Summary

Manager IT Infrastructure/Telecom Support, with more than10 years of experience in the IT industry.
Manage and Execute IT Business Continuity plan and Disaster Recovery Program.

Build Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to assess internal and external threats in coordination with all IT verticals.
Good Multi-tasking capabilities, Project Management, managing multiple projects, and excels well under pressure.

Projects

Core Business System Migration

Experience

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Sr. Manager Business Continuity
(1320) MCB bank limited
Jun 2017 - Present | Lahore, Pakistan

The mandate of BCM / DRP is to ensure an effective enterprise Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) governance framework that is consistent with regulatory requirements. Design, Implement and Execute the DR drills.

Responsibilities
* Contribute to the development and maintenance of the Enterprise-wide business continuity management program including: development of tools and instructional guides for both business.
* Continuity planning and event management, development and facilitation of enterprise-wide event exercises, relationship management with external vendors, development of corporate policy, standards, and guidelines.
* Ensures appropriate integration of requirements and information obtained from various sources; including regulators and Auditors for IT Group jurisdictions.
* Ensuring all technical components of the Business Continuity Plans are successfully tested according to schedule.
* Assisting all IT Group Units in preparation of BIA/ BUBCP / DRP
* Liaise with Business units / support Functions, IT and Audit for determining their business continuity requirements.
* Ensuring all IT Units to perform their BCP simulation exercises as per their schedule.
* Ensuring BUBCP / BIA for all IT Units to be updated annually and vetted by compliance

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Sr. Manager Telecom Support
MCB Bank Limited
Apr 2007 - Jun 2017 | Lahore, Pakistan

Main goal is to maintain the Network uptime high. Coordinates with other teams in day-
To-day infrastructure activities. Facilitates Senior Executives to manage countrywide
Network effectively and efficiently. Ensuring quality IT support to all business units.
Responsibilities
 24/7 Network Support / Coordination with the Braches, WAN / LAN troubleshooting.
 Development of new circuit, fault detection and rectification of online branches.
 Get feasibilities from vendors for new installation.
 Time by Time coordination with ATM Support team in order to get Max. ATM Uptime by resolving all infra related issues.
 Manage vendor related issues/billing via cross check. Coordinate with IT. Finance.
 Data compilation / office record maintenance. Liaison with vendors for timelines, reviews and timely completion.
 Interaction with the business and develop a cordial and healthy relations for effective day to day tasks and UPS operations.

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Sr. IT Officer
Colgate Palmolive Pakistan Limited
Mar 2002 - Apr 2007 | Lahore, Pakistan

Main goal is to manage day to day IT activities, domain servers and monitor IT activities effectively and efficiently. Ensuring quality IT support to all business units.
Responsibilities:
 Installation, configuration & maintenance of LAN, WAN& VPN.
 Responsible for the maintenance of the network and its components to include Routers, Firewalls, Switches, HUB, NIC Cards, Cabling and Terminals.
 Managing more than 300 Network Nodes.
 Perform diagnostics on faulty Network to determine the cause of the problem.
 Troubleshoot PC’s for Hardware & Software malfunctions.

Education

Cybernetics College of I.T & Managment Sciences Lahore
Masters, , MCS‎
Networking
2001

Skills

Expert Cisco
Expert Computer Networks Command
Expert Handling Assignments
Expert IT Operations
Expert IT Technical Support
Expert Juniper
Expert System Analysis
Expert System Support
Expert Telecom
Expert Vendor Management

Languages

Expert English

Companies Followed

Qamar Contacts

Asif Shahzad
Fujairah Mall