Anil Kumar Panikar

IT / Network Administrator at Emirates CMS Power Company

• United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
• My current job since April 2010

• Presently functioning as scope of IT Manager and in-charge of IT Department.
• Maintaining the datacenter with HP servers and MSL2024 tape library & 2/8 Tape Autoloaders.
• Administrating and managing Windows 2008 Servers, Active Directory, Exchange 2010, ISA Server 2006, Websense Web Security, Trend Micro System OfficeScan for Servers/Desktop & ScanMail for Exchange, SQL 2000/2005/2012, Symantec Backup Exec 11d & 2012, Symantec System Recovery 2013, Blackberry BES 5.0.4, Rockwell RSVIEW32/RSLogix, Maximo 6.2.6, and Epicor iScala.
• Liaise with department heads, end users and third party vendors to ensure that all business needs are met by IT Dept.
• Monitor and assure the annual maintenance programs are placed and all software licenses are valid.
• Prepare the IT Budget.

Systems Administrator in IT Dept at Meraas Holding, Dubai, U.A.E.

• United Arab Emirates - Dubai
• March 2008 to January 2010

• Worked as an Assistant Manager grade and provided efficient IT support for the Group.
• Maintained the datacenter with HP servers, EVA4100, EVA8100, and MSL2024/MSL4048 tape library.
• Managed a team consisting of a Desktop Support Engineer, Datacenter Analyst, IT Service Desk Analyst and System Support Engineer.
• Administrated and managed Windows 2003 Servers, Microsoft Cluster File Servers, Active Directory, Exchange 2007, SCCM 2007, Symantec Antivirus 11d, Clustered SQL 2005, DNS/FTP/NTP, Blackberry, Primavera, and GIS Servers.
• In charge with Intranet and Web Server Administration for Share point portal Server 2007.
• Managed Symantec Backup Exec 12d by configuring, monitoring backups and restoring for file server, Exchange 2007, SQL 2005 and Oracle 10g servers.
• Overseeing Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8.6 by configuring, monitoring online image backup scheduled jobs for critical servers such as Oracle and Blackberry.
• Implemented and managed BMC Service Desk Express software.

Senior IT Systems Administrator at Emaar Properties, Dubai, U.A.E.

• Other
• April 2007 to February 2008

Systems Engineer Senior at Mideast Data Systems / PACC, Dubai, U.A.E.

• Other
• November 1998 to February 2007

Senior Customer Engineer at Mantech Computer Services, Manama, Bahrain

• Other
• September 1991 to June 1998

Customer Engineer at Zenith Computers Ltd., Bombay, India.

• Other
• August 1990 to July 1991

Sales and Service Engineer at Dynalog Micro-Systems, Bombay, India.

• Other
• October 1989 to May 1990