Irfan Ali Siddiqui, Senior System Administrator - Team Lead

Irfan Ali Siddiqui

Senior System Administrator - Team Lead

Department of eGoverment

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Telecommunications
Experience
20 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 7 Months

Senior System Administrator - Team Lead at Department of eGoverment
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2017

I am working in systems department. Responsible for managing Microsoft infrastructure and other security solutions. Looking after Tier-3 level support and operations for the organization.
Major products:
Active Directory
Exchange
Symantec Security Products
Sharepoint
ITSM Solution
Veritas Enterprise Vault (Archive Solution)
Patch Management
Web Servers
Microsoft CA

System Administrator at Gulfwarehousing Company (Agility Logistics)
  • Qatar - Doha
  • August 2012 to March 2017

I am working as Microsoft specialist.
I have deployed complete infrastructure of Exchange 2010 with high availability.
Migration of exchange from 2007 to 2010 with cross forest trust.
Managing the operations of Sharepoint and Lync.
Administration and operations of Active Directory
Symantec Backup Exec deployment and integration with Exchange, SQL
Deployment of Hyper-V host cluster with high availability
Forefront TMG for publishing for services over the internet

Assistant Manager I.T (Enterprise IT Infrastructure Planning) at Ufone
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • July 2011 to June 2012

 Project deployment ownership from start to end from the technical perspectives; coordination with stakeholders for efficient deployment and effective issue resolution
 To ensure the quality of the projects execution with on time & quality delivery and documenting the project activities for operational & future use
 Thorough evaluation of new technologies, organizing the PoCs and in-house deployments for production environment

Team Lead System Operations, Senior Executive IT at Etisalat, Pak Telecom Mobile Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • August 2008 to May 2011

Responsible for system operations 24 x 7 to facilitate ends-user requests through IT support for North region (users, groups, mailing list creations, addition, modification) (security groups rights access/revoke) (internet access provisioning)
Active directory administration
DHCP and DNS administration
Exchange administration and backups
RSA Tokens and appliacnes monitoring and administration
Mcafee DLP and AV administration
ADRMS deployment and configuration
SQL Cluster deployment
EMC Source1 administration and maintainance
VMware ESX deployment and maintainance
System Center VMM deployment and administration
System DPM deployment and administration

Team Lead Help Desk Support at Pak Telecom Mobile Ltd
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • May 2006 to July 2008

Managing helpdesk & support issues at Head Office for all internal customers 24 x 7, video & audio conference calls for all regions.
Responsible for all IT infrastructure installed at Head Office for their smooth running (UPS, Network link, Power DBs, Video conference equipment, PCs, Printers), keeping the inventory of all IT equipment installed and using in HO.
Creating and managing rosters for ICTS members and assigning duties to all North ICTS team members.
Making preventive maintenance and data backups of their laptops of senior management (GM, VP & CEO) on quarterly basis, disaster recoveries of lost data.
Managing Antivirus Servers for North region and upgradtion of their patches and updates on regular basis.

Senior System Support Executive at International Office Products Pvt. Ltd
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • July 2003 to April 2006

Responsible for IBM laptop and IBM servers hardware deployment and warranty claims

Education

Master's degree, Telecommunications
  • at University of Management and Technology
  • June 2006

MSc Telecommunication 2 years degree GPA: 3.32 / 4

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU, Islamabad)
  • March 2003

Computer Sciennces (3 years study) 63 % Marks, Grade = B.

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Exchange Server
System Center
Microsoft Technologies
Active Directory
Windows Server 2008
EMC Source1
HMC 4.0
Hyper-V
Microsoft Network Policy Server
Windows 2003
Microsoft Threat Management Gateway
Windows ADRMS
Exchange 2010
Microsoft PKI Infrastructure
SQL Server
RSA Authentication Manager
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
Windows Cluster
System Center Operation Manager 2007
Active Directory
Windows 2008 R2
MCTS 70-640
MCTS Exchange 2010

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

MCTS Exchange 2010 - 70-662 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2012
Valid Until:
October 2012
MCTS Active Directory 2008 - 70-640 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2011
Valid Until:
May 2011