Hissham Rizal Latif is one of our Technical Consultants. He has more than 16 years of industrial experience in the IT industry with 14 years solid experience in networking, system integration and project management. He started his career with MISC (UK) after graduating from University of East London with bachelor degree in Computing Information System.
His first job in Malaysia was with Bank Negara Malaysia as a system analyst. To pursue his passion in data networking, he left BNM and joined TIME group even though it meant getting less pay and benefits. His decision had proven worthwhile as within less than 2 years, he managed to join Bay Networks, a multinational company based in Canada as a Regional Support Engineer.
From there onwards, Hissham has been working with a number of IT companies and have gained extensive experience and knowledge in data networking and system integrations as well as in IT project management, consultancy and training.
Among the major projects that have been handled by Hissham are:
- UiTM Campus Sarawak Network Upgrade – Project Manager cum Project Engineer: Responsible for managing, redesigning and planning the Campus Network Upgrade.
- MOE-JPN Network Upgrade – Project Manager: Responsible for managing the implementation of the nation-wide network upgrade for JPN and IAB. The scopes include preparing the network design, documentation and planning for the network integration and migration.
- MAMPU ICT Strategic Plan – Technical Specialist: One of the team members involved in developing the ISP for MAMPU.
- JUPEM – Project Manager cum Network Engineer: Responsible for managing the JUPEM Enterprise Network setup. The scopes include the network design, planning and configuration of the network equipments (Catalyst 6509, Catalyst 3750, CISCO 565E Content Switch, CISCOWorks LMS and CISCO Routers) and network migration.
- AtlasONE Sdn Bhd, Project Manager (Integration) ~ AtlasONE is a company providing broadband communication services under the provisions of the Network Facilities Provider, Network Services Provider, and Application Services Provider (Individual and Class) licenses. Involved in this 4mill project to integrate their Data Centre’s Network equipments which comprised of Cisco Catalyst 6513, AS5400 Voice Gateway, SSG, Firewall and CISCO 7206 routers, Catalyst 3550 and CiscoWorks.
At Linkfarr, he has been engaged as consultant and trainer by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Defense and the Royal Malaysia Air Force.
