Active Directory Office

Arsalan Syed

Cell No: 647-***-****

Email: **********@*****.***

LinkedIn: http://ae.linkedin.com/pub/syed-arsalan/7/a76/9a4CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

• More than 10 years of IT Core infrastructure industry experience

• Deploy more than 25000 seats in Office 365 by migrating more than 100+ Organizations

• Successfully completed more than 100 Projects in Microsoft Cloud technologies

• 7 years of IT System Administration & Management experience in Banking Industry

• 3 years of Global IT Consultancy/Solution Architect experience

• Manage & lead large scale Enterprise IT Infrastructure deployment projects.

• VMware VCP-DCV 5.5, ITIL, MCSA Office 365 & MCITP Messaging 2013 certified

• Working experience with one of the first Microsoft Cloud based SAAS Provider in the

Middle East and Africa Region

• Windows Azure & Office 365 Technical and Pre-sales Consultant

• Lead the Large scale infrastructure migration projects including Exchange Server and

Active directory migration

KEY TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Cloud: Windows Intune, Office 365, Lync Online Hybrid Models, Windows

Azure, Active Directory Federation servers, Directory Synchronization server, Single

Sign on, Password Sync & Azure Remote Services

• Email Messaging and System Infrastructure: Exchange server 2007, 2010 & 2013.,

Active Directory 2003, 2008 & 2012, Windows Server 2003, 2008 & 2012, Threat

Management Gateway, Hyper V virtualization in 2008 & 2012 & Lync Server 2013

• Virtualization: VMware virtualization 4.5, 5.5 & VMware Cloud V director & Windows

Azure

• Networking & Firewall: Networking & Site to Site VPN, RRAS 2012 R2, Fortinet

Firewall & TMG 2010.

PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC EDUCATION:

Programs University Name Passing Year

Master’s Degree - MBA Hamdard University, Pakistan 2006 - 10

BS Computer Engineering Sir Syed University, Pakistan 2001 - 04

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

Certifications Certificates issued

Microsoft Certified IT Professional MCITP 2008 R2 2010

VMware Certified Professional-Datacenter virtualization

2015

DCV

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate-MCSA 2012 R2 2013

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert – Messaging 2013 2014

ITIL Foundation V3 2014

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate –Office 365 2014

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Past Technical Roles Organization Year

Technical Delivery Manager Liveroute 2011-2015

Accomplishments & Responsibilities: Deployed more than 100+ Projects for Microsoft Cloud

Based Technologies Individually that include Office 365, Windows Azure and Windows Intune.

Successfully deployed more than 25000 Seats of Office 365.Certified in all latest Microsoft

Technologies Managing Pre-sales for the entire Microsoft Cloud technologies. Became a trusted

Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Microsoft Cloud based technologies. Played key role in

introducing new services in our service portfolio. Playing key role in turning opportunities into

qualified Sales Leads. Help out my Consultancy firm for upgrading their Microsoft Partnership

level from silver to Gold with up to the mark certifications. Represents Microsoft in various

Cloud based technology seminars. Actively involved in Pre-sales as well. Solution Architect for

Microsoft Cloud based Technologies. Conducted multiple train the trainer training sessions.

Allied Bank Limited

Manager Office Automation 2009-2011,Pakistan

Accomplishments & Responsibilities: Lead the technical team who transformed the overall IT

Infrastructure for one the largest Bank in Pakistan. Migrated more than 6000 users’ mailboxes

from Old Legacy mail server infrastructure to Exchange Server 2010.Upgraded the Active

Directory Forest Infrastructure from 2003 to 2008 R2.Revamped the overall Server infrastructure

with Hyper-V server 2008 R2 Hypervisor. Assisted software development team to transforms

business processes into automated SharePoint Workflows. Deployed first ever Microsoft Server

monitoring infrastructure for the Bank. Deployed PKI infrastructure to meet IT Compliance and

business requirements. Introduced System Center Configuration manager to manage more than

10000 workstations. Deployed HP Centralize Printing Solution to reduced operational expenses.

Deployed Threat management servers to published Exchange Server, SharePoint server and other

business applications.

Habib Bank Limited

System Engineer 2007-2009,Pakistan

Accomplishments & Responsibilities: To assist the project implementation team responsible for

the implementation of Windows based Infrastructure. Managing Change management processes.

Linux Send mail Email server administration, backup, data recovery of Emails. Managing 150+

Domain controllers for one of the region. Managing Symantec Anti-Spam and Anti malware

Appliance for email filtering. Managing Active sync and Black Berry devices. Managing Active

Directory, DHCP, DNS and WINS issues. Managing server access logs. Managing Server

backups using IBM Tape library and Symantec backup solutions.

Hamdard University, 2006-07

System Support Engineer

Pakistan

Responsibilities: Supporting the hardware and network problems which involve installation of

hardware and software’s. Managing servers backup & reports. Managing security updates.

MAJOR PRROJECTS

Al Jabber Lync Server 2013 Deployed Lync server 2013 in High Available

Construction Deployment infrastructure having multiple Front end servers and

( ALEC) Dubai, SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Database mirroring

UAE

Arabtec Holding Office 365 Worked as a team lead for the deployment of Cross

Across GCC & Migration Active Directory Forest migration for more than 3000

UAE Users. This project also include migration of 3500

user’s mailboxes from Zimbra Server to Office 365

Exchange Online.

Averda UAE & Office 365 Migrated 1200 mailboxes from Exchange server 2007

Lebanon Migration to Office 365 Exchange Online using Hybrid

Deployment Approach which also included deployment

of ADFS Server infrastructure

Shelf Drilling UAE Office 365 Creation of new Active Directory forest for the whole

& UK Migration & organization and consolidate with their existing Office

Microsoft Azure 365 tenant users. This project also include multisite

Deployment VPN connection and configuration to connect multiple

Oil rigs across different geographic location

Central Bank Of Office 365 Deployed Hybrid server 2013 Server infrastructure

Dubai, UAE Migration with their Exchange server 2007 environment.

Meydan Hotel Office 365 Deployment of ADFS Server infrastructure on

Dubai Migration Windows Azure and hybrid server configuration to

migrate their mailboxes from Exchange Server 2007

RAK Free Zone Office 365 Migrate complete RAK Free Zone Authority mailboxes

Authority, UAE Migration from Google to Office 365 Exchange Online.

Allied Bank Microsoft Active Directory up gradation from 2003 to 2008,

Limited Infrastructure Exchange Server 2003 mailboxes migration to

Revamp Exchange Server 2010 up to 6000

Mailboxes.Deploment of SCCM,SCOM & DPM.

Habib Bank Mail server Migration of mailboxes from Send mail to Exchange

Limited migration Server 2007 up to 5000 mailboxes.

TRAININGS

• PMP Project Management training boot camp

• VMware VCP DCV 5.5 training 5 days boot camp

• Windows Server 2012 R2 5 days training boot camp

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