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ABDULLAH KHAN
Address Flat 3, Floor 3, Interactive Plaza (Building 10)
E-11/3 Markaz Islamabad, Pakistan
Contact 92 331 5423880/ 300 5849064 Email Id abdullahkhan730gmail.com

SYSTEM ENGINEERING PROFILE
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Domain Expertise Information Technology

CAREER SUMMARY

A techno-functional, with 7 years of experience in enterprise information systems, medium to large scale data center deployments and computing infrastructures across diverse organizational domains
Distinguished holder of multiple certifications, currently functioning as Senior System Engineer with Interactive Group of Companies involved in research development on UNIX based state of the art technologies aimed at designing new solutions to enhance productivity
Core expertise in Solaris, AIX, Linux, Oracle Entry to High End Servers (x86, SPARC), IBM Power Series, managing Unix based Research Development Activities, Linux / UNIX Windows operating systems, networking fundamentals and security, setup, configuration, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting and remote administration
Proven ability in working on projects related to Office Automation System for the Ministry of Defense and Data Center IT Infrastructure Monitoring User access via proxy servers
Hands on experience and good knowledge of Thin Client Environments design, architecture, implementation, optimization, performance tuning, administration and maintenance
High-level leadership and mentoring ability. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Core Competencies

Technical Support
Implementation Troubleshooting
Customer Relationship Management
Cross Functional Team Coordination



WORK EXPERIENCE

INTERACTIVE GROUP OF COMPANIES, Islamabad
Senior System Engineer, Jun 2006 till date

Accomplishments
Played key role in 10 Enterprise Data Center Deployments for Public Sector Enterprises
Designed deployed Proxy Servers for Interactive Group's local remote offices including design deployment of Data Center IT Infrastructure monitoring through NEGIOS
Instrumental in setting up the post sales department for Oracle Hardware
Successfully deployed Thin Client infrastructure for 5,000 users

Responsibilities
Render enterprise solution based on UNIX platform support to nationwide clients
Use jumpstart and flash archive technology to automate network based installation of Solaris operating system
Customize Solaris Operating environment to reducing operating system installation time by four folds
Enhance server security through elimination of unwanted potentially dangerous services through hardening
Set up virtualized environment based on Solaris zones and container technology deploying multiple instances of IBM websphere application on a single server
Provide leadership to team Spearheaded team of Unix resources across 12 medium to large scale data center deployments
Develop systems related to Server mounting, Hardware Validation Testing, Server Stress Testing, Component Assembling, Installation of Operating system environment, Deployment of Presentation Layer applications like Sunray, Windows Connector, Integration of Systems, Troubleshooting
Maintain updated knowledge of Solaris including technologies like Network Based Installations, Disk partitions, OS patching, Enterprise Installation Standards (EIS), NFS Fiber Channel Shares, DNS, NTP, RAID (software hardware), RBAC, IBM-AIX-7.1, IBM pSeries Servers, IBM Blade Centers, IBM Virtual environment (VIOS, LPARs), General Parallel File System (GPFS), Hardware Management Consoles (HMCs), Network Based Installations, Disk partitions, NFS Fiber Channel Shares, DNS, NTP
Involved in installation configuration of Entry level to High-End Oracle/Sun Servers
Deployed 500 servers (rack mounted-T1000, V490s, M4000, M5000 and blade servers like X6250s, X6270s, T6320s)
Work on Lights out manager configurations (ILOM, ALOM, RSC, ELOM, XSCFU), Firmware upgrade (Disks, LOM, RSC etc), Hardware Diagnostics, Fault Analysis, Component Addition/ Removal (Memory boards, CPU boards, IO units), Hardware Domain Configurations for Enterprise level servers like E6900, M4000, M5000 M8000, Server platform configuration, High level fault diagnostics and repair procedures
Focus on Enterprise Level 3 support troubleshooting of live environments, presentation layer servers including deployment operational management of Thin Client environment based on sunray and windows connector technology for 5000 users
Manage Virtualization technologies like VMware, VBOX, ESX Server
Conduct on-site/ in-house training sessions on Solaris, Oracle Server Platforms (M Series, Blade Servers, Firmware upgrades, Hardware diagnostics, Hardware case registration with principal vendor, Fault removal procedures)
Involved in implementation configuration of Linux based Proxy Server, integration to Dan guardian and CLAMD AV
Set up Nagios (Monitoring Software) with distributed architecture, Cacti Orion (Monitoring Software) including integration of OTRS and SMS gateway

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS


MS (Computer Science), Iqra University, Islamabad, 2013
B.S (Information Technology), Institute of Business and Management Sciences, Agriculture University, Peshawar, 2006

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

In house Solaris Administration workshop
AIX Administration training workshop
IBM Websphere Administration and Configuration Training
Sun Certified Solaris 10 System Administrator
Sun Certified Solaris 10 Network Administrator
IBM Certified System Expert Virtualization Technical Support for AIX and Linux-v2
IBM Certified System Administrator AIX 6.1 administration
IBM Certified System Administrator AIX 7
IBM Certified System Expert Enterprise Technical Support for AIX and Linux-v2
IBM Certified System Expert High availability for AIX Technical Support and Administration-v2
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert Power Systems with AIX v3
IBM Certified Specialist System x Technical Fundamentals V11
Training on Websphere Application Server V8 Administration for Linux WA580

Date of Birth 07th February 1983 Languages English, Urdu and Pushto Reference Available on Request