IT Manager

RIAZ P JAMAL

Mob: +974********

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Career Objective

Seeking challenging career in Information Technology to get a position of responsibility, using my skills and efficiency to communicate my ideas and views and commit myself for achieving organizational objectives with the team effort and my positive attitude and performance. Profile Summary

Extensive 10 years of experience in installation, administration and networking in various

Environments.

IT Infrastructure Management (Data centre: Servers, Storage, Network, Software, Security)

Excellent understanding of technical and business requirements

Excellent communicator at all levels and with third party partners, suppliers

Provide end to end solutions and meeting client expectations as per SLA

Highly motivated with the ability to work effectively in teams as well as independently

Handling Projects - Preparing RFP, scrutinizing BOQ, Pilot tests, Post-tests, Evaluation

Expertise on Cabling Standards (Fiber Optics and Copper)

Expertise on Datacentre Virtualization Technology VMware, Hyper V

Excellent Understanding On Storage SAN, NAS, DAS

Expertise on Microsoft Technologies

Expertise on SQL Queries,scripting

Expertise on RBAC Process

Excellent leader & strong communicator with the ability to attain time-bound deliverables.

Successful project and technical team leader, motivator. Educational Qualification

B-tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Kerala University, 2007 Trained and Certifications

Oracle Certified Professional from Oracle University Microsoft Certified System Administrator

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CSCO12961350)

Key Expertise

Microsoft Servers: Microsoft Windows Server infrastructure (Active Directory, DNS, And DHCP) 2003, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 High Availability Solutions: Clustering and Network Load Balancing (NLB).Office 365, SCCM, SCOM, WSUS

Linux Servers: REHL, CentOS, Ubuntu

Database Servers: Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008R2, 2016 Oracle 9i, 10g, MySQL, Pgsql Virtualization: VMware, Hyper V, Citix XenServer

Storage: IBM Storwize V3700, V7000

Firewall: Sophos, Sonic wall, Fortinet

Tape Library: IBM TS3100

Backup and Recovery: Symantec Backup Exec, Veeam Backup and Recovery Anti-Virus: Symantec Business Protection Suite, Trend Micro Worry free Business Security

Networking: Cisco 2800, Avaya 4500

VoIP: Cisco Call Manger 8.6, Switchbox, Avaya IP Office Video Conferencing: Cisco Telepresence SX20

Programming Language: C#. SQL, and PLSQL, php, PowerShell Area of Expertise

Infra-Structure: Active Directory Services on Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012 Servers, GPO Designing, Objects Creation and Elevation, OU Designing, DNS, DHCP, Primary, Secondary and Child DC Promotion, DC Disaster Recovery, DC and Domain Renaming, Moving FSMO, GC, DNS and Exclusive AD Skills, Active Directory Migration/In-place Upgrade 2003 To 2008, Backup Exchange, AD, DNS, DHCP, Webserver, FTP, Backup Exec & System Recovery Extensive Configuration, Microsoft Fail-over clustering and high availability 2008/2102R2, iSCSI Configuration. Messaging: MS Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, SMTP, POP3, MAPI, IMAP4, OWA, RPC over HTTP Configuring Administrative Groups, Storage Groups and Routing Groups on Exchange Server, Postfix, Dovecot, and Round cube Webmail’s and Squirrel Mail. Security: Microsoft ISA 2004, 2006, Web Proxy, Filtering, Symantec Endpoint Security, Norton – Secure, McAfee, Trend Micro and GFI Web Monitor, Sophos, SonicWALL Database: Microsoft SQL 2005, 2008, Setup and Configuration, Database Replications, Database Backup and Restore, Oracle 9i RMAN, Indexing, Performance Tuning and Monitoring Table Space User Administration.

Linux/Unix: Configuration & Migration of UNIX and Linux operating systems and Administration. Installation, configuration and remediation of various Security Software Writing Shell and Perl Scripting for automation of job, Apache web server, Samba file server, Squid proxy server, Send mail server. Skilled at Monitoring tools like Syslog Server. Virtualization: VMware, Hyper V, XenServer

Routing & Switching: Configuring and managing networks with Cisco Routers, Switches, Protocol TCP/IP, Sub-netting, CIDR, Routing Protocols RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, Configuring VLAN, DNS, DHCP.Inter Vlan Routing, call manager Express, Dial peer, Sip, ePhone, Voice Plans. Organizational Experience

Advanced Utility Construction & Contracting W.L.L

IT Consultant

Since Feb 10 2018

About Company

AUCC is the Joint Venture of PORR and HBK.

Previous Experience

Watson Services W.L.L Doha, Qatar

Technical Lead

November 2014 to January 10 2018

About The Company

WATSON Services W.L.L is one of the solution and network infrastructure Provider Company and a complete technology distributor in Qatar

Project: Implementation of Network Infrastructure and Server Solutions Client: Porr / Saudi BinLadin Group / HBK Join Venture Doha Metro Rail Project Details: Installation and Configuration of IBM x3650M4 Server’s, IBM Storwize V3700, RAID Configuration, Adding Host to the SAN Storage, iSCSI, SAS Hosts, Creating Volumes. TS3100 Tape Library, Backup Operations using Symantec Backup Exec 2015 Server. Configuration of Domain Controller Windows 2012 Server, User policies, Sophos UTM for antivirus and Firewall. Data and Voice Vlan Configuration, Wi-Fi Access Point with Controllers Project: VMware VSphere Implementation

Client: Porr / Saudi BinLadin Group / HBK Join Venture Doha Metro Rail Project Details: Installation of VMware ESXi 6, Vcenter Configuration, Vmotion, High Availability, Configuration of SAN Data stores, vswitch Configuration, Clustering, Adding Expansion Enclosure to Existing IBM Storwize V3700, Symantec Backup Exec 2015 Agent for VMware Al-Hammam Company for Construction and Maintenance, Rahima, SaudiArabia Sr. System Administrator (Dec 2009 to August 2014) About The Company

Al-Hammam Company maintains ISO 9002 certification and has a dedicated workforce of 1,200 highly skilled, motivated Employees. AL-Hammam Company is one of the leading EPC contractors in Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia. Al-Hammam Company has been working consistently for more than 20 years with major Clients like ARAMCO, SABIC, KJO, SEC, etc. Currently Company is running more than 5 projects in different locations of Saudi Arabia

Duties and Responsibilities

Windows server 2008 R2, 2012 R2 clustering and HA

Implementing Group Policies Across the Domain

Administering Windows File server for users and departments, assigning quota, permissions And restrictions

Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 Antivirus

Symantec Backup Exec 2012 backing up- SQL, Exchange, AD, User Data

Symantec System Recovery 2013- Server imaging

Microsoft SQL Server installation and configuration

Managing IT Infrastructure which includes Rack/Tower Servers, SAN, Tape Libraries, etc.

Centrally managing Symantec Backup Endpoint Protection Security in administering and

maintaining of the network security systems

Managing Primavera 8.6, backup and restore Oracle Database

Troubleshooting and resolving issues related to server Management, Storage Administration like

Zoning, LUN creation, mapping etc.

Managing and Administrating Sql Server Database Backup and Restore

Creating daily monitoring checklist, report templates and KPI for domain controllers, DNS, DHCP,

file and FTP servers

Assisting Help Desk team for all IT severity cases

Responsible for scheduling and monitoring backup jobs, analysing and correcting issues as identified, regularly reporting critical data metrics and issues to management and

Proactively maintaining the health and safety of the storage solutions.

Participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals

For systems and software in conjunction with end-users and department managers.

Support application development teams throughout project lifecycle

Created SQL scripts, Procedures to generate custom reports in Oracle database I-Tech Solutions Cochin, India

System Administrator

April 2007-November 2009

Duties and Responsibilities

Prepared the environment for deployment of Windows Server 2003.

Analysed the hardware and software requirements of Active Directory.

Installed, configured and provide troubleshooting for Server 2003.

Migrated Windows Server 2003 from test environment to the production environment.

Implemented and managed IP Addressing; configured TCP/IP addressing on a server.

Created the Forest Root domain and a Child domain in a production environment.

Installed and configured an Active Directory Domain Controller.

Performed authoritative and non-authoritative restore operations.

Diagnosed and resolved issues related to masters role failure and AD database. Personal Profile

Date of Birth: 29th May 1983

Visa Status: Resident Visa with Valid Qatar Driving Licence Passport No: G8796609

Date of Issue: 17/06/2008

Declaration

I do hereby declare that all the information given above is true, complete and correct to the best of my knowledge.

Riaz P Jamal

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