Khalid Aburrub

Administration at Servers

• Saudi Arabia
• My current job since August 2016

Technical lead at Institute of Public

• Saudi Arabia
• My current job since August 2016

for Server’s hardware, Storage, backup, administration supervision for SAN and NAS Storage Units, DELL EMC VNX, Pure Storage Flash Array in addition to a number of HPE, Cisco Blade servers, 10 DELL EMC HCI VxRail Clusters, all listed are distributed in datacenters of IPA Main Site and branches including DR Site.
•supervision of storage system administration duties including capacity planning and performance tuning of server systems, SAN Storage Architecture, recommending and specifying hardware for internal operations.
•Upgrade needed firmware and follow-up hardware vendors and security advisory.
•backup system administration that is maintain VERITAS NetBackup system, a number of 7 NetBackup server appliances distributed on main site and branches including DR Site handing Auto image replication process, troubleshooting of backup and restore process on both Windows and Linux servers with varied configurations, such as file system, VMware Backup, SAN Backup, SQL Server, Exchange, etc.
•implementing and maintaining VMware and HPE Blade infrastructure, Cisco UCS based infrastructure
•Maintain and administer warranties, licenses and service contracts.
•Plan for departmental wide, hardware and software upgrades and oversee the licenses. Install, troubleshoot.
Servers, Storage and backup

Systems Administrator at Jordan University (JU)

• Jordan
• December 2007 to August 2012

Install, upgrade for number of more than 50 servers, including Microsoft domain services (active directory, DHCP, DNS) servers, Microsoft Exchange server, file, print, Antivirus Management, virtual environment Hyper -V.
•Manage and administrate SAN storages (HP) and different types of servers’ hardware (Blade and Rack) from different vendors (IBM, HP, Dell, Fujitsu, and old servers like Compaq, Micron) more on HP c7000 Enclosures.
•Ensure the latest patches and O/S upgrades according to the standards instructions to ensure minimum interruptions and failures and maximum business continuity.
•Maintain and administer warranties, licenses and service contracts.
•Plan for departmental wide, hardware and software upgrades and oversee the licenses. Install, troubleshoot.
•Support Servers Hardware and all operating systems, including, UNIX/Linux, and Windows platforms. Advise all graduate students regarding potential projects related to technology.

Technical Support Engineer at Jordan University

• Jordan
• October 2003 to December 2007

as computer lab supervision assisting and coaching students in lab to use and learn Microsoft office, VB, C++ programming, Mat lab, Java Programming (all related software faculty courses).
•Leading Pc support Process (Software and hardware) for staff PC’s (Helpdesk).
•Assisting in Administrating Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, and network devices.
•Staff training and support.
•Master degree in Computer Information systems Achieved



Benefits to JU during last work:
•I saved thousands of dollars and increase reliability by migrating legacy Hardware systems to a highly available virtual environment (using Clustered Hyper-V 2008 R2).
•I saved thousands of dollars by deploying Print Management applications for students’ Labs and maintain its database dealing with data analysis.
•Introduce a technical study to the University domain Environment and clarify points of failures and weakness points then discuses solutions with Decision makers and deploy the most effective changes
Benefits to JU during last work:
•I saved thousands of dollars and increase reliability by migrating legacy Hardware systems to a highly available virtual environment (using Clustered Hyper-V 2008 R2).
•I saved thousands of dollars by deploying Print Management applications for students’ Labs and maintain its database dealing with data analysis.
•Introduce a technical study to the University domain Environment and clarify points of failures and weakness points then discuses solutions with Decision makers and deploy the most effective changes

TRAINING COURSES AND WORKSHOPS:
•Data Center Essentials: General Introduction (Udemy) March 2022.
•Fiber Channel Fundamentals (FC-120) Brocade Education March 2022.