Deputy Director
Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
Total years of experience :11 years, 11 Months
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
• 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.
-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)