Muhammad Bilal, Systems administrator

Muhammad Bilal

Systems administrator

National University of Sciences & Technology

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, BSCS Software Engineering
Experience
8 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :8 years, 1 Months

Systems administrator at National University of Sciences & Technology
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • October 2015 to January 2018

Responsibilities
Managing physical data centers, virtual data centers, Microsoft servers and storage area networks,

Configuring, managing and maintaining following servers: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, VPN, Domain Controllers, ESXI’s, Red hat Enterprise Linux, vCenter, File Server, Print Servers, Windows Server Update Services, Linux Squid Server, Horton Works Data Platform Server, Kaspersky Antivirus Server, Windows Backup Server, VMware Data Protection, VMware Replication, Hyper-V Servers, vRealize Operations Manager, vSphere Update Manager, Free NAS, Open Filer, StarWind SAN servers, IPAM Server, Distributed Firewall Server, Linux Samba Server, Linux Wine Server, IIS Server, Web Servers, VMware Syslog and Dump Collector Server,

Supporting LAN, WAN, Internet and phone connectivity in various location and providing on-spot support to other locations

Managing Active Directory, end user accounts, permissions, access rights, upgradation of server software and storage allocations in accordance with best-practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance

Developing business continuity and disaster recovery plans while maintaining knowledge of concurrent executable plan and in the meanwhile, responding to crises in accordance with business continuity disaster recovery plans

Providing user support and conducting user software/hardware training to formulate technology solutions to ensure the effective safeguarding sharing of enterprise data

Evaluating software/hardware requests to research and recommend solutions for technology needs compatible with the client technology architecture and infrastructure resource constraints

Providing support for end users including initial training/education and ongoing desktop support including off-hours help desk service support for remote end-users

Anticipating, identifying and mitigating software/hardware problems on servers

Providing team leadership and technical guidance to less experienced system administrators

Systems administrator at ALLINONESOLUTION
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • January 2010 to October 2015

Professional Summary of 8+ Years
• Designed, Initiated, Implemented, Managed Private Cloud Infrastructure serving a whole city with more than 500, 000 users, 5, 000+ applications with 100 TB of SAN EMC Storage, provided 99% uptime, Configured High Availability, Load Balancing, Fault Tolerance, DR site and Live Migrations.
• Managed, Consulted (3) Enterprise Physical data centers, (5) Software Defined Data Centers, 3 Enterprise Microsoft infrastructures 10, 000+ Users and 3 Storage area networks (EMC, HP)
• Experienced, certified in working with Project Management, ITIL based processes and very well versed with the ITIL terminologies.
• Excellent on SAN (EMC VNX HP EVA / MSA) with understanding of SAN terminologies.
• Managed Hyper Visor Hyper-V, ESXI 5.x, 6.x, Citrix Xen, KVM.
• Profound Knowledge in Networking mainly TCP/IP, VPN, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP v2, BGP, GRE, STP, VTP, VLAN, VXLAN, PVLAN, NetFlow, HSRP, VRRP, GBLP, and switching protocols with Wireless technologies.
• Managed Multiple Platforms Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 R2, Server 16, Ubuntu, Red hat Linux, Fedora, Arch Linux, CentOS.
• Sound knowledge of Databases SQL, NoSQL, Relational databases and Data Modelling and analysis.
• Managed Help Desk Also Supported Layer 1, Layer 2, Layer3 LAN, WAN, Internet and phone connectivity in various location and providing on-spot support to other locations
• Managed Active Directory, end user accounts, permissions, access rights, upgradation of server software and storage allocations in accordance with best-practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance
• Designed, Planned, Initiated Disaster recovery sites (DR) while maintaining knowledge of concurrent executable plan and in the meanwhile, responded to crises in accordance with business continuity disaster recovery plans.
• Evaluated software/hardware requests to research and recommend solutions for technology needs compatible with the client technology architecture and infrastructure resource constraints.
• Trained, Educated, Mentored end users including initial training/education and ongoing desktop support including on/off-hours help desk service support for remote end-users
• Anticipated, identified and mitigated software/hardware problems on servers
• Strong enterprise business application like ERP / CRM design and development experience.

Education

Bachelor's degree, BSCS Software Engineering
  • at Federal Urdu University of Science and Technologies, Grade A
  • October 2015

Courses: Compiler construction Computer Graphics Computer Networks Distributed Database Managment System E-Commerce Multimedia Technologies Network Management OOP Operating System Oracle Developer Software Engineering Software Project Managment System Programming Web Programming.

Specialties & Skills

Windows Server Administration
Microsoft Servers
VMware Infrastructure
System Administration
System administration
Vmware System administration
Tam leader
Windows System administration
Manager
VMware Administrator

Languages

Urdu
Beginner
English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

SNIA Certified Storage Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2017
LPI Linux Essentials (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2016
ITIF Foundations (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2017
CompTIA Network+ (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2017
VMware Certified Associate 6 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2016
VMware Certified Professional 6 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2016
VMware Certified Advance Professional 6 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2017
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate Server Infrastructure 2016 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2017
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert Cloud Platform and Infrastructure 2016 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2017
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate 2012 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2016
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2016
Microsoft Office Specialist 2013 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2017
Microsoft Office Specialist 2016 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2017
Microsoft Office Specialist Expert (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
Microsoft Office Specialist Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
Valid Until:
December 2020
Microsoft Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2016
Valid Until:
June 2019
Microsoft Certified Trainer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2017
Valid Until:
October 2018

Hobbies

  • Web surfing
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