Alex has a broad solid experience and expertise in information technology. With 50+ Implementations in various Industries and over 18 years of his expertise in the field Alex has a good understanding of the interaction between technology, and Business.With his background and curiosity around “Best In Breed” technologies, Alex is good at communicating with all levels of an organization, a skilled team player, mentor, motivator, and team builder, ensures deliveries according to plans and budgets, as well as he is energetic, structured, and results focused.Alex’s focus is Microsoft technology, where he has worked extensively with Windows Server, Windows client, Hypervisor, Networks, Infrastructure, Public Clouds, Private Clouds, IaC, Azure and Office365 implementations in the market. He has participated in Pre-sales, Presentations, Public speaking, Bid’s offering, Project Management, Strategy, Way of work, Implementations, and follow-up of projects. In addition to Planning, Process Management, Support, License Management, Security, Compliance, Client and Server Management.

I have the overall responsibility of designing and executing a cloud migration strategy solution within Telenor, cross-service teams, and third-party partners.Working closely with IT consultants, cloud solution architects and cloud engineers in translating IT strategic goals, roadmaps, and business requirements into future state architectures designed , using Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption frameworks, Governance, Principals to leverage the cutting-edge functionality delivered through commercial and private cloud service providers.The main challenges in migrating on premise legacy infrastructure, application portfolios and the ability to bridge the gaps during the migration strategy design process while at least maintaining but enhance the compliance, governance and security posture.

I have worked extensively with SAP migrations for Enterprise, legacy workload’s migrations to Azure, Windows Server, Windows client, Azure virtual datacenter Implementations.I have been involved in Managing a team of IT members, mentoring colleagues, design, architect, pre-sales, presentations, implementation, and monitoring of projects. In addition to planning, process management, support, license management, compliance, and security.

The focus here is Microsoft cloud technology where I have worked extensively in delivering POCs to customers mainly on Microsoft platforms on/off premise, Windows Server, Windows client, Amazon Cloud.Implementations were mainly built using both Azure portal and ARM templates depending on customer’s decision and maturity as well as Office 365 implementations and migrations in the market.I have been involved in pre-sales, presentations, implementation, and monitoring of projects. In addition to planning, process management, support, license management, security, client and server operations, G suit migrations and Amazon cloud AWS.

I worked on deploying and managing the infrastructure in-depth over UECC’s roll on roll off platform.Technologies and applications: Exchange online(POP, IMAP, Staging and Cutover migrations)Windows server 2000,2003,2008,2012 administrationActive Directoryidentities(service principal & managed identity, service accounts, security groups, etc.…)Firewalls: Checkpoint ISATMG ASA Implementation and Administration Office365 migrationwindows Azure(the old azure platform)Implementation of network security and administrationWireless SecurityAzure implementation and migrationNetworks technician (WAN & LAN) devicesactive directory Exchange 2013 implementation and configurationPublic Certificates providers and cryptographyTraffic manager Lync 2010-2013 migration and configurationsWindows Terminal ServersPublic DNSDomain services and controllersphysical servers(DELL,HP) installation and configuration into RacksPrivate DNSHigh availabilityARM Templates Web Applicationshybrid cloudactive directory 2003-2012Hyper-VDirectAccessRRASSAN storage Equal logic Microsoft PKIPowerShellBashDisaster RecoveryGroup policyDHCPDNSOffice365 migrationTraffic managerNetworksWireless SecurityActive Directory

Day to day tasks within the infrastructure were the following:Firewalls Implementation, troubleshooting and administration: ISA Standard & Enterprise Edition, Cisco ASA, PIX Firewall.Implementation of network security and administration UTM Implementations and configuration.Administration of SMTP ,SPAM, and anti phishing filter relays.Implementation of McAfee Antivirus Enterprise server/client.Remote and Routing Configuration- RRAS.Helping in administration of DNS, DHCP, WSUS, active directory and Network Security.Networks technician in the main office GSO (WAN & LAN).

VoIP Administration and SIP configuration on Mira and Shout Gateways Network Administration and management of ISA2004 ,AD , DC Level 1 Technical support Database queries of SQL2003

Tasks were the following:Customer CareReach out to clients through various communication platforms and in-person visits to present the service. where-where.com servicesHelping technical support team as technical support.