Haytham Mostafa, IT Infrastructure and Data Center Manager

Haytham Mostafa

IT Infrastructure and Data Center Manager

ISAM K. KABBANI Group Of Companies

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
25 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 3 Months

IT Infrastructure and Data Center Manager at ISAM K. KABBANI Group Of Companies
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since June 2009

Working in (CITD) Centralized Information Technology Department Responsible for managing IT Infrastructure Engineers in some of IKK Companies and Sites in KSA(Riyadh and Dammam), Lebanon, UAE, Egypt and other areas.
Managing and administrating the main Data Center servers and devices.
Working with Active Directory 2008, Exchange 2007 Clustering servers.
Implementing and Administrating Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 for all IKK Companies worldwide as frontend server, EDGE Server and Web Access .
Project Manager of Implementing HP Blade System Rack with Fiber and SAN Switch and SAN Storage.
Project Manager Implementing VMware VSphere 5.0 with 4 Clustered ESXI’s.
Project Manager of Installation, Configuration and Upgrade of Domain Controllers to 2008 R2 Active Directory in Jeddah, Riyadh and Dammam Office.
Project Manager of Migrating the Exchange 2007 to 2010 with 2 Mailbox Servers working in DAG (Database Availability Group), 2 CAS/HUB Server with Fail over and load Balance appliance.
Configuring the Exchange 2010 with OWA, ActiveSync, Outlook Anywhere and online Archiving.
Upgrading the Microsoft office Communications 2007 R2 to Microsoft Lync 2010 with EDGE Access.
Applying Audio/Video Conversation using OCS 2007, Microsoft Live Meeting 2007 and Microsoft Roundtable Panoramic Cameras.
Implementing and administrating Microsoft Forefront Client Security anti-virus and anti-malware.
Managing and responsible for applying the IT security policies and procedures, documentation and forms .

System Administration Unit Head at Al-Othaim Holding Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2007 to July 2009

Managin System Administrators team.
Administering 30 servers, and 1500+ user’s groups permissions, directory structure, enterprise sized network’s services; such as, DHCP, DNS, WINS and Active Directory.
Configuring, and managing 1000+ Exchange 2003 mailboxes accessed through (POP3, IMAP4, OWA/SSL) Administering Exchange 2003 Farm FE-BE, archiving, and recovery.
Enterprise Directory Services operation, includes AD Forest and Exchange Messaging Directory,
Maintain the accuracy for the Global Address List (GAL). and Offline Address List.
Ensure Business continuity, Disaster recovery planning by Symantec Backup exec 10.1d, CPS.
Configuring, and Administering the Captaris rightFax 9.0 in integration with Exchange server 2003.
Troubleshooting, administration and support MOM 2005, SharePoint Server 2007, SMS, ISA 2006.
Implementing, administering SharePoint Portal Server 2007 and SharePoint Services 3.0 covering
the areas; (KPI’s, Collaboration, Workflow, Portal, Document management, InfoPath forms).
Experience with the following tools: (Dcdiag, Netdiag, replmon, Repadmin, directory service event log analysis, Ultrasound, Sonar, Ntfsutil, exdeploy tools, performance, stress tools, DNSlint, nslookup, and DNS event log analysis.
LAN and Company File server permission/security, implementing the company Group policy with GP management console.
Planning, Designing, and Implementing a Microsoft Exchange 2007 Mailbox server as CCR (Cluster continues replication) services failover with SCR (Standby continues replication)
Planning, Designing, and Implementing a Microsoft Exchange 2007 Client Access and Hub Transport servers services.
Project Manager for moving and upgrading the Old data center

IT Manager at Axiom Telecom
  • Egypt
  • January 2005 to August 2007

Responsible for managing IT Department in Egypt Region, LAN, Administrating windows 2003 Servers and Exchange 2003 server, configuring sonicwall firewalls and proxy hardware, maintaining whole services and monitor it over the servers, Backup system, files and folders security system, Supporting Axiom's Mobile shops, Responsible for all IT needs.

Senior System and Network Administrator at Advanced Medical System
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2002 to November 2006

Responsible for managing LAN and WAN (VPN) connect Cairo office with main branch in Germany and other offices in London, France, Finland, Poland and Austria with The Germany IT Staff . Administrate over than 200 workstations, internal and External Servers Windows 2003 servers, ISA Server, maintaining whole services and monitor it over the servers, Backup system, files and folders security system, Linux Suse server's applications, helpdesk for employees PC's dealing with windows and Linux workstations and servers. Responsible for all IT needs.

System and Network Administrator at Islam Online.net
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 1999 to June 2003

Working in IT department & built up and design the Network system for over 70 PC’s and Administer the network, Maintain 70 PC’s and the network, Administrate win 2000 servers/ISA Server and Exchange server. built up the internet connections like Leased line and ISDN connection. Make hardware and network Troubleshooting and Helpdesk, buy all hardware and network components and Testing it.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Alsuon Academy
  • September 2003

-Bachelor's degree of Computer Science and Information systems, Modern Academy, Good degree.

Diploma, System and network administration
  • at New Horizons
  • August 2002

-Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Implementing Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server and professional. -MCSE/MCSA Certified Microsoft ID#:2702887. In Progress Certifications: -PMP: Project Management Professional. -MBA: Information Technology Management – IT Risk management. -Linux system Administration.

Specialties & Skills

CommVault
Virtualization
microsoft systems
- Ability to make fast and yet reliable decisions about how to solve problems
- Troubleshooting all systems and network problems with professional ways.
Investigate users problems, identify their source, determine possible solutions, test and implement
Working with Documentation systems
- Local area networks (LAN’s), Wide area networks (WAN's) and Virtual Private Network VPN’s install,
- Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004/2006 (ISA) Installation & Configurations.
Experience with Windows system administration using command line and Scripts
- Implementing Disaster recovery , Prevention and High Availability for the servers planning, using
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: Installation, Configuration, Active Directory, Administration Event
Microsoft Mail Servers Exchange 2003/2007
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: Installation, Configuration, Active Directory, Administration Event
- Familiar with Cisco equipment and connectivity (network devices, Routers, Hub’s, Switches… etc.)
All type of Microsoft windows servers and services (MCSE)
- Willing to learn new Technologies to be synchronized with the work requirements
- Willing to learn new Technologies to be synchronized with the work requirements
and much more in my real CV
- Symantec Gateway Security firewall 5400(IDPS, CF, VPN), Juniper VPN/Firewall Netscreen-5GT
- Ability to work under pressure, Familiar with multi-national working environment.
- Ensure timely user notification of maintenance requirements and effects on system availability.
- Investigate users problems, identify their source, determine possible solutions, test and implemen
-Working with IT Documentation and audit systems.
IT Infrastructure and Data Center Management
IT Management

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Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate

Memberships

Data Center Energy University by Schneider-electric
  • Data Center Consultant
  • March 2016

Training and Certifications

Effective Leadership (Training)
Training Institute:
HP-life
Date Attended:
September 2017
Strategic planning (Training)
Training Institute:
HP-life
Date Attended:
October 2017
Energy efficiency: Do more for less. (Training)
Training Institute:
HP-life
Date Attended:
December 2017
Princ2 Project Management Foundation and Practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2018
Valid Until:
December 2023
ITIL: IT Service Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2017
Valid Until:
December 2023
Data Center Certified Associate from Energy University by Schneider-electric (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2017
Valid Until:
December 2023
Data Center Certified Associate (Training)
Training Institute:
Energy University by Schneider-electric
Date Attended:
September 2017
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), MCSE/MCSA,Commvault, Vmware, Citrix XenApp (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Valid Until:
January 2024

Hobbies

  • Reading