Ghazi Kassab Email & Phone Number

Mansfield, Massachusetts, United States

Foxboro, Massachusetts

536 Atwells Ave Providence, Ri 02909

Business Tasks including Management and oversight of the IT Department, Budgeting, Forecasting Trends, Streamlining Operations, Working cohesively with Development, Design, QA, HR, Finance, Data, Product/Project Management, Communications, Executive Sales, Marketing, and Senior Management to Reduce Overhead, Implement New Policies, Create Procedures.Implementing N-Able MSP remote assets management solution. Establish 24/7/365 monitoring of entire server, website, routing, and switching environment.Management and oversight of the Clients' computing, networking, and telecommunications infrastructure.Maintaining up to date documentation on all aspects of IT.Management of the IT Department, Staff.Implemented Virtualization technologies to reduce number of physical servers, along with saving tens of thousands of dollars in yearly maintenance.Hands on upgrading networks to a standard baseline of Windows 7, and Server 2008/12 on a VMWare ESXi infrastructure.Monthly reviews of hardware, software, security issues, and a Proactive approach to reducing the issues by addressing it at the infrastructure level.Implemented a Help Desk to track issues, response times, and resolutions.Back-up administration, and quarterly tests to ensure we can restore servers to full operation status from our backup archives.Day to day Administration of Microsoft Active Directory Domains, including AD migrations, multi-site/domain and forest configurations.Network design, and deployment, including routers, switches, servers, firewalls, VPNs.Configuration and day to day operations of TCP/IP networks, and 200+ servers including DNS, SMTP, Exchange 2010, OWA, BES, IIS, Centralized A/V, Websense, SQL, Custom Designed In-House Application Servers, File Servers, Print Servers.

Network Administration.Managed user accounts. Controls the domain GPOs. in charge, build and secure all kiosk machines on the casino floor.Installed Windows NT and 2000/2003 / 2008 servers.Mass PC cloning and OS deployment (Symantec, LANDesk, Windows Imaging).Supervised security for proper file and resource access.Implemented automated computer inventory control system, patch and remote asset management.Purchased new servers, workstations and laptops.Updated and enhanced operating systems.Managed anti-virus programs on servers and Email systems.Responsible for 3500 desktops, over 360 Servers and 7,000 users’ accounts.Experienced in Local and Wide area networks.Windows Server 2003R2 / 2008R2 Active Directory domain implementation. VMWARE ESXi and Microsoft Virtual Server.Microsoft 9x, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows7 mixed environment.Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and 2003 / 2007 / 2010 administration/migration.Microsoft Printer servers “1200 printers”.Hp JetAdmin server.Blackberry server 5.2/5.3.Microsoft SQL server 2008.Microsoft SharePoint.MIcrosoft SCCM / MOM / Forefront / WSUS installation and administration.Joomla Content management.Spiceworks domain/network monitoring application.Linux Samba.Security Cam systems and biometric servers.Valet parking systems with security cam integration.Ticketing systems for theaters and large scale events. Point of sale systems with easy bar modules. Solarwin Hardware and services monitoring.HP Systems Insight Manager.Locked down public kiosks design and implementation.Microsoft DFS creation/administration.Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010.Citrix Metaframe and NFUSE implementation.DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP and WINS implementation and support.

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SonicWALL Certified 2016 Wise package Studio course completion certification 2004 NerworkD certified LANDesk 8.x 2003 Active Directory.

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