 Design and deploy ICT and datacenteric solutions meant to provide reliable and resilient infrastructure for banking, telecom and other industries.
 Liaison with technical teams based in different regions for design and deployment of diverse IT solutions.
 Support Post and Pre-sales teams in promising and delivering excellence in i3 Pathfinder commitments with our customers.
 Work hand in hand with Sales to identify opportunities, demonstrate product capabilities and achieve success by supporting the sales process.
 Oversee and design high-level modeling and designs of IT and datacenter solutions meant to provide reliable and resilient infrastructure for banking, telecom and other industries. Network, Network Security, Datacenter, System Integration in particular and Systems-Storage in general.
 Assist CTO and lead a team of engineering department composed of Storage, Networks, Security and Systems\' engineers.
 Discover requirements, map into solutions and present product demonstrations to prospective customers.
 Lead customer needs analysis discussions in IHD’s, pre-bid meetings and with OEM’s for solution desing/vetting.
 Design and deliver customer deployments, trials and proofs of concept.
 Enhance current sales and delivery processes and develop new ones to support new products and services.
 Participate in professional services projects for customer implementations and customizations and delivering excellence in i3 Pathfinder commitments with our customers.
 Acquire and retain OEM partnerships by providing constant enablement and skill development among the team members across the board. Direct the company’s strategic direction, development and future growth.
 Work in a consultative fashion with other department heads, such as marketing, Sales and operations as an advisor of technologies that may improve their efficiency and effectiveness.
 Engaging with IBM, Lenovo and Cisco Europe/US TAC’s for problem resolution, escalating an

 Managed datacenter operations and services with a team lead by engineers, collectively responsible for all computing, storage and network and security environments’ operations.
 Data Center security operations including data center physical access, remote secure access.
 Tier 3 Data Center operations, Core Network/Security Infrastructure Design and Management. Consolidation and Capacity Management (Open DCIM and APC ISX Central) for Updated port density, rack space and infrastructure capacity documentation further required for SLM
 Managed operations, for Level 2 and Level 3 support, to more than 500 internal customers in a large hospitals chain spread across Pakistan. 1500+ end points all across Pakistan. 24/7/365 Support, Escalation and Problem Resolution.
o Incident Management
o Problem Management
o Preventative Maintenance
o Change management
 Centralized NMS’ for Power, Cooling, Servers, Storage, Network and Services based monitoring.
 Deployment of OTRS, an open source web based ticketing system for Customer Service, Help Desk, IT Service Management and reporting for SLA’s and organization wide OLA’s
 Thinclient, VOIP, wireless communications (WiMax, 3G and DVBS2) and PACS (hospital Successfully integrated VDI, radiology) deployments in the aforementioned industries via LAN and WAN using E1’s, DVBS, and fiber
 Migrated two separate datacenters and their consolidation on one site with DR as per BCP Designed for Nationwide Telecom DWH with 100+ TB of data size and 45 + racks each site with 5K+ users for Thinclient, VoIP, video conferencing, email and web services
 Provide active support for responding to RFI/RFP or generating proposals to customers.
 Pitched successful POC’s for solutions to customers and closed quarterly and yearly targets.
 Ensuring configurations/data Backups recovery, archival and retention are in place as per pre-defined policy

 Responsible for the 24x7 network operations for assigned Data Centers (4 X Tier 3Sites) within the organization (Internal IT) by providing 24x7 technical support by managing a pool of engineers for post-sales support
 Firm implementation experience with high end skills on routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS and MPLS Traffic Engineering. Good knowledge and POC on IS-IS protocol.
 Virtualization implementation by providing efficient design for hardware such as IBM P595, P770, P780, Sun Microsystems E6900\'s, M5000\'s etc.
 Implementation of High Availability of Juniper NetScreen Redundancy Protocol (NSRP)
 Implementation of High Availability of Juniper SRX3600 clustering
 Liaising with the Sales team to develop enterprise solutions
 Strategize and Execute technical calls with customers and partners for POCs, Trials etc.
 Work with Customer to put together network plan and solution architecture.
 Managing installation, maintenance schedules and after-activity reporting
 Ensuring configurations/data Backups recovery, archival and retention are in place as per pre-definedpolicy
 Issuance and supervision of Work Orders to Internal and External Customers
 Implementation of ISO 27001 processes, policies and procedures for certification.

 Employed to design, implement and manage network infrastructure in datacenter, with high availability, and branch offices.
 Overall network implementation, operation, ensuring security and robust services in the datacenter. Designed and implemented Juniper, Cisco, Brocade networking solutions (Switching, Routing, Security)VLAN, STP, RSTP, PVST, HSRP, GLBP, VRRP, PPPoE, VPN (GRE, IPSEC & Encryption).
 Played key role in country wide network design and implementation of WiMax(802.16d) for Corporate (PTCL, Askari Bank), Public and Defense organizations’ country wide network. Integration of DVBS2 HUB with core for different customers.
 Delivered and implemented secure network security architecture for the Data Center.
 Implemented SDN (Sun Service Delivery Network) in data center.
 Structured cabling design and deployment, firewalls/routers installation, configuration and documentation
 Lead a team of three Engineers under Managed Services Department. Duties included LAN/WAN daily operations and maintenance
 Identified and performed router and switch image upgrades as necessary
 Creation and maintenance of LAN diagrams showing network layout, cross-connections, and cabling
 IP camera’s for surveillance and its integration with VoIP and NVR