Wissam AL-Hames, Systems Engineer

Wissam AL-Hames

Systems Engineer

Shoneez

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
Experience
18 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 4 Months

Systems Engineer at Shoneez
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2010

My Key Responsibilities:
• Ensure that all Shoneez Branches services are available 24x7
• Review and monitor the Company infrastructure and identify improvements and make recommendations as necessary
• Responsible for the creation and maintenance of disaster recovery procedures (DRP)
• Monitor our servers Windows & Linux based operating systems
• Monitor Network Operations Center (NOC) using various network, systems and security management tools and respond to alerts/incidents as necessary.
• Monitor and document various alerts including network latency, packet drops, outages, windows exchange server, and various service alerts (BES, file sharing etc.)
• Security Management Systems ( security camera- and see it over Internet)
• Monitor the E-commercial Systems and E-mail Marketing Servers in Windows and Red hat Servers

Systems Engineer. at SETCO LLC
  • Syria - Damascus
  • October 2007 to December 2009

My Key Responsibilities:
• Troubleshoot Tier 1-2 issues, including Active Directory, Exchange & HP Server and DNS related issues.
• Troubleshoot Patch and Backup issues, analyzing and isolating network events, and escalating when necessary.
• Track and support Network Change Control schedules and activities.
• Developing and assisting end users to access the incident management system to log incidents
• Prepare Computers and network for installing NVSsoft products
• Initial monitoring and analysis of the output from security devices such as IPS, malware alerts, firewall logs, proxy logs, system logs, and so on

Systems Engineer. at Ideal Systems Computers L.L.C
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • June 2005 to June 2006

My Key Responsibilities:
• Design, source, deploy and manage end-to-end IT infrastructure requirements for our offices and web hosting environment
• Manage data and infrastructure security through the use and regular audit of industry-leading firewall, antivirus and IPS solutions
• Take ownership of our web hosting environment to ensure 99.99% or higher website availability
• Analyze, optimize and report website traffic patterns to preempt upgrades when necessary
• Specialist knowledge of local applications

IT Solutions Administrator at Shoneez Company
  • Syria - Damascus
  • May 2004 to June 2005

My Key Responsibilities:
• Preparing standard Desktop environment for newly acquired computers
• Assist the users in carrying out their normal day to day operations on the computers
• Assist new users in the usage of different normally used existing packages
• Set up and maintain an anti-virus measures on the network and all PCs connected on the network
• Ensure that the entire Desktop environment is maintained in a standard agreed form
• Support and assist in other projects/rollouts/initiatives support
• Advanced LAN management


Manage availability of applications, systems, and servers in various environments.

Write technical articles for the Knowledge Base and white papers

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
  • at ACT College: American Academy for Management and Technology.
  • June 2006

I have received outstanding distinction for my IT work from the following institutions: • Shoneez Company. • American Academy.

Specialties & Skills

LAN WAN
Windows Server
Email Hosting
E-commercial Systems
• Hands on experience with Windows 2003 Server OS and Windows 2008
Email Marketing
Advanced LAN management in CISCO environment
• Specialist Microsoft Dynamics Rights Management Server (RMS)
Managing Microsoft Certificate Services

Languages

English
Intermediate
Arabic
Expert
Russian
Intermediate

Memberships

Microsoft
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
  • June 2006
Cisco
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate
  • July 2012
Member of Engineers Professionals Association in Syria
  • Member of Engineers Professionals Association in Syria
  • June 2008

Training and Certifications

C# (Training)
Training Institute:
new horizons
Date Attended:
August 2009
Duration:
40 hours
Red Hat Systems (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999
SharePoint Administrator (Training)
Training Institute:
new horizons
Date Attended:
June 2011
Duration:
40 hours
MCSE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2006
Valid Until:
January 9999
Training on Microsoft Dynamic CRM (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999
CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2009
Valid Until:
May 2012

Hobbies

  • Travel
    I like to visit other countries , and meet other people
  • Chess
    I like this Game a lot, I spend a lot of time on it