Ahmed Saleem, Senior System Engineer, Systems and Databases

Ahmed Saleem

Senior System Engineer, Systems and Databases

Wataniya Telecom

Location
Kuwait - Hawali
Education
Diploma, Symantec Netbackup Certified System Administrator
Experience
20 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 9 Months

Senior System Engineer, Systems and Databases at Wataniya Telecom
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since March 2010

Administration of HPUX, Solaris, RHEL, Tru64 operating systems. Administration of DMX, VMAX, VNX and NAS. Administration of Veritas Netbackup. Administration of HP Superdome2, Blade Servers etc.

Having a strong knowledge of HPUX, Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers (networking and storage) and supporting our DBA's for Oracle application system administration. Setup a repository or recovery system for RedHat 5/6 in Wataniya Telecom from where we can apply the latest updates and patches required for Linux Systems.

Also having a strong working knowledge of storage environments (SAN which includes (HP XP, EMC DMX, VMAX, VNX and EMC NAS / HP NAS Storages).

System Administrator at MTC Zain
  • Kuwait
  • January 2008 to March 2010

Installation and Administration of SUN Solaris, Connectivity of Hosts to SAN and Zoning Configuration on Brocade Switches. Installation, backup and recovery on EMC Legato Netwoker. Administration and Configuration of Quantum tape libraries to Windows and SUN Solaris Systems. I configured the Persistent Binding on all SUN Solaris systems. Administration of SUN Hitachi, EMC Clarion and Centera Storages.

Senior Executive IT at Pak Telecom Mobile Limited (PTML)
  • Pakistan
  • May 2006 to December 2007

Installation and Administration of SUN Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and AIX Systems. Installation and configuration of HPs XP1024, EVA4000, 6000 and 8000 storages. Connectivity of Hosts to SAN and Zoning Configuration on Brocade Switches. Backup and recovery on Data Protector. Administration and Configuration of ESL9595 and ESL712e tape libraries.

Customer Support Engineer at Multilynx
  • Pakistan
  • August 2003 to April 2006

Working as CS Engineer in MULTILYNX. Providing H/W and S/W support to Mobilink and Telenor Datacenters. Datacenter has mid-range servers i.e. rx7620, rx4640, DL580, DL380
HP-UX and Tru64 Administration, Software and Hardware support for HP Products like Command View XP, HP OpenView Data Protector and HP Storage Essentials. Administration and Configuration of Storage including XP1024/EVA4000/EVA3000/EVA5000 and ESL9595/ESL712e tape libraries.

Education

Diploma, Symantec Netbackup Certified System Administrator
  • at Symantec
  • June 2013
Diploma, ITIL Foundation Certified
  • at ITIL
  • January 2013
Diploma, VNX Storage Specialist
  • at EMC
  • December 2012
Master's degree, Master of Business Administration
  • at Virtual University of Pakistan
  • August 2012
Diploma, Certified HP-UX System Administrator
  • at HP
  • October 2004

I am also HP-UX Certified System Adminitrator and got 70% marks.

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Army Public College of Management Sciences
  • October 2003

Software Engineering, Data Communications, Digital Signal Processing, Signals and Systems, Computer Networks, Compiler Construction, Operating Systems, Linear Algebra, Micro Controller, Technical Writing, Software Project Management, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Electronics, Communication Skills.

Specialties & Skills

Administration
Computer Hardware Troubleshooting
Administration of Modular Smart Array
Administration of Enterprise Virtual Array
SUN Solaris,HP-UX, Linux and AIX Administration
Assigning of LDEVs from XP1024 Storage
Backups on HP OpenView Data Protector
Addition of hosts to SAN
Shell Scripting
Legato Networker
Netbackup Administration
HP XP Storage Administration
VNX Administration

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Certified VNX Storage Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2012
Valid Until:
August 2012