Zahid Hussain, Deputy Director

Zahid Hussain

Deputy Director

Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Master's degree, Computer Science
Experience
11 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 11 Months

Deputy Director at Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • July 2012 to June 2013

1. Strategy & Planning
• Design and implement short- and long-term strategic plans to ensure infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements.
• Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and associated training plans for infrastructure administration and project management.
• Participate in the development of IT strategies in collaboration with the executive team.
• Conduct research and make recommendations on products, services, protocols, and standards in support of all infrastructure procurement and development efforts.
• Establish service level agreements with business units.

2. Acquisition & Deployment
• Prepare RFPs, bid proposals, contracts, scope of work reports, and other documentation for infrastructure projects and associated efforts.
• Negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure infrastructure-specific products and services.
• Assist with the planning and deployment of infrastructure security measures.

3. Operational Management
• Manage and set priorities for the design, maintenance, development, and evaluation of all infrastructure systems, including LANs, WANs, Internet, intranet, security, wireless implementations, and so on.
• Conduct feasibility studies for various upgrade projects, improvements, and other conversions.
• Define hardware and software standards in conjunction with owners and stakeholders.
• Test network performance and provide network performance statistics and reports; develop strategies for maintaining network infrastructure.
• Test server performance and provide network performance statistics and reports; develop strategies for maintaining server infrastructure.
• Manage operational costs; conduct near- and long-term financial forecasts for expanded functionality/user base.
• Establish and maintain regular written and in-person communications with the organization’s executives, decision-makers, stakeholders, department heads, and end users regarding pertinent infrastructure activities.
• Practice IT asset management, including maintenance of component inventory and related documentation.
• Direct and administrate a contingent of network analysts and technicians, and where necessary, conduct performance reviews and corrective action.

4. Wings under supervision
Infrastructure Management Wing
Disaster Recovery Wing
Helpdesk and User support Wing

System Administrator at Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • October 2003 to June 2012

• to provide advanced systems support for installation, integration and management of computer systems, operating systems, peripherals, and system interfaces, monitor system usage and assure that the systems are operating at optimal performance and reliability levels.
• to develop and maintain systems/network/Storage Area Network documentation.
• to administer, monitor and plan the entire network Systems and Storage Area network of SECP.
• to assume a key role in managing the systems software/hardware infrastructure and provides an effective, reliable, high performance, scalable computing environment.
• to administer the configuration and tuning of systems, collect and maintain system utilization statistics, identify and resolve computer system and network system anomalies and operational problems and provide systems support for electronic mail, name resolution, and file sharing, database application and workflow services.
• to maintain a comprehensive knowledgebase of the state-of-the-art computing systems and peripherals, operating systems, and scalable parallel architecture.
• to evaluate and plan building new servers and operating system level administration.
• to work closely with computer hardware and software vendors to maintain a comprehensive understanding of industry trends and evolving technology.
• to work with vendors for obtaining optimum solutions for systems integration.
• to work in coordination with Director IS & T for developing and implementing various policies and procedures.
• to analyzes current infrastructure solutions and identify and implement optimizations and efficiencies.
• to work with users and other IT staff to determine and develop specific information systems requirements and processes.
• to help in analysis for modifications for third party software products and act as a liaison to software vendors to meet user needs.
• to provide platform and other relevant services to developers in coordination with System Analyst.
• to manage distributed mail and messaging services for HO and CROs.

Lab Administrator at Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhuto Institute of Science and Technology
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • August 2001 to October 2003

-to manage the complete IT infrastructure at Islamabad Campus.

-to provide means for weekly video conferencing lectures.

-to Supervise different projects assigned to Students (Major Linux based and Grid Computing)

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at Federal Urdu University of Arts Science and Technology
  • June 2006
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad
  • August 2001

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Servers
Storage Management
Cisco devices
IBM Servers
EMC VNX 5300 Unified Storage
EMC Centera
VMware Site Recovery Manager
Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft ISA - TMG
IBM WebSphere
IBM Content Manager
VMware vSphere
EMC FMA
EMC Recover Point wtih VMware SRM
Microsoft Windows Servers
CISCO Switches and Routers
CISCO Call Manager, Meeting Place, Unity Connection

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

VMware Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2009
Valid Until:
October 2009

Hobbies

  • Deploying New solution
    Deploy new technologies specially Microsoft based servers
  • Reading Technology Magzine
    Subscribed to many online magzines