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Mohammed Asiry, IT Infrastructure Architect

Mohammed Asiry

IT Infrastructure Architect

IBM

Location
Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience
14 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 7 Months

IT Infrastructure Architect at IBM
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2016

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Main Roles and Responsibilities:
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• Concentrates on design of infrastructures including servers, storage,
backup, workstations, middleware, non-application software, networks,
and the physical facilities that support the applications and business
processes required by the client.
• Leading the development and implementation of technologies to
consistently manage endpoint devices at scale.
• Leading Change Management Advisory Board (CAB) meetings to
review all changes (Normal and Urgent) and align with all teams
changes.
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering O365 suite of applications.
• Develop self-service and auto-alerting methodologies to proactively
address end-user issues.
• Develop a set of key performance indicators that can be used to
evaluate and improve security posture of infrastructure.
• Build and maintain technical, procedural, contractual and supplier
documentations.
• Responsible for performance, availability and scalability of IT
infrastructure
• Ensure the Infrastructure services are running to optimum level.
• Adhere change Management of systems and services with minimal
disruption and maximum benefit to the business.
• Providing training and technical support for clients, users or coworkers
with varying levels of IT knowledge and competence.
• Handling primary responsibilities of infrastructure capacity assessment
and growth planning and new technologies.
• Build and maintain Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans
documentation.
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Projects:
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a. Redesign authorities of Superuser IDs accounts and enforce Password Policies as per Microsoft recommendations.
b. Patching Servers and workstations on monthly basis to address
vulnerabilities.
c. Hardening Access Control of Shared folders server, from
Discretionary Access Control (DAC) to Role-Based Access Control
Technology (RBAC).
d. Hardening Windows OS Images based on IBM VMS Vulnerabilities
Report.
e. Participate on project of migrate Microsoft on-premise services
include Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for business to Microsoft O365
cloud services.
f. Participate on merge project between multi infrastructures.

Senior System Engineer at SIPCHEM
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • January 2015 to August 2016

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Main Roles and Responsibilities:
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1. Datacenters Systems & Equipment.
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering Dell Compellent SAN
Storage Systems.
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering Dell PowerEdge M1000e
Blade Enclosure system and Dell PowerEdge Rack and Blade mounted
servers.
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering Veeam Backup &
Replication System.
• Install, Configure and Upgrade Microsoft SQL Servers 2012, 2014, 2017.
• Upgrade all Dell Storages and Servers with latest version of Firmware
and BIOS on quarterly basis.
• Install and Configure PowerEdge M-Series Blade Switches
• Build and maintain infrastructure IP Address spreadsheet contains IPs
with Host names.
• Build and maintain infrastructure licenses spreadsheet contains
Hardware and Software licenses details
• Build and maintain infrastructure OEM spreadsheet contains OEM
Support Contacts details.
• Build and maintain infrastructure Password spreadsheet contains
shared passwords.

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Projects:
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a. Build and Configure Dell OpenManage Enterprise system (OME),
which is a centralized hardware management system that
communicate with all Dell devices in infrastructure to provides a
comprehensive view and patch management.
b. Build and Configure Dell SupportAssist (SA)system, which is
integrate with Dell Support to provide automation, proactive and
predictive technology helps reduce troubleshooting steps and
accelerate time to resolution.
c. Build and Configure Emerson Liebert Nform Infrastructure
Monitoring System which is monitoring status of all datacenters
equipment (such as HVACs, UPSs, PDUs, Fire suspiration system and
leak detection system), and tracks alarms and other conditions,
then sends notifications and performs other management actions
based on those conditions.
d. Rebuild and configure virtual infrastructure from scratch using
VMware vCenter Appliance, ESXi Hypervisor, with best practices
and enabling many features such as High Availability, DRS, VUM,
EVC.
e. Build and configure Veeam Backup & Replication system with new
strategy, policies, and precautions.
2. Security Systems:
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering Kaspersky Security Anti-
Virus System.
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering Symantec Endpoint
Protection System.
• Create procedure document of dealing with infected machine and
how to remediate before rejoining it to the network.

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Projects:
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a. Build and Configure Kaspersky Security Centre System, which is
Anti-Virus system provide security protection. Including:
-Deploying endpoint on physical windows servers.
-Deploying Light Agent & Network Agent on Virtual windows
servers.
-Deploying Security Virtual Appliance (Scan Engine) on VMware
ESXi hypervisors.
b. Build and Configure Symantec Endpoint Protection system, which is
Anti-Virus system provide security protection for windows
workstations. Including: deploying Symantec Endpoint Protection
Agents on workstations.

System Engineer at ARASCO
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2013 to December 2014

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Main Roles and Responsibilities:
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1. EMC SAN Storage Systems
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering EMC VNX, CLARiiON SAN
Storages and EMC DataDomain Disk Arrays and EMC RecoverPoints
Replication Appliances.
• Redesigning Storages to minimize usage capacity.
• Perform Storages capacity plan for next three years.
2. EMC NetWorker Backup System
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering backup & clone jobs.
• Redesigning retention time policies for backup jobs.
• Restore failure server and restore specific files.
3. VMware vSphere Infrastructure
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering vCenter server, VMware
ESXi hypervisors,
• Covert physical servers to virtual servers.
• Create Server image templates to provisioning new servers.
• Design and configure Datastores, Recourse Pool to balance all
hardware resources.
• Update VMware Tools via vSphere update manager.
• Generate custom alarms and notifications.
4. HP BladeSystem c7000 Physical Servers
• Build HP Server from scratch starting with installing HP SmartStart tool
and configuration array controller then installing VMware ESXi
Hypervisor or Windows Server OS or Linux OS on it.
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering Blade Servers via HP iLO
(Remote console).
• Configure HP Virtual Connect Flex Fabric Module Switches.
• Build and maintain inventory documents for all equipment in
Datacentres contains (Rack Number, Device Name, Manufacture,
Version and Function).
• Build and maintain infrastructure spreadsheet contains (Servers
Name, IPs, Hosts, Type: Virtual or Physical, Manufacture, Application
Hosted, OS Version, Usage: production or non-production).

Technical Support Engineer at International System Engineering (ISE)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2010 to October 2013

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Main Roles and Responsibilities:
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1. CommVault SIMPANA Data Protection, Archive and Replication
Systems
• Design backup system polices.
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering backup jobs and
repositories on disks and on tapes.
• Restore missing data.
2. NetApp SAN Storage Systems
• Design and implement advanced features such as RAID5, RAID6, Thin
Provision, snapshot, deduplication, and compression.
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering HDDs, LUNs, Volumes and
Shared Folders.
• Upgrade OS of NetApp Storage (ONTAP).
• Integrate McAfee Virus Scan Engine with Storage to protect hosted
data.
• Design and Configure Brocade SAN switches and Zoning using high
availability practices.
3. Windows Workstations & Servers
• Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP, 7,
Servers 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012.
• Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows
Server Environment, including Domain Controller, Active Directory, DNS,
DHCP, Exchange 2003, Group Policies.
• Build and customize Microsoft Windows images from scratch with OS,
drivers and software of Desktops and Laptops.
4. Security Systems
• Hands on Blue Coat Proxies.
• Monitoring, maintaining and administering McAfee ePolicy
Orchestrator (ePO) centralized security management software.

Network Engineer at Baud Telecom Company (BTC) in Riyadh
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2009 to March 2010

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Main Roles and Responsibilities:
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• Monitoring, maintaining and administering computer networks.
• Performing backups for network data and configurations
• Protecting data, software, and hardware by coordinating, planning
and implementing network security measures.
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing and resolving hardware, software, and
other network and system problems.
• Replacing faulty network hardware components when required.
• Comprehensive understanding of the OSI network model, Ethernet,
and TCP/IP networking.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at King Saud University
  • September 2009

Education in King Saud University B.Sc. of Computer & Information Sciences, Computer Engineering (2003 - 2009) Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Graduation Project: Title: Processor Simulator (MIPS-32) Idea: Design a program accepts assembly commands as input. Then, run it as MIPS-32 processor and shows the result as output. The program was designed by C++ programming language as code and Visual Basic language as GUI. The program simulates MIPS-32 processor.

Specialties & Skills

Technical Support
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NetApp
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SAN
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Backup
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DNS
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Project Management
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Team Work
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Organizational skills
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Team Leadership
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Strong decision-making skills
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Emotional Intelligence
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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Excellent analytical and Problem-Solving skills
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Languages

Arabic
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English
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Training and Certifications

CompTIA Security+ Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2018
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) 2012 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2016
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) 2012 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2016
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) 2012 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2016
Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP®) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2014
CommVault Backup System Administrator Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2012
ITIL Foundation v3 Certified in IT Service Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Messaging on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (MCSA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2010
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2010
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) 2003 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2009
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) (Training)
Training Institute:
ABAD Institute, Riyadh
Date Attended:
September 2009
Duration:
40 hours
MCSE - Exam 70-284: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (Training)
Training Institute:
ABAD Institute, Riyadh
Date Attended:
January 2010
Duration:
40 hours
MCSE - Exam 70-298: Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network (Training)
Training Institute:
ABAD Institute, Riyadh
Date Attended:
January 2010
Duration:
24 hours
MCSE - Exam 70-297: Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 AD and Network Infrastructure (Training)
Training Institute:
ABAD Institute, Riyadh
Date Attended:
January 2010
Duration:
40 hours
MCSE - Exam 70-293: Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure (Training)
Training Institute:
ABAD Institute, Riyadh
Date Attended:
December 2009
Duration:
40 hours
MCSE - Exam 70-294: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 AD Infra (Training)
Training Institute:
ABAD Institute, Riyadh
Date Attended:
December 2009
Duration:
40 hours
MCSE - Exam 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network (Training)
Training Institute:
ABAD Institute, Riyadh
Date Attended:
November 2009
Duration:
40 hours
MCSE - Exam 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment (Training)
Training Institute:
ABAD Institute, Riyadh
Date Attended:
November 2009
Duration:
40 hours
Microsoft Office 2010 (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft Innovation Center, Riyadh
Date Attended:
January 2011
Duration:
16 hours
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Security (Training)
Training Institute:
ABAD Institute, Riyadh
Date Attended:
April 2011
Duration:
40 hours
NetApp Storage Administration (Data ONTAP-7 Mode) (Training)
Training Institute:
Fast Lane Computer Consultancy, Dubai
Date Attended:
May 2011
Duration:
40 hours
ITIL Foundation v3 in IT service Management (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons Computer Training Center, Riyadh
Date Attended:
August 2011
Duration:
24 hours
Understanding the Benefits of the Cisco unified computing system (Cisco UCS) (Training)
Training Institute:
Cisco Systems Main Office, Riyadh
Date Attended:
April 2012
Duration:
24 hours
Accelerated NetApp Certified Data Administrator Boot Camp (Data ONTAP-7 Mode) (Training)
Training Institute:
Fast Lane Computer Consultancy, Riyadh
Date Attended:
June 2012
Duration:
40 hours
Flexpod Test Drive for Technical Decision Makers (Training)
Training Institute:
Cisco Systems Main Office, Riyadh
Date Attended:
June 2012
Duration:
16 hours
CommVault System Administrator (Training)
Training Institute:
CommVault Training Center, Dubai
Date Attended:
July 2012
Duration:
24 hours
CommVault System Engineering & Support (Training)
Training Institute:
CommVault Training Center, Dubai
Date Attended:
July 2012
Duration:
16 hours
NetApp SAN Implementation (Training)
Training Institute:
Fast Lane Computer Consultancy, Riyadh
Date Attended:
October 2012
Duration:
16 hours
HP BladeSystem Administration: C-class (Training)
Training Institute:
Global Knowledge, Riyadh
Date Attended:
February 2013
Duration:
24 hours
Linux Mint System Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
KACST, Riyadh
Date Attended:
June 2013
Duration:
8 hours
VMware vSphere 5.5 Install, Configure & Manage (Training)
Training Institute:
Aptec Training Center, Dubai
Date Attended:
March 2014
Duration:
40 hours
Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP®) (Training)
Training Institute:
SMME, Dubai
Date Attended:
December 2014
Duration:
16 hours
Projects Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Vodafone International Services, Jubail
Date Attended:
December 2015
Duration:
40 hours
Team Work (Training)
Training Institute:
PROFESSIONALS for Human Resources Development, Jubail
Date Attended:
March 2016
Duration:
24 hours
Emotional Intelligence (Training)
Training Institute:
PROFESSIONALS for Human Resources Development, Jubail
Date Attended:
May 2016
Duration:
16 hours
Crisis Communication (Training)
Training Institute:
INSTINCTIF Partners, Jubail
Date Attended:
November 2017
Duration:
8 hours
Introduction to Amazon Web Services (Training)
Training Institute:
Trained by AWS Solution Architecture in Al Reem Hotel, Jubail
Date Attended:
December 2018
Duration:
8 hours

Hobbies

  • Reading, Going to GYM, Walking, Aircrafts Models
    I like reading books, going to GYM and taking a walk when I can. Also, I like aircraft kinds and models. That push me recently to flown the Boeing 737-800 as part of flight simulator experience and awarded a certificate from (iPILOT).