Mehdi Akbari, General Manager

Mehdi Akbari

General Manager

Zagross ICT

Location
Kuwait
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience
25 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 3 Months

General Manager at Zagross ICT
  • Iran
  • My current job since September 2016

- Development of company's strategies in conjuction with the board.
- Management and monitoring the company's business risks.
- Maintaining company’s standards and policies.
- Directing employees to conduct their activities in the optimized way.
- Continues coordination with foriegn partners, local customers, and company crew for the optimum support

Senior IT Engineer / Head of IT dep. at Alwatan TV
  • Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
  • August 2007 to September 2016

- Maintaining office systems including Intel based Macintosh and PCs.
- Maintaining network infrastructure including cabling and configuration of cisco switches/routers
- Support network issues based on ActiveDirectory (Windows) and OpenDirectory (Macintosh)
- Support Norcom NCpower News Automation solutions
- Support CG systems based on Bluetech Inscriber and Beehive Wasp solutions
- Support of traffic systems based on SI-Media solutions
- Support of weather forecasting systems based on WeatherCentral solutions
- Maintenance of Finance and News databases based on MSSQL
- Maintenance of FCP macpro systems handling HD media
- Administration of macos systems and Apple xSan
- Managing CiscoUnity/CallManager
- Maintaining network Firewall by SmoothWall
- Maintaining EXACT MIS solution (Finance/CRM/ERP)
- Managing Samsung Security Camera Recording DVRs
- Managing Honeywell access control security system

Administrator / Manager at Alalam News Channel
  • Iran
  • April 2003 to April 2007

- ANIS news automation solution (supporting servers and clients)
- Incite NLE solutions ( maintenance and troubleshooting)
- IBM compatible SAN ( administration of DataDirect SAN, media controllers and clients )
- Office PCs ( maintenance )
- Database servers based on MSSQL & MySQL ( maintenance )
- Networking Services ( FTP, Web, Mail, Live streaming, Firewall, ... )
- Managing Broadcast IT department consisting personnels in variety of responsibilities:
(ingest operation, playout support, helpdesk technicians, network engineers, web developers, …)
- Maintain and deal with contractors to design, develop, implement and manage service operation.

Head of maintenance section in IT department at IRIB
  • Iran
  • November 1998 to February 2004

- Head of Windows helpdesk technicians
- Maintenance and support broadcasting servers ( Hardware & Software)
- Repairing & Upgrading Intel based systems ( Workstation & Servers)
- Technical evaluation and consultation to purchase department
- Service training on basic computer skills and ICDL key points to company staffs.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Azad Islamic University Of Tehran
  • December 1999

Specialties & Skills

Information Management
IT Infrastructure
Access Systems
System Administration
Apple Macintosh
Networking
Hardware Repairing
Non Liner Editing
IP Phone
System Administration
Camera Security Systems
Network Security ( Firewall / IDS / IPS )
Swift Card Access Control Systems
News Automation and related Systems
SAN Administration
Budgeting, CRM and ERP

Languages

English
Intermediate
Arabic
Intermediate
Persian
Expert

Training and Certifications

Cisco CCENT (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 2017
Cisco CCNA Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Valid Until:
January 2017