Ahmed AbdelSalam, Windows Team leader

Ahmed AbdelSalam

Windows Team leader

Zain - KSA

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, كلية العلوم
Experience
19 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 5 Months

Windows Team leader at Zain - KSA
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2019

• Managing windows team staff (onsite and offshore L2 support team).
• Distributing and managing L2 cases between the team and solving the L3 ones.
• Managing and supporting Zain mail system (Exchange Server 2016 - 6000 users).
• Managing Advanced Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and ADFS tasks.
• MS SQL Environment support (SQL 2017 Clusters), troubleshooting and upgradation tasks.
• SCCM (Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager) daily tasks and reporting.
• Mail Archiving System Management and L2 support (Commvault).
• Corporate Antivirus management (Symantec Endpoint Security).
• Email Security Management (Cisco Email Security Appliances ESA / IronPort).
• Managing Veeam Backup and restore system.
• Virtualization environment L2 support (VMware Esxi 6.7 and Vcenter).
• Managing Zain Office 365 Applications .
• Deployment and L2 support of Work from Home applications (MS Teams & Cisco Webex).
• Monitoring and auditing the Active directory, mail, MS SQL environment.
• Datacenter Operations Management .

Data center operations manager at Shabakah Integrated Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2018 to October 2019

-Monitor all software and hardware products and ensure compliance with Data Center standards - including maintenance tasks such as Hardware, Applications, Product & contracts Renewals, Spare Parts availability & inventory.
-Scheduling employee shifts. Vacation Plans, Skill Set redundancy for smooth business operation.
-Maintain effective professional relationships with Customers & IT Service Providers.
-Maintain expert knowledge on all applications & services offered by the data center and its use on systems for various critical systems.
- Asset the presales/sales team for new projects estimations and prices.

Sr. System Engineer at Shabakah Integrated Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2014 to June 2018

As a member of NOC team in an ISP and hosting company with a large Datacenter (+150 server and appliance) my daily tasks includes:
- MS Exchange 2010 & 2013 management (creating Users mailbox and Groups, manage Mailbox features, storage and troubleshooting any issue).
-MS Lync 2013 / Skype for business management (creating Users mailbox and Groups, manage Mailbox features, storage and troubleshooting any issue).
-Active Directory administration 2012 (Creating Users, Groups, Policies & daily tasks).
-Installing & Administration of Corporate AV (MacAfee endpoint security via McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator).
-Data-center Monitoring, installing servers in DC Racks and other Hardware tasks (HP/Dell).
-Windows & Linux Servers installation, management & troubleshooting.
- VMware product installation & management (Vcenter & esxi).
- Install & Managing different DNS servers (windows & Linux OS).
- Installing, securing & supporting Hosting servers / shared service like: Parallel Plesk, DirectAdmin, WHM (Cpanel).
-Managing Backup & restore process for customers (Veeam & Acronis).
- Managing / administration of Cisco Email Security Appliances "C370" for more than 300 customers (shared service) including daily troubleshooting and SPAM monitoring.
-Technical Support (L2) By Service Desk Tickets (company employees and customers).
- Installing support and monitoring service like: OpManager, EventLog Analyzer etc.

IT Manager مسئول قسم تكنولوجيا المعلومات - مدير شبكة الحاسب الآلي -مدير نظم - مدير الموقع الإلكتروني at مدارس الدلتا الدولية للغات
  • Egypt
  • November 2005 to March 2013

- الإشراف علي تصميم و تحديث الشبكة الداخلية LAN للمؤسسة (سيرفرات - سويتشات - توصيلات - برامج).
-مسئول عن أفراد القسم وإدارته والتنسيق بين القسم وباقي أقسام المدارس.
-مسئول عن التدريب التكنولوجي للعاملين وإستقطاب آليات جديدة لإثراء العمل بالتكنولوجيا.
-مسئول عن الشبكة الداخلية للمدارس (380 جهاز حاسب آلي + 4 سيرفرات: Mail Server - Active Directory - ISA 2006- Antivirusِ)
- مسئول عن الدعم الفني وحل المشاكل اليومية للعاملين والأجهزة.
- مسئول عن موقع المدارس (تصميم وإدارة ودعم فني وحل المشاكل المختلفة).
- مسئول عن كاميرات المراقبة داخل المدارس
- مسئول عن أجهزة البصمة واصدار تقارير الغياب/الحضور واﻹنصراف

مدرب ICDL V.4 at أوراسكوم للتدريب والتكنولوجيا
  • Egypt
  • April 2005 to August 2005

تدريب طلاب المركز علي منهج شهادة "الرخصة الدولية للحاسب اﻵلي" اﻹصدار الرابع بنظام الساعة (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Internet)
وقد تم تخريج دفعتين كاملتين من تدريبي داخل المركز .

مدرس حاسب آلي at المعهد الدولي البريطاني IBI
  • Egypt - Mansoura
  • January 2005 to May 2005

تدريب طلاب المعهد الدولي علي منهج الحاسب اﻵلي بنظام الترم:
JavaScript
Excel - word - PowerPoint
Networks
وقد تم تدريب الطلاب لمدة عام كامل

أخصائي مبيعات at شركة اقرأ للإستيراد وخدمات الحاسب اﻵلي
  • Egypt
  • July 2003 to December 2004

-العمل في جزء البيع بالتجزئة في الشركة (طابعات - أجهزة حاسب آلي استيراد الخارج - أكسسورات الحاسب الآلي ...)
-العمل في تجميع وصيانة أجهزة الحاسب اﻵلي.
- الدعم الفني بعد البيع (تليفون - في المنزل).

Education

Bachelor's degree, كلية العلوم
  • at Mansura University
  • May 2003

بكالوريوس في العلوم بتقدير جيد - 73.4 % الترتيب رقم 11 علي مستوي الكلية.

Specialties & Skills

Technical Support
System Administration
Network Administration
MCTS-Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
MCSA- Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
SCJP- Sun Certified JAVA Programmer
MCP-Microsoft Certified Professional
MCSE- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
تصميم وإدارة شبكات الحاسب الآلي LAN
تدريب العاملين علي التكنولوجيا
IT (Technical) Support
إدارة مواقع الإنترنت
CCNA-Cisco Certified Network Associate
إدارة كاميرات المراقبة وأجهزة الحضور والإنصراف
تصميم مواقع الإنترنت باستخدام (ادارة المحتوي) جملا Joomla
اللينكس Linux
(Computer Troubleshooting (Hardware,Software
Microsoft Office ميكروسوفت أوفيس (1997 وحتي 2016)
التدريب علي ICDL
Symantec Endpoint Protection (Corporate Antivirus )
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
System Backup - Acronis & Symantic
Hyper-V
Microsoft exchange server
IT Technical Support
Microsoft Office
WHM (Cpanel) / Plesk & direct admin administration
Datacenter Management / Monitoring
Acronis backup
Ironport mail filter
Active directory
VMware Esxi / hyper-V
L2 technical support
MCSE Productivity - MS Exchange 2013
MCSE Productivity 2017
Veeam Backup
Acronis Backup
Vmware (esxi & vcenter)
VMware – Data Center Virtualization
Microsoft Exchange 2016 & Office 365
Linux administrator
system administration
team management
windows server
team leadership
computer hardware troubleshooting

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Microsoft
  • MCSE 2003 - 2012
  • July 2011
Sun Microsystems
  • SCJP
  • June 2005
MICROSOFT
  • MCSE
  • August 2012
Cisco
  • CCNA
  • September 2013
Vmware
  • VCP NV
  • March 2016
Microsoft
  • MCSE Productivity
  • January 2017
Microsoft
  • MCSE Messaging - Exchange 2013
  • November 2016
Vmware
  • VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization
  • November 2017

Training and Certifications

VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (Certificate)
MCSE Productivity - Exchange server 2013 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2016
Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) (Certificate)
MCSA: Windows Server 2012 (Certificate)
MCTS: Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Certificate)
Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center (Certificate)
VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) (Training)
Training Institute:
VMware
TOT - Training Of Trainer (Training)
Training Institute:
Delta International Language Schools
Date Attended:
November 2006
MCSE: Windows Server (Certificate)
Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing & Switching (CCNA) (Certificate)
Soft Skill (Training)
Training Institute:
ITshare
Date Attended:
January 2010
Server Management Program (Training)
Training Institute:
USAID - Edtech
Date Attended:
April 2006

Hobbies

  • الشطرنج
  • تربية الطيور - اﻷسماك - الحيونات