I am Senior Systems & Infrastructure Engineer / Team Leader with over 7 years’ professional experience in highly demanding, diverse and multi-cultural IT environments.
A highly driven professional with an unyielding moral compass, a winner's attitude and a focus on results, success and customer satisfaction. Passionate about technology and discovering new ways it can serve the business process.
Specializes in Microsoft-based IT systems, from design and planning to implementation and from middle-sized installations to Datacenters, Multi-Domain networks, Virtualization, Unified Communications, migrations, troubleshooting, large-scale deployments/architecture and, of course, the Cloud.
Has a highly successful track record for designing, promoting and installing IT systems and infrastructure solutions. Specializes in Virtualization (Hyper-V), Exchange, System Center (SCVMM, SCCM, SCOM), Active Directory, Symantec Backup Exec & NetBackup, DPM, Antivirus Systems, Security, Firewalls, Storages, Office365.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for managing the operations of the back end technology infrastructure for the University. Main roles include planning, monitoring and controlling processes & IT functions in accordance with the annual budgets, to achieve optimal levels of quality and service, coordinating with stakeholders, assigning roles and responsibilities for the department, summarizing and communicating the progress of department according to the plan.
• Maintain the availability of critical communication tools like emails, phones, internet connection that eases the communication between staff, management and learners.
Initiate, maintain and improve the university business continuity plan related to information technology, including a disaster recovery plan, and perform constant test recoveries to ensure applicability.
• Enforce best security standards that include hardware and software security systems, Antivirus, and physical security like Access controls. Also providing secure local & remote access to all University computing resources.
• Manage the maintenance of virtual systems and ensure its availability, also monitor the innovation of virtual technologies and provide plans to upgrade current ones if applicable.
• Enable other technology sections by providing them constant support and adequate hardware and software resources, and provide them with testing environment.
• Operate and communicate IT standards, policies and procedures pertinent to information technology for the ISMS.
• Ensure effective section performance through the selection, development, deployment and motivation of competent staff.
• Recruit, train, motivates, lead and retain personnel in the discharge of their duties.
• Architecture planning, project implementations, support, Microsoft Azure, Office 365
• Migration planning, migration project implementations, migration support, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Hybrid solutions
• Architecture planning, project implementations, support, Azure Active Directory Connect, O365, SSO
• Architecture planning, project implementations, support, Exchange 2016 Hybrid deployments
• Administration, support and optimization IT infrastructure based on Windows Server 2008/2012/2016
• Implementing and administration virtualization solution on Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Windows Server 2016
• Implementing and administration PRTG Enterprise Network Monitor
• Designing, implementation and administration of System Center 2016 (SCCM, SCOM and SCVMM)
• Architecture planning, Project Implementation, and administration of 25 Sentinel Sites connectivity with Hub Site by using FortiGate 300D, 100D and 61E (ADVPN).
• HP SAN MSA 2040 Implementation and configuration for Hyper-V Cluster and VMware HA
• Designing, Implementation and administration of Wireless Network by using Aruba IAP-215 AP and 7205 Controller.
• Implementation of PACS System
• DICOM Infrastructure Designing and Configuration, Modalities Integration with PACS Server and Worklist, Workstations Configurations
Identify the business requirement to the IT solution and evaluate the new hardware and software technology base on the business requirement.
IT Project Management
Designing and Installation of security systems equipment such as CCTV, Access control
Worked with a Microsoft Partner as Senior Consultant Microsoft on external projects and customers from small start-ups to multi-nationals. Provide consultancy to different clients including government and non-government organizations.
• Support to customers for complex business problems, scenarios and troubleshooting
• Design and architecture of solutions based on client requirements
• Installation, Configuration & Administration of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Active Directory & Exchange Server 2013
• Migration of Hybrid Exchange organization from Exchange 2007and 2010 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
• Validation of project design against requirements and assumptions
• Infrastructure Design, Integration, Deployment and Implementation
• Conduct face-to-face meetings with customer and vendors
• Designing and Implementation of HP Blade Systems, HP DL / ML Series Servers
• Designing and Implementation of HP P2000 FC/iSCSI SAN Storage & SAN Switches
• Designing and Implementation of Server Virtualization Solutions with high availability on Hyper-V & VMware
• Designing and Implementation of Windows Server Active Directory / DNS solutions, including migration from Windows 2008 to Windows 2012 / 2012 R2
• Designing and Implementation of Exchange Server 2013 Messaging Infrastructure solutions, including migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013
• Designing and Implementation of UTM Firewall and VPN solutions, Site-to-Site VPN connectivity between Head office and branch offices solution on SOPHOS and Panda appliances
• Server Monitoring, Performance Analysis & reporting
• Ensuring high availability of all mission critical resources