Mohsin Ali Mirza, System Engineer

Mohsin Ali Mirza

System Engineer

Dawn Media group

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Master's degree, MCS(Networks)
Experience
17 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 11 Months

System Engineer at Dawn Media group
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since July 2008

Configuration of IBM DS4700, Storwize V3700 & Brocade SAN Switches.
Implementing, deployment and management of Systems Infrastructure based on:
1. MS Windows 2008 R2 and 2003 server based AD.
2. Email Server Mail Enable.
3. Enterprise Backup and Storage based on IBM Tivoli and Symantec backup Exec
4. ISA/TMG Proxy Server for Internet access and web content filtering and Desktop Services.
5. Fortinet Firewall.
6. MS Hyper-V Server 2008 as a platform for Virtualization Environment for Server consolidation project.

Ensuring availability of System services including AD, Messaging Service, Internet access, File Servers, Enterprise wide and other Business critical applications.
Ensuring complete desktop security by implementing and managing Antivirus, Antispam and Security system in head office and branches to provide risk free environment in which resource can be shared safely across network.
Coordinate and facilitate other departments over the upcoming or ongoing IT related projects. Assess the hardware and software requirement for procurement.Group policy management.
Dell, IBM &HP server management with their management tools and applications.

Systems Support Executive at Dawn Media Group
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • July 2006 to June 2008

Providing excellent day-to-day support of a Windows environment, 500 users.
Provided technical support to telephone and email requests from users for all PC hardware, software and associated peripherals.
Install and configure operating systems to agreed standards.
Maintaining the PCs and peripherals to standards by performing upgrades, new installations and carrying out routine procedures.
Helped staff & clients in routine work like email, MS office & other trusted applications.
Troubleshooting systems & network problems and diagnosing and solving hardware/software faults.
Assist in the compilation and maintenance of an accurate inventory of hardware and software.
Review entire infrastructure to identify single point of failures and provide recommendation to enable redundancy using system assessment tools
Develop and maintain active and progressive working relationships with all staff members & client Installation and configuration of Email Clients (Outlook express and MS outlook)
Installation of Operating systems and users data backup and restoration.
Using various tools to for patch management like Auto patches and WSUS.
Creating users and attribute management of users on Active directory.
Pre-press software support.

Education

Master's degree, MCS(Networks)
  • at Institute of Business and technology
  • July 2011

Institute of Business and technology-- Biztek Karachi MCS

Specialties & Skills

Symantec Endpoint Protection
VMware Server
Hyper V
IBM Storage
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Managing and Configuring knowledge in DOMAIN Controllers
IT Service Management: ManageEngine.
Operating Systems: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server
Strong knowledge in the service management process.
Installation, configuration of Wndows clients like Windows Xp, 7 and 8. - Installation, configurati
Backup products: IBM TSM,Symantec Backup Exec
Storage Products: IBM Tivoli, SAN
Installing, Creating and configuring knowledge of Virtual Machines by using Hyper V and VMWare
Managing and Configuring knowledge in DHCP, DNS, DFS, RIS, IIS, in Windows Server 2003 and 2008 R2
Virtualization Technologies: VMware vSphere 5, Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2.

Languages

Urdu
Expert
English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

MCSA: Office 365 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
MCSA 2012 (Training)
Training Institute:
CTTC karachi
Date Attended:
March 2013
Duration:
16 hours
Adobe Indesign and Quark Xpress Suppport (Training)
Training Institute:
Arena Multimedia
Date Attended:
January 2014
Duration:
10 hours

Hobbies

  • blogging, cricket and internet surfing plus book reading