Muhammad Fahad Qureshi, Sr. Director of IT Operations

Muhammad Fahad Qureshi

Sr. Director of IT Operations

Talabat

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
35 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :35 years, 7 Months

Sr. Director of IT Operations at Talabat
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since November 2015

A knowledgeable IT professional with a broad IT strategic background and with more than 14 years of experience throughout different market segments

Sr. Director of IT Operations at Talabat – Delivery Hero
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2021

Strategic Leadership: Provide strategic direction and leadership for the IT operations team. Develop and execute internal IT strategies that support the organizations goals and objectives. Team Management: Build, Lead and manage a team of internal IT professionals across the MENA region, including IT managers, engineers, and support staff. Foster a collaborative and high performing team culture. Infrastructure Management: Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex IT infrastructures, including networks, servers, storage, and cloud environments. Operational Excellence: Drive operational efficiency by implementing best practices, processes, and standards for IT operations. Continuously assess and improve IT processes to enhance productivity and user satisfaction. Budget Management: Develop and manage IT budgets, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and cost optimization while delivering high-quality services.

Director of IT Operations at Talabat – Delivery Hero
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2019 to December 2020
IT Operations Manager at Talabat – Delivery Hero
  • Kuwait - As Salimiyah
  • November 2015 to December 2018
Network Team Lead at • Oraxel Solutions.
  • Kuwait
  • February 2015 to November 2015

• Setup and deploy company and customers LANs, WANs, and wireless networks, including servers, routers, switches, firewalls, voice gateways and voice systems
• Deploy, and configure networks to ensure their smooth and reliable operation for fulfilling business objectives and processes
• Develop and document implementation plans and processes
• Researching, analyzing, evaluating and monitoring network infrastructure to ensure networks are configured to operate at optimal performance

Senior Network Engineer at Oraxel Solutions
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • August 2014 to August 2015

Responsible for customer solution designing, implementation and support. Very good expertise in the designing of network, collaboration and systems for small and medium corporates.Very good experience on Cisco Networks and voice. Leading the technical team, for fulfill the customer requirements. Mainly deal in Cisco product. Networks, collaboration (voice).

Senior Network Engineer at • Oraxel Solutions.
  • Kuwait
  • August 2014 to February 2015
Network and System Engineer at Arabian Information Technology Solutions. W.L.L Kuwait (Part of Sultan Center Group)
  • Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
  • December 2006 to July 2014

Highly involve in Pre-Sales and designing of solution for the customer to fulfill the complete need of the customer network and specially IP telephony.

Deploying and configuring projects related with
Network Infrastructure
IP Telephony Solutions (Cisco, AvayaSecurity Solutions (IPS, Firewall, Antivirus)
Bandwidth optimizatioManaged services

Work as team lead on most of projects and also in charge of some of the outsourcing project.

Administrator Work on Cisco Call Manager, Call Manager express, Unity Connection, Unity express, UCCX
Installation and configuration of Cisco IP Telephony Installation and configuration of Avaya IP Telephony System IP Office.

Work on Cisco switches and routers
Administrator Work on Adagio Voicemail server
Maintain the activities of Datacenter
Maintain LAN and WAN
Deploy projects with technical team
Work on WatchGuard FireBox
Provide support to customers
Working on Infrascape NMS
Install Microsoft server and configure IIS services for web access
Working knowledge of windows active directory on server 2008 and 2003

Network Voice Engineer at ARABIAN ITS (SU LTAN TE LECOM
  • Kuwait
  • December 2006 to July 2014
Customer Relation Officer at Telecard Limited (Pakistan)
  • Other
  • September 2005 to September 2006

Provided IT support to customers

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at Swiss School Of Management
  • November 2024
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Newport Institute of Communications and Economics
  • March 2024

Specialties & Skills

Cisco devices
Pre sales Technical Support
Cisco Wireless
Cisco Call Manager
Avaya PBX
TEAM MANAGEMENT
LEADERSHIP
MANAGEMENT
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
OPERATIONS
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
INFRASTRUCTURE
WIRELESS NETWORKS
NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
AVAYA SMB
Servers and Systems
Cisco Networks
Virtualization
Cisco Voice
Cisco Wireless
Fortinet UTM

Languages

Urdu
Expert
English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

Cisco Express Foundation For Field Engineer (Certificate)
Huawei Certified Network Professional (HCNP R&S) (Certificate)
Huawei Certified Network Associate (HCNA UC) (Certificate)
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE Collaboration) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2014
Watchguard Certified System Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2008
Valid Until:
March 2008
(CCNA) Cisco Certified Network Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2007
Valid Until:
January 2007
(CCVP) Cisco Certified Voice Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2009
Valid Until:
January 2009
Trend Micro Certified Security Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2007
Valid Until:
May 2007
Gigamon tech certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2012
Valid Until:
December 2012