Having 14+ years’ experience in IT Solutions, Datacenter Services, Unix/Windows Servers, SAN Technologies, HA Clusters, System Integration, NMS, RISC/CISC Architectures, Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Cyber Security, Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain Technology. Tremendous experience in Cloud and on-premise Data Center Services including planning, design, security and operations of Tier IV mission-critical environments processing 1 Terabyte of Bid Data every day.
Datacenter Services, Team Management, 24/7/365 Availability
Responsible for technical design using requirement specifications and RFPs
Responsible for architecting server, storage and cloud solutions
Provide expert pre-sales technical assistance and product education.
Managing smooth transition of project from sales to operations.
Develop backup and recovery strategy for applications and database on virtualization.
Hardware troubleshooting to Expert Level Tuning of Enterprise Class Systems.
Providing consultation to high-profile clients in criminal investigations using CDR / IPDR
through Big Data Technology, Cell Site Analysis, Geo-fencing and Geo-location
Technologies; and extraction and analysis of telecom traffic data from variety of handsets.
Managed 500+ Terabytes of data using Big Data Analytics for a production environment of a
high profile client.
Tracked system performance of Tier IV mission critical datacenters.
Advised the Cyber Security Operations team on latest threats and design of security
framework for state-of-the-art security protection of vital government clients.
Installation and configuration of IBM POWER , Blade centers, SystemX
Installation and configuration of DELL, LENOVO and HP Servers, Storages & Bladecenters
Have good experience of IBM Spectrum storage suit, hands on experience of IBM Storwize
family and IBM Flash Storages.
Installation and configuration of GPFS and PowerHA clusters
Migrated instances between public and private clouds
Lead data center transformations projects to migrate client/server private cloud environments
for Ministry of Defense (MoD).
Deployed MS-AD Services, MS System Center suit, migrated whole MS Server 2008 to MS
Server 2012 Environment.
Deployed/Migrated thousands of VMs in all kind of virtualized Environments (VMWare,
POWER VM).
Evaluated cloud for Blockchain Technology.
Supporting a dynamically changing infrastructure based on vspher
Datacenter Services, Team Management, 24/7/365 Availability
Responsible for architecting server, storage and cloud solutions.
Managed and configured IBM POWER8 Enterprise and Scale-out Systems.
Performed high level requirements gathering and solution design for clients including
NADRA, DGIP, OGDCL, SECP, NTC, NLC, USF, Volta and Khushhali Microfinance
Bank.
Responsible for technical design using requirement specifications and RFPs.
Provide expert pre-sales technical assistance and product education.
Helped to develop backup and recovery strategy for applications and database on
virtualization platform.
Developed patching, Tuning, cloning and backup strategy
Worked on Big Data (Hadoop), Private Public Clouds of IBM Bluemix and Amazon AWS
Environments.
Evaluated and tested new system and storage technologies.
Analyzed prospect requirements and establish parameters to ensure client received the right
solution, in conjunction with the Sales Representative.
Cost projects with the Sales Director to guarantee profitability.
Resolved any client or sales concerns and revise proposals if necessary.
Managed smooth transition of project from sales to operations.
Datacenter Services, Team Management, 24/7/365 Availability
Pre-Sale / Post Sale, Hardware Troubleshooting of Enterprise Systems.
Managed 3 Active sites having Hundreds of Physical Servers from all OEMs, hands on AIX,
MS servers, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, ESX, and Hyper-V.
Plan, design, deploy, configure and operate of IBM AIX, VIOS, LPARS, Storages,
Middleware (Websphere) in GPFS cluster environments.
Plan, design and operations of tier II, III and IV mission-critical data centers with advanced
implementation of information security and telecom forensics technologies.
Led deployment of 17 data centers at different geographical locations in terms of advanced
virtualization and high availability.
Led datacenter operations team to manage IT services of highly sensitive hosted at 3 data
centers and DR.
Investigated incidents of operating systems including AIX, Linux, Windows, Solaris, HP-
UX, Apple, iOS and other mobile platforms.
Investigated information security incidents related to data breaches, data and password
recovery, internal data losses and hacking.
Analysis and reporting of digital evidence extracted from computer and mobile phones using
various forensic tools.
Plan and design of digital forensics laboratory including procurement of forensic tools,
drafting of forensic incident response manuals and daily lab operations.
Conducted security architecture review, network penetration tests, vulnerability analysis,
wireless vulnerability assessments and BYOD security assessments.
Deployment of IBM Tivoli complete suite especially the Tivoli Security Operations Manager
and Tivoli Endpoint Manager at Ministry of Defense (MoD).
Windows Server 2003 Environment
Installation, configuration and Operations of Email Server (MS Exchange Server)
Active Directory Services
Video Conferencing
Data/System Backups
Managing Disk Quotas and Permissions of Z-Drives
MS share Point management
MS Project Server
Installation, configuration of App/Print Servers.
DNS, DHCP, FTP, User profiles