Tareq Kahala, System Administrator II

Tareq Kahala

System Administrator II

City of Greeley

Location
United States
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience
16 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 6 Months

System Administrator II at City of Greeley
  • United States - Greeley
  • My current job since August 2021

Manage, maintain, and monitor virtual infrastructure, over 80 Windows servers associated with applications and
services.
• Performs troubleshooting as required. As such, leads to problem-solving efforts often involving outside vendors
and other support personnel and/or organizations.
• Setting up groups, which can be used for granting and revoking permissions
• Managing Active Directory, group policy, DHCP, DNS, etc.
• Work with IT customers to develop needs requirements and design specifications.
• Managing and supporting more than 1000 users in the city side and the police department.
• CJIS certificate that was required to be able to work with all the police-sensitive data.
• Daily work involves managing and monitoring: Dell PowerEdge servers, HPE ProLiant servers, Microsoft Server
2008-2016, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange 2013, Metalogix Archive Manager for Exchange, VMware
vSphere, Veeam backup and replication, and Nimble SAN storage.
• Managing and supporting office 365 migrations, including Microsoft Azure, Intune, Teams.
• Managing Veeam backup, working on DR plan to get off cloud backup

System Administrator at City of Redlands
  • United States - Redlands
  • February 2019 to August 2021

• System administration (including backup, security management, user account management, e-mail systems
including an e-mail web server, internet access, office systems, and applications support).
• Performs troubleshooting as required. As such, leads to problem-solving efforts often involving outside vendors
and other support personnel and/or organizations.
• Setting up groups, which can be used for granting and revoking permissions
• Basic user account support to include Creation and removal of user accounts and Manage user data including
home directories, backup, and storage space
• Managing Active Directory, group policy, DHCP, DNS, etc.
• Building and managing a WDS imaging server with MDT 2013 to upgrade windows 7 to windows 10.
• Managing and supporting more than 600 users in the city side and the police department.
• CJIS certificate that was required to be able to work with all the police sensitive data with a public trust background
was passed.
• Basic user account support to include Creation and removal of user accounts and Manage user data including
• home directories, backup, and storage space (Nimble storage)
• VMware - vCenter

Senior System Administrator at LRW
  • United States - Century City
  • January 2017 to August 2019

System administration (including backup, security management, user account management, e-mail systems
including e-mail web server, internet access, office systems and applications support).
• Disaster recovery planning using EMC Networker 9.1 and Data Domains.
• Performs troubleshooting as required. As such, leads problem-solving efforts often involving outside vendors and
other support personnel and/or organizations.
• Using PowerShell scripting with SCCM, building exe programs, Active Directory, and Office 365.
• Edit PowerShell scripts and make sure it will be perfect and fits our needs of creating reports or distributions.
• Manage a mid-sized computer primarily of HB components, which run Windows 2008 R2 server and 2012 R2
• Setting up groups, which can be used for granting and revoking permissions
• Build and manage a Distributed file system of 17 TB of data replications including PeerLock for office documents
• Basic user account support to include Creation and removal of user accounts and Manage user data including home
directories, backup, and storage space
• Granting permissions to Adaptive Server users
• Managing Active directory, group policy, DHCP, DNS, etc
• ADFS, DFS experience including design and full implementation with managing replication groups and more.
• VMware - vCenter, VUM, Virtual Networking, monitoring and supporting more than 300 servers

System Administrator at Amtex
  • United States - East Los Angeles
  • September 2018 to February 2019

• Manage and support network firewall, and switches.
• Disaster recovery Backup using Veeam Software with Dell Data Domains
• System administration (including backup, security management, user account management, e-mail systems
including e-mail web server, internet access, office systems and applications support).
• Performs troubleshooting as required. As such, leads problem-solving efforts often involving outside vendors and
other support personnel and/or organizations.
• Setting up groups, which can be used for granting and revoking permissions
• Basic user account support to include Creation and removal of user accounts and Manage user data including
home directories, backup, and storage space
• Managing Active directory, group policy, DHCP, DNS, etc.
• VMware - vCenter
• Reconfiguration IT infrastructure that approved by PCI compliance

Network & System Administrator (NOC Engineer) at Unisys
  • United States - East Norwalk
  • December 2013 to December 2016

The Los Angeles Eligibility Automated Determination and Evaluation Reporting system computerized the welfare eligibility and issuance processes for Los Angeles County. The system supports more than 12, 000 social workers in 42 locations. The equipment includes more than 13, 000 workstations and laptop computers, 2000 printers, 42 local office file servers, 30 central file servers and domain controllers, and 4 mainframe computers.

Position: Network Administrator
•Network administration (including backup, security management, user account management, e-mail systems including e-mail web server, internet access, office systems and applications support).
•Supports server, network and desktop hardware, software and applications.
•Performs technology needs analysis.
•Rolls out hardware and software to ensure optimal deployment of resources.
•Plans, implements, and supports the network and computing infrastructure plan.
•Create and maintain documentation as it relates to network configuration, network mapping, processes, and service records.
•Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and associated training plans for network administration, usage, and disaster recovery.
•Supporting Citrix XenApp 6.5
•Consulting with clients to specify system requirements and design solutions
•Manages small to medium sized projects according to agree upon budgets and schedules.
•Assists with technology planning through ongoing research.
•Accurately document instances of hardware failure, repair, installation, and removal
•Support development and implementation of new computer projects and new hardware installations
•Assist in deploying and installing System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012), create Distribution Points (DP) and deploy windows 7 using SCCM server
•Build, create, test, plan and implement encryptions for more than 12000 workstations.
•Microsoft server 2003 to 2012 experience with Installation, Active directory, group policy, DHCP, DNS, etc.
•Build and manage a Distributed file system (DFS)
•Troubleshooting clients’ technical problems and give them the right solution
•Troubleshoots diagnoses, resolves and documents difficult hardware, software and network connectivity problems, referring only the most complex problems to other IT technical staff or vendors for resolution.
•Installs, configures and maintains specialized business, engineering and operations support software to meet customer needs and computing requirements.
•Develops and conducts formal and informal end user technical orientation and training involving new hardware capabilities, and may provide technical training to other IT support staff.
•Supports and provides maintenance for applications and coordinate with customers and developers for application enhancements or modifications as needed.
•Coordinates large PC installation projects.
•Configures software distribution tools.
•Defines and recommends appropriate hardware and software configurations and standards to meet customer needs, and prepares specifications for purchase of software and other peripheral devices.
•Analyzes and optimizes hardware and software performance through adjustments and upgrades as required.

Technical Support Engineer at Metro PCS
  • United States - California - Los Angeles
  • October 2012 to December 2013

•Technical support for people using the network
•Setting up user accounts, permissions and passwords
•Training staff on new systems
•Installing new software
•Day to day admin and monitoring of network use
•Overseeing security of all systems, especially the internet,
and installing antivirus protection
•Planning future improvements, suggesting IT solutions to business problems

Technical Support Consultant at Independent Contractor
  • United States - California - Los Angeles
  • December 2011 to December 2012

•Provide technical assistance to computer system users
•Answer questions and resolve computer problems for clients in person, via telephone or remotely
•Provide assistance concerning the use of computer hardware and software
•Install networks and provide technical support for small businesses

Network Administrator at Ministry of national economy
  • Palestine - Ramallah and Al Bireh
  • May 2010 to November 2011

•Provided technical support by managing system networks via Windows Server 2008
•Provided technical support and trouble shooting in order to maintain WAN and LAN networks
•Utilized various software applications such as Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 to maintain network stability and integrity
•Utilized disaster recovery and backup tools along with storage manager systems tools in order to maintain and uphold zero system downtime
•Provided training and support to system designers and company staff
•Was responsible for selecting hardware and material for company systems assuring compliance with specifications and product requirements
•Built, tested and modified product prototypes using working models or theoretical models constructed using computer simulation such as VMware
•Analyzed user (employee) needs, including type of computers and peripheral equipment modifications, and recommended appropriate hardware for their workstation
•Analyzed information to determine, recommend and plan workstation layout for employees
•Managed and directed technicians, engineering designers and other technical support personnel as needed

Network Engineer at Office of the Palestinian President
  • Palestine - West Bank
  • June 2009 to May 2010

•Provided technical support, specifically for their Data Center for all equipment and configuration steps
•Successfully provided trouble shooting support with WAN and LAN networks
•Successfully held leadership and team building roles
•Successfully applied the use of numerous software applications to maintain network security and to protect network system via disaster recovery and backup and storage manager systems applications.
•Successfully managed networks via Microsoft Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

Technical Support Engineer at PalSys Company
  • Palestine - West Bank
  • June 2008 to June 2009

•Provided technical support to our clients based on their contractual agreements with PalSys
•Responsible for up selling numerous computers to our clients based on their individual needs
•Specialized in contractual maintenance by providing technical support to the numerous clients that we serviced through PalSys via phone help desk support or onsite technical support at client’s business location.

Network Technical Support Specialist at Horizon Computer Technology
  • Palestine - Ramallah and Al Bireh
  • January 2008 to June 2009

•Responsible for providing excellent technical support for computers networks for numerous companies and organizations that we serviced

Salesman and Technical Support Specialist at Levant Telecom Company(Dominion)
  • Palestine - Ramallah and Al Bireh
  • December 2007 to December 2008

•Successfully held the position of salesman and technical support for voice over IP systems that were used for international calls

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at October 6th university
  • July 2007

Specialties & Skills

Network Administration
Technical Support
Windows Server Administration
Troubleshooting
Active Directory
Desktop Support
Windows servers
Network operations consultant
File servers
Encryption (Microsoft BitLocker)
Technical Support
Active Directory
DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP
Group Policy
pc networking
system administration
programming
outlook
computer hardware troubleshooting
windows server
marketing
operating systems

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2016
CCNA (Intro) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2006
CCNA (ICND) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2006
A+ (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2005
Graphic Design (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2009
MCITP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2010
Introduction to Installing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2010