Taj Hussain, Assistant Manager Technology Support & Services

Taj Hussain

Assistant Manager Technology Support & Services

IBL-Unisys

Location
Pakistan - Islamabad
Education
Master's degree, Inforamtion technoloy related subjects
Experience
22 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 10 Months

Assistant Manager Technology Support & Services at IBL-Unisys
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since May 2016

Pre-Sales & Implementation of solutions, Post-Sales Technical Support & Consultancy in below products.

 EMC² VMAX, VNX, VNXe, Unity Storages, Data Domain and Networker Implementation.
 Dell PowerEdge Servers, PowerVault, EqualLogic and Compellent Storage.
 Citrix XenServer, XenApp, XenDesktop VDI solutions
 VMWare Virtualization and VDI solutions.
 IBM Virtual Storage Center, V-7000 and DS-Series Storage
 BMC Control-M workload automation and ITSM Remedy

Team Lead - Storage Solution Architect at Confidentail
  • United Kingdom - Birmingham
  • May 2015 to September 2016

Pre-Sales and Post-Sales Technical Consultancy to SSG Customers in below products.
Team Lead Technical Support
Job responsibility: As a Team Lead Technical Support, my responsibility was to supervise a team of Engineers in Global Support, UK Engineers. I was providing expert level guidance to Engineers on EMC, NetApp and Dell Storages and Server support.

As a Storage Solution Architect, my responsibility was to provide Pre-Sales Support to Sales and Bid team on following products.

• EMC² VMAX, VNX, Clariion Series Storage, .
• NetApp FAS Series Storage .
• Dell PowerEdge Servers and PowerVault Storage Products.
• EMC ata Domain
• IBM Servers and Storage
• HP Servers and Storage
• VMware related query and support

Assistant Manager Storage & Virtualization at ABM Info Tech
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • August 2014 to August 2015

Pre-Sales and Post-Sales Technical Consultancy to ABM InfoTech Customers in below products.
• VMWare Virtualization
• EMC² VMAX, VNX, Clariion Storages, Data Domain and Networker Implementation.
• HP, IBM, NetApp and Huawei Storages Implementation.
• HP and IBM Servers Products.
• Symantec NetBackup, Backup Exec, Enterprise Vault and VVR deployment.
• Citrix XenServer, XenApp and XenDesktop Virtualization
• Riverbed WAN Optimization Appliance

Sr. Specialist Server & Storage at En Pointe Technologies
  • United States
  • August 2013 to August 2014

2nd Level Pre-Sales and Post-Sales Remote Technical Support to En Pointe Customers across USA in below products.

VMWare Virtualization.
Citrix XenServer, XenApp and XenDesktop Implemenation.
EMC² VMAX, VNX, Clariion Storages Implementation.
NetApp, HP and Dell Storages Implementation.
HP and Dell Servers Installation and Support,
Symantec Netbackup, Backup Exec and VVR deployment
Data Migration and Replication and Recovery.

Sr. System Engineer at unisys
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • August 2007 to August 2013

• Handling Enterprise Storages EMC² Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX, VNX, CLARiiON & DD.
• EMC² VNX File Unified Storage Install & Implementation of NAS CIFS & NFS Exports, .
• Installation of EMC² NS-120 Storage with iSCSI, FC & implementation of Mirror View.
• EMC² Networker Server, Storage Loader with software running Symantec (Backup Exec).
• Centera File Archiving, and Rainfinity Appliance Support, Maintenance & Troubleshooting.
• Backup, Recovery and archive using Tape Library of Quantum Scalar i500 software
• Support and manage SAN environment (EMC, Dell, Cisco & Brocade).
• Upgrade and maintain storage area network, provisioning storage, data replication
• Perform troubleshooting and performance monitoringof SAN environment
• Perform SAN hardware and software maintenance and upgrades.
• FC SAN Switches Cisco & Brocade Installation Support & Maintenance.

Senior Engineer (TS&M) GOIS at Unisys
  • Pakistan
  • January 2004 to January 2007

Server Management Commodity & High End Servers (Dell, IBM, HP & UNISYS ES3xxx family).
Support in Windows 2000 Advanced Server, 2003 Server and RedHat AS 4.0.
 DNS, DHCP, Exchange, ADS (Active Directory Services) & LAN Management.
 Maintaining Cisco equipment (PIX\Firewall, Routers, and Switches
 Installation of McAfee security Products including Web & Mail Gateway Appliances,
 Server, NAC (Network Access Control) & DLP (Data Loss Prevention).
 Handling Line Printer Matrix (HP, IBM, PRINTRONIX, UNISYS, P5000 Series, &P7000 Series).

Customer Support Engineer at Unisys
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • January 1995 to December 1997

Establishing and maintaining the 2003 based environment and support..
Established system by planning and executing installation, configuration, and testing of PC and server
hardware, software, LAN and WAN networks, and Operating System management .
Handling ADS (Active Directory Services) Based on 2003 Enterprise Server.
User-Account Handling and maintenance.
Line Printer Matrix PRINTRONIX, UNISYS, P5000 Series, and P7000 Series)

Education

Master's degree, Inforamtion technoloy related subjects
  • at Preston University
  • May 2006

Specialties & Skills

Storage
Control M
BROCADE
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
MAINTENANCE
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
Migration
EMC VNX Storage
EMC VMAX Storage
HP Storage
Replication
BMC Control-M
EMC Unity
Dell Equallogic
EMC Isilon
Dell Compellent SC series

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Pushto
Expert

Memberships

Pakistan Information Security Association (PISA)
  • Active Member
  • January 2011

Training and Certifications

Specialist - Information Storage Associate (EMCISA) certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2010
Specialist - Technology Architect, Midrange Storage Solutions Version 1.0 certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2019
Huawei HCIA Storage Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2019
Specialist - Implementation Engineer, SC Series Version 1.0 certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2019
VMware vRealize Operations Install, Configure, Manage [V6.6] (Training)
Training Institute:
VMware
Date Attended:
July 2018
Duration:
40 hours
Citrix Certified Administrator for XenApp 6.0 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Citrix Certified Advanced Administrator for XenApp 6.0 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2013
VMware Certified Professional 5 Data Center Virtualization (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer for Virtualization (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
VCP-6 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2016
Valid Until:
October 2018
Specialist - Implementation Engineer, VNX Solutions Version 7.0 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2013
Specialist - Technology Architect, VNX Solutions Version 8.0 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
IBM Virtrual Storage Center (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Date Attended:
December 2016
Duration:
8 hours
MCP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014
HP Servers Training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2001
Valid Until:
February 2011

Hobbies

  • Travelling and Site Seening
    I am very interested in Technology, History & Traveling. I watching Technical & documentary Videos and reading stuff to know about each and every thing, I watching Documentary Videos to know about different cultures of the world. I love peace and want to see everyone happy and secure..