Unit Head - IT
Alghanim international
Total years of experience :26 years, 10 Months
Design, deploy and maintain Active Directory services, sites and services & group policies and software installations enterprise wide
Installation, maintaining of WAN links over ADSL, leased line & Wireless.
Design, deploy and maintain file server clusters on IBM Storwize V3700 series storage systems.
Installation, configuration, firmware and general maintenance updates for IT devices includes Cyberoam firewalls, IBM storages etc.
Network monitoring using Solar winds, MRTG & IP address management using open source GPL product IPPLAN.
Design, deploy and maintain infrastructure level LAN/WAN network, routing, VTP domains, VLANS and HSRP.
Design, deploy and maintain infrastructure level LAN/WAN network, routing, VTP domains, VLANS and HSRP.
Enterprise wide deployment and management of Anti-Virus solutions using Symantec and Eset Nod32
Administration of VMware Vcenter & replication of VMs using VEEAM backup & replication essentials
Nov 2002 - Apr 2016 Kharafi National, Kuwait.
Unit Head - IT Technical Support
Design, deploy and maintain Active Directory services, sites and services & group policies and software
installations enterprise wide.
Design, deployment of Microsoft Exchange servers 2003/2007/2010 throughout organization having
multiple branch offices in middle east, using active directory sites & child domain concept to use single DNS
name space.
Design, deploy and maintain file server clusters on HP C-Class blade systems, DL series & HP Eva 4400/
MSA 1000 systems.
Installation and administration of windows server system 2000/2003/2008 for DNS, DHCP, FTP & WSUS
services.
Scheduling backups on HP data protector software/HP tape libraries as well in windows server backup.
Deployment of corporate web security solution using Bluecoat Proxy SG 9000 series, configuring as and when required to meet organization's requirement.
Deployment of Bluecoat packet shaper 3500 series to reserve bandwidth for business critical applications like video, voice and intranet to all WAN sites including branch offices in middle east.
Installation, administering of Cisco Iron port C370 series for mail security & applying security policies as and when required.
Installation, maintaining of WAN links over ADSL, leased line & Wireless.
Design, deploy & managing Cisco wireless controllers 4400 series to provide enterprise class of Wi-Fi
access for employees & tunneled Guest Wi-Fi access & also branch office local switching.
Administering blackberry server, software upgrades for handhelds, migrating handhelds and enterprise
activations.
Responsible for infrastructure design Local Area Network, Wide Area Network and Remote/VPN Networking
design, implementation, configuration and maintenance.
Interfacing with Service Provider's network engineering groups for IP-related issues.
Cisco network configurations, LDAP integration for IPSec/SSL VPN with Active Directory group
authorization, packet-level analysis, and diagnostic work.
Administration of Poycom video conference infrastructure, scheduling video conferences etc.
Troubleshoot VPN problems for roaming users
Troubleshoot and repair computer's hardware and software installation & configuring HP, Xerox, Konica-
Minolta printers in the network.
Administration of enterprise class Avaya/Nortel CS1000 IP telephony system & interfacing with service
provider for E1 lines related issues. And managing Avaya/Nortel audio conference bridge ICB solution.
Administration of Citrix server including addition/deletion of applications & providing/revoking application
access to users.
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Sep 2000 - Dec 2002 Anab Online, Kuwait.
Customer Support
Installation of WAN links to corporate customers, uplink through telephone line & downlink by Falcon Steam
satellite services.
Configuration of Cisco routers, providing windows 2000 remote access solutions.
Responsible for in-house infrastructure upgrades, maintenances and interfacing with upstream providers for
IP network related issues.
Customer support including site visits to home users & corporate customers.
Sep 1998 - Sep 2000 Universe Computers, Kuwait.
Service Engineer
Responsible for installation of Microsoft windows NT servers, windows 98, Windows XP & Windows 2000.
Troubleshoot & repair of computer hardware, software related issues & Customer support.
Jun 1997 - Jul 1998 Finecom Communications, Chennai.
Service Engineer
Installation of EPABX systems & analog phones, troubleshooting, programming BPL EPABX systems.
Customer support.
BSc. Computers.
B.Sc (Computers) 3 Years full time Diploma in Electronics & Communications Engineering. Intermediate