Azfar سعيد

Information Technology Manager Job Duties:
Accomplishes information technology staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.
Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center.
Verifies application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.
Preserves assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.
Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective action.
Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Data Management
• Database maintenance through quality control checks and data updates
• Website Maintenance & Development
• E-commerce
• Digital Marketing material creation / dissemination
• Image editing
• System backup management
• E-mail server and quarantine system management
• Web content filtering management
• User and Server software installation
• User and Server software updates / upgrades
• User support for basic applications such as printers and Microsoft Office
• User support for core business applications such as CRM
• Remote user trouble shooting for on-the-road sales and service reps
• User training

Design and build custom applications.
Design, plan, establish, and optimize wireless networks.
Develop wireless network infrastructures and make recommendations on systems enhancements for optimization.
Lead and supervise teams.
Provide technical assessment of requirements and definition from conception to launch.
Train and mentor other engineers.
Design and validate RF link performance, quality and reliability.
Use measuring and diagnostic tools to test and adjust equipment.
Create manuals and support documentation.
Develop software for wireless technology.
Optimize existing network by adjusting radio network parameters, adding/deleting of neighbors and recommending possible solutions to hardware problems.
Monitor and analyze statistical and drive test data to improve system performance indicators such as dropped calls, blocked calls, origination failures, handoff features.
Apply propagation theory, cellular theory, RF ENGINEERing tools and antenna theory to choose tower antenna placement.
Responsible for capacity planning, GSM frequency planning and frequency hopping by applying carrier/interference (C/I) ratio analysis.
Recommend site upgrade such as down tilling of antenna and re-orientation of radio additions.

Oversee development and maintenance of computer systems.
Identify departmental needs and make suggestions regarding technical direction.
Set up organization's intranets.
Design and implement system security and data assurance.
Configure and install computer systems for other organizations.
Design and develop software.
Test software applications and systems.
Develop different types of software, including computer games, business applications, operating systems, network control systems, and middleware.
Apply knowledge of computing systems and software structure.
Analyze users' needs.
Create flowcharts, diagrams, and other documentation.
Create manuals and detailed sets of instructions including algorithms that tell computers what to do.
Convert instructions into computer languages.

Company Duration Position Location
Pearl Securities Jan 2005 - Dec 2006 Network & System Engineer Karachi

Pearl Securities
Jan 2005 • Installed and configured PC hardware.
Till • Provided second/third line technical support of PC hardware,
Dec 2006 Windows (3.x - XP), network applications.

• Installed, configured and administered a small number of Windows
NT servers.