Tariq Zaman
Contact#: +92-334-******* Email ID: ************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
To secure a position in ICT & Telecom environment, where I can make significant contributions towards a company’s immediate and future goals
SUMMARY
Over 6 years of experience as Manager Operations, acting IT In-charge, Sr. Network Admin and Senior Support Engineer
KEY SKILLS
Hands on Avaya products (CM, AES, SES, ACR/QM/Work Force Management, CMS, System Manager, Session Manager, AACC), Cisco routing and switching, Wireless LAN, and virtualization– ESXi 4.x, Project Management and Team Lead
EDUCATION DETAILS
2006 to 2008 MS
Hamdard University
Karachi Pakistan
2002 to 2005 BS (CS)
IBMS/CS
Peshawar Pakistan
KNOWN LANGUAGES
English, Urdu, Pashto
TRAINNINGS
Avaya Workforce Management from Avaya Singapore
Avaya Quality Monitoring from Avaya Singapore
AACC from Dubai
Avaya Scopia from Dubai
Cisco Network Academy Program (CNAP-1, CNAP-2, CNAP-3, CNAP4, CNAP-5 ) RCNA Pakistan
Wireless LAN RCNA Pakistan
CERTIFICATES
ACSS - Avaya Aura Communication Manager
ACSS - Avaya Call Center Elite Implementation and Maintenance
ACSS – Avaya Aura Messaging
Avaya Aura® Session Manager and System Manager Implementation and Maintenance
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Cisco Certified Associate Instructor
CCNA/CCNP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ORGANIZATION Pronet Private Limited
PERIOD April 2011 - Current
TITLE Senior Manager Ops and Support- Avaya
Job responsibilities:
Team management to give support to clients
Attend meetings with technical and business once a week to discuss issues if any
Planning for upcoming projects
Site survey for new deployments
To define Scope of Work in collaboration with Project Manager as per ISO 20000
To raise change for current setup in compliance with ISO 20000
Works with other departments, customers and vendors to provide efficient fault resolution of issues or systems outages
Responsible for ensuring all related documentation and technical issues are effectively conveyed to relevant team members
Logged ticket and communicate with Avaya BB Engineers for technical support on critical issue in- case of high severity
Develop or assist with the Root Cause Analysis reports
Monitors ticket update information and ensures trouble-ticketing information is current and accurate
To administrate/install/upgrade the Avaya PBX, Witness Server, Avaya Enablement Services, and IP Office 500
To give customer support with 24/7 scale for Avaya PBX, Witness, CMS, SES, Avaya Enablement Services, Session Manager and System Manager
Installed and implement Avaya Communication Manager 3.1 to 6.x,
Provide out-of-hours and weekend support when required.
Install and implement AES, G450, G650 gateways, CM 5.x, ACR 10.1.
DS1 configuration, SIP trunk, Integrating Avaya PBX with different vendor
High Availability installation of Avaya AES and SES
Installation of Microsoft Server 2008 and SQL 2005 enterprise, registration and all other necessary arrangements to make CRM application fully functional.
Tie trunk of Avaya with Cisco and Alcatel
Testing of Prognosis application for monitoring purpose to share pre-requisites with client
Perform testing before deployment of new requirements
Completed projects:
a.Avaya PABX (G450, ACM 6, AES 6.0 & ACR 10.1 for 400 users)
b.Avaya PABX (G650, ACM 6, AES 6.0 & ACR 10.1 for 200 users)
c.Avaya PABX (G450, ACM 6, AES 6.0 & ACR 11.0 for 200 users)
d.Avaya PABX (G450, ACM 6 for 60 users)
e.Avaya PABX (G650, ACM 6 for 700 users)
f.Avaya CC ( CM/AES/SM/SMgr/AACC/AEP/QM/WFM)
g.Avaya IPT setup in Deutche Bank Pakistan
h.Avaya IPT setup in Pakistan Stock Exchange Karachi
Technical Sessions
Avaya WFM training session for Zain Iraq and Metco Iraq team in Dubai
Knowledge transfer session for IT team on AACM/ACR12.0/AACC 6.4
Knowledge transfer session for Agents to use QM/WFM
Knowledge transfer session for Supervisors to prepare roster/scheduling, scorecard and forecasting
Presentation for Contact Center Managers on QM/WFM
ORGANIZATION Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
PERIOD July 2006 to April 2011
TITLE Sr. Network Admin (Acting IT In-Charge for One year)
Job responsibilities:
Responsible for ensuring all related documentation and technical issues are effectively conveyed to incoming shifts
To Identify, isolates, and resolves data communications problems.
Monitors network management systems and tracks all network problems for resolution
Installation and Maintenance Cisco switches and routers
Works with subscribers and business in resolving service impacting issues
Provide technical training and coaching to other team members
Develop or assist with the Root Cause Analysis reports
Connect network equipment (setting up the routers, connecting the switches)
Installation and Maintenance of Novell Netware 6.5 environments
Installation and maintenance of ESXi 4.1
Maintenance of Novell 3.12 Server
Maintenance of LAN and WAN with Head office and other stations Pan Pakistan with Lease Lines and later though VPN and FTP
Installation and Maintenance of Draytek (Vigor2900 Series device) as a firewall
Installed new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services and settings in accordance with standards and project / operational requirements.
Completed project:
Upgrade of Novel Netware from 3.12 to Netware 6.5, Implementation of ESXi 4.1 and virtualized Servers with minimal budget, Email automation setup
ORGANIZATION Regional Cisco Networking Academy Hamdard University
PERIOD July 2007 to Oct 2009
TITLE Regional Instructor (Part Time)
Job responsibilities:
Cisco Networking Academy training professionals and to students of BS/BE/MS of Hamdard University, as well as to students of other educational institutions (FAST, Behria University)
a)Networking Fundamental
b)Routing Protocol concepts
c)LAN Switching and Wireless
d)Accessing the WAN
Fundamentals of Wireless LAN
Hands on to CCNA and CCNP students 2801, 2811, 2620, Layer 3 Switches
Hands on to Wireless LAN students on Aironet 1200 series Access points and 1400 series bridges
Curriculum Lead and Academy Equipment Manager
Organize National level academy seminar, Guests were Cisco EMEA regional Manager and Trainer from Lebanon
Assist FAST student in quizzes and scenarios for PROCOM in 2008
Invited as a panel member to observe Networking participants in PROCOM 2008
References
Will be furnished if require