rehan shabbir, IT Head

rehan shabbir

IT Head

AKHUWAT

Location
Pakistan - Lahore
Education
Master's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
17 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 1 Months

IT Head at AKHUWAT
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • My current job since October 2012

AS HEAD OF IT DEPARTMENT:

 Team Building and counseling

 Implementation of ITIL based practices

 Initiating for the deployment of the State of Art Technologies at Akhuwat.

 Acquiring the Cloud technology and operating Azure Cloud Solution Architect Services

 Moving on Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP from Dynamics AX 2012.

 Accenting the distance learning program by developing LMS for Akhuwat University.

 Adopting the advanced technology by Migration from exchange 2013 to Office 365 infrastructure

 Management of over all IT infrastructure in 800+ branch offices

 Establishing and upscaling the virtualized Data Center equipped with Cisco, VMware, Dell Servers & SAN etc .

 Applied the network security throughout the branch offices.

 Founding the online Credit Management System with centralized database.

 Acquiring good deal of licenses from Microsoft that impacts as huge saving.

 Yearly IT Budgeting dealing above USD 1.5M.

 Pivotal role in Planning & Policy Making, Decision Making and Service Level Agreements

 Starting a Crowd Funding Portal.

 Commencing the shortcode and mobile banking

 Improved the reliability and resilience against disaster by establishing disaster recovery site.

 Complete Execution of 32KVA Solar Power Project to save the load of grid

 Designing and Implementation of Surveillance, Fire Alarm & Public Address Systems, IPPBX telephone exchange etc.

IT Network Incharge at PwC Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • April 2007 to September 2012

 Project Manager in the implementation of New Data Center At A.F.Ferguson & Co.
 Monitoring all the activities associated with IT Support
 Involved in Server Administration, Networking, Purchasing
 Concerned with Technology Implementation, Structuring Data Center
 Played a vital role in Cisco based LAN/WAN implementation
 Accountable for Policy Making, Software Development

Education

Master's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Virtual Universoty of Pakistan
  • June 2019

MS in computer science

Diploma, ITIL
  • at PeopleCert
  • July 2015

Successfully passed the ITIL V3 Certification exam. Certificate number GR750181633RS http://www.peoplecert.org/en/Candidates/Certificate_Verification/Pages/Certificate_Verification.aspx

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Virtual University of Pakistan
  • February 2007

 BS (Computer Science) from Virtual University of Pakistan in 2007. Developing Chatting Messenger as a BSCS Final Project

Specialties & Skills

IT Service Management
Data Center Architecture
Communication Skills
Cloud Computing
VMware Infrastructure
ITIL V3 Foundation
Business Sulutions
System Architecture
Cloud Computing

Languages

English
Expert
Punjabi
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Hiking as a Scout (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 1996
Essay Compitition (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 1999
Science Exhibition (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 1998
Quiz Compitition (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 1997
Quran Learning (Training)
Training Institute:
International Quran Sessions
Date Attended:
January 1999
Wireless LAN (Training)
Training Institute:
AIM Trainings
Date Attended:
January 2017
Time Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Time Lenders
Date Attended:
July 2017
Duration:
24 hours
VCP (Training)
Training Institute:
Corvit Systems
Date Attended:
November 2017
Strategic Visioning (Training)
Training Institute:
Time Lenders
Date Attended:
July 2017
Duration:
24 hours
CCNP (Training)
Training Institute:
Corvit Systems
Date Attended:
October 2009
CCNA + RHCT (Training)
Training Institute:
Corvit Systems
Date Attended:
September 2009
Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking (Training)
Training Institute:
Corvit Systems
Date Attended:
October 2014
Duration:
8 hours
Project Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Factual Solution
Date Attended:
April 2018
Duration:
8 hours
Professional grooming (Training)
Training Institute:
Akhuwat
Date Attended:
January 2019
Duration:
24 hours
PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
Nityo Edu
Date Attended:
April 2015
Duration:
35 hours
ITIL V3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
Valid Until:
June 2017
Azure Cloud Architecture (Training)
Training Institute:
Simplilearn
Date Attended:
November 2018
Duration:
40 hours

Hobbies

  • Researching, books reading
    I have remained an active participant of science exhibition and attended many conferences and training boot camps for advance technologies.