Abid Sheikh (CCIE, PMP, CISA, VCP), Senior System / Network Engineer

Abid Sheikh (CCIE, PMP, CISA, VCP)

Senior System / Network Engineer

Data Steel Pipe Industries Pvt Ltd

Lieu
Australie
Éducation
Master, MS (CS)
Expérience
21 years, 3 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :21 years, 3 Mois

Senior System / Network Engineer à Data Steel Pipe Industries Pvt Ltd
  • Autre
  • Je travaille ici depuis septembre 2009

Responsibilities:

• Support of Data Centre infrastructure, Server/OS platforms, and networks.
• Managed entire physical and Virtual Networks
• Support of large global IP networks including the following
• EIGRP, IPSEC VPN, Remote Access VPNs, VLANs, Ethernchanels, QoS, GLBP
• Initiate, plan and implement changes through the Change Management System.
• Maintain network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting network problems; escalating problems to vendor
• Secure network by developing network access, monitoring, control, and evaluation; maintaining documentation.
• Troubleshoot and recover from any failure with minimal effect on business continuity
• Support of Windows Servers including Active Directory, Exchange, ISA, TMG.
• Support of HP servers, HP SAN and EMC SAN
• Configuration and support of Cisco routers, switches, PIX firewalls, ASA Firewalls, Sonic wall Load balancer.

Achievements:

• Completed successful extension of one production site by extending fibre optics, switched and wireless network.
• Successfully delivered the Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Successfully established Site to Site IPSec VPN from few sites to Head office.
• Successfully migrated from PIX firewall to ASA firewalls.
• Successfully deployed Sonicwall Load Balancer.
• Successful implementation of Symantec Mail security and up gradation of Symantec end point protection.
• Successfully virtualised Physical Data Centre to VMWare virtualised environment.
• Successfully deployed Veeam backup and replication and Veeam Monitor.
• Successfully deployed HP and EMC SAN.

Technologies & Tools:

Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, ASA firewall, PIX firewall, Site to site VPNs, Remote Access VPN, Wireless Access points, Sonicwall Load Balancer, Vsphere, Vmware View, EMC SAN, HP SAN, VEEAM, Symantec End point protection, Microsoft Server 2003, Microsoft Server 2010, Exchange Server, ISA Server

Assistant Manager IT Security à National Investment Trust Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • mai 2009 à septembre 2009

I was assigned the work of continuous monitoring of security controls and suggest and implement any improvements. During my short stay I was accomplished following
o Suggested Draft copies of IT policies and procedures.
o Submitted detail design of secure and flexible WAN connection of head office to 20 + branches and DR site across Pakistan. Later created rfp for components required for tender process.
o Developed a backup scheme as per organization requirements.
o Studied last external audit report and implement controls to remove a lot of discrepancies.

System Analyst à Data Steel Pipes Industries Pvt Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • août 2004 à avril 2009

System Analyst February 2008-April 2009
System & Network Engineer September 2006-February 2008
System & Network Support Engineer August 2004 - September 2006

I was responsible for overall Technical activities of the company’s IT department, that includes assigning the responsibilities to assistants and management of the corporate LAN of 2 sites, comprising of 6 servers, 80 workstations, Microsoft AD, ISA server, Exchange Server, Monitoring softwares, Cisco routers, manageable switches, PIX firewall and wireless access points. Also, responsible for the management of the company’s in-house software development efforts.
During this period I,

o Analyze and evaluate present or proposed business procedures or problems to define data processing needs.
o Conduct technical research on system upgrades to determine feasibility, cost, time required, and compatibility with current system.
o Ensured the maximum uptime by proactively monitoring and updating the network and systems components.
o Developed strategy to ensure the security of the corporate LAN and WAN including Internet.
o Developed the Disaster recovery plan for the company IT services.
o Involved in procurement and selection of the technologies.
o Provide the occasional trainings to the assistants and end users.
o Migrated the old network from the workgroup environment to the Microsoft Active Directory environment.
o Deployed and managed the Microsoft Exchange 2003.
o Implemented and managed the ISA server 2000. Later update that to ISA 2004.
o Deployed and manage scalable Network consisting of LAN of sites, site to site VPNs, remote access VPNs, multiple internet connections over Cisco routers, Pix firewall and switches.
o Deployed the SNMPc5 for the network equipment management.

Network Engineer à Rehmat Taj enterprise
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • mai 2004 à juillet 2004

I was responsible for managing the local network including the Cisco switches, Cisco router, Microsoft Exchange server 2000, ISA server 2000 and providing the network support to the customers.

Teacher / Research Assistant à Hamdard University
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • juillet 2003 à avril 2004

Worked as a lecturer / Research Assistant in Hamdard Institute of Information Technology, Hamdard University.
Major responsibilities include:
o Designing and Development of Lab and Lab Manual for the course of Computer Networks.
o Established the Local Cisco Academy.
o Conducting Lab sessions for Data Communications Lab.
o Conducting sessions for the course of Wireless Protocol and Application development.
o Involved in doing research with Dr. Juanid Zubairi, Asc. Professor University of Fredonia, US in the field of MPLS and Constraint Based Routing

IT Expert à Intelectual Technoloy
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • mars 2003 à juillet 2003

Convert the Network of IT department from Win NT to Win 2000. Manage the Network Environment, Supporting Servers and policies of the Network. Also take part in development in some ASP and VB projects

Éducation

Master, MS (CS)
  • à SZABIST
  • mars 2007
Baccalauréat, BE (IT)
  • à Hamdard University
  • février 2003

Specialties & Skills

System Administration
Virtualization
Project Management
Network Technologies
IT Governance
System Administration
Network Management
IT governance
Virtualization
Network Security
Routing
Firewall
Switching
Load Balancer

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Adhésions

PMI
  • Member
  • May 2011
ISACA
  • Member
  • January 2009

Formation et Diplômes

CCNA [Complete], CCSP [Complete], CCNP [Complete] (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2006
Valide jusqu'à:
February 2006
(Certificat)
Date de la formation:
July 2010
Valide jusqu'à:
July 2010
PMP [Completed] (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
May 2010
Valide jusqu'à:
June 2010
CISA (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
August 2007
Valide jusqu'à:
November 2007
VCP 5 (completed) (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
September 2011
Valide jusqu'à:
September 2011

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