Syed Asgar Mahmood Zaidi, Senior System Engineer

Syed Asgar Mahmood Zaidi

Senior System Engineer

Royal Hospital

Location
Oman - Muscat
Education
Bachelor's degree, BCA
Experience
23 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 11 Months

Senior System Engineer at Royal Hospital
  • Oman - Muscat
  • My current job since May 2015

Installing/ Configuration Windows 10/Windows 8.1
Installing/ Managing/ Configuring Windows Server 2016, 2012 R2.
Deploying/ Managing/ Configuring Active Directory, Group Policy, User and group Account management.
Managing/ Configuring DNS, DHCP, File Server, Print Server, Security and Sharing Permission.
Managing/ Configuring DFS, Windows Cluster File Server, VMware 5.5/6.0/6.5, Windows Hyper-v 2016 R2
Managing/ Configuring HP Procurve Switch Switch 5406zl, E5412 zl, 4108gl, 2626, 2650, and HP Core Switches also 8112zl ( J9091A)
Managing HP Procurve AP MSM 410, MSM 430, MSM 310, AP 420, Linksys AP
Configuring Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches.
Configuring F-Secure Anti Virus, Landesk Endpoint Security.
Configure Cyberoam UTM Firewall, HP MSM 430 Access Points, MSM 410,
Configuring Cisco Router and HP Core Switches
Configuring Static Routes and Vlans, RSTP, VRRP
Configuration Cisco, HP Procurve Switch L2 and L3 (Core Switch), Vlan, Access-List, Tag, untag etc.

System Engineer Team Lead at Dell Services
  • India - Delhi
  • February 2014 to March 2016

My Responsibility and day to day activities in DELL services was as follow.

1. working in Remedy Ticketing system, OPAS v3
2. Upgrading Windows 2003 R2 to Windows 2008 R2 x64 (Enterprise Edition )
3. Upgrading Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2012 R2 x64 (Enterprise Edition )
4. Migration of Active Directory (DCs) from 2003 to 2008
5. Migration of DHCP / DNS
6. Migration of DFS Server, file server.
7. Installation of Windows Updates/ Patches/ Critical Updates/ Hot Fixex / Antivirus etc
8. Managing File Server & Print Server, and DFS.
9. Installation of Windows Servers and Software Applications like Exchange Server, CommVault backup, Antivirus etc on Dell PoderEdge m520, m620, m1000e, r820.

10. Giving Security Right / Sharing permission of folder to specific groups/ dept vise
11. Creating Active Directory User Account, Security Group, Distribution Group for email purpose.
12. Monitoring CPU, Ram, Page file usage etc.
13. Work on Monitoring Alert like Low Disk Space Threshold for C Drive (System Partition), D, E Drive etc.
14. Giving right to RDP to server and clear RDP session if unable to login.
15. Creating Change Management, Incident Management, Problem Management, Completing Work Order.
16. Working of Some Remote Access tool like RDP, Team Viewer, iDRAC, ILO
17. Monitoring Dell Open Manager For Health Check of Hardware Resources.
18. Worked on CMC Chassis Management Controller
19. worked on OPASv3

Senior Windows System Engineer at ITRC & Appin Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Delhi
  • October 2011 to January 2014

• Responsible for managing all Windows Server 2008, 2003, 2000, Exchange 2010, 2007 2003, ISA Server 2004, Active Directory, Group Policy, WDS, DFS, WSUS, Files and Print Server.
• Configuring Cisco Routers 2621, 3620, 3640 and Cisco Switches 1900, 2950, 3550 series.
• Configuring Vlan, VTP, STP in your company organization.
• Configuring Static and Default Route, Ripv2, EIGRP and OSPF, ACL, Route redistribution on various Cisco routers.
• Installing and Configuring ESX 4/ ESXi 4.1 Server, VCenter Server, VMs, vMotion, VMHA Etc.

Senior Engineer Infra Management at IgatePatni
  • India - Mumbai
  • May 2011 to October 2011

• Responsible for third-level support for all server related issues.
• Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations and patch management.
• Implemented group policy, security policy and virus protection.
• Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
• New Server Installation, upgrading Windows Server, promoting Active Directory or upgrading AD
• Maintained and supported more than 500 servers
• Installation and Configuration of Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2008; Active Directory, Software Deployment, Exchange Server, Backup / Restore Exchange Mailbox and AD database
• Configuring and managing DNS; DHCP; WSUS Server; DFS Server; vmware ESX 3.5 /ESXi 4.1 Server; vCenter Server.
• Monitoring and installing Symantec Endpoint Antivirus 12.0; Symantec Netbackup; IBM Server.

Senior Windows Engineer at ELI Research Private Limited
  • India - Faridabad
  • March 2010 to April 2011

• Giving Support on Windows Server 2008, 2003, 2000 and also on Active Directory
• Installing and Configuring Exchange Server 2003 and 2007 and Microsoft outlook.
• Prepared the environment for deployment of Windows Server 2003, 2008.
• Analyzed the hardware and software requirements of Active Directory.
• Installed, configured, and provide troubleshooting for Server 2003.
• Migrated Windows Server 2003 from test environment to the production environment.
• Implemented and managed IP Addressing; configured TCP/IP addressing on a server.
• Created the Forest Root domain, and a Child domain in a production environment.
• Installed and configured an Active Directory Domain Controller.
• Established external trusts and cross-forest trusts.
• Managed an Active Directory site; replication schedules, site links and boundaries, used ADUC to create and manage computer, user and group accounts in an Active Directory environment.
• Used DcDiag, NetDiag techniques for troubleshooting.
• Performed authoritative and non-authoritative restore operations.
• Diagnosed and resolved issues related to masters role failure and AD database.
• Applying group policy from GPMC on OU for different Dept. like HR, Remote Users, Management etc.
• Configured automatic updates for network clients by using Group Policy.
• Designed, planned and implemented Group Policy, delegation strategies and OU structure.
• Managed local, roaming, and mandatory profiles, planed strategy for placing Global Catalogue (GC) and evaluated the need to enable Universal Group Caching.
• Troubleshooting TCP/IP and AD problem using different command like arp, ipconfig, pathping tracert, nslookup, dnscmd, netstat, nbtstat, netsh, replmon, repadmin, dcdiag, netdiag, dsquery etc.
• Created approximately 500 users accounts in Active Directory and migrated all Windows NT and Windows 2000 users by ADMT and ‘User State Migration Tool (USMT)’.

Senior Engineer Infra Management at CloudNexus
  • India
  • December 2008 to January 2010

• Managing and configuring Windows Server 2008, 2003 and it’s Domain Controller,
• Implementing Windows load balance (NLB) for IIS and FTP Server and Microsoft Clustering for exchange server.
• Installing Exchange 2007 and 2003 in our office and remote office.
• Installing and configuring DNS Server and DHCP Server and also WINS for our Windows NT Environment.
• Assigning Security and sharing permission on file server and DFS Server.
• Installing Symantec antivirus from remote Symantec server to all our client and update also.
• Assigning disk quota size on different folder and screening files.
• Installing bulk of client OS from WDS, RIS and Symantec Ghost using Multicasting .
• Configuring Cisco Routers 2500, 2621, 3640 and Cisco Switches 1900, 2950, 3550 series.
• Creating VLAN, VTP, STP on Switches for different dept.
• Configuring Static Routes, Default Route, Ripv2 and Eigrp protocol on our remote client site.
• Securing our router by ACL so that only allowed used can take telnet and SSH
• For Managing and troubleshooting we use Terminal Server, Remote Access, DameWare and TeamViewer

IT Trainer at Mercury Technical Solutions
  • India - Delhi
  • June 2006 to December 2008

• Teaching MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA (Complete Course )

Teaching configuring Cisco Router (2620, 2621, 3620, 3640) and Cisco Switch (1900, 2950, 3550), and WIFI Router WRT160NL, WRT54 G2, WRT300N, D-Link Wireless N Router DIR-524 all types of hardware and Computer Networking Problem etc

System Administrator at Ipem Infotech
  • India
  • March 2004 to March 2006

• Installation, Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2003 and 2000.
• Installing Windows XP SP3 on Laptops and Desktops, install Windows Update, patches, hotfixes, Software packages, Symantec Antivirus, update definitions etc.
• Installing Exchange Server 2003 and upgrading Exchange 2000 to 2003.
• Creating Active Directory users account, group account, computer account, OU, Contact, Publish Share folder and Printer in AD.
• Implementing group Policy of Domain, Different OU and restrict user using this.
• Creating File Server, Print Server and DFS for our Company to provide user facilities of accessing files and printer over the network and assigning NTFS and Sharing permission to restrict different user and AD groups.
• Backup administration.
• Administered and supported local/LAN printers.
• Responsible for coaching co-op students and new team members.
• Configuring ISA Server 2004 for internet accessing and restrict internet user.
• Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003, taking PST backup. And OWA for remote users
• Configuring Wireless Devices like D-Link Wireless N Router DIR-524, Cisco Linksys WRT160N.
• Configuring Cisco Router 2621, 2501 and Switches 2950, 3550.
• Configuring Virtual Server like vmware ESX 3.0; Microsoft Virtual Server 2003 R2; vmware Server 2.0; Creating VMs for testing and developing purpose.
• Creating Shared Storage NAS and ISCSI-SAN using StarWind software.

IT Trainer at Acti Computer Education
  • India - Lucknow
  • January 1997 to December 2000

• I was teaching windows 2000 advance server, windows 2000 professional, windows XP, C, C++, JAVA, VB, TALLY, BUSY, Dbase, Foxpro, Clipper, Unix, Microsoft Office Automation, Corel Draw, Pagemaker, Photoshop, MS-DOS, Configuring Internet; Data Recovery, Virtualization etc.

Education

Bachelor's degree, BCA
  • at Garud Infotech
  • October 2012

I have done CCNP, CCNA , MCITP, MCSE, MCSA and i have a strong command in Routing & Switching

Bachelor's degree, BCA
  • at EIILM University
  • June 2012

I HAVE COMPLETED MY BCA WITH FIRST DIVISION IN HARDWARE, NETWORKING AND PROGRAMMING

Bachelor's degree, IT
  • at NIM ( National Institute of Management )
  • April 2003

I have completed my Advanced 3 years Diploma with First Class in IT Computer application and Networking

Diploma, Programming Course
  • at IEC
  • March 2001

C, C++, Java, VB, Foxpro, Dbase,

Diploma, Computer Hardware & Networking
  • at IIHT
  • January 1997

One Years Diploma in Computer Hardware & Networking

High school or equivalent, BCA
  • at JCIC (Jumana Christain Inter College)
  • June 1990

Specialties & Skills

Hyper V
Exchange Server
VMware ESX
Windows Server 2008
Active Directory
EIGRP, OSPF, Port Security, ACL, Subnet, Suppernet, VLSM, Summarization, NAT, Ris Server, Patch
Remote Access, Internet Gateway, Outlook , Manage Mail A/c, Disk Quota, MIrroring, RAID5
AD , Domain and OU Policy, AD Replication, AD Backup/Restore, Exchange Server, VPN, RAS
Proxy Server, CCNA, Mail Server, OSPF, EIGRP, Rip v1/v2 , Vlan, Stp, Terminal Server, Wsus Server
Tcp/Ip, IP Routing, ISDN, Frame-Relay, Installing IOS, Vtp, IPV6, OSI Layer, FSMO Role
Deploy AntiVirus on Client and Update, Install SP, Manage Audit Logs, Windows Security
VMWARE , Hyper-v
Exchange Server, Proxy Server
Windows Server 2008, 2003, 2000
IIS, FTP, Telnet, NAT
WSUS , Print Server, File SERVER, DFS

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

MCSE (Training)
Training Institute:
IPEM INFO TECH ALLAHABAD
CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
GARUD GURGAON HARYANA