Syed Muhammad Ali, System Engineer

Syed Muhammad Ali

System Engineer

Hewlette Packard

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Diploma, Implementing storage EVA
Experience
20 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 0 Months

System Engineer at Hewlette Packard
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since February 2016

• Management of Hardware/Software resources as per customer requirement.
• Provide Support for critical backups on Oracle.
• Maintain liaison with mission critical and other SLA’s in accordance with current business objectives.
• Maintain nPar and vpar for Integrity Blade servers.
• Configure and define storage allocation as per customer needs on Unix Servers.
• Provide patch analysis data and update patches to latest for mission critical and other systems.
• Expertise of Planning, Installation, Configuration, Maintenance, and Administration of HP-UX/Linux based Operating Systems; Configuration & implementation of ACL’s, NFS, NTP, JFS, Volume Group, Routing and TCP/IP, DNS, and Cron & At jobs, Shell-scripting using AWK & Sed; Installation of HP-UX Patches, Upgrades and Licensed products.
• Expertise on HP Open View Data Protector Backup Software involves Planning, Installation, Configuration, and Maintenance, Backup scheduling, Restore and Administration.
• Expertise on IgniteUX backup and restore.
• Deployment of clustering solution for REDHAT enterprise linux version 6.
• Expertise on Clustering on MC Service Guard.
• Expertise on all hardware platforms including Integrity and Blade servers

Unix System and Storage Administrator at Petro Rabigh
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • October 2009 to February 2016

HPUX & Storage Engineer on Petro Rabigh Project(Sister Company of Saudi Aramco) on third party contract by SAUDI INTELTEC Company.
• Expertise on HP Open View Data Protector Backup Software involves Planning, Installation, Configuration, Maintenance, Backup scheduling, Restore and Administration.
• Expertise on IgniteUX backup and restore.
• Expertise on Clustering on MC Service Guard.
• Provide Support for SAP (front end) and Oracle (back end).
• Expertise on all hardware platforms including Integrity and Blade servers.
Working as Unix/ Storage Specialist in PetroRabigh - SAUDI ARAMCO Data Center sponsored by Saudi Inteltec, with overall responsibilities of system and services in 24 x 7 environment for 33 HP-UX Machines, EVA6000, XP24000 and Backup/Restore using DP6.0. The job responsibilities & projects included but not limited to

HP-UX Administration ( Superdome / RX Servers / Blade Servers)
• Configuring Superdome system Running HP-UX as per needs and requirements of SAP Administrators.
• Installation / Recovery of HP-UX in case of disaster occurred on system.
• Migrating the SAP Systems from one host to other Host.
• Maintaining high availability of system, with mirroring of internal disks and recover mirroring in case of any HDD Failure
Data Protector Administration. ( DP 6.0 and ESL/ MSL 6030 in SAN)
• Configuring the backup specifications for SAP databases and file system level backups.
• Creating and maintaining backup policies and procedures as required.
• Daily monitoring of backups and Media Pools and initialize the expired media.
• Configure/ Maintain the Media Pools for Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Special Backup policies.
• Installation of Data Protector Patches and update all the hosts.
Cluster Administration ( MC/ServiceGuard)
• Maintaining the clusters with start/ stop the packages.
• Configuring the cluster for new packages.
• Utilized the external script to start stop the application using service guard.
• Resolve any issue in clusters.
• Maintain cluster configuration for changes to cluster.

Enterprise Support Engineer at Mushko Eletronics Pvt Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • July 2006 to October 2009

Worked as a team member of Enterprise support group, the job responsibilities & projects included the Availability/Maintenance /Administration and Operational Activities of HP (Hewlett-Packard) Enterprise Systems / Storage Solutions to various Enterprises in Pakistan. The main job responsibilities include but not limited to.

• Support HP Hardware and software / Storage Solutions.
• Support System administration of HP-UX.
• Support Mission Critical Environments running HP-UX Flavor of UNIX.
• To complete customer service support on each and every week.
• To visits enterprises for hardware and software problem resolution and submit monthly call reports to manager.
• To visit Enterprise customers on monthly basis and maintain the availability of their systems.
• To Deploy Enterprise hardware solutions to customers and provide 24 x 7 support.
• To coordinate with HP Depot for hardware and software replacements.
• Interaction with other cities offices for the management of HP spares part and their allocation on these branches on request Tag Forms.
• Authorized for dealing with HP Depot for parts replacements and unused returns.

• Implementing on site domain and user environments on their requests.
• Installation and support of various Operating Systems including HPUX, SCO Unix, RED HAT Enterprise Linux, .
• Providing 24x7 and 9x5 support to large enterprises

System & Network Administrator at Maxis Pvt Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • November 2005 to June 2006

• Responsible for maintaining and trouble-shooting the LAN communication and DSL connectivity through Proxy Server.
• Carried out a research report to study, investigate & document the Requirement Analysis and Design Methodology employed at Maxis (Pvt.) Ltd.
• Database disaster recovery planning and procedures implementation.

System & Network Administrator at College Of Digital Sciences
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2004 to November 2005

• Network and Hardware troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Installations and configurations of Software and Hardware.
• Network Designing and implementation
• Examining and Reporting Errors, Taking Backups and Data Recovery.
• Multiple Server administration of more than 100 clients.
• Redundancy planning and Implementation.
• Routers configuration.

Education

Diploma, Implementing storage EVA
  • at Hewlwtte Packard
  • March 2011

EVA Certification

Diploma, Data Center Tachnical Specialist
  • at Self
  • February 2010

its Novell Certification awarded to me on the basis of LPIC Level 2 Certification.

Diploma, Accredited Integration Specialist
  • at Hewlette Packard
  • May 2009
Diploma, LPI LEVEL 2 Certified
  • at Linux professional institiue
  • April 2009
Diploma, VTSP (Vmware Technical Sales Professional)
  • at VM Ware
  • April 2009
Diploma, VSP
  • at Vmware
  • March 2009
Master's degree, Information Technology
  • at Preston Institue of Management Science and Technology
  • December 2008

GPA 3.6, at 30 % scholarship

Diploma, Certified Linux Administrator
  • at BrainBench
  • September 2008
Diploma, Accreditted Platform Specialist (MSA 1000,1500i and 1500cs)
  • at Hewlette Packard
  • August 2008
Diploma, Project Management Professional Certificate
  • at 3D Educators
  • July 2008
Diploma, Certified Information System Auditor Certificate
  • at SKILL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (2008)
  • March 2008
Diploma, Certified System Administrator(CSA) on HPUX
  • at Hewlette Packard
  • June 2007
Diploma, Certified Computer Technician
  • at Brainbench
  • November 2006
Diploma, MS Windows 2003 Administrator
  • at Brain Bench
  • October 2006
Diploma, Windows XP Administrator
  • at Brainbench
  • October 2006
Diploma, Accreditted Platform Specialist (Priliant Server Maintenance)
  • at Hewlette Packard
  • September 2006
Diploma, Accreditted Platform Specialist (Notebook, Workstations & Laptop)
  • at Hewlette Packard
  • August 2006
Diploma, RED HAT LINUX Certified from Ministry of IT,Pakistan
  • at College of Digital Sciences
  • June 2005
Diploma, CCNA course (2004).
  • at INET Institue
  • April 2004
Diploma, MCSE 2000 course
  • at Inet Institue
  • February 2004
Bachelor's degree, B.Sc. Hons. in Computing and Information Systems
  • at London Metropolitan University
  • December 2003
Diploma, International Advance Diploma in Computer Studies (IAD)
  • at National Computing Center (NCC)
  • December 2001
Diploma, International Diploma in Computer Studies (IDCS)
  • at National Computing Center (NCC)
  • December 2000
Diploma, A+ Course
  • at INET Institue
  • July 1999

Specialties & Skills

Data Center
Installation
Administration
Teaching
Software Engineering Life cycle
HP unix
Management
Administration
system administration
web development
computer hardware troubleshooting
windows server
Servers

Languages

Urdu
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Hewlette Packard
  • Student Member
  • August 2006

Training and Certifications

Linux administration (Training)
Training Institute:
College of digital sciences
Date Attended:
April 2004
Duration:
48 hours
Exchange 2007 (Training)
Training Institute:
In house training
Date Attended:
April 2008
Duration:
40 hours
Vmware (Training)
Training Institute:
In house training
Date Attended:
August 2007
Duration:
40 hours
HP UX System Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
In-House training
Date Attended:
June 2006
Duration:
40 hours

Hobbies

  • gardening
    small plants on land cultivation
  • running
    I am one of the best runner so please beware if you give me some goal may be i achieve that much before your expectation.
  • high quality eating
    good eating habit is must for good health. so i have it. I love fish,meat, vegetable, and can also cook them well.
  • forex
    i have worked in forex as well as my part time interest.
  • Martial arts
    watching martial arts movies. Also i know some techniques. I also perform boxing.
  • coins collection
    many coins of different countries