Active Directory Engineer

S.Sabeeh khursheed

Khalifa Street, near Noor hospital

Abu Dhabi UAE.

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Mission: Is to continue to develop into the best IT Professional that I can be, through constant learning and never endless expansion of my technical skills.

CERTIFICATIONS: MCITP – Server Administrator (70-646)

MCTS – Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration (70-640)

MCTS – Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (70-642)

Professional Experience

System Administrator Sep 2008 – Nov 2010

Pak Hy Oils Limited (Orion Group)

Implementation, administration, and maintenance of all corporate IT systems, worked on Cisco 2600 Series router, Exchange 2003,Barracuda anti-spam, Active Directory 2003-2008, NLB, server clusters, ADRMS, Microsoft Live Communication Server (IM), and Symantec Backup Exec.

Selected Accomplishments:

Network Migration from RIP to OSPF.

Designed and implemented remote dial up solution for clients.

Maintain DNS, DHCP, IIS, Print, Windows Deployment Services, and File Sharing (DFS) server.

Responsible for all server maintenance, upgrades, installation and repairs onsite and remotely for Windows 2003 & 2008 Servers (including clustering) (i86, x64, Standard, Advanced, & Enterprise).

Maintain Active Directory locally (5 servers) and 8 remote sites.

Improved network systems performance and response time through proper configuration and replication of core system services (DNS, DHCP), additionally created redundant services across domain controllers for insured uninterrupted operation.

Server and application migrations - proprietary apps, WSUS services, faxing services.

Properly configure Active Directory and Exchange Server 2003, 2007 Lab only.

Group Policy organization and tweaks for improving system performance and reliability.

DFS roll-out (replication).

Backup monitoring

Professional Achievements (Cont)

Quality of Service Engineer Jul 2005 – May 2010

World Call Telecom Limited (An Oman Tel Company)

Work at HFC network that use Broadband Modems also check and manage signals (Down stream & upstream and signal to noise ratio, Provided IOC & VOIP support for residential and Corporate clients, responding to requests for both minor and significant PC-related problems.

Selected Accomplishments:

Provide on-time and accurate solutions for CPE installation, configuration and troubleshooting of a wide variety of components including, modems, broadband routers & wifi devices.

Responsible for maintaining network resources.

Directing, supervising, coordinating & managing support technicians' team in field from office to

reach targets for technical support & pending maintenance cases.

Work at HFC Network and also use Broadband Modem.

Resolve the Problem of VOIP like No Dial Tone, Admin Tone, incoming call or outgoing call, Nationwide and international Dialing problems by the help of CMTS, LDI, NMS & NOC Departments.

Adjusting the Power Level, Completion the ranging of Broadband Modem, make connectivity to DHCP Server.

Working in a busy organizational environment where heavy interdepartmental and interpersonal coordination is required.

System Support Engineer Oct 2004 – Aug 2005

SG Fiber Pvt Limited.

On a team of 3 system Support Engineer managing 20+ servers consisting of load balanced web farms, MSSQL clusters, a file server cluster, and several other member servers running proprietary and third party services for end user/web application consumption. User base consisted of 50 - 100. Provided application support for over 5 proprietary web applications running on classic asp, asp.net 1.x, and asp.net 2.x. provided change management and control for code promotion between development, staging, and production environments.

Selected Accomplishments:

Installed and maintain 20 Dell Power Edge Servers, running Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server. Also set up several Power Edge servers with Power Vault external tape robots and RAID arrays, both SCSI and Fiber

Maintain Active Directory, including users, groups, printing and DNS.

Maintain DNS, DHCP, IIS, Terminal Services, Print, Windows Deployment Services, and File Sharing (DFS) servers.

Planned for and upgraded Exchange 2000 to 2003, Maintain Exchange 2003, AD 2000/2003 Mixed Mode to AD 2003 Native..

Active directory roll-out for 3 user remote site including group policies(for simplification of administration)

Backup plan development and implementation - Nightly tape backups: 1 full backup per week, 6 incremental, tapes rotated on a weekly basis. 4 weeks of backed up data on hand at all times. 1 full weekly back-up stored off-site each week - tapes rotated weekly.

Established connectivity through VPN for 2 remote offices and configured TCP/IP connectivity, firewall implementation/port filtering, sub-netting as appropriate, Active Directory, security, and group policies. Installed Ethernet cabling for newly-acquired offices. Referenced by company owner as "star employee" for overall performance

Maintain Active Directory, including users, groups, printing and DNS

Short Courses

Exchange Server 2007 preparation from CTTC.

Network Infrastructure 2008 server preparation from CTTC.

Active Directory 2008 server preparation from CTTC.

CCNA 70-802 Preparation from CTTC.

Hardware Maintenance.

Introduction to Quality Management System ( ISO 9001:2008 ) Standard.

Basic Qualification

BCS 2006

Intermediate 2003

Matriculation 2001

Technical Skills

Routers (Cisco GSR, 7500, 7000, 5300, 4000, 3000, 2600, 2500).

Cisco Switches (6500, 5000, 3500, 2900).

Routing Protocol (BGP4, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, IS-IS, NLSP), Routed Protocol (TCP/IP, IPX/SPX).

Implemented SNMP on devices to allow for network management.

Implemented traffic filters using Standard and Extended access-lists, Distribute-Lists, and Route Maps. .

Enterprise systems design and architecture.

Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter, Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard and Enterprise.

Enterprise level Active Directory design, implementation

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 migration, implementation and support

Advanced Group Policy design and administration for Enterprises with 50+ OUs

Server Virtualization (Hyper-V and VMware)

Advanced DNS, DHCP, WINS, TCP/IP

Configuration, troubleshooting, supporting, installing Servers

Disaster Recovery planning, design, implementation and testing

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003/2007

Windows Software Update Services (WSUS)

Microsoft ISA 2004/2006 server

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007

Windows 7 and Windows Vista, all editions

Personal

Marital Status: Single.

Religion Islam

Date of Birth: 06 Nov 1985

Nationality Pakistani

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