Senior Technical Consultant
Abdulla Fouad Holding Company
Total years of experience :20 years, 10 Months
Working as Technical Consultant with ERP Team to implement ERP on Windows / Linux Environments for Abdulla Fouad Customers (Aujan Industries, Saudi Steel Pipe Company etc etc).
Oracle Linux.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Insallation, Tuning, NFS, SAN, Cluster
Progress dB & 4GL
QAD S/W Installation and Configuration on Linux Enviroments
Bourne Shell scripting for servers to automate backups and system tuning.
QAD .NETUI Installation
Customizations / Interfacing solutions
Customized Shell and QAD 4GL Programming
Progress Database Replication.
Responsible for 24/7 Operations for Platforms including Shared and Dedicated Web Hosting which involves Level 3 Support, Linux and Windows Hosting Servers Monitoring, Administration and Maintenance. Plus worked on Clustering and Database Replication for customized solutions that meets customer requirements
ISCSI Configuration on Linux to sharer NetApp Storage LUN
cPanel Installation and configuration.
Websites Mirroring to create DR sites.
Wrote custom shell scripts in BASH and PHP to automate backups and system administration tasks.
Testing and deployments iptables based firewall to improve security.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation.
Mysql Clustering and Replication.
CentOS Linux Clustering.
Analyzed and Developed Online Budget Authorization, Management & Analysis (OBAMA) for Multinet Pakistan for Budgeting and Purchase Requisition Management (Mini ERP written in PHP/MYSQL) .
Responsible for customized budget and Purchase Requisition report generation as per management requirements
Analyzed and Designed Ticket Management System in MSSQL 2000 Server and PHP for Multinet Call center.
Installed and configured Elastix PABX System (Asterisk) on CentOS Platform.
FreeBSD NAS Configuration.
Maintaining remote monitoring system (Multinet Remote Sites Gensat Systems provided by Saltec Powerlink Systems).
Responsible for Optimization, Normalization and Backups of Microsoft SQL Server Databases.
Analyzed and Developed Sales / Quotation Management System in PHP/MYSQL on linux platform for Multinet Sales Team.
Whole sole incharge of 365x24x7 Windows and Linux based web based applications and hosting services. (WHM/cPanel)
Install WHMCS (Web Hosting Billing System) and configured according the hosting plans.
Level 3 support for Web Hosting customers.
Analyzed, Designed and Developed Alarm Management System for NOC in (PHP/MYSQL)
Designed Network Monitoring System.
Squid Proxy Server as a Web Cache Server.
Configured Apache Web Server Farm under Linux.
Install & Configured RANCID on Linux to monitor router configurations.
Enabled Greylisting support in Sendmail to protect systems from SPAMS mails and mails from illegitimate servers.
Installed & Configured MRTG & CACTI to monitor bandwidth utilization.
Installed & Configured Windows 2000 Servers.
Involved in daily Internet Servers monitoring & Customer problem rectification.
Installed Configured and maintaining WIKI for Online SOPs.
Design and Implemented Network Monitoring System and Alarm Management System.
Wrote Bourne shell scripts to automate routine tasks for local and regional servers.
Responsible for complete Ensim and cPanel based web hosting solutions. Including dedicated and shared web hosting under Unix platforms
Worked on IBM X-Series based hosting servers
Automated the hosting tasks using Bourne Shell scripting
Connected Hosting servers with RODOPI Billing System
Responsible for SMNP based monitoring for all ISP services using Cricket
Responsible for installation and configuration of UNIX based Corporate Email system
Configured Bandwidth Limit Server on UNIX and Developed its web based Administration Panel in PHP/MySQL
Installed and Configured Red Hat Linux 7.0 and connected it with Windows network using Samba
Configured Apache 1.3.12 with support of PHP4 Language on Linux platform
Installed and Configured MySQL backend server under Linux
Enabled Support of JSP (Java Server Pages) in Apache 1.3.12 under Linux
Configured Local DNS server under Linux using BIND 8
PHP4 scripting on http://www.askb2b.co.uk/ including shopping cart and all the administration stuff
Responsible for the testing, configuration of Internet Softwares and after the successful testing implementation of software in Cyberaccess
Configured RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) server under Linux/Unix for ISP billing, accounting, and tracking and authentication purpose
Disk Quota, RAID and DHCP implementation under Linux
Livingston PortMaster PM2E30 Configuration
End User Support to over 200 Corporate Customers
Responsible for the design, programming, customization, installation and training of Application Softwares
Responsible for the design, programming, installation, training, and overall maintenance of Linux based Applications including backup procedures, configuration, and recovery
Performed a technical role in the configuration of Access servers/Terminal servers, DNS, SMTP mail server (including Sendmail configuration), UUCP, IRC, Web and Proxy servers
Utilized the IP Masquerading Feature to solve routing problems between non registered IP addresses on the Internet
Configured Apache proxy server as firewall under Linux and Windows NT as well
Customized Sendmail on Unix so it can handle mails of multiple domains for corporate clients