Syed Suleman Ali, Senior Solaris System & SAN Administrator

Syed Suleman Ali

Senior Solaris System & SAN Administrator

National Guard Health Affairs

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Computer systems
Experience
23 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 7 Months

Senior Solaris System & SAN Administrator at National Guard Health Affairs
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since July 2009

WORK EXPERIENCE
National Guard Health Affairs (July 2009 - Present)
Senior Solaris/SAN/Administrator

• Primarily involved in Implementation and administration related activities of projects
• Hands on integration of SUN, HDS and HP products.
• validating Solutions Design, Architecture, Integration and related documents
• Produce documentation and provide knowledge transfers for the team.
• Managing Service Contracts, Inventory Call Log System and Onsite Interventions Addressing & Managing Service Delivery, End users Satisfaction and Support Action Plans
• Technical Deployment and Administration for SUN, HDS, HP and Veritas SF & HA
Some of the Engagement/Projects as System & SAN Administrator at NGHA

• Validating the HDS USP Solutions Design, Architecture & Integration related documents
• Assist Hitachi Engineer in Installation & Configuration of HDS USP Storage as per design
• Migration of Critical Applications Data from old Sun T3 to HDS USP Storage
• Validating the HP 3PAR Solutions Design, Architecture & Integration related documents
• Migration of critical application Data from HSV300 to 3PAR Storage
• DR Configuration for HIS & ERP across Data Centre using HDS USP & Vxvm Mirroring
• Shadow Image configurations for critical applications.
• Solaris LDOM configuration using Sun T4-2 platform
• Involved in ITIL process implementation precisely in Change & Availability Management

Senior Solaris & SAN Administrator at Naizak Global Engineering
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2004 to July 2009

Naizak Global Engineering Systems (July 2004 till June 2009)
Senior System & Storage Engineer

• Worked on Fujitsu Siemens, HDS, Mcdata, ADIC & Symantec solutions which include Midrange & High-End Sparc based Servers, Enterprise Storage, VMWare, Veritas SFHA & NetBackup etc
• Technical Deployment and support for Fujitsu, HDS & Veritas SFHA
• Perform technical hands-on integration of various products mentioned above.
• Produce documentation and provide knowledge transfers for the customer.
• Implementation & Technical Support for various projects
• Developed and Manage Service Deliveries up to Customer Satisfaction
• Coordination with Customers and Partners for project requirements
• Involved in pre sales activities for various projects
• Facilitates Project teams and client in requirement gathering & deployment phases
• Managing infrastructure installed for in house services

Support following customer/projects for above mentioned products

• National Guard Health Affairs
Installed, configured & support Prime Power 650 Machines with HDS AMS200 & Mcdata SAN
• Dar-Al-Arkan
Installed, configured & support Prime Power 650 Machines with HDS AMS200, Mcdata SAN & Veritas SFHA
• Petro Rabigh
Installed, configured & support Fujitsu Primergy servers with HDS AMS200/500 & Mcdata SAN
• Riyadh Bank
Installed, configured & support Fujitsu Prime Power 650 Machines and provide connectivity to the IBM Storage.

Senior Systems Engineer at Techaccess Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • November 2000 to July 2004

Techaccess Pakistan (July 2000 till July 2004)
Senior System Engineer

• Worked on Sun Microsystems & Veritas solutions which include Sun Solaris, Sun Clusters,
Mid & High-End Servers, Enterprise Storage, Veritas Storage Foundation suites & NetBackup
• Main focus areas were designing, installing, managing of critical Solutions for various clients
• Lead the technical team of system Engineers for pre and post sales activities and trainings
• Resource allocation, mobilization & management for projects as per required Skill-Set
• Developed and Manage Service Deliveries up to Customer Satisfaction
• Coordination with Customers and Partners for project requirements
• Conducted Trainings for Sun Solaris System/Network/Security Administration, & Disk Management etc to individuals & corporate level clients

Some of the Engagement/Projects as System & SAN Engineer for above mentioned products
CYBER NET, BRITISH PETROLEUM, ABN AMRO BANK, ALCATEL,
PAKISTAN PETROLEUM, NIFT, BAHRIA INSTITUTE

Education

Master's degree, Computer systems
  • at University of Sindh
  • January 1998

1998 MSc University of Sindh, Jamshoro 1st Div

Bachelor's degree,
  • at University of Sindh
  • January 1997

1997 BSc University of Sindh, Jamshoro 2nd Div

High school or equivalent,
  • at City Science College
  • January 1992

1992 HSC Govt.City Science College, Hyderabad 2nd Div

High school or equivalent,
  • at Himayat-ul-Islam boys High School
  • March 1990

1990 SSC Govt.Himayat-ul-Islam boys High School 1st Div

Specialties & Skills

Veritas Storage Foundation
Veritas Cluster Server
Veritas Net Backup
Solaris SVM LDOM ZONE
EBUSINESS
SIEMENS
SOLARIS
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION
VERITAS

Languages

English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 for Solaris (Training)
Training Institute:
New horizon Dubai
Date Attended:
December 2010
Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 for Solaris (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon Dubai
Date Attended:
December 2010