Sharique Arab, Senior Technology Specialist

Sharique Arab

Senior Technology Specialist

Zensar Technologies Limited

Location
India
Education
Bachelor's degree, BTech
Experience
16 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months

Senior Technology Specialist at Zensar Technologies Limited
  • India - Pune
  • My current job since October 2014

o Azure + ADFS 2.0 + O356 + SSO - Design, Deploy & Migrate.
o Amazon Web Services - Design & Deploy.
o Forefront Identity Manager, HLB, BIGIP, f5, Kemp, Stingray - Support
o Enterprise Grade SCOM, SCCM & SCSM - Deploy & Support
o Enterprise Email - Exchange + Gateways + IPS + Publishing + EOP + HA - Support
o Enterprise Active Directory - multi-forest + Trusts + Hybrid - Projects & Support
o Wintel + Clusters + Storage - Support

Project Technology Specialist at Advancepts IT Solutions Inc
  • Qatar - Doha
  • September 2013 to September 2014

Commercial Bank of Qatar.
Project Technology Specialist: Wintel, Messaging and Unified Communications.
 POC, Evaluation & Implementation:
o Datacenter Hardware Consolidation
o Secure Application Publishing
o Multi-Factor Authentication - Multichannel Banking
o Microsoft Lync 2013
o Microsoft Hyper-V high-availability
o System Center Suite 2012
o Disaster Recovery Solutions - SQL High-Availability; HLB, BIGIP, f5, Kemp, Stingray
o Active Directory Federation Services
o Blackberry Enterprise Server 10

 Upgrades & Migrations:
o Active Directory Infrastructure to 2012
o Exchange 2003 to 2010 - Exchange 2010 to 2013
o VMware ESXi 5.0 to 5.1U1
o Enterprise Datacenter & Virtualization Hardware
o Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.1 to 5.0

 Strategic Engagements:
o Enterprise PKI, Change Management & Systems Automation
o Enterprise Patch Management & Automation
o Datacenter & Security Hardware Budgeting
o HIPPA, PCI-DSS & Information Systems Audits

Project Technology Specialist at Advancepts IT Solutions Inc
  • United States
  • August 2012 to September 2013

 Design & Implementation:
o Multi-tenant Exchange 2013 Environment a SAAS (Public Cloud) Implementation with migration from Exchange Server 2010 (Multi-tenant Cloud) SAAS-To-SAAS in HA +DR.
o Cloud Controller for Exchange 2013, AD Forests, Lync, SharePoint & BES SAAS in HA +DR.
o Multi-tenant Lync 2013 SAAS in HA +DR.
o Azure + O365 hybrid setup and user migrations with ADFS & DirSync.
o Certified for HIPPA, CIS & PCI-DSS Compliance.

Senior Engineer Servers & Systems at Zenith InfoTech Limited
  • India - Pune
  • January 2010 to August 2012

 Project & Change Management
 Disaster Recovery Solutions: Design & POC
 Microsoft Active Directory: Design & POC
 Microsoft Messaging infrastructure: Design & POC

Support Engineer at Microsoft India R&D Pvt Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • September 2007 to December 2009

 Part of a team providing Tier-3 support @ Microsoft for Windows Server & Exchange Servers.
 Delivered Subject Matter Training’s in excess of 500 hours
 Authored Blogs on Official Microsoft Blog for Essential Business server:
http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2008/12/30/how-to-renew-your-ebs-ssl-certificates.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2008/12/09/how-to-change-an-ebs-server-s-ip-address.aspx
 Authored Public Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;971378.
 Authored 170 Internal KB’s & 400+ Solution Objects for partner use

Education

Bachelor's degree, BTech
  • at Bundelkhand University
  • April 2007

Bundelkhand University. Institute of Computer Systems & Sciences Bachelor of Technology

Specialties & Skills

Bidding
Pre sales
Unified Messaging
Amazon Web Services
Windows Azure
IIS Web Services
Patch Management & Infrastructure Maintenance
Datacenter
Office 365
Oracle Identity Manager
Hosting & Colocations
Solution Achitecture
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Exchange
Forefront Identity Manager
Active Directory
Virtualization
Technology Transition
Audits & Compliance
Cloud Security
Identity & Access Management
Load Balancers - HW & Virtual
PowerShell Scripting
SCCM, SCOM & SCSM
Amazon Web Services

Languages

English
Native Speaker
Hindi
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

Zensar Foundation
  • Volunteer - Mentor
  • October 2014

Training and Certifications

MCSE 2012, MCPS, MCSA 2012, MCSAM, MCNPS, MCITP, MCT, VCP, Azure, AWS Certified, ISO/IEC 270001 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2007
Valid Until:
August 2030

Hobbies

  • Carpentry
    Designer Chairs & Tables