james samuel, Senior Systems & Network Engineer

james samuel

Senior Systems & Network Engineer

confidential company

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Application
Experience
21 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 2 Months

Senior Systems & Network Engineer at confidential company
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2011 to April 2019

CORE COMPETENCIES & PROFESSIONAL SKILLS SUMMARY
Hands-on experiences in IT Infrastructure Manage, Operation, Design, Documentation Implementation, Administration & Support following ICT technologies.

On-Premises & Cloud IT Infrastructure | COMPUTE | SERVER | STORAGE | VIRTUALIZATION | BACKUP & DR | CI & HCI | Data center Manage | Microsoft servers and System Center Family | VMWARE | NETWORK (Routing & Switching, Security, Wireless ), IT Service delivery (ITIL&ITSM Standards & Best Practices)

• Cloud: Microsoft Azure, Azure AD, Office 365, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, DRaaS, private cloud, public cloud and hybrid cloud, Backup on cloud, Cloud Security, DR on cloud
• Server Virtualization: VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V
• Desktop and application Virtualization: VMware Horizon View
• Mail Server: ON Premise Microsoft Exchange and Exchange Online
• Office 365 Suite : Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint, Skype, Teams, Yammer.
• Windows Servers: Good experience Since the days of windows NT to windows 2019
• Migration : Active Directory including cross forest migration, Exchange, O365
• Physical Servers: DELL and HP ProLiant: ML, DL & HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures, HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge 2800, 2950, 1800, R720, R730, M1000e Blade Enclosure
• Converged and Hyper- Converged Infrastructure: Vmware VSAN, Dell, HPE, Nutatix
• IT Infrastructure Server management : HPE One view, Dell Open Manage
• Storage (SAN/NAS): HPE 3PAR, HPE MSA, Dell Compellent, PowerVault, EqualLogic, QNAP, Buffalo, Synology etc
• FC Switch : Brocade Fabric, Cisco MDS
• Backup : Veritas Backup, Azure Cloud Backup, Veeam, SCDPM, Nova, Acronis
• Backup Tape Library: Dell PowerVault, HP StorageWorks, Quantum Scalar
• Enterprise Antivirus: Symantec / Veritas, Trend Micro, Kaspersky etc.
• DR Solution : DR on cloud, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Storage level Replication
• Server OS: Windows all models, Linux Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE
• Database : Oracle and MS SQL
• Clint OS : From windows 3.1 to windows 10 and Linux family .
• Mail Security : GFI, Symantec
• High availability, cluster: SQL, Exchange, AD, ESXi
• ITIL(Ticketing) Tools : Manage Engine Service Desk Plus, IT360
• Administration IT Infrastructure :IT360, Based On ITIL, ITSM standards
• Monitoring and Manage: SCOM, Manage Engine Products, PRTG, Solar Winds.
• Enterprise network : Routing and Switching, Cisco, Motorola, HPE, Dell
• Enterprise Wireless Networking: Motorola, Cisco, Sonicwall,
• Security : Cloud security: Fortinet, Cisco ASA, Sonicwall, cyberoam, Motorola.TMG,
• Enterprise Data center solution : Environmental monitoring, Safety & Security
• IT service operation management: ITIL/ITSM frameworks and ISO Process.
• Project & Vendor management :Based on PMP, ITSM, ITIL standard

Senior Systems Engineer at Musc
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2008 to February 2011

Executed various Enterprise Wireless Networking projects and other technologies projects within the time-frame and quality.
•Study, Design, support and Presales activities on Enterprise WLAN and Networking .
•Analyzing, Designing, customer requirements, provide proper recommendations and solution preparing the High-Level and Low level Design and prepare BOM based on the RFP/ customer requirements.

Support Engineer at Al-Medina Dev & Supply
  • Oman
  • July 2007 to December 2008

Executed various IT infrastructure projects within the time-frame and quality.
•Design and implement external client infrastructure projects, analyzing the client requirements and suggesting the feasible solutions for them and ensuring the client’s requirements.

Sr. Support Engineer at Citytec
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2006 to June 2007
Support Engineer at Schlumberger
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2003 to December 2005

Executed various IT infrastructure projects within the time-frame and quality.

Network Administrator at Time Technologies PVT LTD
  • India
  • January 1998 to March 2003

Responsible for the maintenance of the datacenters, network infrastructure, servers and services.
•On a day-to-day basis maintaining healthy network infrastructure of networks, servers and services and Supporting schlumberger end users .

Education

Bachelor's degree, Application
  • at William Carey UniversityIndian
  • January 2009

Computer

High school or equivalent, Application
  • at William Carey UniversityIndian
  • January 2009

Computer

Master's degree, Application
  • at William Carey UniversityIndian
  • January 2009

Computer

Bachelor's degree, Computer Application
  • at LBS (Government of keral
  • January 1999

courses: VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV) Obtained 2016 MCSE 2012 (Microsoft Certified System Engineer) Obtained 2016 ITIL V3 certified (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Obtained 2016 Dell PowerEdge Server Technical Obtained 2015 Dell Networking OS 9 Obtained 2015 Dell Storage Certified Obtained 2015 Cisco Certified Network Professional(CCNP)From Cisco Systems , Renewed 2010 Cisco Certified Network Associate(CCNA Routing and Switching ) Renewed 2008 Cisco Certified Network Associate(CCNA) From Cisco Systems Obtained 2002 MCP-Windows NT Track (Microsoft certified professional) Obtained 1999 MCSE NT-4 Track (Microsoft Certified System Engineer) Obtained 1999 MCSE 2000 Accelerated (Microsoft Certified System Engineer) Obtained 2000 MCSE 2003 Accelerated(Microsoft Certified System Engineer) Obtained 2007 Sonicwall Network Security Essentials Administrator Obtained 2011 TECHNICAL

Bachelor's degree, Economics and Literature
  • at Kerala University
  • January 1995

Specialties & Skills

CUSTOMER RELATIONS
FRAMING
NETWORKING
QUALITY
SERVERS
A+ CERTIFIED
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
ANTI VIRUS

Languages

Arabic
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English
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Hindi
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