Rizwan Shahid Syed, System and Network Administrator

Rizwan Shahid Syed

System and Network Administrator

PharmEvo Private Limited

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Bachelor's degree,
Experience
17 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 9 Months

System and Network Administrator at PharmEvo Private Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since August 2008

Network and systems administration and general IT support as well as general IT management and support with a strong focus on services for businesses. Delivering on Windows and their interoperation. Setting up networks and systems; monitoring, backup, internet and intranet applications

Specialties
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Dell & HP Servers, Network Operations, Data Security, Service Delivery, Data Center Server Administration on Windows Server 2008 & 2012 & Linux(SUSE), Enterprise Resource Planning, Time Management System and DRP Drills.

Responsibilities
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•Management of Cisco 3550 and 3560 switches placed at HO and Factories.
•Responsible for maintaining and monitoring of PTP link of all three Sites of PharmEvo.
•Implement and maintaining McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and centralized policy enforcement
•Completed the migration from workgroup environment to domain environment.
•Initiating comprehensive network re-engineering including network infrastructure, installation, implementation and troubleshooting in a Windows & Linux environment
•Investigated user problems, determined possible solutions, oversaw software, application installation and upgrades.
•To maintain Domain Envoirnment on Windows Server 2012 which includes RDS, GPO, File Services, DHCP, DNS, and Hyper V.
•To monitor Multiple ISPs internet link and their distribution through SW Firewall with NLB.
•Work on Internet Content Management solutions & GFI products to monitor the network & users' activities
•Taking backup of all servers by using TANDBERG LTO drive with software Symantec Backup Exec.

Projects
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•Complete infrastruture setup on CAT6 and Upgradation of cabling onto Fiber optics and provide consultancy to NICVD Natinonal Institutre of CardioVascular Diseases Hospital and deploying infrastruture on Win2K8 DC and Exchange 2007 along with McAfee EPO
•Setup and maintenance on Linux hosted web servers.
•Server consolidation to VMWare ESX at PharmEvo.
•Migration from Work-group to Domain Environment at PharmEvo.
• Creation of Learning Research Center for Doctors at (King Edward Medical College Lahore) and (Liver Trust Foundation Faisalabad) and its remote management.

Service Desk Analyst at PFIZER LABORATORIES Pakistan Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • July 2006 to July 2008

Within a team of network engineers installing and supporting the customers network infrastructure within a co-sourcing assignment. This involved configuration of servers and IP networks, installation and customization of workstations.

Responsibilities
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•Responsible for upgrading Switches and Router IOS through TFTP Server.
•Worked with team of 10 IT technicians and managing a portfolio of 550 clients spanning across multiple site including 13 DL380 G4 HP PROLIANT servers.
• To maintain Terminal Server of both Windows 2K server and Windows 2K3 Server.
• Complete Monitoring of ISA Server 2004 and canon creation.
• Responsible for taking backup of ISA, Terminal and File Server through Arc serve Backup Software
• VPN Client Connectivity Settings and Unlocking RAS Token.
• Participate in monthly Front Office/Back Office Service meetings.
• Responsible for logging complain of users regarding IT related issue through Peregrine Service center 6.1 and making escalation and reports for KPI.
• Responsible for dealing with external vendors and Service Provider.
• Provide support to all users by being available 24/7 and in off days through VPN, solved their calls.
•LAN management with CISCO and 3COM switches under UTP and Fiber Optic redundant infrastructure including VLAN, STP .
•Managing RAID levels in server using HP ARRAY configuration utility.
•Complete Black Berry End User Support.
•Implementing LAMP Life Cycle Assets Management Project Successfully.
•Managing the CCTV on PELCO DX8000 Series Digital Video Recorder

Projects:
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•Played an important role in the complete up gradation of LAN at Park Davis Pvt.Limited (A sister concern of Pfizer Pakistan). The major happenings were, Replacement of all the routers use in the domestic and international connectivity. Replacement of old switches and hubs with Cisco Switches
Up gradation of cabling onto Fiber optics.
•Acted as one of the important member of team, during the DRP drill activity at IBM International premises conducted for our business critical servers hosted in the main data center of Pfizer Pakistan.
•Implementing Desktop Management Services (DMS), a Pfizer sponsored initiative to provide a standard personal computing (PC) environment and is designed to operate across all business units and geographies

Education

Bachelor's degree,
  • at University of Karachi
  • December 2009

Specialties & Skills

Server Administration
Network Administration
Windows Server
Server & Network Administration

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

CCNP Switch_642-813 (Training)
Training Institute:
ESP
Date Attended:
October 2012
CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
Cisco
Date Attended:
July 2007
MCSE (Training)
Training Institute:
Times Tech
Date Attended:
March 2005
CCNP Route 642-902 (Training)
Training Institute:
ESP
Date Attended:
September 2011