations, 140 DIDs, and 130 MFP integrations in regulated healthcare environment.
  • Worked incidents and service requests in ServiceNow, submitted change requests and presented them to the Change Advisory Board (CAB), approved team changes, and documented resolutions in runbooks.
  • Managed carrier relationships, DID inventory, number porting, and SIP trunk provisioning across multi-site enterprise environment.
  • Provided Tier 3 support for production telephony issues; mentored junior engineers.
Senior Telecom Engineer
Apr 2022 – Sep 2022
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) — Vancouver, BC
  • Supported large-scale enterprise telecommunications and contact center environments.
  • Integrated Microsoft Teams Voice with existing telephony systems.
  • Performed platform patching, lifecycle management, and maintained architecture documentation.
IP Telephony Engineer
Sep 2020 – Dec 2021
Morgan Stanley — New York, NY
  • Designed and validated enterprise voice solutions for financial services environment.
  • Delivered CUCM upgrade documentation, QA validation, and post-implementation support.
Senior Telecom Engineer
Jan 2020 – Sep 2020
IBM Canada (Enterprise Clients)
  • Designed and deployed Cisco Emergency Responder (CER) for E911 compliance.
  • Migrated 1,200+ users and 300 contact center agents to CUCM 12.5.
  • Designed SIP trunking and CUBE routing for enterprise deployments.
Team Lead & Senior Telecom Engineer
Sep 2016 – Dec 2019
Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) — Chicago, IL
  • Led a year-long migration of more than 100 T1 voice trunks across 90 offices from Verizon to AT&T SIP, submitting and presenting individual change requests for each site, coordinating cutover windows with both carriers, and executing a comprehensive post-cutover test plan at each location.
  • Created a standard change procedure covering implementation, testing, backout, and stakeholder communication; used it for six months as the team standard.
  • Identified a gap in cross-functional change communication and worked with the CAB manager to formalize a process improvement: all future CRs affecting other departments required those teams on communications and, where testing was needed, as named participants with assigned tasks.
  • Implemented Cisco Emergency Responder with carrier integration.
  • Consolidated multiple voice clusters into single resilient platform.
Telecom Engineer (Contract)
Nov 2011 – Mar 2014
Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX Group) — Toronto, ON
  • Technical Lead on PBX to Cisco voice migration for 6 North American sites.
  • Deployed CUCM, Unity Connection, UCCX, and SRST voice gateways for 1,300 users.
  • Implemented CDR billing solution; managed voice infrastructure and DR plan.
Earlier Roles
2010 – 2016
Travelex  |  RBC Royal Bank  |  Charles Schwab  |  Cognizant  |  Walgreens  |  First Data Canada

Details available upon request.

MBA — Management Information Systems
Wayne State University
BBA — Marketing & Management
Indiana University
Cisco
CCNP Collaboration
Cisco Certified Specialist — Collaboration Core
Cisco Certified Specialist — Collaboration Call Control On-Premises
Cisco Certified Specialist — Collaboration Hybrid and Cloud
Cisco Certified Specialist — Collaboration Applications Implementation
Cisco Certified Specialist — Enterprise Core
CCNA
Microsoft 365
Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Associate (MS-721)
Other
TOGAF 9 Certified, The Open Group, October 2017
ITIL 4 Foundation for Service Management, Alison (CPD Certified), October 2026
Cyber Security Certificate, University of Toronto