irshad kandoth, Senior System Administrator

irshad kandoth

Senior System Administrator

Huawei Technologies

Location
Kuwait
Education
Diploma, Electronics Engineering
Experience
18 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months

Senior System Administrator at Huawei Technologies
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since October 2012

 Work Close day-to-day assigned Service Catalogue and Incidents related to VIVA Microsoft Infrastructure & Private cloud as per agreed SLA
 Make sure all deliverables are compliance with SOP and ITIL
 Review active alert and prepare the action plans to close
 Identify root cause for repeated incidents and process the problem management
 Plan & deploy Security and roll up updates for OS, Databases and applications
 Review Security Penetration report and plan the Mitigation
 Maintain Exchange 2010 DAG environment Including Symantec Messaging gateway
 Administration of Symantec Enterprise Vault for Exchange and File System Archive
 Administration of HP Sitescope & HP Storage Essentials.
 Manage Hyper V Cluster and VMs
 Manage Domain controllers DNS, DHCP server, SQL cluster
 Maintain System Center product product
 Manage Symantec Protection Manager make sure Client are up to date & optimize policy as required
 Make sure all MS servers and databases are backed up timely fashion
 Plan virtualized systems infrastructure roll-outs and migrations.
 Create / Modify / Remove virtual machines using VCenter or Orchestrator.
 Demonstrate thought leadership in cloud computing and virtualization and their application
 Maintain current knowledge of the entire VMware vSphere-based product stack and Cloud concepts
 Knowledge of HP Storage Essential, Server Automation
 Review the alert sent by SCOM and HP open view and trouble shoot if it is legitimate by opening related TT
 Knowledge sharing among Team Members about new services and trouble shooting
 Providing regular feedback to the Infrastructure Manager on progress on key issues and provides recommendations on new enhancements that would improve the efficiency of the systems
 Proactively diagnose and document known and unknown issues to plan analysis and fix approved by change management as per severity.

System Administrator at International Turnkey System (ITS)
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • December 2011 to September 2012

Project Involved
Symantec Endpoint Protection manager Implementation
HP Service Manager Implementation
Enterprise Wireless Implementation
Citrix VDI & XENApp

Work and Close day-to-day assigned TT related to Operation Administration of VIVA Microsoft Infrastructure as per agreed SLA.
Prepare self healing document for various known issues share among team members
Manage day to day support of HP Service Manager for Modules such as CMDB, Interaction & Incident Management as per customer requirement
Administrating and managing Active Directory users, computers, Exchange server 2007 Recipients mailboxes and GPO
Configure & Trouble shoot issues related to Blackberry Enterprise service.
Responsible to Manage and administrate Symantec endpoint Management Server verify all the virus signature are up to date and distributing to the client
Proactively diagnose and trouble shoot various issues related to end user level at VIVA HQ, Branches and Call center as per severity

Asst. Customer Service Engineer at International Turnkey System (ITS)
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • July 2008 to October 2011

Responsible to Deploy Computer software on VIVA Green Field Project
Determine and diagnose various issue related to business application at end user side
Proactively trouble shoot unknown issues and document resolution for team members
Work and close daily task with high priority
Significant contribution in VIVA Go live

IT Specialist at Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Ltd
  • Kuwait
  • October 2005 to June 2008

IT Specialist October 2005 to Present
Doosan Heavy Engineering & Construction Ltd.
Life Extension for Distillers of Shuaiba South Power & Water Distillation Station Project.
Shuaiba Industrial Area, Kuwait.

Responsible for all IT resources
Managed more than 75 users network
Maintain all computers hardware and software both English and Korean version
Trouble shoot day to day problem in LAN and WAN
Determine errors on outlook, other office applications and solve immediately
Support and guide the users to work on Microsoft office and other applications
Maintain network resources including windows 2003 servers, Exchange Server printers and AD
Maintain file server, domain controllers and Cisco routers
Implement wireless network at various location in construction site.
Worked as document control, purchaser and IT specialist simultaneously to keep department work flow properly

Education

Diploma, Electronics Engineering
  • at Govt Polytechnic
  • June 2001
Diploma, CCNA
  • at IIHT
  • April 2001
Diploma, Computer Software & Hardware Installation
  • at BDPS LTD
  • November 1998
Diploma, Computer hardware Technology
  • at BDPS LTD
  • August 1998

Specialties & Skills

Performance Enhancement
Customer Value Management
Troubleshooting
Service Implementation
Technical Support
Network
• Symantec Messaging Gateway
• MS System center Configuration Manager
• MS SQL Server
VMware & HyperV Virtualisations
• Blackberry Enterprise Manager
Microsoft System Center Operation Manager
Active Directory
Exchange Server 2007/ 2010/2013/2016
Veritas Enterprise Vault Archiving

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

VMWare Vcenter Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
VMWARE
Date Attended:
June 2014
Duration:
80 hours
HP Server Autmation & orchestration (Training)
Training Institute:
Fingerprint (HP Partner)
Date Attended:
January 2014
MS Sql Server 2010 Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
Infocenter Kuwait
Date Attended:
March 2014