Ibrahim Muhammad Zulqarnain, System Administrator

Ibrahim Muhammad Zulqarnain

System Administrator

Thuraya Telecommunication

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, ITIL
Experience
13 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 11 Months

System Administrator at Thuraya Telecommunication
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • My current job since October 2016

Member in Corporate Services team that is responsible of managing and providing corporate services to
the end users. Broad knowledge and experience of windows server administration, storage (IOMEGA,
EMC VNX5200, HP 5000/4100 EVA) and systems security, Active Directory and Exchange.
Deliver support of LAN/WAN technologies including AD, DNS, DHCP, FTP, E-mail, high availability, storage,
patch management, web servers, software deployment, group policy, and system security.
Engaged in various projects involving: infrastructure implementation, virtualization (Hyper-V &
VMware), server consolidation, Active Directory and Exchange upgrade/migration.
 Maintain highest level of security for corporate systems
 Ensure Corporate services availability by performing health monitor via centralized monitoring
system
 Ensure system resources availability by practicing a capacity planning.
 Provide technical consultancy and guidance to all departments in initiating new projects
 Enhance corporate systems performance by performing maintenance activities.
 Ensure IT service escalations are resolved in a timely manner by engaging appropriate IT teams,
leading troubleshooting activity and liaising closely with the business to provide updates and/or
co-ordinate resources.
 Analyze service data and provide regular (weekly) reporting on service levels to the business and
IT management.
 Part of IT Plan to discard the obsolete Hardware/Software by migrating to latest Technologies

ICT infrastructure Engineer at Lattice Computer Consultancy
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2012 to October 2016

Hired as a full‐time IT infrastructure Engineer for multiple clients ( e.g Energizer Middle east, Starwood Hotels, punjab
National bank, GL‐Noble Denton) of Lattice IT consultancy (within agreed SLA).
Responsibilities:
 IT Support (Hardware & Software) to different clients of Lattice(within agreed SLA)
 Support in Desktops, Laptops, Printers, Scanners other IT equipment (Installing and Troubleshooting)
 Managing Productions Servers (AD, DNS, Exchange & Applications) both in Physical & Virtualized
Environment (Vmware & HyperV)
 Managing Backups (Backup Exec, Symantec Backup, ARC backup solutions), Antivirus (Kaspersky,
MacAfee, Trend Micro, Endpoint Security etc.
 Network equipment configuring and maintaining (Router, Switches & Hubs)
 Installing Applications, Software’s, Operating Systems, Solving day to day IT problems relating IT
equipments, LAN, WAN, Smart phones, Tablets, Software/Hardware.
 Researched, recommended and implemented network enhancements that improved system reliability
and performance
 Responsible for the fast and accurate troubleshooting of reported fault
 Playing role in up‐gradations of IT infrastructure of the clients

IT Administrator at Transonic Technology
  • Pakistan - Rawalpindi
  • March 2010 to August 2012

Network Consultant, Data Network Configuration & Management,
Server Administration (install configure, maintain production servers, domain controllers, certificate authority, backup, file eervers, RAS servers )
WINDOWS SERVERS ACTIVE DIRECTORY
Isa server
EXCHANGE SERVER
Ethernet Network, Network Cabling
Firewalls
Troubleshooting Network, Switches, Systems & Applications Softwares

Education

Diploma, ITIL
  • at EXIN
  • May 2014

ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

Diploma, Server Administration
  • at Microsoft
  • April 2014

Microsoft Certified Server Virtualization windows Server Hyper‐V

Diploma, Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
  • at Microsoft
  • December 2012
Diploma, Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
  • at Microsoft
  • September 2012

Microsoft Certified Professional in - MCITP- Server Administrator Windows Server2008 - Microsoft Certified Solution Associate (MCSA) -Microsoft Technology Specialist (MCTS)

Diploma, Networkings
  • at CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
  • April 2012

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Bachelor's degree, Electrical (Telecommunication ) Engineering
  • at Comstats institute of Information Technology
  • March 2010

Telecommunications Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Windows Server 2003
VMware Infrastructure
Windows Server 2008
Exchange Server
Microsoft Office
Telecommunications (Signals & Systems Telephony systems & SS7 )
Wireless Communications GSM,GPRS
CCNP (Route & Switch) +CCNA
Routing Protocols (EIGRP,OSPF,BGP,RIP)
Microsoft Server2003 & 2008 Administration (Active Directory,DNS,DHCP,FTP,VPN etc)
ISA server
VOIP, Wireless LAN
ADRMS,Certificate Authority,Trusts,Sites,RODC,ADFS,GPO,BAckups,DNS, etc
Microsoft exchange server 2010
Printer Management , FILE SERVER , Backup and Recovery , Network Designing ,Cabling etc
HyperV , VMWare, GNS3,Packet Tracer ,Windows All, LINUX (basic operating)
Ms Office (Word,Power Point,Excel,Outlook) 2003,2007,2010
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert

Memberships

Microsoft
  • Microsofy Certified Professional
  • September 2012
Cisco
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate
  • June 2012
ITIL
  • Foundation
  • April 2014

Training and Certifications

(Certificate)
CCNP & CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2010
Valid Until:
November 2010
Server Administration (Microsoft server 2003 & 2008) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2010
Valid Until:
January 2011

Hobbies

  • Chess, Movies, Shopping