Summary

Over 14 years of experience in Microsoft on-premise and Cloud technologies. Hands-on understanding of computer networks, security, on-prem to cloud migrations and Virtualization. Motivated team player with strong communication, problem solving and project management skills.


Experience

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Senior Microsoft Consultant
Zones Inc
Aug 2017 - Oct 2020 | Lahore, Pakistan

Providing technical consultancy to the clients residing in US, UK and Canada region.
• Projects are accomplished by following the industry standard Microsoft recommended project management approach which includes phases like Assess, Design, Implement and Manage in the project lifecycle.
• Performed workload migrations from on-premise platforms to Azure including VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM and physical server scenarios.
• Performed planning, designing and implementing of Windows Server operating system (All versions) deployments and upgradation.
• Deployment of Active Directory and Azure AD Connect with security, authentication and Single Sign-on through ADFS.
• Migrated numerous customers from EA/ PSYG to CSP subscription in Azure which includes both native and manual Resource Group migrations.
• Designed Extended Active Directory topology to Azure infrastructure for numerous clients. • Accomplished several messaging projects from on-premise, Cloud and IMAP platforms and migrated the mailboxes to Microsoft Office365.

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Microsoft Consultant
PCM Technologies
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017 | Lahore, Pakistan

Provided technical consultancy to clients in United States.
• Deployment and upgradation of Windows server 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016 Active Directory Domain Services, AD Roles, Troubleshooting, Active Directory Migration and Multi Forest deployment.
• On-premise Exchange 2007 / 2010 /2013 /2016 Exchange Server deployments in co-existence, hybrid and upgradation.
• Migrations to Office 365 from on-premises Exchange servers, O365 to O365 and any hosted email to O365. G Suite email migrations with MigrationWiz, SkyKick, Quest and Office365 FastTrack.
• Office 365 customized DLPs, transport rules, E-discovery, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and Conditional Access Policies.
• Identity management through Azure AD Connect in single and multi-forest environments.
• Azure BCDR, Azure networking with virtual networks, Subnets, VPNs, Network Security Groups, Azure File Sync, assessments of the client’s environment, migration of on-premise datacenter to Azure for physical, Hyper-V and VMWare platforms through ASR and Azure Migrate.
• SSO deployment with ADFS for Office 365 and through OKTA.

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Principal Network Administrator
eWorx International
Jun 2010 - Oct 2016 | Lahore, Pakistan

Worked as technical lead of networks and system support team and provided remote technical consultancy to onshore, near shore offshore offices and clients based in USA, Canada, UK, Latin America, Pakistan and Middle East MENA region. Designing and executing network changes according to SOPs for internal and external stakeholders maintaining SLA and OLAs. Presented network and system architecture and handling auditor queries pertaining periodic audits. Worked with clients and lead technical meetings to discuss project details & challenges, designing planning strategies, disaster recovery, procurement, vendor and change management, licensing and service management. Received promotions twice for outstanding performance. Designed/ architected infrastructure of JetHealthSolutions on a colocation datacenter single handedly from the scratch. Managed a network of 500+ nodes, 100 physical servers and 400+ Virtual Machines on both onshore and offshore locations.
Technologies:
Windows Server 2003/ 2008/2012/ 2016, Active Directory Domain Services ADDS, MS Exchange 2003/2007/2010/2013, Azure, Office365, On-premise email migrations to Office365, Security Certificates, ISA Server 2004/2006, TMG, Office Communicator, Distributed File System (DFS), MS Virtual Server, IIS, Hyper-V, Data Protection Manager, MS System Center Virtual Machine manager (SCVMM), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), DHCP, DNS & FTP servers, SAN, NAS, iSCSI network storage, VPNs (Remote and Site to Site), wireless networks, VOIP call center, VLAN, L2, L3 switches, Symantec/ MacAfee Endpoint Protection, Juniper firewalls. Linux, Website publishing through firewalls, Internet, Intranet, extranet, Compliance, NMS, SNMP, Video conferencing, external DNS management, Windows Server and client operating systems, Storage and Backups solutions and Web hosting solutions.

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Network Support Executive
Ovex Technologies
Apr 2007 - Jun 2010 | Lahore, Pakistan

Member of IT team comprising of network and systems engineers to provide support for LAN of 400 nodes and WAN connecting 5 Onshore and Offshore offices using Cisco routers and switches. Member of “Incident Management” and “Emergency Response” team.
Technologies:
Active Directory Services (Domain Controllers), DHCP Server, DNS Server, FTP/ FTPS Server, File Server (NTFS Permissions)
IIS , ISA, WSUS, Exchange Server 2003/ 2007,RIS, Attended/ Unattended installation of Windows operating systems, Datacenter, Power/ UPS management, Link utilization, VOIP call center, Video conferencing, wireless networks, EIGRP, Static routing, NMS, E1, IPLC links, PRIs and internet links (Fiber, radio, VSAT), Call recording, Backups, VPN, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Software Upgrades/ Patches, Staging systems and laptops following SOPs. Scripts, Supplier Management, Procurement, Disaster Recovery Plans.

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System Operatios Engineer
Techlogix Pakistan (Private) Limited
Oct 2007 - Apr 2008 | Lahore, Pakistan

Member of the global system operations team looking after day to day operations of LAN and WAN network consisting of over 300 client nodes and datacenters with 80 servers in both onshore and offshore offices. Installed and configured Windows, Linux servers and workstations, performed hardware/ software troubleshooting and upgrades.
Technologies:
Active Directory AD, DHCP, DNS, IIS, FTP, ISA, Print and File Servers, NTFS Permissions, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, IBM Lotus Domino Notes, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, VPN, Wireless networks, Tandberg video conferencing, Vonage, Samba, Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS, Asterisk, Vicidial, VMWare, CMS, E-Security, E-Attendance, IP cameras, Project Archiving and Backups.

Education

University of Central Punjab (UCP)
M-Phill, Master in Business Administration‎
Business Management
Completed
2016
Exin
Certification, Information Technology Infrastructure Library - ITIL‎
IT Service Management
Completed
2014
Project Management, International Information Technology Infrastructure Library - ITIL‎
Grade A
2014
Networking, MCITP for Office365‎
Grade A
2014
Microsoft Corporation
Certification, Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Administrator‎
Lync Server 2010
Completed
2011
Networking, Cisco Certified Network Professional - CCNP‎
Grade A
2010
Cisco Systems
Certification, Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)‎
Networking
Completed
2010
Networking, Panda Workshop on Panda Security Gate Defender, Wire shark and Cacti‎
Grade A
2010
Networking, Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA‎
Grade A
2009
Cisco Systems
Certification, CCNA‎
Networking
Completed
2009
Microsoft Corporation
Certification, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)‎
Networking
Completed
2009
Networking, Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator - MCSA‎
Grade A
2009
Microsoft Corporation
Certification, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)‎
Computer Systems
Completed
2009
Networking, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - MCSE‎
Grade A
2009
Networking, Microsoft Certified Professional - MCP‎
Grade A
2008
University of the Punjab
Bachelors in Technology, Bachelors‎
Computer Science, Computer Networks
CGPA 2.5/4
2007
Networking, Ubuntu - Linux Certified User - FOSSFP‎
Grade A
2005
Lahore Board
Intermediate/A-Level, Intermediate in Computer Science, Intermediate‎
Percentage 59%
2003
Networking, Computer Hardware Course‎
Grade A
2002
Lahore Board
Matriculation/O-Level, Matric in Science, Matriculation‎
Percentage 74%
2001

Skills

Expert Active Directory
Expert Antivirus
Expert Backup
Expert Cooordination Skills
Expert DHCP
Expert DNS
Expert Firewalls
Expert Hyper-V
Expert IIS
Expert ITIL
Expert Microsoft Exchange Knowledge
Expert Nagios
Expert Office365
Expert Patch Management
Expert Routing Knowledge
Expert Security Certificates
Expert Security Plan Preparation
Expert Storage
Expert Switching Knowledge
Expert Symantec Enpoint Protection
Expert System Center
Expert Virtualization
Expert VoIP
Expert VPN
Expert Windows Azure
Expert Windows Server
Expert Wireless Networks

Languages

Expert Urdu
Expert English

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