Jamil Niazi
Phone: 925-***-****
Email:********@*****.***
Position Desired: Information Technology Director
Education: California State University, Northridge California
Bachelor of Science
Employment History:
Ross Stores, Pleasanton, CA, 08/11 to Present
Title: Manager of IT Infrastructure
Responsibilities:
. Manage Infrastructure team consisting of Systems Engineers.
. Manage remote Enterprise Infrastructure for 1200 sites spread across
USA.
. Develop strategy for VM and NAS implementation
. Develop Enterprise Change Management process and procedures
. Develop and build a Disaster Recovery plan for Infrastructure
. Lead IT Governance Committee
. Develop documentation and procedures for Sox audit
. Monitor relationships with vendors and 3rd party providers onshore and
offshore.
. Develop Enterprise server build and hardening process
. Manage Strategic IT 5Year Plan/ Manage IT budget
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, SF, CA, 01/09 to 08/11
Title: Enterprise Systems Manager
Responsibilities:
. Managed IT infrastructure team - Network (Security and PCI
compliance), enterprise Server, and Helpdesk.
. Managed Infrastructure development for new data center build and move
out which included construction of NOC, setting up power, AC and
secured network systems, furniture, AV system and security system.
. Developed Disaster Recovery Plan and documentation.
. Managed Infrastructure IT Budget.
. Developed final solutions Architecture and migration Strategy for
exchange 2010,
Windows 7 and office 2010.
. Developed strategy and implemented Blade Server technology with VM
Ware for server consolidation and SAN(EMC)/NAS(NetAPP) to replace
conventional servers with Direct Attached Storage.
. Developed hardware Standardization model.
. Chaired committee which was responsible for developing and
implementing ITIL recommended best practices for Change Control,
Incident Management, Problem Management, commissioning, and
monitoring.
Excel Realty and Mortgage, Pleasanton, CA, 02/06 to 01/ 09
Title: Information Systems Director
Responsibilities:
. Created, and managed the new Information Technology Group.
. Created IT budget, organizational development, staff recruitment,
training, and retention
. Designed and developed multi-site heterogeneous environment, with
multiple offices and sites.
. Developed Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan.
. Directly Managed developer Team responsible for creating websites
(using: Java, JavaScript, JSP, VBA, and HTML).
. Developed change management policies and procedures for all
infrastructure changes.
. Developed and implement procedures to verify all systems and data is
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliant.
Mayor's office, San Francisco, CA, 09/2000 to 02/06
Title: Information Technology Director
Responsibilities:
. Created Official Information Technology Group for Mayor Willie
Brown's office.
. Created IT budget, organizational development, staff recruitment,
training, and retention.
. . Managed File Server refresh and data migration from Novell 3.12 to
5.11 to Windows 2000/ Windows 2003.
. Migrated the network to Windows 03 Server/Active Directory.
. Helped manage the city's enterprise email upgrade project from
ccmail to Lotus Notes.
. Configured Lotus Notes to work with Black Berry, Cisco VPN.
.
. Negotiated Tier-Two support contract with large scale HP computer
purchases at ZERO cost (had been previously denied).
. Managed File Server refresh and data migration from Novell 3.12 to 5.11
to Windows 2000/ Windows 2003.
. Developed Disaster Recovery Plan and documentation.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES Information Technology Department, Los Angeles, CA .
1995-2000
Title: Systems Programmer
Responsibilities:
. Provided Tier 2 Hardware, software, and network support for 8
departments.
. Installed/configured NT 4/windows 2000 and Novell 4/5 OS
environments.
. Administered Groupwise4/5 email system.
. Implemented Human Services' TDD system city-wide.
. Created and managed Database applications using Visual Basic.