Zain Javed

Managing Information security for the whole group-over 25 sites and 450 users.
•Responsible for developing, implementing, enforcing and maintaining IT policies and procedures across the group.
•Development and maintenance of security related documents including framework and standards.
•Regular reporting on information security.
•Administration of 0ffice365(Emails, OneDrive, Security & Compliance Skype for business etc.) for over 500 mailboxes.
•Lead IT Security projects.
•Responsible for IT Audits including Security and their responses.
•Conducting regular IT Security user awareness campaigns for group users - emphasis on user engagement and ease of understanding.
•Provide level 3 support to 5 Support Engineers.
•Preparation of IT Budgets with strong focus on cost savings - Regular reporting on budget vs Actuals with deviations of less than 5%.
•Administration of Cisco switches.

Significant Accomplishments:
•Lead Project Manager of the Email system migration from Google Apps to Office365 - over 500 Mailboxes.
•Lead the Windows Server upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 for over 30 severs.
•Lead the Upgrade of firewalls of 27 sites from Juniper to SonicWALL.
•Introduced the group to a mobile plan change - unanimously adopted group wide, leading to annual savings of $30, 000 p.a.
•Implemented Helpdesk Solutions service for the whole group - over 450 users with an SLA of less than 3 hours (across high incidents/outages).
•Implemented Patch Management for the group covering over 500 users.

• Managing IT Infrastructure and Corporate network spread over 25 sites.
• Managing team performance and progress.
• Enforcing approved IT policies and procedures across group.
• Preparing Monthly IT reports.
• Responsible for patch management using Ivanti Patch managment.
• Administration of SonicWALL Firewalls (NSA and TZ Series).
• Managing Storage devices (SAN & NAS).
• McAfee e-Policy Orchestrator for the company including virus scan and application whitelisting.
• Administration of Avaya IP Office 500.
• Managing AD, DNS, DHCP and Group Policies (2008 & 12).

Providing technical support to end users covering a broad range of technology requirements;

Worked in IT support team on software like
• Alloy Navigator (For IT Help Desk and IT Asset Management)
• Solar winds (For Network Monitoring)
Responsibilities included installation, customization and training of these software