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Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

• Administering server patch management and person in-charge to ensure all servers are patched and up to date with the latest security patches• Provide advice and recommendations to management to assist in technology directions, decisions and road-map• Daily network management, audit, monitoring, and troubleshooting using PRTG, LogRhythm SIEM• Proactively monitoring End Point Security logs and reporting the threat incident to higher management• Virtualized physical servers as per business needs resulting in 30 per cent enhanced performance and 60 per cent storage usage • Software deployment, End Point Protection Antivirus, and MS Windows updates through MS SCCM 2012• Administrate actively MS Windows 2003, 2008, and 2012 servers under virtual vSphere 6.5 environment.• Member of IT leadership team accountable for developing and delivering IT strategies. Ensures that obstacles and blockers to implementing projects are effectively addressed• Member of installation of NetApp FAS2240 & FAS 2552 hybrid SANs with Thin provisioning, dedupe, compression using SSD and SAS drives with over 100 TB in storage space• Proactively monitoring storage usage among VMs and reclaiming space on NetApp which results in minimum 1 TB reclaimed space per day• Administering Exchange servers and account activities online• First hand support contact for MS • Member of the team accountable for migrating VoIP System from Avaya to Skype for Business• Managing over 200 VMs across data centers with HA, vMotion, DRS, Storage DRS, VDS and more resulting no unplanned failure / outage in 3 years• First person to contact in case of any IT emergency esp. for CEO and President of the company• Hands on experience Cisco and Avaya switches including wireless network• Monitoring backup jobs and changing backup tapes on daily / weekly basis across multiple branches using Backup Exec 2015• All hands on phone and computer support• Extensive use of Microsoft Skype for Business 2016

Toronto, Canada Area

• Accountable for taking care of higher executives’ IT infrastructure related issues • Accountable for troubleshooting internal and external clients account through use of Active Directory, MS Exchange• Accountable for virtualization physical servers (P2V)• Software deployment, End Point Protection Antivirus, and MS Windows updates through MS SCCM 2012• Administrate MS Windows 2003, 2008, and 2012 servers under virtual vSphere 5.1 environment• Member of IT leadership team accountable for developing and delivering IT strategies. Ensures that obstacles and blockers to implementing projects are effectively addressed• Member of Avaya based VOIP project across multiple branches using Avaya phones, servers, G450 gateway and POE switches converted in digital phones resulted in 40% savings with high availability• Member of installation of two NetApp FAS2240 & FAS 2552 hybrid SANs with Thin provisioning, dedupe, compression using SSD and SAS drives with over 60 TB in storage space• Managing over 200 VMs across data centers with HA, vMotion, DRS, Storage DRS, VDS and more• Member of successfully conducted wireless project with Cisco 2504 WLC and 10 Aironet 3702 access points with centralized management and security• Network management, monitoring, and troubleshooting using PRTG• Hands on experience Cisco and Avaya switches• Responsible for backing up terminated staff's laptop / PC• Responsible for monitoring backup jobs and changing backup tapes on daily / weekly basis across multiple branches using Backup Exec 2012 server D2D2T strategy• All hands on phone and computer support• Extensive use of Microsoft Lync 2010/2013 clients• All hands on Avaya softphone and MS Lync integration• Process incoming IT support calls/emails within service levels and objective to resolve high percentage of problems in a timely manner• Keep track of new hires/terminations and ensure procedures are followed

Toronto, Canada Area

Provide IT support and solution for SMB

Toronto, Canada Area

Research at IT market at TDSB

Tehran, Iran

Established since 1985, Nashr-e-Markaz is a leading publications in Iran and also one of the biggest private publishing house. • Succeeded to restore lost data from a physically damaged Hard Disk Drive Contacted Worldwide data restoring companies and found the proper company. The worth of restored data was about $10,000• Rebuilt and improved Excel templates for annual fiscal reports. Decreased report generation time in half• Sourced and arranged an advanced editorial course for editorial employees which enhanced the accuracy of employees up to 30% and decreased file editing time by 20%• Supervised and troubleshot software and hardware issues such as misuses (gaming, Facebook …), recovering erased and lost data, software and anti-virus updates, replacing malfunctioning parts or upgrading hardware• Troubleshoot LAN and WAN issues. Designed and Implemented Wireless network to make internet access available for everyone, in 3 floor building and made LAN dedicated to accounting systems• Discussed the benefits of establishing a website to a Board of Directors. Analysed and presented the implications for all stakeholders• Increased the level of IT knowledge by teaching ICDL course to all employees resulted in self-esteem improvement of employees to solve primary issues in MS Office and Windows• Provided continual analysis of system usage to determine current needs and future requirements

Tehran, Iran

• Managed implementation of an Office Automation System. The system increased efficiency of employees by approximately 20%• Planned and attended several meetings with 3 major software companies in Iran to choose the proper office automation software• Provided the appropriate platform (dedicated servers, administrative access to LAN, dedicated office) to install, run, and test the software

Tehran, Iran

Caravan Publishing House was established at 1997. Thereafter, Caravan has published many titles in fiction and nonfiction like critics, mythology, psychology, screenplay, poetry, correspondence, pocket books, commemoration, references, etc. In the year 2000, Caravan invited Paulo Coelho, the famous Brazilian author, to Iran, that was the first non-Muslim author visiting Iran after the Islamic Revolution. At the year 2001, Caravan presented the Literary Award of Paulo Coelho and the next year, in collaboration with Andishesazan Publishing House established the Yaldaa Literary Award, dedicated to fiction books and critique, three years of which has been presented. • Introduced new management and public relations skills to the company by translating “Management For Dummies” series. Enhanced these skills approximately by 15% • Performed hardware and software repairs and support as well as resolving hardware, software, and networking/communication problems and maintenance support to end users• Designed and Implemented Caravan Publishing House’s first Website (with Microsoft FrontPage) • Designed and Implemented the page layout templates for "For Dummies" series in Adobe InDesign

Business/Corporate Communications

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering