Hateem Ali Email & Phone Number

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Currently working on the UAR (user access review) projecto Coordinate with stake holders on 4 applications.o Get extracts from application team and compare those against the active and disabled userso Prepare glossary for functions and profiles for the application access reviewo Provide updates on daily basis to director and other stake holders on project.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Working on the EOL (End of Life) project. All 2003 / 2008 R2 servers for which Microsoft support has ended.
• Working on the In-place upgrade project. All those servers where application support was no longer available, we did inplace upgrade and made sure all servers were functional after the upgrade.
• Working on the vulnerabilities for upgrade from TLS 1.0 to 1.2, SSL3, RC4 and birthday attacks
• Worked on the hypervisor / VMware platform upgrade, upgraded from 6.0 to 6.7 and 7.0
• Working on the server hardening project for OS 2016 and 2019 from scratch. Created the drafted policies with application & Infrastructure teams and applied the drafted policy on test OU with DEV and QA servers.
• Using Rubrik application for backing up VM’s and restoring. Patching of servers through SCCM

• Building Win 2012R2 and 2016 Servers as per the build book
• Resolving Tickets pertaining to Infrastructure Operations Team using the Ticketing System
• Windows 10 Migration Part of the team in creating work packages and sequencing activities
• Transferring files and setting to external hard drive using windows Easy Transfer. Installing windows 10. Moving back files and settings, Reinstalled programs and updated drivers
• Working with vSphere 6.5 for managing the vCenters, vMotion, high availability, storage vMotion for Host based migrations of VMs in Production environment
• Understanding of Change Management, concepts, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery concepts as they relate to Distributed Systems architecture

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Migrated VMs across hosts within a HA cluster to perform maintenance tasks on ESXi hosts and used VMware vMotion to eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running virtual machines.
• Created virtual switches and port groups, configured virtual networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs, and configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies
• Worked on SCCM and WSUS for Windows OS deployment and Patch management
• Created clones from existing VMs (both live and powered-off)
• Identified highest space using folder on various NAS servers to free up disk usage using TreeSize Professional
• Configuration, provisioning and support for internal on-premise and cloud-based servers, including but not limited to, Active Directory and Federated Services, DNS services and file sharing resources

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Installed Windows 2008R2/2012R2 in the created virtual machines and also installed the required roles, software and tools
• Windows Server 2008R2/2012R2 installation, deployments, troubleshooting and automation
• Troubleshooting the Hung VM Sessions on ESX Host & sending the files to VMware support for resolutions
• Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, system and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.
• Provisioning and management of 3rd party application licensing, such as Adobe, Visual Studio, etc

Pakistan

• Assist the Windows system administrator in the management and maintenance of the File, Email and Blackberry servers. Including adding new users and assigning user permissions
• Lead technical support for the installation, configuration and maintenance of platforms for daily production requirements and project development
• Maintained up-to-date documentation and procedures that define the operability of the infrastructure
• Ensured clients’ server, desktop and network issues are resolved in timely manner
• Planned and implemented Group Policies onto Workstations & servers to provide a more secured & controlled environment as well as planned and performed OS & hardware upgrade of windows 2000
• Performed administration & support on MS Windows 2012 Domain Controller, DNS, DHCP, SQL and Printer services