Atiq Ur Rahman Chaudhary
Contact
Phone no Mobile: +92-032*-******* [pic]
Residence: +92-042-********
Address St. #7c, H. #5, Nashter Town,
Daroghawala Lahore - Punjab, Pakistan.
Email atiq_ur_rahman@hotma atiq.urrahman@gmai
il.com l.com
Web / Blog http://sSysadmin.com
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Objective:
I am aspirant a challenging and rewarding position which will allow me to
utilize my IT management, Server Administration, Digital security (PKI)
expertise and system support skills and also allow me to face new challenges
in IT/Network environment.
Area of Expertise: Experience 9 + years
IT Infrastructure Management Server Administration, System
Administration
IT Security (PKI, VPN, Firewall) Network Administration
System Support & Training Hardware/Software Troubleshooting
R&D on required/ latest IT Tools
and Technologies
Experience:
Company ASPnix Anaxa LLC
Responsibilities
Responsible to perform technical operations
Responsible to research on latest technologies, tools to evaluate
to improve IT / hosting infrastructure
Responsible to manage servers that includes but not limited to
Web and FTP servers (IIS, GeneFTP), stats server, etc...
Database servers (SQL Server 2005, 2008, MySQL), Reporting
services, etc...
Mail servers
DNS Servers
VPS and dedicated servers
Control panel
Routing & Remote access services, routers / gateway / firewalls
Remote administration
Technical support (1st level live chat, ticketing and phone 2nd
level)
Participate in community forums to help customers and community
members to fix their problems, write How To/ knowledge base
articles and posts.
Company Ascertia Ltd.
Responsibilities
Managing IT Department and leading IT team, to motivate IT team
and training of new/other staff members
Corporate infrastructure and strategic planning.
Design and implement network Infrastructure (LAN and Remote),
wireless LAN.
Software & Hardware installation, configuration and system
support.
Enterprise Security Solutions that includes
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Secure Email (digitally Signed and encrypted), Secure Web
(SSL)
Digital Certification Authority
Digital Certificates Validation Authority (OCSP Responder)
Digital Document Signing Server (Server side digital
document signing with corporate digital keys)
Remote Access Services and VPN Server
Deploy and managing Ascertia Advanced Digital Signing
Server for enterprise trust (Digital signing, Digital
signature verification, Time stamping, Digital
Certification Authority and OCSP responder services).
Network and System Security
Firewall and Proxy servers
WinRoute Firewall, Wingate Firewall, Zone Alarm Firewall
MS ISA Server
Antivirus
Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition
Anti Spyware
Server / Network Management and Remote Administration
Network administration
More than 150 Nodes (Corporate LAN, WAN, Remote, virtual
machines and Online Servers)
Installation, maintenance and Support
Domain Controller, Active Directory, Group policy, DHCP and
DNS Server(s)
Email Servers (Mail Enable Enterprise (email server with
web access), MS Exchange Server and outlook web access,
Kerio Mail Server, Ascertia Secure Email Server, Apache
James)
Corporate Email accounts management, domain management
using hosting control panel
Administration of MS SQL Servers (7.0, 2000 and 2005,
testing SQL Server 2008)
Administration of Microsoft Share Point Portal Server
Microsoft Visual Source Safe Server (6.0 and 2005) and
Tortoise SVN
Corporate online, remote servers and online web/ FTP sites
IIS (FTP, SMTP and Web server [HTTP/HTTPS])
Terminal Services / Remote Administration, using Terminal
services, RDP, VNC, Symantec PC Anywhere and Go To Meeting
Administration and integration of Multi platform (OS)
Network Environment
Apple MAC OS
Microsoft Windows (NT, Windows 2000 Server, Windows
98/2000/XP/Windows Vista / Windows 7, Windows Server 2003
and 2008)
Sun Solaris, SuSE Linux Enterpriser Server and CentOS/Red
Hat Linux/Fedora Core
Deployment
Evaluate, deploy and managing Kayako helpdesk system (live
response I.E. online chat with site visitors and support
tickets).
Deployment of Enterprise Collaboration/ Enterprise Wiki
products (MindTouch Deki, Media Wiki [media wiki], Tiki
Wiki) on Windows Server 2003.
Deploy IP Phone / Call Center Solution
Deploy Microsoft System Management server (SMS) 2003 (under
test environment)
Application virtualization using Citrix Meta Frame
Presentation Server (used for Application virtualization,
application streaming and to centralize the applications,
It was deployed under testing environment).
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Microsoft Virtual PC (for PC
virtualization) on MS Windows and MAC OS.
OS Virtualization for Virtual Machines using VM Ware
Server.
Deploy Active Directory Smart Card login support (Secure
smartcard Logon using digital certificates)
TrustFinderOCSP Server, Ascertia ADSS on Sun Solaris 8 and
Solaris 10.
Deploy and work with development team of PDF Signer Server
on Sun Solaris 8 (also deploy on the servers of
international client's remotely)
Deploy Time Stamping Authority on SuSE Linux Enterprise
Server (SLES) 8.2 and SLES 9 (in organization and on
servers of international client's remotely)
Deploy and managing Ascertia's Advanced Digital Signature
Server (A leading Digital Certificates creation, digital
document verification, digital document signing, Online
Digital Certificates Status (validity) Provider and Time
Stamping server)
Working as Ascertia CA Manager (Digital Certification Authority)
Deploy and Managing Online Certification Authority for Low
cost and Trial Digital Certificates
(http://www.ascertia.com/onlineca/).
Managing Ascertia Corporate Certification Authority for
Corporate Digital Certificates
PKI (Public key Infrastructure) architecture design and
deployment
Design new PKI hierarchy for Corporate internal, for
resellers and for Certificate Centre, Define Digital
Certificates Profiles (Root CA, Intermediate CA, end entity
and services). Certificates centre is an online application
used to issue free trial and low cost digital certificates
worldwide, for testing and demonstration especially for our
customers, partners/ resellers and Ascertia products
evaluators.
Design Certificates Centre web application, Certificate
Centre workflow (backend), initial GUI screens (front end)
and lead/work with development team to achieve the task
(http://www.ascertia.com/onlineca/).
Design and Configure PKI services to Implement PKI
hierarchy for Corporate internal, for partners and for
Certificate Centre.
Working Experience on PKI Solutions
Microsoft Certification Authority (2000, 2003 and 2008)
Microsoft OCSP Responder (2008)
Ascertia PureCA
Baltimore Unicert Certification Authority
Work on Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
nCipher HSM
Eracom HSM
Baltimore HSM
Charyslis HSM
Smart Card Readers, Smart card tokens
Managing backups (Databases backup, Source code Backup), disaster
recovery planning, hardware, software library and books library
ROBO help files (online help file generation), Microsoft Visio
Installation and configuration of Oracle
Installation and configuration of Oracle Cluster using Oracle
Clusterware and ASM on Virtual Machines (VM Ware, under test
environment).
Installation and configuration of PostGreSQL server on Solaris
10, x86 (A powerful Open source Object-relational DBMS).
Installation and configuration (over SSL) of CheckPoint SDK
(Licensing/ copy protection solution).
Support
2nd line support for system/deployment related support calls.
1st line support for Certificate Centre support Tickets / live
chat for digital certificates.
Company PrintMIS
Responsibilities
Deploy and managing LAN and Internet solutions.
Deploy wireless LAN and IP phone system
Online Web Server, FTP Server, DB Server.
Apple MAC OS-X.
Managing Visual source safe server, proxy server and firewall
Support.
Company Peak Solutions (IIT, BA&TD)
Responsibilities
Analyze, Design and implement LAN infrastructure that include
network data cabling.
Establish and manage IT Department, IT Labs, Lead IT team.
More than 150 nodes. Manage more than 1200 User accounts, and
implement security policies.
Active Directory Domain, IIS, DNS and DHCP Server, Active
directory management and administration.
Hardware, software and system support.
Deploy and managing SQL Server, IIS server, Exchange server,
Proxy server
Proxy and Firewall implementation.
DSL Internet Connections.
Company BitSolutions
Responsibilities
Managing LAN and Internet solutions.
System and Network Support, maintenance and disaster recovery.
Managing proxy server and domain controller.
Company Knowledge House
Responsibilities
MS Platform Network Installation, configuration & administration
MS Proxy & IIS Server, MS SQL SERVER, MS Exchange Server.
Establish IT Labs.
Company Cybernet
Responsibilities
MS Platform Network Installation, configuration & administration
MS Proxy & IIS Server, MS SQL SERVER.
Installation of Internet Caf Setup.
Company Flash Computers
Responsibilities
Hardware/Software Installation, Customer Support.
Hardware Assembling, Troubleshooting, Maintenance.
Other Projects:
Company Weldon Cable ISP
Responsibilities
Design Network, Install and Deploy Servers, Customer Support.
DHCP, DNS, Web Server (IIS) and proxy, Dial up, DSL, and
Satellite channel.
Company Aversoft Cable ISP
Responsibilities
Design Network, Install and Deploy Servers, Customer Support.
DHCP, DNS, Web Server (IIS) and proxy, Dial up, DSL, and
Satellite channel.
Education:
Academic Education
B.C.S from Petroman Shadman Lahore (AIOU Batch) 1998-2001
F.S.C from Govt. College Ravi Road Lahore/Lahore 1996
Board 1992
Matriculation from Lahore Board
Certifications:
CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) Training 2004
Corvit Systems, Gulberg, Lahore 2004
MCSE Training, Corvit Systems, Gulberg, Lahore
REDHAT Linux Training
Technical Knowledge:
Operating Systems
MS Windows 2000 Server/Adv. Server/Professional, MS Windows NT
4.0 Server/WS, MS Windows 95/98/ME/XP/Dot Net-2003, MS Windows
Vista, MS Windows Server 2008), MS DOS,
SuSE Linux 9.1 (Personal Edition, SLES 8.2 and 9 ), CentOS / RED
HAT Linux, Solaris 7, (installation on Sun SparcStation), Sun
Solaris 8.0 on Sun Blade System, Sun Solaris 8.0 for x86 pc
architecture,
MAC OS 9, 9.2 and MAC OS X installations and configurations
(Networked). Dave, Samba and PC Mac LAN servers.
Internet, Web & mail
WinRoute Proxy Server and Firewall, Wingate Proxy Server, Win
Proxy Server, MS Proxy Server, MS Internet Security and
Acceleration Server, SQUID proxy server on Windows
MailEnable email Server, Enterprise edition, Kerio mail server,
MS Exchange Server
Apache web server, Tomcat Web Server, IIS, IBM HTTP Server
FTP Clients (Cute Ftp/Cute Ftp pro).
MS outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Composer
IE and Netscape Communicator.
Languages
JAVA, FoxPro, C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, COBOL.
Databases
MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostGreSQL, MS Access, FoxPro for
DOS.
Office Environment
MS Office 2000/2003, MS Office 2007, Sun Star Office, Open
office.org, MS Visio, MS Project.
Miscellaneous
Microsoft Services for UNIX, File and Print Services for Apple
Mac, Samba and NFS.
Conceptual Subjects
Data Communication and Networks, Operations Research, Software
Engineering, Data Structures, DBMS, Theory of Automata, Computer
Architecture, Operating Systems Concepts.
Future Planning
I am planning to get the following Degrees and Certifications.
MCSE, MCDBA & CCNA Certifications
MCS / MBA-IT
Sun Solaris and Red HAT Linux Certification
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
References
References can be furnished on Demand.
Personal Profile
N.I.C no. 35201-1425151-9
Date of birth 28-04-1976
Marital Status Single
Domicile Lahore - Punjab, Pakistan