Sulfikhar Abdul Salam, System Administrator

Sulfikhar Abdul Salam

System Administrator

AL Rostamani Group

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engg
Experience
17 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 2 Months

System Administrator at AL Rostamani Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2010

 Responsible for third-level support for the entire infrastructure related issues.
 Managing & maintaining EMC storage VNX-5100, 5300, 5500 & Data Domain
 Perform activities related to install, configure and managing SAN devices and fiber switches
 Administer brocade director FC switches.
 Execute FC Zoning for development and production storage volumes.
 Implemented the physical and virtual infrastructure backup solution Avamar.
 Manage VMware Infrastructure/Vsphere clusters on Production, Corporate and Test/Development environments.
 Fine tune VMs configurations to get the best performance/resource consumption.
 Detection of VMware issues, monitoring and ownership of standards and requirements
 Configuring and managing the Symantec Netbackup enterprise backup solution.
 Administration and troubleshooting of exchange server 2010
 Prepared the environment for deployment of Windows Server 2008.
 Analyzed the hardware and software requirements of Active Directory.
 Installed, configured, and provide troubleshooting for Server 2008.
 Implemented the Forefront threat management gateway 2010 server.

 Installation, configuration and administration of Symantec Enterprise Vault server 10.0 for Exchange servers
 Experience in managing and troubleshooting Enterprise Vault Mailbox Archiving and Email Journaling
 Enable/Disable mailboxes for archiving, import/export archives, manage indexes and PST migrator
 Configuring mailbox archiving policies and retention policies Troubleshooting Index related issues
 Strong troubleshooting knowledge in EV outlook client related issues
 Installed and configured an Active Directory Domain Controller.
 Implemented the Trend Micro URL filtering and spam protection virtual appliance.
 Used DcDiag, NetDiag techniques for troubleshooting.
 Performed authoritative and non-authoritative restore operations.
 Configured automatic updates for network clients by using Group Policy.
 Designed, planned and implemented Group Policy, delegation strategies and OU structure.
 Performed day-to-day administration functions, backup and restoration, file server maintenance
 Managed local, roaming, and mandatory profiles, planed strategy for placing Global Catalogue (GC) and evaluated the need to enable Universal Group Caching.
 Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management.
 Implemented security policy and virus protection.
 Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
 Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.

Sr IT Support Engineer at AL Rostamani
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2007 to December 2009

 Provided first level support to users.
 Maintained technical knowledge in networking area; operating system (Server and PC).
 Installed, configured, performed troubleshooting of Windows 2003 Servers.
 Supported all remote offices and home-based users using NetMeeting, VNC and Cisco VPN
 Provided connectivity (LAN, Internet) troubleshooting and support for approximately 1100 users.
 LAN Administration: added users; printers; removed users; controlling access right list.
 Created images for various divisions for all desktops and laptops using Ghost.
 Solely responsible for all IT decision making, support and administration at a site of more than 200 ‘demanding users’ in a fast paced architectural and engineering environment.
 Monitored server performance.
 Responsible for creating, testing PC images using Image Center and Ghost.
 Backup administration.
 Provided technical support for hardware/software configurations and applications.
 Administered and supported local/LAN printers
 Administered/provided troubleshooting for MS Outlook.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engg
  • at Anna University
  • July 2006

• Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering with From Anna University. 70 %

Specialties & Skills

Enterprise Vault
Enterprise Backup
Netbackup
Storage Solutions
Vmware Certified Professional 5
EMC Data Domain System Administration
Symantec Enterprise Vault 10.3 for Exchange Administration
EMC VNX Information Storage and Management Exam Version 2
TrendMicro Officescan 10.6 and IDF Administration

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

VMware Vsphere: ICM 5.1 Authorized training G.T Enterprise, Bangalore (Training)
Training Institute:
GT Enterprises Banglore
Date Attended:
March 2013
Duration:
60 hours