Muhammad Asad Mehmood Email & Phone Number

Lahore, Pk

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

● Leading the System Operations Team. ● ISMS Compliance and Certification. ● IT infrastructure design, deployment and monitoring. ● IT security implementation and compliance.● Incident Response Management. ● Data Center Operations.● BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning.● Microsoft Azure-AD and Microsoft Entra Administration.● Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online Administration and Migrations.● Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Defender Administration.

Lahore, Pakistan

• Responsible for the 24/7 operations, monitoring, performance tuning and backups of local data center, hosting core servers with Linux and Windows environments.• Management of cloud and off-site backups with disaster recovery of core servers in local data center. • Responsible for the reliable LAN and internet availability in all Techlogix office, monitoring and management of network and system support issues faced by on-site/off-site teams and clients.• Coordination with ISPs to ensure the 24/7 internet connectivity, troubleshooting LAN/WAN issues. Including VoIP/V-Con and IP white listing.• Configuration and troubleshooting of Site-to-Site VPNs with remote offices/clients, dial-up VPNs (with two-factor authentication) on Fortinet platform.• Administration of network firewalls (Fortinet and Cisco) in Techlogix offices, including Application control, IPS, Web filtering, traffic shaping, load balancing and prioritization for VoIP and video conferencing. • Monitoring and reporting of network traffic using FortiAnalyzer, Nagios and IP-Monitor. • Configuration and troubleshooting of email hosting, SSL certificates, Web hosting, DHCP/DNS and FTP Servers, Virtual IPs, URL publishing. • Ensuring that Techlogix servers hosted in data center and cloud meet business security standards, patch levels, updates, including auditing and compliance with certification authorities.• Configuration and troubleshooting of cloud services including Atlassian JIRA/Confluence, Zoho help desk, Web hostings, Public DNS, SVN Subversion and Bitbucket.• Hardware/Software requirement analysis and procurement.Achievements:• FortiGate NG-Firewalls implementation in Techlogix, with migration of VPNs, security policies, routing and traffic shaping policies.• FortiAnalyzer implementation for traffic monitoring and reporting. • Polycom and Zoom video conferencing implementation. • Zoho help desk implementation in Techlogix for handling / reporting of client tickets.

Lahore, Pakistan

• Responsible for the 24/7 operations, monitoring and backups of local data center, hosting Techlogix core servers running Linux and Windows environments, including Domain controllers.• Responsible for the reliable LAN and internet availability in Techlogix (Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad), monitoring and troubleshooting network and system support issues faced by on-site/off-site teams and clients.• Ensure and verify that Techlogix servers hosted in local data center and cloud meet business security standards, patch levels and audit/compliance.• Coordination with ISPs to ensure the 24/7 internet connectivity, troubleshooting LAN/WAN issues. Including VoIP/V-Con and IP white listing.• Configuration and troubleshooting of Site-to-Site VPNs with remote offices/clients and remote access VPNs on Huawei and Cisco platform.• Configuration and troubleshooting of DHCP, DNS, FTP, virtual hosts, URL publishing and mail servers.• Configuration and troubleshooting of Techlogix prod servers and version control system (SVN)• Implementation and performance tuning of Linux/Windows servers, failure analysis and recovery; insuring the consistency and integrity of file systems.• Hardware/Software requirement analysis and procurement.Achievements:• Implemented Huawei Firewalls/Routers in Techlogix offices with migration of VPNs from Vyatta open-source firewalls, configured network security, policy based routing for multiple ISPs and QoS. • Upgraded Windows and Linux servers to latest OS versions.• Migrated physical servers to VMWare infrastructure. • Implemented Solar-Winds NTA/IP-Monitor (on premises) and Nagios (on AWS) for real time monitoring.• Implemented Kaspersky Antivirus solution on data center servers. • Implemented centralized WLAN in Techlogix offices. • Migrated primary ISP and implemented BGP for auto fail-over on Redundant Fibers.

Lahore, Pakistan

• Responsible for the reliable LAN and internet availability in Techlogix (Lahore, Karachi, and Islamabad), monitoring and troubleshooting network and system support issues faced by on-site/off-site teams and clients.• Coordination with ISPs to ensure the 24/7 internet connectivity, troubleshooting LAN/WAN issues.• Configuration, management and troubleshooting of Site-to-Site VPNs with remote offices/clients and remote access VPNs, on Vyatta platform.• Network bandwidth monitoring and CBQs on Vyatta firewalls.• Ensure and verify that Techlogix workstations meet business security standards, patch levels and OS updates.• Administration, configuration and troubleshooting of DHCP, DNS, FTP servers.• Administration and user management of company Active directory.• Users/groups management and troubleshooting of company email hosting. • Administration, configuration and troubleshooting of software version control system (SVN).• Administration and troubleshooting of Access Control System. • Hardware/Software procurement.Achievements:• Implemented postfix mail server. • Migrated some servers with MS Windows to Linux environment.