Irfan Maqbool, Server Support Engineer

Irfan Maqbool

Server Support Engineer

Atlas

Location
United Kingdom - Manchester
Education
High school or equivalent, Electronics
Experience
18 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 2 Months

Server Support Engineer at Atlas
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2014 to January 2017

Atlas client. Appling Patching, installing remedial Security updates, IT project build & deploy Desktops & Servers; Physical & virtual- Vsphere \ ESXi \\ Hyper -V environments. DR & Backups. Break-fix of Hardware. Installation & trouble shooting AD Group Policies, Teir1 MSQL admin, Networking fundamentals, Supporting Exchange, Sharepoint. Printer & Peripherals installations, Trouble shooting, DHCP \ DNS \ Active Directory. Updating low & High level documentation, participating within multi-tier Resolver Group meetings &VIP support.

WorldPay

Support Engineer at BBC World Service
  • January 2012 to January 2013

Third Line. Pro-active ownership of IT Technical issues through to resolution including: Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 implementing patching, Migration & Multi Domains Support, Exchange mail messaging, E-mail security filtering. Providing Technical & security reports to Corporate VIP`s. Extensive trouble shooting of Servers. Supporting Windows 7 roll-out, Active Directory support, DNS, DFS, IIS, FTP, Hyper-V, MAC OSX, HP, DELL & IBM Servers and tape libraries, Backups, maintaining anti-virus on workstations, performing malware (virus) remedial actions. Also data storage, Mobile device configuration & user migrations, trouble shooting BAU live technical support activities including AD Group policies, user profiles incident resolution, Server management, patching, Encryption (RAS \ PGP). User training including process and associated documentation write-ups.

Server Engineer at Govt - Environment Agency
  • July 2012 to September 2012

IT Projects, Win 7 Desktop & Server side support (HP \DELL) commissioning servers remedial Patching, incident resolution, storage, data backup and disaster recovery. Also site migration activities, plus all the necessary functions of BAU i.e. applying apps and security patches. Mission critical server operations, accomplishing 1st -3rd line service request resolution. Strong client focus on incident resolution and have undertaken large scale Patching, racking & data migrations out of hours within high scale, high availability live production estate

Support Engineer at BBC World Service
  • January 2012 to June 2012
System Administrator at Office for National Statistics
  • United Kingdom
  • January 2010 to January 2012

Govt mission critical secure IT Data Migration activities 24*7, within a high scale, high availability data centre environment, copying and sending media via secure process, NT Domains, security updates and patch deployment Project implementation, Server builds, Infrastructure & Desktop support, Wintel administration, Active Directory (inc Exchange & Backup systems e.t.c.), DNS, DHCP, GPO`s, PC imaging, Windows 7 & XP, keeping Anti-Virus update on PC`s, Bespoke & COTS Application support, VPN, login scripts, Wi-fi, share permissions Basic disclosure approved and Security Cleared (SC)!!

Senior Technical Analyst at ITV Plc
  • January 2000 to January 2010

Largest independent production & television broadcaster within Europe.
Technical IT support of major offices including several data centres, plus many remote subsidiary customer office units. This included support of ITN, MUTV

Computer Tech. Support at Manchester City Council
  • June 1999 to July 1999
Network Support at SMA Systems
  • February 1998 to May 1999
I.T. Auditor at NatWest Bank
  • United Kingdom
  • July 1997 to December 1997

Education

High school or equivalent, Electronics
  • at University Of Central Lancashire
  • January 1990
High school or equivalent, Electronic\ Engineering
  • at Oldham College
  • January 1989

High school or equivalent,
  • at Kaskenmoor School
  • January 1985

English(1), Maths(1), Sociology(1), Biology(1), Chemistry (1)

High school or equivalent,
  • at Kaskenmoor School

Specialties & Skills

Active Directory
Firmware
COMPUTER HARDWARE
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
ANTI VIRUS
BUDGETING
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS

Languages

English
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