Muhammad Shahbaz, Microsoft & VMWare Support Engineer

Muhammad Shahbaz

Microsoft & VMWare Support Engineer

Diyar United Company

Location
Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Sciences
Experience
20 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 9 Months

Microsoft & VMWare Support Engineer at Diyar United Company
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since March 2011

Kuwait Petrolium Company ( Diyar Project)
www.kpc.com.kw
2014- PRESENT
Infrastructure:
o HP Blade Servers
o Sun Servers
o VMware 5.1 (Vcenters, More than 200 Machine as a VM)
o Citrix Servers
o Windows 2012 Servers
o Windows 2008 R2 Servers
o Exchange 2010
o Comvoult (Simpana Backup Solution)
o Trend Micro Deep Security For VMware Trend office Scan
o Netscaler Load balancer
o Kemp Load Balancer

Systems Administrator (2014 to present)
Hired as a full time systems administrator provide windows 2003, 2008, 2012 Servers administration including Exchange Server 2010, DHCP, all othere Services.
Major role to deploye VMware esxi 5.1 including 15 Physical host & more than 200 VMs.
Responsibel of the backup administration comvoult simpana. Administration of Trend Micro Deep Security, Trend Micro Office Scan.
Administration of NetApp Storage creating LUNs & ISCi for Vmware. Mangement of Data Store vmware environment.

Oil Sector Services Company (Diyar Outsourcing Project)
www.osssc.com.kw
Systems/Network Administrator (20011 to 2014)
Infrastructure
o Dell Power Edge & HP Prolient Servers
o VMWare Esxi 5.1 including Vcenters
o Domain Controllers, DHCP, DNS, IIS Services
o Exhanch Server 2010
o Watch Guard & Bright Mail
o Symantec Netbackup 7.5
o EMC SAN Storage
o Cisco Network Switch 3560 Edge Switches
o Cisco 4500 Series Core Switches
o Cisco Firewall 5520 & FireEye, Source Fire, Symantec WebGate Way as a proxy Server.
System & Network Administrator
Work at Oil Sector Services Companies as Network & System Administrator includeing the NOC role. Responsible of the All Windows Servers, Domain Controllers, DHCP, IIS, DNS. Upgrade Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 with more than 2000 mailbox users. Deployment of VMWare Esxi 5.1 with more than 100 VMs. Deployment of Symantec End Point Protection.

Responsible for Network Devices, configuration and deployment of new network switches, management of VLAN, make sure the connectivity, monitoring of the infrasture.
Key Contributions:
Evaluated and reconfigured company’s VMware/Windows Server including Exchange 2010/Implementation and administration of Symantec Netbackup 7.1 with deduplication.
 Researched, recommended and implemented network enhancements that improved system reliability and performance.
 Revamped NetBackup schedule and upgraded 45 windows servers. Optimized system availability (averaging 97.9% uptime) and equipped company with scalable systems to support fast business growth.
 Trained employees across multiple departments on network operations including log-in procedures, network management software, permissions, printing issues, security and use of software.

Country Network & Server Management at The Sultan Center
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • June 2009 to October 2010

Work as a Country Network & System Admin. Responsibility was manage all the windwos server including Exchange Server 2003 with cluster services, DHCP, DNS and Active directory Services. Monitoring of the Data Link within the country & Lebnon, Jordon and Oman. Implementation of Hyper V windows Server 2008 R2.
Monitoring and management of Network Connectivty on microwave around more than 15 Service Stores.

Windows Servers
o DHCP, DNS, Domain Controllers
o Exchange Server 2003
o Hyper V 2008 R2
o NCR Retail Softwares
o All Retail Stores are Connected to Wireless Microwave and through data link.
o San Storage
o Cisco Network Switches

Officer System & Network Support at HKB
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • April 2007 to June 2009

Maintenance of Wireless WAN between remote sites and internal networking.
 IBM eSeries server’s maintenance and servicing.
 Maintenance of proxy server--MS ISA server 2006.
 Management of Mdaemon Mail Server.
 Maintenance of Active Directory services.
 Management of VPN server using PIX firewall.
 Maintenance of Cisco routers, switches and high end servers.
 Online and offline backup/restoration policies and procedures.
 ACCPAC with Oracle and Retail Pro server maintenance
 Installation, configuration and maintenance of Windows System Update services.
 Maintenance of Norton Antivirus Corporate server.
 Backup/restoration through Symantec VERITAS 11d using HP Ultrium-2 tape drive

IT Associate System Support at Lahore University of Management & Sciences
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • June 2003 to April 2007

Maintenance of networking and technical facilities in university campus consisting of about 1000+ network devices with wired and wireless connectivity.
 Servicing and maintenance of HP Prolaint DL 380 G5 servers.
 Maintenance of proxy server--MS ISA server 2kx.
 Monitoring network performance using commview etc.
 Installed, configured and managed of Sendmail as MTA with Cyrus IMAP.
 Setup of web mail using squirrelmail and Horde.
 Management of print server i.e. PMP and PCounter.
 Installed, configured and managed Active Directory, DHCP and DNS servers.
 Maintenance of Juniper Net Screen firewall.
 Maintenance of Cisco routers, switches and high end servers.
 Backup/restoration through ARCserve using HP Ultrium auto loader tape drive.
 Installed, configured and maintain Windows System Update services.
 Maintenance of Mcafee Antivirus and Norton Antivirus Corporate server.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Sciences
  • at New Ports Institute of Communication & Economics
  • November 2005

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Windows
CCNA Certified
Exchange Server
ITIL V3 Foundation
MCIPT 2008
 Enterprise Messaging Administrator on Exchange 2010
 Microsoft Certified IT Professional

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

VMWare Vcloud (Training)
Training Institute:
VMWare
Date Attended:
October 2014
Duration:
36 hours
VMWare Data Center (Training)
Training Institute:
VMWare
Date Attended:
September 2014
Duration:
36 hours
VMWare VDI (Training)
Training Institute:
VMWare
Date Attended:
September 2014
Duration:
36 hours
Exchange 2013 (Training)
Training Institute:
Site Power
Date Attended:
October 2014
Duration:
36 hours

Hobbies

  • Cricket, Foot Ball, Riding.