Faisal Saeed, Cloud Solutions Engineer

Faisal Saeed

Cloud Solutions Engineer

Sahara Net

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
Experience
20 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 3 Months

Cloud Solutions Engineer at Sahara Net
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since November 2018

Helping clients by providing the best suitable solution for their complex IT problems or moves towards the recent and up-to-date technologies. Provided cloud solutions includes the below.
1. Migration of on-premises workloads to Microsoft Azure Cloud and Microsoft Azure Stack.
2. Azure Site Recovery to have a Disaster Recovery site on Microsoft Azure Cloud.
3. Acronis Disaster Recovery Cloud to have a Disaster Recovery site on Microsoft Azure Stack.
4. Azure Migrate to migrate VMware IaaS workloads to Microsoft Azure Cloud.
5. In-House Cloud solution like VPS (Virtual Private Server), Dedicated Server or Co-Location Server.
6. Azure Backup to backup on premises data to Microsoft Azure.
7. PaaS Solutions for SQL Databases, Web Apps, Mobile Apps etc.
Operations for Cloud Solutions Includes:
1. Manage client's subscriptions.
2. Analyze resource utilization and consumption.
3. Import and export data to Azure using Azure Storage Explorer.
4. Configure Azure Files, Tables, Queues and Blobs storage.
5. Create and configure a VM for Windows and Linux.
6. Implement and manage virtual networking.
7. Configure name resolution.
8. Create and configure a Network Security Group (NSG).
9. Manage Azure Active Directory (AD).
10. Manage Azure AD objects (users, groups, and devices).
11. Implement and manage hybrid identities.
12. Evaluate migration scenarios by using Azure Migrate.
13. Migrate servers to Azure.
14. Manage App Service Plans and App services.
15. Implement application load balancing.
16. Implement Azure load balancer.
17. Integrate on-premises network with Azure virtual network.
18. Implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
19. Manage role-based access control (RBAC).
20. Implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM).
21. Implementation of Azure AD with Autopilot, Microsoft Intune (MDM).
22. Exchange online IMAP and CutOver Migration.
23. PAAS activation on Azure Stack.
24. Backup Azure Stack infrastructure and tenant’s data.
25. Advance Threat Protection ATP deployment.

System Integration Programmer at Al Mehwar Net for Technology and Telecom
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2017 to November 2018

On Project of Public Security Department (أمن العام)
1. Proposed the new system for emergency numbers 993(Traffic Police) and 999(Patrolling Police).
2. Developed PBX integrated solution in C# and SQL Server.
3. Develop Agent reporting system in SQL Server and Crystal Reports.
4. Develop new store procedures in SQL Server to perform different operations.
5. Integrate different systems using SQL Server, C# and VB scripting.
6. Implement successfully the new solution in Traffic Police Nasriya and Petrolling Police Gurabi in Riyadh.
7. Integrate the system with Najam System at Traffic Police.
8. Integrate the system with National Information Center (NIC) to send caller ID to fetch caller location and information on agent screen.
9. Avaya DevLink and TAPI Programming for getting PBX data.

Sr. System Engineer (ERP & Cloud) at Visualsoft Center
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • July 2008 to October 2017

1. Cloud computing implementation and administration on Microsoft Windows Azure.
2. Designing of network structure for windows azure cloud.
3. Microsoft SQL administration on windows azure and also on local servers.
4. IT infrastructure evaluation and recommendations for various clients.
5. ERP configuration and implementation at various client sites.
6. Remote Desktop Services deployment on windows azure and also on local servers.
7. Remoteapp configuration and administration on cloud.
8. Create Remoteapp services on cloud for clients to use Innovbase ERP Solution.
9. Web Portal implementation on Windows Azure Cloud.
10. Synchronization of data between cloud and local servers through different techniques.
11. Define and implement the backup policies for cloud and local servers.
12. Windows Server 2008, 2012 complete administration from the installation with RAID to the operation and maintenance.
13. Implement and monitor NIC Teaming.
14. Design and implement a storage structure.
15. Domain Controller Implementation.
16. Active Director best practices structure implementation and administration.
17. Defining Group Polices through GPOs.
18. DNS implementation and administration.
19. DHCP implementation and administration.
20. Cloud Computing and Virtualization through Hyper-V Implementation and Administration.
21. Call Center Services structuring and implementation.
22. Call Center Skill set definition on AVAYA IP Office 500.
23. Administration of the Avaya IP Office 500 based call center.
24. Avaya IP Office 500 V2 preferred edition implementation with Voicmail pro Client.
25. Analysis of calls statistics to know customer feedback and call agent performance.
26. Network structure diagrams design in MS VISIO.
27. Interact with the customer to understand the queries regarding ERP.
28. Guide the customers in solving the problems.
29. Generate Support Tickets in CRM system to assign it to someone appropriate for the job from the Technical team.
30. Follw-up with technical team for each support ticket.

Network Engineer at Visualsoft Centre
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • July 2008 to August 2011

Operation and Maintenance Project at
Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Science & Technology Center (Scitech) Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

Scitech is a department of King Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals as a technology village in Alkhobar city.

✓ Providing ongoing network administration, management, trending, analysis, and troubleshooting activities for the network.
✓ Operates and maintains all Windows servers and server maintenance and operations.
✓ Performs preventive maintenance procedures and gateway switching exercises whenever required.
✓ Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to obtain protection services and products.
✓ Ensure 24/7 connectivity.
✓ Performs daily, weekly and monthly backups as per schedule.
✓ Planning and Designing Network Infrastructure and make changes/upgrade as per requirements.
✓ VLAN and Inter-vlan routing configuration on HP 2600 series (Layer 3) Switch.
✓ Used Trend Micro officescan and Symentec Endpoint protection server/client based Antivirus and Anti Spam.
✓ Implementing static and dynamic addressing services for hosts in a LAN environment.
✓ Calculate and apply an addressing scheme including VLSM IP addressing design.
✓ Choosing the appropriate media, cables, ports, and connectors to connect switches to other network devices and hosts in the network.
✓ Monitoring Internet bandwidth usage and to provide failover internet.
✓ Overseeing the daily operations of the network/systems support team.
✓ Reporting on system uptime and performance tuning.
✓ Network/System performance tuning.

Asst. Manager IT at Zoha Inc.
  • Pakistan
  • March 2007 to June 2008

Zoha Inc. (www.zohainc.com) Lahore, Pakistan

✓ LAN maintenance and troubleshooting.
✓ Troubleshoot the problems faced by payees in different countries.
✓ Data mining from main database built in Sybase for the use of different calculations at the end of month.
✓ User Management for the payee web representing different countries.
✓ Test any newly develop module and present report to the manager.
✓ Take Backups of the Sybase database.
✓ Network operations

Network and Web Engineer at Naeem Group of Companies
  • Pakistan
  • February 2004 to March 2007

Naeem Group of Companies (www.naeembrothers.com) Lahore, Pakistan

✓ Implementation, maintenance & troubleshooting of the computer's network at Naeem Textile Mills (Pvt) Ltd. and also headoffice Naeem Brothers (Pvt) Ltd.
✓ Design & Develop some business website for different companies of the group.
✓ Make the Quality formats for Naeem Textile Mills (Pvt) Ltd.
✓ E-mail Administration at the Domain of Naeem Brothers & Naeem Textile.
✓ Networks and hardware troubleshooting.

Education

Master's degree, Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
  • at Microsoft
  • October 2017

MCSE (Microsoft Certified Solution Expert) Cloud Platform and Infrastructure. Exam 532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions. 2017 Exam 533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions. 2017 Exam 534: Architechting Microsoft Azure Solutions. 2017

Master's degree, Information Technologies
  • at Punjab University College of Information Technology
  • May 2008

Master in Information Technology from the Punjab University Lahore Pakistan with Percentage 71.80%.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at University of Management and Technology
  • April 2005

BS Computer Engineering (Gold Medalist) 4-Years with percentage 85%

Specialties & Skills

LAN/WAN
Packet Tracer
MS Office (Complete)
Wireless LAN
Routing and Switching
Windows Server 2008, 2012 Administration
Cloud Computing (Hyper-V and Windows Azure)
MS VISIO
MS SQL Server 2000\\2005\\2008\\2012
HARDWARE TROUBLESHOOTING
Remoteapp
Avaya IP Office 500

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
Knowledge Square
Date Attended:
May 2015
Duration:
35 hours
CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
Punjab UniversityLahore
Date Attended:
March 2005

Hobbies

  • Supports and Exercising