Senior Executive Network & Communication
Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan Limited
Total years of experience :23 years, 11 Months
Perform multifaceted responsibilities to configure, install & administer network infrastructure and telecommunication systems that supported staff of 125 personnel. Fulfill administrative responsibilities including the addition and changes to user desktop, email and domain accounts. Installation, configuration & deployment of server including RAID 5 arrays in addition to facilitating backup & restoration using ARC server.
Executed Server Virtualization using Windows Server 2012 R2 Hypervisor & VMware technologies to reduce hardware cost while increasing business functionality.
Developed DR site infrastructure to being ready to recover and ensure business continuity in the unfortunate event of a disaster whether man made or natural.
Installation, configuration and maintenance of MS SQL server in standalone and clustered environments which included New instance installations, database creation, report server configuration, and troubleshooting of dataset issues.
Developed and maintained Virtual Hyper-V infrastructure spanning all three environments. Multiple Hyper-V hosts for capacity and redundancy, utilizing NIC teaming and VLan trunks for network redundancy.
Acted as escalation point for troubleshooting advanced network/systems issues; consistently earned 100% issue-resolution scores by providing excellent service to internal and external customers.
Spearheaded various Projects working alongside the development teams, including deployment of ADFS, and deploying code in various environments.
Reviewed and maintained contracts related to the IT Department, saving the company money by eliminating seldom or unused services.
Revamped ARCServe by implementing deduplication data backup schedule and ensured full and incremental data backups were successful; performed data restore for users as needed.
Assisted with implementation of System Center Configuration Manager which greatly reduced administrator overhead for OS deployment, software/hardware management and routine patching and security analysis duties.
Coordinated with other teams to support network hardware such as firewalls, load balancers and switches and storage hardware such as SAN(DS4700, V3700, V700), DAS and NAS systems.
Reengineered company's File Servers setup by consolidating these to high availabity clustered environment having 24TB V7000 SAN storage attached.
Ensured that all server hardware, operating systems, software and procedures aligned with organizational standards and strategic business plan.
Administer multiple disjoint Active Directory Forests/Domains, DHCP, DNS and various other Infrastructure services. Trust relationships setup, dcpromo and decommission of AD.
Trained employees across multiple departments on network operations including log-in procedures, network management software, permissions, printing issues, security and use of software.
Increased team productivity and automated repetitive tasks by using batch files, PowerShell, VBScript and WMI.
Utilized Fiber technologies and iSCSI to configure and maintain SAN environments remaining consistent with industry standards.
Was responsible for the 24 X 7 data center operations such as rack installation, server configuration, server health monitoring, switch installation etc.
Administration of Blue coat proxy server and AD group ploicies maintenance.
Actively support implementation of SAP server.
Proactively monitor systems health by physically inspecting environment and utilizing provided tools such as SCOM.
Hands on training of clouding computing like Amazon C2 and Windows Azure.