Farhan Alam
*** ******** ***** **, ******, GA, **096, Email, **********@*******.***,
Tel: 404-***-****
Name on request. Feb 2003 to present
Data recovery engineer
Managed and established 3 lab situated in Boston, MA, Dallas, TX & New
York, NY continued coordination and training of staff involved. In running
the multi state operation including Canada.
Responsibilities:
. Extensive knowledge of PC3000.
1. Hot swap procedures
2. Service area bad sectors.
3. Firmware.
4. Clicking hard drives
. Clean room operation Head /platter transplant.
. Extensive knowledge of corrupted firmware modules PCB &, ROM,
. RAID Cards Structure & Reconstruction
1. Adaptec AAA - 131U2/Adaptec Ultra 2 SCSI RAID Card
2. IBM Server RAID - II Ultra SCSI Adapter
3. AMI 475 series
4. Promise FastTrak 4300
5. Adaptec 2100S
6. Power Edge LSI Logic/ Dell PERC 3C
7. Adaptec 2120S
8. I-Omega NAS Box
9. Dell PERC - II
10. Quantum Snap Server 2000/4100
11. Adaptec 2410SA Silicon mh SATA Raid card
12. MSA-1000 (HP-Modular Smart Array
13. Linksys NSS 6000 NAS
14. Buffalo Tera Station
15. StorCase Model S10K112 Fiber attached SATA hard disk array, with
8x500GB Seagate SATA Hard Drives
16. LaCIE- Biggest 800-2TB
17. LaCIE-400GB
. Diagnostic & evaluations (RAID SERVER, CD ROM, FLASH CARD, optical
media )
. Data recovery using different techniques, skills involving software
and hardware
. Troubleshoot in data structure
. Management of lab, inventory & accounts
South land corporation: Nov 2001 to Oct 2003
Shift manager
. Customer Service.
. Ordering Merchandise.
. Stocking.
. Cash Handling and Banking.
. Preparation of Cash Summary.
. Scheduling and Managing Store Employees.
. Inventory control
. Food management
. Inventory management
. Vendor relationship
Dawn Group of Newspaper, Feb. 1999- Sept,
2001
Manager Information Systems.
. Tracing of Errors in News paper before it goes for printing.
. Provision of Technical Support such as Software and Hardware.
. Installation of LAN (Novell Netware) included Server and Terminal
installation.
. Tracing of physical and logical errors in LAN and removal.
. Supervision of 18 member team.
. Analysis and preparation of reports and presentation to Bureau Editor.
. Providing Technical Support to bureaus located in different cities.
Project:
Established a network of 80 Computers in Dawn Group of Newspapers Head
Office with all cable connection using wiring block panel. Installed and
configured 4 Novell Netware servers with Remote Access Services (RAS).
Also established a Network of 18 and 15 in other bureaus in different
cities with the same configuration and connected them with main bureau
through Remote Access Services (RAS).
Xibercom (Pvt) Ltd, Feb 1999-Sept 2001
Ving Card Technician
Worked as Ving Card Technician in Xibercom a subsidiary of Dawn Group of
Newspapers worked for Major companies and 5 Star Hotels.
. Preparation and Presentation of Ving Card Security Systems to Clients.
. Installation of Terminal Node Network (TNN).
. Establishment of TNN with different floors in a building.
. Ving Card monthly maintenance and troubleshooting.
Journal Computers, March 1997-Jan
1999
. Assembling of Computers.
. Installation of Software & Hardware.
. Trouble shooting in Software & Hardware.
. Networking, Involved Win95, 98, ME, Windows 2000 and Win XP.
. Establishment of onsite networking in Net Caf s and different
government departments.
. Providing solution in Operating Systems, Software & Hardware up
gradation.
. Maintenance & repair of Laptop Computers.
Government College of Commerce, Feb, 1995 - Mar
1997
Instructor
. Computer Fundamentals
. Word processing
. Spread Sheet Analysis
. dBase III Plus.
Education:
Bachelors of Computer Science
Certifications
. Adaptec Certified Storage Professional for Advance RAID
. Computer Configuration and Maintenance
. WAN Technologies
. Computer Fundamentals
. Internet concepts
. Computer Technician