Rajab Shaikh, Datacenter consultant

Rajab Shaikh

Datacenter consultant

Confidential

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh - Al Olaya
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Experience
23 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 7 Months

Datacenter consultant at Confidential
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since December 2023

Working as a Data center consultant
Datacenter design and built
Vendor management
Team management
Projects executions
Turnkey projects
Datacenter assessment
Infrastructure projects
Infrastructure upgradation and revamping
Datacenter operations
SLA, AMC, CAPEX, and other financial management
NOC, SOC designing and built
D.R / BCP site planning and designing
IT infrastructure projects
Safety and Security projects

Infrastructure incharge at Pakistan Revenue Automaiton
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2022 to May 2023

subsidiary of FBR

Responsible for Pakistan Customs and FBR IT and Data center operations.
•In-charge of infrastructure for the South Region (Sindh & Baluchistan).
•Manage Data center facility electrical & mechanical shifts 24x7 and team management of 40+ sub ordinates, vendor deployment.
•Initiated projects incorporating new technologies for Data center infrastructure improvement.
•Collaborated with cross-functional teams for infrastructure upgrades.
•Oversaw Data center power infrastructure and backup systems.
•Managed Airport IT infrastructure operations and CCTV monitoring.
•Designed Disaster recovery site for the organization.
•Designed a new Data center for the organization.
•Oversee Shop-drawing and as-built drawing processes.
•Ensure construction activities align with project program.
•Collaborate with project planning and control teams.
•Design, budget, supervise installation, and commission ICT&S system.

Manager Datacenter and IT Ops at Bank of Khyber
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • September 2018 to May 2022

Provide effective leadership and management for project delivery.
•Supervise design document submissions, ensuring timeliness.
•Review value engineering proposals and alternate material requests.
•Managed Data Center Operations in Karachi and Peshawar. 24x7
•Oversaw Data center hardware management.
•Designed and built Data center, Disaster recovery site, and core banking infrastructure.
•Developed SOPs, SLAs, BOQ, and project layouts.
•upgraded existing Data center infrastructure and deployed new technologies.
•Implemented Voice over IP (VOIP) in BOK infrastructure.
•Collaborated with other teams for Data center infrastructure deployment.
•Managed Core Banking T24 Hardware infrastructure.
•Oversaw Telephony infrastructure for BOK.

Assistant manager and Datacenter at United bank limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2015 to September 2018

Managed Data center shifts and staff as a team lead.
•Addressed emergency maintenance facility issues.
•Ensured Data center facility maintenance and environment monitoring.
•Coordinated with HVAC and power vendors.
•Prepared and maintained maintenance programs.
•Readiness of Data center backup devices i.e Ups, Genset.
•Supervised routine maintenance and inspection of facility.
•Provided technical expertise, managed, and maintained Datacenter M&E infrastructure.
•Monitoring DR Site and maintain the standards as per standards.
•Maintain documentations, AMC, SOP, SLA, OLA.RFP
•Provide Technical services on Data Center / DR new site selections, site survey, technical evaluations of vendors, BOQ, Tenders, designing etc.
•Create and implement cost saving projects, with relation to facility maintenance.
•Obtain vendor proposals for Data Centre / DR maintenance projects and repairs.
•Monitor load growth rates to ensure individual projects are delivered in a timely and scalable manner.

Infrastructure engineer Datacenter at United bank limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2010 to December 2014

Managed the project's end-to-end design and execution process, ensuring compliance with BOQ and TIA Standards to uphold Data Center integrity.
•Coordinated with contractors and vendors to maintain timely stock and deliverables availability on-site.
•Provided essential technical support to meet project milestones and deadlines.
•Took proactive initiatives to achieve project milestones and ensure timely project completion.
•Coordinated with stakeholders for the migration of the old facility to the newly constructed Data Center.
•Designed, budgeted, supervised the installation, and commissioned ICT&S systems, including PSIM, CCTV, and Access Control Ensured strict compliance with Data Center standards.
•Maintained 24x7 Data Center operations and appearance.
•Developed and managed a comprehensive facility power and HVAC maintenance program.
•Scheduled, planned, and supervised routine Preventive Maintenance (P.M)
•Led the planning and implementation of Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) infrastructure within the facility.
•Ensured M&E maintenance schedules within the Data Center adhered to industry standards.
•Managed Data Center initiatives and projects, including the establishment of new, expansions, or infrastructure upgrades.
•Oversee the preparation of project administration documents, including design status updates, action item/risk tracker, meeting minutes, and reports.

Technical Assistant and coordinator at United Bank Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • November 2004 to December 2009

The said department works under the umbrella of BSG Group (Business support Group) the responsibility of said department was to renovate and constructed the UBL branches as per new vision in south region (Sindh, Baluchistan).
Major Responsibilities:
•Team member of CAPAX and tender opening committee. Coordinate with stack holders and contractors for renovation / Construction of project, RFP / BOQ Preparation
•Worked as a team lead during project executions aligned resources, coordinate with multiple stakeholders for delivery of equipment or materials to complete project within defined timeline.
•Provide technical services & tactics in designing of I.T&T & Security infrastructure i.e., CCTV/ Fire alarm /Access control system /burglar alarm system, Electrical regarding new vision branches, Building & Floors renovation in south region (Sindh & Baluchistan). Calculate electrical requirements and load enhancement.
•Project execution as per defined procedures and standards. coordination and document controlling.
•Project closure and Audit

Sales and Application engineer at ERA Automation
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • July 2003 to July 2004

It was an ISO Certified firm. They were deal in instrumentation and perform calibration on industries controlling penal and quality management, i.e., Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Textile, Auto mobile, Energy, Processing plants, etc. the company was sole distributor of Omron, Ametek, Ametek Jofra, Novafima, Crown Lifters, Dynasonic., Stow, Fluke, Raiser bond.
Major Responsibilities:
•Provide automation and instrumentation solutions to client.
•Instrument application designing and selection according to the customer’s requirement.
•Bar code designing against selected application and forward to respective principles.
•Get confirmation on selected application for client as per submitted data and quote the customers.
•Proposal Submissions and presentations.
•Maintain Project Management Activities.
•and manage sales and presales activities.
•Perform calibrations.

Electrical engineer at Continental biscuist Mfg LU
  • Pakistan - Sukkur
  • June 2002 to June 2003

It was a food processing plant run 24 hours 7 days a week, including on 8 hours shift worked with Incorporate of a multinational group Denon Group France.
Major Responsibilities:
•Managed technical teams during shifts.
•Handled electrical and instrumentation issues.
•Monitored plant operations and led a technical team.
•Performed maintenance during processing

Instrument Sales engineer at ERA Automation
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2000 to December 2002

Worked as a sales and instrumentation engineer it was an ISO Certified firm.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering
  • at Ned University Of Engineering And Technology
  • December 1999

Bachelor in engineering Major subject Communication Computer hardware Robotics Industrial instrumentation Telecommunication

Specialties & Skills

Data Center
Project Support
Project Execution
Instrumentation
Data Center Architecture
Vendor management
Datacenter operations 24x7
Capacity and Facility management
CONSTRUCTION
TECHNICAL SERVICES
INFRASTRUCTURE
PROJECT CLOSURE
RENOVATION
CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION SYSTEMS (CCTV)
OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT
DISASTER RECOVERY
TEAM MANAGEMENT
Datacenter Design and Build
datacenter
SLA, AMC
NOC operation
RFP and Proposals
project 3D layouts

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Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Native Speaker

Memberships

Pakistan engineering council
  • professional engineer
  • December 1999

Training and Certifications

Certified Datacenter facility operation manager (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2017
Valid Until:
May 2020
Certified IT manager (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2015
Valid Until:
May 2018
Certified Datacenter specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2014
Valid Until:
September 2017
certified data center professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2012
Valid Until:
December 2015

Hobbies

  • workout