Ahmed Sabbah

IT Infrastructure Administrator at Fadaat Media

• Qatar - Doha
• My current job since March 2021

Senior System Administrator - IT Team Leader at Regency Group Holding

• Qatar - Doha
• December 2013 to February 2021

My Role:
* Responsible for strategic planning for system upgrades and Determine, recommend and implement hardware and software upgrades for business applications, server hardware, , desktop, laptop
* Manage the team members and ensure the rapport is maintained within the team.
* Assign schedules, coordinate team and allocate resources to ensure efficiency and productivity are maximized
* Maintain and monitor of all servers, both physical and the virtual server to ensure that they are
working within the capacity.
* Monitoring the performance and make recommendations as and when hardware and software upgrades are required.
* Provide sufficient reports to the IT Director related to monitor the efficiency, effectiveness and reliability of the IT infrastructure.
* Update and maintain documentation, network diagrams, and configuration and backup procedures of network devices
* Establishes guidelines and methods for the installation and management of the servers and other components.
* Maintain the software inventory. Ensure licensing compliance, perform licensing audits, and manage any licensing true-up or renewal processes in consultation with software vendors
* Maintains hardware inventory and oversees proper installation, configuration, troubleshooting and scheduled maintenance of all company necessary to meet the business needs.
* Maintain good working relationships with all service providers and vendor to ensure that appropriate services are received whenever required.
• Manage AD services on Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016 (DNS and DHCP)
• Configure user environment and Implement Security by using GPO.
• Manage Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2013 and 2016 (Mailbox, Mailbox Policy, OWA, And SSL Certificate).
• Backup Critical servers (Exchange, SQL, DC and System State) using Veritas Backup Exec.
• Manage Microsoft Office 365 and Yammer.
• Configure and manage virtual machines on Hyper-V
• Manage Security appliance: Barracuda, Fortinet and SonicWall
• Manage Servers and clients, Deploy OS and install application using (SCCM 2012).
• Monitor Healthy and performance of servers and application using (SCOM 2012).
• Manage VMs, Monitor performance and resources of Hyper-V hosts using (VMM 2012).
• Setup and Manage Enterprise Antivirus (Symantec, Kaspersky)

System Engineer at 2013 Gulf Business machines (GBM)

• Qatar
• December 2007 to November 2013

• Provide Microsoft Technology solutions to clients based on their requirement.
• Analyze, Design and Implement System Infrastructure.
• Install, Upgrade and Deploy Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008/2012
• Manage, Monitor and Maintain Servers Security.
• Configure and Maintain network services such as DHCP, DNS and WINS.
• Apply Group polices, Create Shared Folders with NTFS permissions.
• Configure user environment and Implement Security by using GPO.
• Configure Roaming profiles and auto mapping drives scripts.
• Monitor performance and Troubleshoot Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Setup and Configure cluster and Cluster Continues Replication (CCR) for Exchange server.
• Install and Configure Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Deploy Manage and Monitor virtual machines.
• Perform migration from physical to virtual (P2V).
• Setup, monitor and maintain Exchange 2003.
• Install Exchange Server 2007/2010 and configure the server’s role (Mailbox, Hub Transport, client Access and Edge Transport).
• Monitor and Troubleshoot Server, Client Performance and Connectivity for Exchange 2003/2007/2010.
• Install, Maintain and Monitor ISA Server.
• Setup, Configure Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG).
• Setup, Configure Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
• Install and Configure Symantec Endpoint Antivirus Corporate Edition.
• Install and Configure NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition.
• Push Symantec, NOD32 Antivirus to the clients.
• Install and Configure Microsoft Forefront Client Security.
• Install local and network printers on user's computers.
• Install and Configures Smart Filter software to control and monitoring Internet.

System Engineer at Multi Service Company (MSC-Q )

• Qatar
• August 2006 to November 2007

My Role:
* System administration, configure and troubleshooting all technical issues for MSC-Q network.
* Work with AVLS (Automatic Vehicle Location System) in QP (Qatar Petroleum) and ISF (Internal
Security Force) which help customers and send\ receive data to and from the vehicles.