khaja Salahuddin Mohammed, Network & System Administrator

khaja Salahuddin Mohammed

Network & System Administrator

Electronia Ltd

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, Computer Networking Professional
Experience
14 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 4 Months

Network & System Administrator at Electronia Ltd
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • My current job since January 2013

 Configuring and managing the Cisco 2800 series router for WAN Fiber link from Mobily and Backup link from another provider for redundancy.
 Successfully installed the Cisco Load balancer to balance the 2 different WAN links and achieve maximum throughput with less overhead.
 Successfully designed and upgrade implementation of the network devices across all the buildings and preparing the technical documentation for the same.
 Configured the Cisco and ubiquity switches across the building and designed the fiber up links and tremendously improved the LAN connectivity.
 Experience in working with customizing the solar winds monitoring system to monitor and keep the bandwidth usage in check.
 Experience in Installing windows server 2008, managing server and the users. Creating policies and regular updates, managing AD, File Shares, Network Printers, NAS Storage devices.
 Successfully migrated from Watch Guard Firewall to Fortinet 300D as a part of infrastructure development. Administrating the Fortinet Firewall and creating policies and ACL’s.
 Responsible for managing and decision making for smooth and successful hosting the SATORP data center with over 25 network devices racks.
 Maintaining the UPS, DC Generators and Power requirements for the servers and switches under production with zero downtime for SATORP.
 Understanding the contract with SATORP and assisting finance in costing and billing.
 Working with the AAE (USA) to maintain the local network in Electronia’s head office and factory in Dammam 1st industrial and various schools.
 Designing and setting up over 50 wireless Access points and repeaters in office and schools.
 Configuring and creating the Email Accounts, Allocating the privileges, creating Users accounts on domain, setting up access privileges for local file shares.
 Fixing the issues pertaining the local LAN administration, PC’s, Laptops, Printers, Copier Machines, Wireless Access points, Local File Shares, Local Data bases.
 Installation, Troubleshooting and maintaining the EL SMART system for Access and Attendance system for the employees, Maintain the server for attendance.
 Installation and maintaining the cameras for whole premises and making sure all of them are on online.
 Configuration and troubleshooting the Grand stream IP Phones, maintain the PABX unit and EPYGI unit and making sure all the telephone lines in EPYGI unit to be working.
 Working closely with various ISP’s Mobily, ITC, STC and GO telecom in order to layout a zero downtime network.
 Setting up the TOEFL Examination Centre for Women in Al Khobar, working with ETS to get the required approvals, Insurance and Acceptance for hosting the TOEFL. Setting up the 20 PC’s in separate domain with required software’s, printers, Cameras and cache server for the examination.

Network & System Engineer at Mazen M Al-Saeed Holdin Co
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • December 2011 to December 2012

 Responsible for designing, implementing and troubleshooting LAN/WAN connection.
 Responsible for configuration & management of Cisco Routers 3600, 3700 using RIP, IGRP, EIGRP and OSPF.
 Responsible for configuration & management of Cisco catalyst switches 3560, 3750
 Troubleshooting network devices, creating users, roles, policies etc
 Configure and implement Remote Access Solution: VPN
 Help establish guidelines and standards for Change Procedures
 Network monitoring and Performance Management of all network devices.
 Experienced in data backup and recovery process
 Creating Users and Groups and assigning appropriate permissions.
 Ensuring that the network infrastructure is up and running.
 Network Assessment and Documentation (including technical, operational, and economic assessment)

IT Network Support Engineer at Ventura Outsourcing Experts limited
  • United Kingdom - Manchester
  • November 2009 to August 2011

• Identifying problems and Network connectivity issues in the LAN and WAN environments and troubleshooting it.
• Involved in the implementation of BGP Multi-homed environment.
• Implementation of TCP/IP & related Services-DHCP/DNS/WINS.
• To provide L2 support to Network Operations and team members.
• Analyzing and monitoring network performance using Concord tool.
• Experienced in Implementing Operating System, Versions, Patches and security patches
• Manage User accounts using Active Directory.
• Configuring different servers on windows 2008 platform.
• Troubleshooting and applying secure switch access policies on Catalyst 2950.
• Documenting the troubleshooting procedures for future references on portal.

Education

Master's degree, Computer Networking Professional
  • at Sheffield Hallam University
  • July 2009

Graduated from SHU in 2009 with Masters degree in computer networking with CCNA training and certification as a part of curriculum.

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and communication Engineering
  • at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
  • April 2007

Electronics and communication Engineering bachelor degree from JNTU in the year 2007 with 69%.

Specialties & Skills

Cisco Switches
LAN/WAN Troubleshooting
wireless Networking
Documentation
Switching
DECISION MAKING
ENGINEERING
Routing
Firewall
Wireless AP's and Controller
Managing Exchange Server 2007
IT Solution design

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
Zoom Technologies
Date Attended:
March 2009
Duration:
85 hours

Hobbies

  • Running
    State level champion in running