SUMMARY:

• Good understanding and 15 years of hands on experience of UNIX, LINUX, SAN, NAS, Virtualization, OpenStack, VMware ESXi, Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Application deployment, ERP’s, CRM’s, Document Confidential, Software Integrations, Networks & Systems Security, Firewall, Monitoring, Reporting, Scheduling, Scripting, Open Source, Infrastructure, Networking, Network Administration, System Administration, Health Check, Storage, Upgrades, Migrations, Database Administration, Installations, Configurations, Backups, Restore, Data Center Administration, Trainings, Project Confidential, Vendor Confidential, Contract drafting, SLA’s, KPI’s, Documentation, IT Audit, IT Procurement, related experience in large, demanding technical environments including 3 Confidential 500 companies.
• I am self - directed, proactive, dedicated and dependable person. I am an excellent performer under pressure in addition to exceptional oral and written communication skills. I believe in teamwork, respect seniors, train joiners and learn from my mistakes.
• Voluntarily I had worked with FIA’s Department NR3C for fransic analysis of 1st registered cybercrime case in the history of Pakistan.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating systems: UNIX -- Sun Solaris 7,8,9,10, SCO Open Server 5.05, FreeBSD 4.x,5.x,6.x, Windows 98 to Windows 10, Windows server NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Linux -- RedHat7-9, Centos 6.4, Slakware, Cobalt, VMware ESX4.1 & 5.1, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere Client, VMware vCenter, Citrix xen server, Virtualization, OpenStack

Network protocols: FTP, SMTP/S, POP3/S, IMAP, TLS/SSL, HTTP/S, NTP, DNS, DHCP, IPv4, IPv6, IMAP4, SSH, Telnet, TCP, UDP, DDNS, NFS, ICMP, LDAP, RIP, SIP

Other technologies: Apache, Squid, Sendmail, Cisco Routing, Cisco Switching, HDSL Equipment, LAN, WAN, VSAT Network, Wireless Network, VPN, Radio Links, Firewall IPTABLES, MRTG, Panda GateDefender eSeries 9100, 2 factor authentication VPN, Monitoring IDS/IPS logs, Traffic Monitoring, Policy routing, Web Filtering, content filtering, internet zone, Application layer control, Wi-Fi/Hotspot Confidential, Transparent proxy, Firewall, Web Filter, Email scanner, Spam filter, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, SQL Server 2008, 2012, IBM Informix, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 ERP, SAP, Scripting (Shell, Bash)

Expertise: Excellent troubleshooting skills with Unix systems Administration experience. Thorough understanding of system optimization and performance tuning.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

System Engineering & System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible from Solaris Platform for day to day system administration
• Execution of upgrades regarding Motorola specific Applications.
• Performance optimization of Systems including OS and application.
• System Administration consisting of Sunfire-4x00, Sun Enterprise 3x00, M5000, T5220 and large number of smaller SUN machine running GSM network OMC-R Application from Motorola
• Administrating VM Ware Vcenter Server 4.0. Upgrading VMWare 4.0 to 5.5. Cloning and delivering vm to internal clients of windows based platform.
• Responsible for maintaining and installing windows based servers of all version 2008, 2008R2, 2012.
• Server Security policies implementations.
• Installation and configuration of Squid, Samba, Apache, Anonymous Ftp, Socks, IRCD on Solaris and Linux.
• Solaris OS Hardening.
• Installation, configuration & administration of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 ERP
• Installation, configuration & administration of SAP ERP
• Maintain and troubleshooting the hardware related problems of SUN servers.
• Responsible to keep all links live and maintain the integrity of the network with the assistance of all NOC team members.
• Managing and installing Mysql, SQL Server 2008, 2012, IBM Informix in ISP database and setting up cron job for automatic backup.
• Task automation, using shell & Bash scripting
• Planning and Confidential of the communication, networking, data storage/data backup, routing and security aspects.
• Evaluation and testing of new products, services and software.
• Configured and installed new router and maintaining all the routes and access-lists.
• Installation & Configuration of Sun Storage.
• Installation & Configuration SUN Midrange and High range servers.
• Installation & Configuration of Patient Monitoring System running over Solaris-9
• Configuration of Squid Proxy server on Confidential Linux

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assembling and cabling (LAN/WAN) Cisco devices
• Supervising the LAN cabling structure including fiber optic cables.
• Identify and connect necessary components to enable WAN connectivity over serial or ISDN BRI connections
• Document the physical topology, including cable type and cable location on each internetworking device
• Operating and configuring a Cisco IOS device
• Cisco router & switch IOS upgrade, configuration, backup and security.
• Responsible for planning and designing Computer Network of 156 nodes including Fiber Optic Nodes.
• Installation and configuration of network equipment including Cisco switches (catalyst 6513 & catalyst 2950) Fiber Connect Panel (FSP3) patch panels, rack system and many other network passive and active equipment
• Extensive knowledge on TCP/IP, PPP and PPPOE.
• Configuring bandwidth Confidential by using Cisco hardware and software.
• Provide an initial configuration for the switch and perform the router’s initial setup configuration
• Copying a configuration to and from a TFTP server
• Configuring VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) on catalyst series of switch
• Routing with the RIP and IGRP routing protocols
• Password recovery
• Responsible for all links on E1, FR, DXX, and all technical matter of ISP including ISDN, Multilink, VPDN and Normal Dialups
• Responsible to maintain all existing RF links and planning, deployment, and configuration of new links.
• Extensive Virtualization Infrastructure experience using OpenStack and ESXi
• Virtual network function, network flow and efficient network flow.
• Maintenance and Confidential of virtualization environments.
• Responsible to design & implement systems hardware infrastructure using VMware 5.1
• Supervision of all matter pertain to NOC, weekly roster, assignment of tasks to team members, monitoring the daily activities, submitting reports regarding new deployments, configuration, problems.
• Configured Tigris as remote access server, as a router and applying different types of filters on it.
• Managing database of more than 120,000 users in ISP datacenter billing.
• Solving the problems of co-operate clients and other customers and giving them right solution.
• Backing up of all the running Services, monitored them and in case of any problem solved it as soon as possible.
• Maintain & Troubleshooting the hardware related problems, cooperating with 3 rd party vendors
• Executed 3 Major upgrades of Motorola Solutions deployed at Mobilink Pakistan. Which includes Storage Upgrades & Solaris OS upgrade from OS 8 to OS 10
• Integration of Symantec Netbackup 7.0 with Motorola OMC-R (SUN Servers) for centralized backup
• Maintain a proper health check of the Hardware from 0% to 90% including Systems performance optimization with maximized uptime achieved.
• Provided emergency response time reduction by automating alerts for resource utilizations like disk, memory, CPU.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Contracts Drafting and Confidential .
• Confidential Catalogue Documentation, including: General NEC Saudi Catalogue, Product Description, Detailed NEC Saudi Catalogue with business models, pricing, discounts, available languages, etc. and General and Detailed Catalogue from NEC Europe.
• Confidential Documentation Confidential and Repository, including: Integration documentation, deployment documentation, Marketplace documentation, Training documents.
• Confidential Support including: Agreed support mechanisms, procedures, escalation and SLAs (SLAs in General and for each project.
• Generating revenue sharing reports, revenue share settlements between OpCo’s
• Currently I am POC for more than 20 Confidential ’s with 30 plus different solutions.
• Delivering Sales trainings through Confidential ’s to Telco’s sales team and Introducing new futures and Confidential ’s to our telco’s