VASIM AHMED

Mobile: 966-********* / *********

E-Mail: adkjhl@r.postjobfree.com / adkjhl@r.postjobfree.com Seeking senior level positions in Virtualization Project Management/IT Infrastructure Management with an organization of repute VB.NET Developer with 10+ Years of Experience

EXCELLENCE SPHERE

VMware Administration

Nutanix Servers

Virtualization &

Enterprise Storage

Design and

Implementation

Microsoft Hyper-V

Network Infrastructure

Design and Maintenance

Windows 2008/2003/

2000 & Active Directory

Administration

Data Center Operations

Mail Administration

Windows Administration

Security Administration

System Administrator

ASP.NET / VB.NET

Developer

Desktop Application

(VB.NET, ASP.NET)

Service Delivery

ITIL Framework

Adherence

Process Improvement

Reporting Aspects

Project Handling

Development

IT Policies

Implementations

Training Programs

An Overview

3 years of experience in Virtualization Servers in VMWare and Microsoft Hyper-V with Veeam Back up

and Cloud Storage Solutions.

Extensive knowledge of Client/Server and Web based applications using VB.NET Frameworks

Good understanding and experience of Web technologies like ASP.NET, XML, HTML and knowledge on database, with Hands-on

MS SQL Server 2005

Experience as a .Net development with hands-on a multitude projects and products

Client interaction during development, deployment, and production elevation phases

Working as Virtualization Expert for Family Care Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Strong skills in planning and executing the functionality of Application

VMware and System Administrator with 8+ years of rich experience in effective management of IT Infrastructure Project for new facilities, Data Center Upgrading of Hardware & Software, Microsoft Technologies, VMware Virtualization, Storage Design, IT Asset Management and Network Security.

Demonstrated excellence in leading enterprise-wide virtualization effort with accountability of overseeing vendor / hardware qualification, architecture / design, installation, configuration, migration & documentation.

Expertise in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning; delivered maximum business value for Infrastructure, Data Centre Technologies, Large Scale Systems and Networks.

Proficiency in installation & troubleshooting of Blade Server, Rack Servers, etc. viz. Dell, HP and Assembled.

Adept at maintaining complete IT infrastructure including Server Hardware, VMware Environment, Data Storage, Switching & Routing, Backups, E-Mail, Firewall, Spam Filtering, AV, VPN, Mobile Devices, VOIP Systems, Network Monitoring and all Microsoft Technologies.

Demonstrated excellence in building & implementation of ITIL and ISO27001; adept in aligning IT processes with ITIL by establishing Change, Incident and Problem Management meetings and decreasing turnaround time.

Strong Customer Centric Approach with excellent analytical, coordination, presentation and leadership skills; skilled in grasping the big picture and conceptualizing solutions.

Career Record

From To Employer Name Location / Place

Mar'2007 Mar'2008 Polaris Software's Chennai - INDIA May'2008 Nov'2009 SRM INFOTECH Chennai - INDIA

Dec’2010 Feb’ 2017 Typical Medical Complex Riyadh - Saudi Arabia (KSA) Mar’2017 Till present Family Care Hospital Riyadh - Saudi Arabia (KSA) Growth Path

From To Job Description Process handled

Mar 2007 Mar 2008 Technical Support Executive ANB (Australian and New Zealand Bank) and CBA (Common bank of Australia) May 2008 Nov 2009 Software Engineer / TRAINER (National Course Training Center - Vellore Division) Dec 2010 Feb 2017 Computer Programmer Clinic Information System – Startsoft Riyadh Mar 2017 Present

ASP.NET / VB.NET

Application Developer

Hospital Information System, Claim Insurance

Applications Integration with Waseel /Tawuniya

(Waseele) and Bupa (DHS) – Softdotcom India

Mar 2017

Present

VM Ware Administrator

Data Center (Nutanix Servers) – Server Room

Software Awareness

Languages VB.Net, C, C++, Core JAVA

Web Designing PHP 5.0, 5.3, ASP.Net, AJAX, JavaScript, HTML, XML, jQuery, Json Report Tool SAP Crystal Report, Report Viewers

Web Servers IIS 5.0, Apache Tomcat, WAMP SERVER, XAMP SERVER, MAMP SERVER Database Servers SQL Server 2005,2012,2017, MYSQL, ORACLE 12G Distributed WCF, Web Services, Remote Services

Frameworks .Net Framework 2.0 / 3.5 / 4.0

Virtualizations VMWARE ESXI 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 / HYPER V - Cluster Shared Volumes Back up and Restoration VEEAM, VEMBU, NORTON SYMANTEC, ACRONIS, EASEUS SKILL SET

Virtualization Environment Management

Managed Virtualization Project at PARI to setup new vSphere Data Centre and VI3 to vSphere Migration

with complete accountability of planning, designing and implementation of new virtual environment.

Successfully executed P2V Project involving virtual environment of over 50 physical machines; it solved space

and power capacity constraint at Data Centre

Provided complete L3 support for VMware virtual infrastructures.

IT Infrastructure

Recommending IT infrastructure requirements and upgrading to ensure acceptable levels of Security, Disaster Management and Data Recovery plans; establishing and running Data Centre infrastructure including Server

Racking, Cable Laying, Tagging and Documentation, etc.

Supervising the provisioning, installation and maintenance of servers from Ghost image and installing different

monitoring and backup agents; coordinating with backup and tool administrator for monitoring and backup.

Providing hardware support on different platforms; coordinating with 3rd Party vendors and Service Provider;

backing up & restoring data from tape library and managing the backup tapes, keeping inventory, sending and receiving tapes to and from offsite storage.

Incident Management / Problem Management / Change Management

Ensuring that the goals of the Incident Management process are achieved; restoring normal service as soon as possible based on customer perspective and within defined SLA; detecting, logging, categorizing and prioritizing incidents; providing initial Incident Support.

Closing incidents after verification from users; defining and planning separate procedures for major incidents; ensuring adherence to SLA and priority-based management.

Resolving problems & issues within set timelines thereby developing the Knowledge Base; ensuring that the issue does not happen again.

Windows Systems Administration

Provisioning new servers, imaging; handling other daily routines; leading new deployments from systems

perspective by coordinating internal resources; performing systems backups and restore procedures.

Handling the complete installation, configuration & maintenance of Microsoft Windows Servers; designing the Backup Strategy for sites and ensuring scheduled/unscheduled Backups as per backup plan and restoration;

managing Server, Domain, AD, User Rights, etc.

Conducting proactive checks with regards to Windows and Antivirus.

SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS

Holds the distinction of enhancing efficiency & customer satisfaction through complex restructuring geographically diverse IT groups into a Global Team; rebuilt the team from ground-up including hiring & equipping personnel for

a rapidly growing infrastructure and meeting increasing demands from multiple business units.

Played a stellar role in increasing uptime and security by standardizing network management and monitoring tools

thereby providing real-time alerting leading.

Conceptualized, drafted and implemented policies & procedures on network equipment and maintenance.

Devised, tested and maintained Disaster Recovery Plan for critical VMs & application data.

Excellent track record of reducing costs of Corporate Communication by 40% through effective vendor

management, contract negotiations and convergence of technical solutions.

Demonstrated excellence in managing budget of Rs. 4 Crores for global IT Department.

Steered the conversion of an unstructured Helpdesk to a Global Service Desk through implementation of a ticketing system and industry best practices; this led to increasing the service levels, reducing resolution time and

tracking of key metrics.

Enhanced the security, stability and recoverability of Corporate Network through ownership of security, backup,

disaster recovery planning and compliance.

Spearheaded reduction of the company’s Server Hardware Footprint by 60% thereby saving power and cooling.

Successfully improved server availability, reduced workload for IT staff and automated server deployment for various business units by leveraging on a highly available VMware Virtual Infrastructure (VI3) environment supporting both production and development environments containing 50 servers running SQL, IIS, Exchange,

Savior, Accounting & ERP Software.

Maximized performance Customized Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking between VMware, networking components and

storage.

Managed complete design and implementation of EMC Clarions SAN environments thereby ensuring high availability

and performance characteristics for VMware Virtual Infrastructure & SAN-backed applications.

Instrumental in managing complete configuration and installation of:

EMC CX310 SAN

QNAP NAS Storage

Net App FAS/V-Series.

PROFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE

Computer Programmer - TYPICAL MEDICAL COMPLEX (Dec 2010 - Feb 2017) - RIYADH – SAUDI ARABIA

TYPICAL MEDICAL COMPLEX has a long and unrivalled history as a provider of Medical and Health Care Services in Insurance, Health Care and Medical Services with wide range of Patients Flow all around Riyadh which emerging multinational financial and insurance companies offering health care sectors and pharmacies services.

Responsibilities:

Interacted with business analysis, technical lead, team members and production support team for requirement, functional specifications and technical architecture using agile methodology in relation

to controlling and recording financial activities.

Involved with Funds, day to day transaction using C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net. And use SAP Crystal Report to display Client account detail and HIS Inventory Margin reports.

Have done file I/O operations using VB.Net for daily operation to create one log file from various files

from different share location.

Created client-based data sheet download from the external Applications and process according to

the local plant business logic in Comp Converter system.

Involved in design, coding using VB.Net and implementation of role-based security to allow user

access limited to only authorize data & modules in PCS Application.

Create auto email alert notification and SMART SMS module for client and advisor to send auto

email notification and Messages.

Review the process spec for each steps and parameters by engineer and planner before release to production. Design & Developed middle layer architecture to define and expose the required

business component to client and vendor systems using Web services.

Create brief technical specification documents according to verbal and written functional requirements and other requirements. Also wrote Design Documents,

Deployment Documents and User Manuals.

Worked on perform coding, unit testing, error handling, bug fixing, bug verification and created an error log.

Environment: Visual Studio 2010, .Net Framework 4.0, Visual Basic 6.0, MS Access, Adobe PDF, MS Excel, Web Services, C#, VB.Net, LINQ, ADO.Net, Win Forms, ASP.Net, AJAX, Java script, CSS, SQL Server 2005/2008, T-SQL, Visual SourceSafe, Oracle10g, UML, MS Visio, Agile Methodologies, SOAP, SOA, XML, HTML, IIS 6.0, Windows 7,10, SERVER 2008,2012, VMWARE ESXI 6.0. VMWARE ADMINISTRATOR AND VB.NET PROGRAMMER

FAMILY CARE HOSPITAL (Mar’2017 – TILL PRESENT)

RIYADH – SAUDI ARABIA (www.familycare.com.sa)

Family Care Hospital is a private healthcare institution located in Riyadh East next to Prince Naïf University and King Fahad Military College. It is a 400-bed capacity facility and is newly built which means that all the facilities, equipment, machine and other amenities are new and with current high technology features. We focused, upon the planning and designing, to providing safe and friendly facilities, which help to bring the peace of mind to the patients. We aim to provide a wide range of high quality and up-to-date medical services by utilizing best equipment from different highly recognized companies. As a healthcare new provider, we strive to be one of the best healthcare providers in the country. Operational Management (VMWARE ESXI 5.5/6.0)

Manage virtual and physical servers with Windows Server 2003 – 2012 R2 and RHEL operating

systems

Manage Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, and server and workstation patching with SCCM

Manage the physical and virtual environment (VMware) of servers LIKE DELL PowerEdge RACK

SERVERS LIKE R630, R710, R730, 2950, HP ProLiant Servers.

Have familiarity with MS SQL server, MYSQL, windows clustering, domain controller setup, and group policy.

Ensure the security of the server infrastructure by implementing industry best-practices

regarding privacy

Security and regulatory compliance. Develop and maintain documentation about current environment

setup, standard operating procedures, and

Best practices. Manage end user accounts, permissions, access rights, and storage allocations in accordance with best-practices.

Perform and test routine system backups and restores.

Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and correct hardware and software issues on servers, workstations. Escalate incidents as necessary.

Practice server asset management, including maintenance of server component inventory and related documentation and technical specifications information. Recommend, schedule, and perform software and hardware upgrades, patches and reconfigurations and Develop required reports in

response to business user and management needs.

Manage vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure software products and services Manage the physical environment of the server racks including cable management, documentation, labeling, and

configuration of KVM switching for console and remote access.

Build and deploy new servers on the network as needed. Have familiarity with NAS and SAN storage management, and MS DFS Other duties may be assigned Strategy & Planning 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. Acquisition & Deployment

Coordinate with network engineering, business application, and database administration functions to implement desktop and server systems that utilize industry best practices to meet corporate objectives.

Deploy workstations, servers, printers, scanners, firewalls, encryption systems, and appliances security systems

VB.NET DEVELOPER

Creating HIS applications using VB.NET and enhancing projects for .NET applications

Studying business requirement, entering code, implementing functions, and testing applications

Creating and maintaining user and technical documents

Drafting reports with the help of the Crystal Reports tools and creating project presentations

Create software documentation and update existing documentation.

Design, develop and implement critical applications in a .Net environment.

Assist and support other team members on multiple projects.

Drive team members to keep up with projects deadlines and within the clients’ budgets.

Worked on Cascading Style Sheets and XML-Schemas

Developed Web Services for user authentication and file transfer.

Used X path, Xml Node to access files and XML Data Document to synchronize with Datasets.

Compared the XML files sent by the Toll Authorities with XML Schemas.

Ensured Security to all the portals by creating Tampered proofed URLs.

Wrote triggers for sending Emails after to clients after any kind of transaction has been made

Extensively used Grid Views sorting and paging

Worked with Infragistics Controls extensively.

Handled many production issues and enhancement to the existing live portals. Environment: Visual Studio 2010, .Net Framework 4.0, Visual Basic 6.0, MS Access, Adobe PDF, MS Excel, Web Services, C#, VB.Net, LINQ, ADO.Net, Win Forms, ASP.Net, AJAX, Java script, CSS, SQL Server 2005/2008, T-SQL, Visual SourceSafe, Oracle10g, UML, MS Visio, Agile Methodologies, SOAP, SOA, XML, HTML, IIS 6.0, Windows 7,10, SERVER 2008,2012, VMWARE ESXI 6.0. Scholastics

Post Graduate

MCA (Master of Computer Application) from Measi Institute of Information Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, INDIA in 2008.

Under Graduate

B.Sc., (Computer Science) from Mazharul Uloom College of Arts and Science, Ambur,Tamil Nadu, INDIA in 2005 .

Diploma

Advance Diploma in Computer Hardware & Networking from Rajagopal Polytechnic College, Gudiyattam, Tamil Nadu, INDIA in 2000.

Personal Dossier

Date of Birth: 13th July 1985

Address: Al Nadeem Area - Riyadh - Saudi Arabia

Passport Number: L9231571

Visa Status: Employment Visa - Valid for 1 Years Permit (Renewable)

Status: Iqama Transferable

Professional in Permit: Computer Programmer

Location: Riyadh - Saudi Arabia

Driving License - Indian and Saudi Arabia

Membership in Engineering: Saudi Council of Engineers – Expiry 25-11-202

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