Sohail, Khawaja Qamar

***-***** **, ***** ****, Lahore, 54770, Pakistan

acxxt6@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: ++92.324-***-****

Summary:

As a highly-motivated and results oriented IT support engineer within the enterprise sector, I have a proven track record of providing exemplary levels of support and service to leading fortune 500 companies.

Having earned Masters in Computer simulations from University of Science, Malaysia, I have undertaken several trainings and certifications at Hewlett-Packard® (HP) and Postech University, South Korea. These placements have enabled me to develop not only specific IT industry experience, but also a valuable skill set in this fast-paced sector. During placement with HP, I worked in the Unix Linux Capability and Project group contributing to customer accounts - such as Carrefour® and Vale® - and liaised with various technical teams, formulated various technical reports and participated in group project meetings. During my tenure at SeiMaxim® HPC, I worked in Linux, Windows, Cisco, VMware virtualization, website development and high-performance computing. Utilizing excellent communication skills, I developed and maintained successful working relationships with both internal and external staff. Proven capability to work under high pressure and extremely motivated. Ability to resolve critical problems logically and efficiently.

Objective:

Looking to secure a highly-demanding IT job role in Unix, Linux, VMware Virtualization and Cisco networking in a highly-competitive environment, where I can bring immediate and strategic value and develop current skill set further. IT Certifications:

Novell SUSE Linux CLA

ITIL V3 Foundation

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Trainings Received at Hewlett-Packard Global Center Malaysia:

Novell SUSE CLA CLP

HP-UX System Administration - 7 days course

ITIL V3 Foundation - 7 days course

HP Virtual connect - 4 days course

IT security essentials - Multiple courses

HP Proliant Blades and Enclosures - 7 days course Academic Qualifications:

2005 M.Sc in Computer Simulations and Molecular modeling, University Sains Malaysia, Penang. Malaysia.

1997 Bachelor of Pharmacy, University of Punjab, Pakistan. 1990 F.Sc. (12th year) Crescent Model Higher Secondary School, Lahore, Pakistan. 1988 Matriculation (10th year), Crescent Model Secondary School, Lahore, Pakistan. Professional Experience:

2011-August 2014: Unix Linux Engineer at Hewlett-Packard®

Unix Linux System Administrator having experience in an industry standard ITIL V3 operating environment. Responsible for Server management of Vale® Canada, Carrefour® EMEA and MMG® Australia. Managed all change and escalated incident issues.

Build, test, install and transform Unix Linux systems from scratch to production followed by on-going delivery support. Installation and configuration of monitoring and security software (HP OVO, ESM, ESAR). Worked with other teams to ensure delivery of production servers in a timely manner.

Management of Central Configuration Item Management Database.

P2P, V2V, P2V, V2P Server Migrations with Novell Platespin migrate, Mondo, VMware VCenter and manual custom migrations.

Disaster Recovery: Development of disaster recovery solutions of critical servers using Mondo rescue. Experience in restoration of crashed servers using Mondo rescue.

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Red Hat Cluster: Development of High Availability Red hat cluster for Vale Canada. Experience in setup of CLVM and manual setup of XML based cluster configuration files. Development of bash scripts to manage cluster services. Development of High availability cluster in VMware infrastructure using specific fencing technique.

CITRIX XEN: Move to Production of Xen servers from scratch. Installation and configuration of HP monitoring software (OVO, ACF, MONDO, ESM (Symantec), ERM (User account mapping) on XenServer. Management of Xen guests from command line and XenCenter.

OS Firmware Upgrade Patch: Upgrade and Patching of Unix Linux servers using ITIL V3 change management process.

HP Server Automation: Using HP Sever Automation software to remotely install, deploy and software management of Unix Linux based servers. HP Virtual connect configuration and management.

Remote server management: Server management and deployment using ILO. Server Hardware management and administration of ILO 4.

VMware: Building of VMs in VCenter and management of virtual devices.

Hardware: Worked on HP Proliant Blade Servers, HP Proliant Rack Servers, HP Enclosures.

NFS, SAMBA, APACHE, NTP, Logical Volume Manager (LVM), ACL, Firewall, Quota management, User management and File management, Networking

(IPV4, IPV6, bonding), Multi-pathing and RAID configuration.

Troubleshooting Networking, boot errors, disk errors, OS level errors. Documenting Root Cause Analysis and Proactive measures.

Writing of Operation Support Manuals for newly build servers covering infrastructure, Application Database start stop procedures, networking and disaster recovery.

Able to work independently and with team members to resolve escalated incidents in production servers.

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2014-2016: Linux Cisco Web developer at SeiMaxim® High performance Computing Cisco router:

Configuration and setup of ADSL-M HWIC card to connect company infrastructure through DSL to high-speed Internet.

DNS server setup in Cisco router

Access control list configuration

Configured NAT to link global clients with local servers

Routing configuration

Cisco IOS upgrades

IOS management through text-based and graphical consoles

Security

Cisco Switch and ASAv:

Designed Network infrastructure for company

Configured Private VLANs Primary – Secondary – Community – isolated

Configured Switch networking and routing

Cisco IOS upgrades

IOS management through text-based and graphical consoles

Security management

Configuration and VPN access setup in Cisco ASAv to secure infrastructure. VMware:

ESXi 5, 6 installation and upgrades

VCenter 5, 6 installation and upgrades on Windows Server 20008 2012 R2 Datacenter

Unix, Windows, MAC virtual machine installation and post-installation configurations

Microsoft SQL server 2014 setup for VMware on Windows server 2008 2012 R2 Datacenter

VCenter appliance setup and configuration

VCenter Virtual networking

Virtual server migrations

NFS Datastore setup

VMware NSX 6.2 (Virtual appliance setup and configuration)

VMware Horizon 6.2 (Linux and Windows desktops setup and access)

VMware Operations Manager, VMware Orchestrator, VMware identity appliance

VMware VRealize Cloud, SQL Database setup for VMware Page 4 of 8

Microsoft Windows Server:

Windows server 2012 R2 Datacenter – Installation and management

Windows server 2008 R2 Datacenter – Installation and management

Microsoft Exchange server 2013 2016 – Mail server setup and management

Active directory setup

DNS server setup

DHCP server setup

NFS – FTP server setup

Web Server setup – management and log analysis

SSL certificate request and installation for Web server Website development:

Website development using Adobe Muse on Mac and Windows

Content writing for high performance computing website

SEO management

Google analytics and webmaster tools

Graphics:

Corel draw X7 Draw and Paint – creating banners, logos, icons and picture adjustment for website development

Designed brochures, emails, flyers in Microsoft office for Mac and Windows Apple Mac OS X Server:

Web Server setup and configuration

MAIL Server setup and support

APC Power management:

APC UPS setup for providing power backup

APC Network management card setup and configuration

Server configuration to auto-shutdown and auto-power up Unix and Windows servers on Power failure

HP Proliant Servers:

Firmware – ROM – BIOS upgrades

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ILO console based server management

Hardware RAID configuration

Server parts upgrades and handling

2005-09: System administrator Research officer at POSTECH University, South Korea

Administered, maintained and troubleshoot a computational lab running various flavors of Unix Linux OS in Postech, South Korea. Most of the work involved;

Samba server client setup and administration.

NIS and NFS server client setup and troubleshooting.

LDAP servers, Virus scanners, Web servers setup and troubleshooting.

Installation of OS - Linux, Sgi Irix, Tru64 Unix - on machines of different architecture (Sgi Indy, Sgi O2, Dec alpha, HP Proliant server, Sun ultra Sparc machines).

Configuration of each machine through hardware terminal console to install OS, server software and incorporating each node in the pool of computing machines.

Compilation and installation of scientific applications. It also involved tweaking source code to compile software on machines of different architecture. Troubleshooting of all servers clients running Sgi Irix, Linux, Tru64 Unix (Dec Alpha Machines).

High Performance Computing Infrastructure software (Portable Batch System PBS) installation, configuration and troubleshooting.

Developed Oracle RAC.

Configure Remote (open source) access.

Developed and customized scripts that resulted in improved systems monitoring.

2002-2004: Parallel Grid computing in University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Page 6 of 8

Worked with Sun Microsystems and University Sains Malaysia, Deptt. Of computer Science to develop a Campus Grid Cluster.

Applications used to make Campus grid include Sun Grid Engine software, Globus toolkit, bison 1.875, Junit 3.8.1, Apache ant 1.6.1 and MPICH 2.

Experience in installing and configuring all above listed software. Many scientific applications were also ported to the grid cluster.

Beowulf cluster: Developed Linux Beowulf cluster of 16 nodes using RedHat Linux 9.

2000-2002: University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Experience of SGI Irix, Various flavors of Linux (Redhat 8, 9, Fedora 4-10, RedHat Ent. 3, Trusted Solaris 8, FreeBSD and Windows XP platforms.

Worked for M.Sc. project in Information Technology Centre, University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia.

Responsibilities as a UNIX System Administrator include monitor and tune system to make sure of optimum level of performance.

Configuring NIS clients and managing NIS maps.

SAMBA server and Clients troubleshooting.

Routine performance analysis, capacity analysis and security analysis reports for necessary planned changes.

Molecular mechanics:

Ligand-protein docking using AutoDock, Dock. Applied this technique at the atomic structural level in order to find out the causes of resistance developed in Mycobacterium against tuberculosis drug, Isoniazid. Mycobacterium enzyme InhA, isoniazid and 15 other related Isoniazid derivatives were modeled. Sybyl, Amber, and various graphical software were also used in this project.All work was done on SGI Workstations and SUN workstations in IRIX Solaris, respectively. Page 7 of 8

Molecular dynamics simulations were done using AMBER on Isoniazid and its derivatives.

Quantum Mechanics:

Developed stable structures of dodecahedron water clusters hydrates using Gaussian 09. An Ab initio Studies.

Theoretical studies of Gas hydrates using Quantum mechanics approach. Computational scientific Software:

Amber, NWchem, AutoDock, Dock,Gaussian, Gaussview, Sybyl, Accelrys DS MS, Turbomole, TmoleX, Origin Pro, Sigmaplot, IBM SPSS, Statistica, Excel. Training:

Grid computing in scientific field by Sun Microsystems. References:

Available upon request.

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