Shailesh Vaja, Senior IT Consultant

Shailesh Vaja

Senior IT Consultant

Media Solutions FZ LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, Diploma in Computer Engineering
Experience
20 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 1 Months

Senior IT Consultant at Media Solutions FZ LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since December 2013

Currently i am working with Media Solutions FZ LLC, Dubai - UAE. Media Solution is one of the early adapter of Cloud Technologies in GCC region and practicing and serving varieties of solutions based on Cloud Technologies like Office 365, Hosted Exchange, Hosted SharePoint, Dedicated Hosted Server and Cloud base Backup etc. Parallel to this Media Solution also takes Managed IT service contract, Infrastructure design and planing for their clients.

Sr. Technical Services Engineer at Gateway NINtec Pvt.Ltd.(Gateway Group of Companies)
  • India - Ahmedabad
  • April 2008 to December 2013

I have worked with Gateway Group of Companies, Ahmedabad as a Sr. Engineer Technical Support. Gateway is in IT & ITES from last 15 years having presence in 21 Countries across globe. I was a part of Gateway’s RIM division which provides Infrastructure Management Service to the overseas end clients.

My role and responsibilities at Gateway Group of Companies (India).
• Leading and Managing IT Team.
• Designing and planning IT solutions based on Windows Server Technologies for their overseas Clients.
• Test and Evaluate different product like McAfee Endpoint Encryption for PC, EEFF, EPO, DLP (Data Loss Prevention), Bluecat, Trend DLP and Lumension and providing support to the end client.
• Managing MAC OS X webserver with 100+ websites for US clients.
• Managing Webhosting server on Windows and Linux with CPanel, WHC, and HELM. Plesk, etc., web control panel.

Onsite deputation (Dubai - UAE, Feb - 2010 to Dec - 2013)

I was deputed onsite to Dubai - UAE, through Indian company to work with Media Solutions FZ LLC partner of Gateway. Media Solution is one of the early adapter of Cloud Technologies in GCC region and practicing and serving varieties of based on Cloud Technologies like Office 365, Hosted Exchange, Hosted SharePoint, Dedicated Hosted Server and Cloud base Backup etc. Parallel to this Media Solution also takes Managed IT service contract, Infrastructure design and palming for their clients. During my onsite tenure I worked as Sr. IT Consultant for Media Solutions and as IT Manager for Hamilton Design (client of Media Solutions).

My role and responsibilities for Media Solution.
• Leading and Managing IT Department for Media Solutions.
• Managing multiple client and providing IT solutions on different technology all over UAE for Media Solutions.
• Providing Support on Microsoft Technology, Cloud based Technologies, Firewall, VPN, Printing solutions etc.,
• Providing support and solution on hosted Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010 Mail server, Office 365, Windows Domain, DNS, DHCP, and Print Server.
• Leading and Managing IT Department as IT Manager for Hamilton Design (250+ users, Media Solution’s client). Where I was supposed to manage multiple sites across UAE and manage IT team for Hamilton Design.
• Managing Trend Micro Antivirus Server and Symantec Backup Exec server.

Windows System Administrator at Gujarat Sysport P Ltd
  • India - Ahmedabad
  • June 2006 to April 2008

I have worked with Gujarat Sysport Services Pvt. Ltd. Ahmadabad. As a System Administrator.
My role and responsibilities at Gujarat
• Leading IT team and managing other IT staff.
• Managing Windows Server AD, DNS, DHCP, IIS Web Server.
• Managing Exchange server 2003.
• Managing Microsoft ISA Server.
• Managing SQL Server, SQL DB backup.
• Oracle Database Backup.
• Managing and monitoring of Multi site VPN connectivity.
• Handling IT Helpdesk for day to day support request from end user (150+ users).

Network and System Administrator at Aster Networks P LTD
  • India - Ahmedabad
  • April 2004 to July 2006

I have worked with ASTER NETWORKS P Ltd., as a Resident Network and System Administrator at System Plus Ltd., (Client of Aster Networks)
Roles and Responsibilities at System Plus,
• Managing Windows 2000/2003 servers.
• MailEnabled E-mail Server.
• Managing IIS Web server.
• Windows NT backup.
• Oracle and SQL Database backup.
• Symantec Anti-Virus server
• Linux server
• Monitoring Cisco PIX Firewall‘s performance and uptime.
• Handling IT Helpdesk for day to day support request from end user (150+ users).

Education

Diploma, Diploma in Computer Engineering
  • at AVPTI
  • January 2005

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Office
IT Management
Windows Server
Microsoft Exchange
Firewall
Office 365
Exchange Servers
Windows Servers
Firewall
Networking
Pre-Sales
Solution Architecture
Datacenter
Cloud Computing
Team Management
Pre-Sales Technical Consulting
Virtualization

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Gujarati
Expert

Training and Certifications

MCP (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Watching Movies
  • Snooker
  • Reading on IT Technologies
  • Volleyball
  • Internet Surfing