Mohamad Ali Bashalal, IT System Engineer

Mohamad Ali Bashalal

IT System Engineer

ADCB Bank

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
Experience
13 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 4 Months

IT System Engineer at ADCB Bank
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since May 2022

 Migrated Active Directory 2012 R2 to 2019.
 Managing DNS and DHCP services.
 Troubleshooting Windows Servers 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2, 2016 & 2019.
 Troubleshooting on issues such as Active Directory Replication between Domain Controllers, Windows Time Sync, FRS, DFRS, Tombstone, USN rollback, FSMO roles transfer and seizes, and Metadata cleanup of Domain Controllers.
 Troubleshooting Server Performance issues such as Server hanging, Disk, High CPU, High Memory utilization, unexpected reboot, and unexpected reboot with Bug check using Win DBG tool.
 Experience in monitoring Server performance using Monitoring tools (Perfmon tool).
 Managing and Deploying Patches of more than 4000 plus for Windows Servers and 3000 plus for Windows Desktops through the SCCM console.
 Deploying patches through SCCM such as Monthly Patches, Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Adobe Reader.
 Managing Inventory reports of Software and Hardware.
 Deploying patches to more than 1000 Servers through the Ivanti Patch Management tool.
 Monitoring Domain Controllers, Exchange Servers, and other application servers through SCCM.
 Deployed patches of more than 65000 Servers through the RMM agent tool in the previous organization.
 Troubleshooting Windows OS and performance-related issues.
 Migrated from Exchange Server 2016 to Exchange Online (Hybrid)
 Migrated approximately 8000 mailboxes from Exchange Server 2016 to Exchange Online.
 Managing Exchange 2016 and Hybrid Environment.
 Troubleshooting Mail flow and freeing busy issues.
 Troubleshooting on issues such as Database Dismount, Mail flow, Autodiscover, and ActiveSync.
 Managing and Assigning Licenses: E1, E3 and E5.
 Performing Content Searches and E-discovery searches.
 Deploying and troubleshooting issues related to Office 365, Exchange Online, Azure Active Directory & Teams.
 Deployment of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC & Custom Domain in O365 Tenant.
 Bulk mail filtering and international spam filtering.
 Setup Multi-Factor Authentication.
 Managing Teams: Creating Channels, Meeting Link, and assigning permission.
 Managing One Drive.
 Managing MDM and MAM.
 Deploying applications in Intune.
 Creating Device Compliance Policy.
 Deployed Google Chrome through Intune.
 Enrolled Windows devices in Intune.
 Configuring Conditional access policies in Azure AD.
 Managing Users in Azure AD.
 Troubleshooting on Enterprise Vault issues.
 Management & Submission of false positive & false negative.
 Administration of VMware ESXi Host server version 6.7 & 7.0 and vCenter server.
 Managing VMware Infrastructure with around 150+ ESX hosts and 1500+ Virtual Machines.
 Installing & configuring ESXi server and vCenter server.
 Installation & configuration of VMs in a SAN & NAS environment.
 Creating LUNs and mapping to the VMFS data store in vCenter.
 Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS), and Distributed Power Management (DPM) for VMs.
 Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migration, and Hot migrations.
 Logging a case with a Hardware vendor.
 Managing Azure Subscription.
 Monitoring Azure Resources through Azure monitoring tools.

NOC System Administrator L3 at Continuum Managed Services
  • India - Mumbai
  • January 2011 to May 2022

 NOC Support Engineer L3 (Windows Active Directory, Exchange Servers, DNS, DHCP).
 Remotely Support US & UK clients for Different Versions of Windows AD, and Exchange Servers.
 Monitoring Windows remotely using SAAZ remote console, LMI, or VNC.
 Handling technical support calls of Exchange Servers: 2003/2007/2010/2013/2016/2019 and O365.
 Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010/2013/2016 Messaging Environment.
 Managing user mailboxes and configuration as per user’s requirement.
 Handling escalated cases from L2 support engineers for Exchange Servers, Office 365, Azure AD Connect & Active Directory.
 Installation and upgradation of Exchange Servers: 2013, 2016 & 2019.
 Troubleshooting of Exchange Database issues like, Database Dismount, Database Size Limit, Defragmentation, and Hard Repair (Eseutil).
 Troubleshooting of Mail flow issues like Queues, Internal, Inbound and outbound.
 Troubleshooting Client connectivity issues like ActiveSync, Autodiscover, and Outlook Anywhere.
 Creating and Managing Database Availability Group (DAG) in Exchange 2010, 2013 & 2016.
 Configured Cluster of Exchange Server 2007 (LCR, CCR, and SCR).
 Created Disaster Recovery of Exchange Database Mailboxes, Recovery Storage Group, and Dial Tone Recovery.
 Enabling and configuring Spam filtering for Exchange Servers.
 Upgrading Exchange Servers Rollup, Service Pack, and Cumulative Update.
 Handling end-user calls for Outlook issues.
 Troubleshooting issues related to the public folder.
 Installation and Renewal of Exchange certificate (Self-Signed, CA-Signed, and Third-party).
 Decommission of Exchange Servers.
 Transition from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2010 to 2016.
 Worked on Cutover Migration Method. Migrated 90 mailboxes to M365.
 Managing O365 with GUI console and PowerShell.
 Message tracking from O365.
 Assigning License to user’s mailbox.
 Troubleshooting issues related to the User’s Calendar.
 Creating PST backup for user mailboxes from the O365 portal. Installation and configuring of Azure AD Connect.
 Troubleshooting of Directory synchronization environment with O365 (Dir sync, AAD sync, and AAD Connect).
 Troubleshoot issues with Soft Match and Hard Match.
 Troubleshooting of Exchange Online-related issues.
 Installation of Active Directory (2003, 2008, 2012 & 2016).
 Troubleshooting of Domain Controller’s issues like, AD Replication, DNS, DHCP, Time, removing failed DC (Metadata Cleanup), Promote / Demote DC.
 FSMO roles transfer/seize on Domain Controllers.
 Troubleshooting of AD Replication issues, USN Rollback, DNS Connectivity, Tombstone and Lingering object, AD Backup - Restoration of Authoritative and Non-Authoritative.
 Troubleshooting of AD issues like replication, Time sync, FRS and DFSR.
 Transition of AD from 2008 R2 to 2016.
 Troubleshooting Emergency / Critical events of Windows Operating Systems.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Bharatiya Shiksha Parishad
  • July 2009

First-years = 64.75 Second-year = 63.50 Final-year = 66.00

Specialties & Skills

Windows Azure
Firewall Administration
Networking Concepts
Exchange Server
Windows Server
Enterprise Vault
Exchange Server
Exchange Online
Active Directory
Office 365

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English
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Marathi
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Tamil
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  • Cricket