MOHAMED AWAD

917-***-****

West Orange, NJ

ad2usg@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-awad-7663a57

SKILL SUMMARY:

●Over 10 years of DevOps experience supporting large-scale, complex, and diverse IT environments

●Extensive Infrastructure Support for critical 24/7 environment (Financial Institutions & Pharmaceutical)

●Trade floor Migration, Upgrade, Support & hands-on rollout experience

●Migration, Capacity planning, Hardware & Backup Solutions, with detailed documentation

●Documentation: Disaster recovery, Extensive Antivirus management & Capacity Planning

●Microsoft DC Upgrades, SQL Clusters, DFS, Active Directory, DNS & DHCP

●Azure Active Directory, MS Active Directory, Teams, SharePoint & Microsoft O-365

●Hundreds of installs/Patches: Server OS/ hardware/ barebone (Disks, RAM, Blade Servers, Router & Switches)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

●Windows Server 2003/2012/2016/2019, Azure Active Directory / Group Policy, Global Catalog

●Azure DaaS, PaaS, MS O365 Suite config, maintenance via PowerShell scripts

●Application packaging & distribution, PowerShell scripts, SharePoint, Teams Admin

●Data Center, SAN, High availability/Clustering, Optimized Backup & Data Duplication

●VMware ESXi/ vSphere, Virtualization, Remote Desktop Services, and Citrix XenApp

●DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, CISCO Routers, Palo Alto Firewall

●UNIX / LINUX ADMIN, C++, VB, UML, Python, PowerShell

●NOVELL NDS configuration, maintenance, design & troubleshooting

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

(AZ-104) AZURE Certified Administrator - Associate 2023

(AZ-305) AZURE Certified Solutions Architect - Expert 2023

AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate 2023

(MCP) Microsoft Certified Professional - Windows Server

(MCTS) Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

CompTIA Network+

(CNA/CNE) Novell Certified Administrator & Engineer

(BSEE) Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Redxam Networks, NYC/ Hoboken, NJ/ Dubai UAE Jan 2021-Present

Senior Systems Engineer:

●Administration & User support of MS Exchange, MS Teams and Palo Alto Firewall

●Supported Microsoft 5000+ user Environment SQL clusters & load balancers

●Collaborated with team members to optimize core services for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

●Supported Azure Active Directory & monitored server performance & setup alerts

●Configured Single Sign-On (SSO) & MFA for accessing Azure resources

●Supported Palo Alto Firewall: setting up zones & L3 Interfaces, configuring default IP routes & DHCP server, adding NAT configuration & setting up initial security policies

●Supported vCenter Servers & several VMWare virtual server environments

●Assisted with configuring capacity planning and disaster recovery

●Assisted in designing and configuring portable platform standards for laptops.

●Planned operational monitoring, Root-cause analysis across multiple sites & platforms

Evergreen Transportation, FL August 2017-Jan 2021

Operation Manager:

●Developed dispatch systems with iOS and Android apps using Google Maps & Geolocation/GPS

●Dispatched & monitored job progress & tracked vehicles & drivers nationwide

●Complied with US DOT rules and regulations for Intrastate Transportation

Computer Network Services, Teaneck NJ April 2016 -July 2017

Migration Engineer (Consulting):

●Assisted in Migration planning & testing of Exchange 2007, 2010 & 2013 to Office 365

●Configured federated sharing between organizations with a mixed Exchange deployment Versions

●Participated in tested Office 365 Migration tools like Exchange Deployment Assistant, Metalogics’ Cloud accelerator, Dell Migration Manager, Net Mail & Binary Tree

●Tested MDT & OSD package automation testing for Windows 10 entire rollout process, from image creation, maintenance to actual image deployment.

●Conducted several pilot migrations for different version exchange deployment (mailboxes, messages, calendar entries, contacts and tasks)

●Second & 3rd level support using Servicenow and Remedy. Some experience with AWS cloud, VPC, EC2, S3

Computer Network Services, Teaneck NJ Sept 2011 - March 2016

Systems Engineer (Consulting):

●As an (MSP), Supported Clients’ Active Directory, performance monitoring, configuration & Server patches

●Managed several daily admin tasks through Automated Batch & PowerShell scripts

●Several Installation of VMWare High Availability, Windows Server 2012 Hyper V & Clustering

●Supported VMWare, vCenter & Windows Server 2008/ 2012, Hyper-V, Active directory environments

●Acted as 2nd & 3rd level support for Help desk escalated issues

●Assisted with Administration & maintenance of SharePoint 2010

●Provided technical review of new apps for upgrades and rollout of 800 clients

●Collaborated with client’s IT staff to determine appropriate migration techniques

●Conducted testing and follow up with vendors & in-house developers

●Test, evaluate and configure several business applications for deployment according to Client’s SOP

Wells Fargo, NYC June 2010 - Sept 2011

Migration Engineer (Consulting)

●Systems Migration of workstations: Windows Vista and XP

●Migrated Wachovia Houston locations to Wells Fargo standards using ghost imaging via unattended setup

●Created application packages via SMS / SCCM 2007, configured for proper distribution.

●PXE Network boot to Ghost Images via kickstart Red Hat Linux server to install from network

●Created bootable CD images for Roll out using Norton Ghost and Ghost Walker

●Performed Functional and Regression testing for e-Banking Application

●Configured IP addresses for local teller and platform server.

●Installed and configured peripherals (Panini, VeriFone, and Addmaster Validator) for platform and tellers

●Conducted final tests for Automated Teller System via SMS inventory script

Lantex Technologies, E Rutherford NJ Jan 2007 – May 2010

IT Systems Integration/ Capacity Planning Project Coordinator:

●Document initial meeting with department heads to identify deliverables and project scope

●Analyze, document and interrogate system capacity from both a business and infrastructure perspective.

●Monitored design and implementation solution for key Components.

●Documented meetings with all stakeholders, Project Managers and Vendors.

●Maintain close communication with vendors and developers.

●Suggest and drive forward capacity planning and disaster recovery methods.

●Establish and drive best practices for capacity planning into system & component design.

●Work with QA to create regression test packs to include capacity testing and root-cause analysis

Lucent Technology, Warren NJ Jan 2001 – Dec 2006

Infrastructure Support Engineer:

●Supported a nationally distributed Windows environment(Windows NT, WIN 2003 Servers), Active Directory, WINS, DNS & DHCP, monitoring and control of Group Policy & Security

●Implemented scripts to automate administrative tasks

●Maintained and supported various clients network infrastructures, including address management and name resolution services (DNS, DHCP, WINS)

●Participated effectively in multiple project efforts, meeting deadlines, providing technical expertise, writing system documentation that include systems description, procedures, events and processes

●Provided 24x7 support on-call function for extended periods as needed

●Assisted in supporting disaster recovery/failover scenarios

JP MORGAN/ CHASE New York March 1998 - Oct 2000

1. Network Manager: NYC

●Supported global environment of Novell NDS Infrastructure, and NT clients

●Automated scripted rollouts of NT clients

●Used Microsoft SMS Installer and Win Install, Symantec Ghost for application distribution

●Configured remote offices nationwide, and managed and troubleshot NAL objects

●Assisted in design and configuration of corporate-wide portable platform standards (Using autoconfig scripts for Laptops several models of DELL, IBM, Toshiba and HP/ Compaq) as well as PDAs and Windows CE

2. Disaster Recovery Engineer: Brooklyn, NY & Somerset, NJ

Assisted in design and building of 2 remote disaster recovery sites in Brooklyn and central jersey duplicating production servers, Cisco routers and clients for global monitoring center of ATM transaction world-wide, including wiring and setup of routers, Switches, servers and monitoring workstations.

MERRILL LYNCH, New York City July 1997 - January 1998

Migration Engineer: Project consisted of upgrading 10 trading floor network servers and 400 clients’ hardware and Software, including migrating email from Banyan Vines to MS Exchange on the server and outlook for the NT clients. Also, supported and migrated the market data apps (Reuters, Versus, ILX, Open Bloomberg, Data Pump, Reuters, excel, templates and utilities...ETC.) to the new environment, and assisted in configuring and troubleshooting Market Data Apps (REUTERS, ILX, Open Bloomberg. ETC.), and maintenance of the exchange servers. Created and distributed SMS Packages to upgrade the client and install new apps for new NT4 Clients

SALOMON SMITH BARNEY, WTC, NY June 1996-July 1997

Migration Specialist/ Project Lead:

Project included migrating a 1200 user Novell 3.12 Network to Windows NT 3.51:

Defined project objectives and scope, tracked risks, and managed schedules using Microsoft Project.

Developed and maintained productive working relationships with project owners, business units, IT developers, vendors, and other project stakeholders and ensured coordination among team members.

Scheduled review meetings to expedite resolution of project issues.

Led team members on resource requirements, methodologies, tasks, dependencies, and other issues throughout the life of the project.

Other consulting Contracts(1992-1996):

Hoffman-la Roche, Nutley, NJ Network Manager

Hoffman-La Roche, Little Falls, NJ Data Center Operator/ Engineer

J&J/Ethicon, New Brunswick, NJ Novell Support Engineer

Exxon Mobil, Linden NJ Novell Network Administrator

AT&T Credit, Parsippany, NJ Tech Support Engineer

PERSONAL:

Professional, Energetic, and a dedicated team player

Available to travel as needed

Languages: Fluent in English, Arabic & Spanish(Read, Write & Speak)

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