Ibrahim Al-Zabaan, Senior Systems Admin

Ibrahim Al-Zabaan

Senior Systems Admin

Tamkeen Technologies

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
16 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 4 Months

Senior Systems Admin at Tamkeen Technologies
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since September 2014

Manage the implementation, configuration, deployment and ongoing support of the VMware vSphere server infrastructure hosting enterprise applications, and responsible for the technical design, planning, implementation, and the highest level of performance tuning and recovery procedures for mission critical enterprise systems. Serves as a technical expert in the area of system administration for complex operating systems. Recommends the redesign and configuration of operating systems and system applications. Investigates and analyzes feasibility of system requirements and develops system specifications. Identifies methods, solutions, and provides project leadership and management in order to provide a high level of service to the customers . Analyze and resolve complex enterprise system hardware and software problems; interface with peer teams and vendors to coordinate solutions and performs full supervision of Operations staff and provide on-call 24x7 support as needed

Systems Admin at Human Resource Development Fund
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2012 to September 2014

• Managing and monitoring the organization’s Virtual Environment (VMware ESXi) and Virtual Desktop from development through to ownership and associated support of production environments.
• Designing and implementing tools and processes to proactively monitor and ensure best practices, optimal access performance, and data security for HRDF environment.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting (storage and compute) performance and capacity, maintaining upgrades to virtual infrastructure including software and hardware.
• Creating VMware Design for new HRDF Data Center with Horizon View
• Upgrading VMware Vsphere 5.1 to Vsphere 5.5
• Upgrading VMware Vsphere 4 to Vsphere 5.1
• Build MSSQL 2012 Cluster Data Base with High availability on VMware environment on different physical host with RDM mechanism
• Converting Many Physical Servers to Virtual on VMware
• Managing and monitoring the organization’s Virtual Environment (VMware ESXi) from development through to ownership and associated support of production environments.
• Designing and implementing tools and processes to proactively monitor and ensure best practices, optimal access performance, and data security for HRDF environment.
• Managing the Veeam Backup for VMware environment, and upgrade Veeam 6.5 to Veeam 7
• Designing, Deploying, and managing the Microsoft Hyper-V 2012
• Managing and upgrading the Microsoft Exchange 2010
• Managing and applying the Microsoft group policy GPMC
• Upgrading Microsoft Windows Server from 2003 to 2008 R2
• Upgrading DHCP Servers from 2003 to 2008

Technical Support Engineer at International Systems Engineering
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2010 to April 2012
Instructor at New Horizons
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • February 2008 to December 2010

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at king khalid University
  • March 2007

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Servers
IT Infrastructure
Project Plans
VMware Infrastructure

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

ITIL V3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999
MCTS 70-643(Configuring Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999
(McAfee (ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 (Training)
Training Institute:
McAfee
Date Attended:
September 2010
Duration:
40 hours
Microsoft Exchange 2010 (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons
Date Attended:
February 2011
Duration:
40 hours
[VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5 (Training)
Training Institute:
EMC
Date Attended:
April 2014
Duration:
40 hours
MCITP Enterprise Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999
MCTS 70-620(Configuring Windows Vista Client) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999
MCTS 70-640(Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999
ITIL V3 (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons
Date Attended:
April 2011
Duration:
40 hours
MCTS 70-642(Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2009
Valid Until:
January 9999
MCITP Enterprise Administrator 2008 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999
MCTS 70-647(Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999
[VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999