Mohammed Jafar Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

I have a wide range of technical responsibilities and experience as a Cyber security Technical Consultant professional at Gulf IT Network Distribution. I work includes designing technical solutions, implementing Netwrix, KeyFactor PKI CLM, Imperva, Aruba SD-WAN, for continuous protection against known and emerging cybersecurity threats, and providing consulting services and products for various projects.Experience in supporting and managing complex network support activities, performing network engineering and administration tasks, analyzing processes for improvement, and implementing complex network changes and enhancements. You have also worked on disaster recovery capacity and implementation projects, collaborated with IT areas to identify network relationships and functional requirements, and contributed to the technical design of networks.Experience in network performance and tuning activities, implementing products at the enterprise level for huge customer setups, handling TAC cases for various network security issues, and working with SIEM, IDS/IPS, Fortinet web filtering solution firewall, load balancer Bluecoat Proxy Shaping & Silver Peak WAN Optimization, and Imperva Web Application Firewall, Data Base Firewall & File Security Solutions.Overall, my experience is a strong technical background in the cybersecurity field, with a focus on providing technical solutions and services for complex network environments.

Abu Dhabi

Installation and Configuration of Cisco 2960, 3560, 3750,3850, 4500 and 6500 Switches.Installation and configuration of Nexus switches 3000 and 3500 Switches for VPC and HSRP over VPC for redundancy.Proficient in Installation and Administration of CUCM 9.x,10.x, 11.x and 12.x with CUC on UCS C220, C240 and Cisco 5108 Blade Servers for Cisco Unified Communications.Deployed & integrated Expressway C & E with CUCM, IM & Presence servers for Cisco Jabber MRA without VPN access from outside the office.Deployed and configured Cisco CMS Meeting server to host Web meetings which can be joined from any device.Configuration of Cisco Prime Infrastructure software for LAN/WLAN and managing inventory with error reporting if any of the devices goes down.Installation, Configuration and Upgrade of Cisco 2504, 5520, 5508 and 8500 Wlan Controllers to the latest recommended version.Experienced in deployment and provisioning of virtual machines over VmWare Vsphere 5.0,5.5 and Web UI on VmWare version 6.0,6.5.Adding storage devices on the VmWare host and using them as storage for Virtual Machines.Deployed Sophos XG firewalls with complete security and custom IPS policies for the business requirements.Implemented WatchGuard Firewalls in various scenarios including in routed mode and bridge mode deployment.Deployed Barracuda Antispam devices for Exchange servers and hosted Email Accounts.Implemented Barracuda Load Balancer for Exchange Servers with multiple Cas accounts and Oracle Servers for High Availability and session persistence.Preparing Project Handover and Completion Document according to Industry Standards

Dubai

Technical Environment – Windows Server 2008; VMware Server and Tivoli Storage Manager. Handling Exchange Email Id Creation , Distribution Groups, Security Groups, Mail forwarding, configuring SMTP/SIP and on behalf. Mail box migration, storage creation. Logging Tickets through IBM Tivoli Tool. Support to Peachtree and tally server troubling shooting of application and taking Auto/daily backups. Configuring file server, print server, installation of SQL server, SharePoint server. Mimecast handling  Updating license from Outlook 365. Lync Server installation and configuration. Installation od SCCM server and configuration. Handling MCafee pushing Agents and managing update patches. Creating laptop and desktop imgaes. Cisco Switch Configuration, Router Configuration, Wi-Fi Configuration. VLAN Creation.

Hyderabad Area, India

 Prepared the environment for deployment of Windows Server 2008. Analyzed the hardware and software requirements of Active Directory.  Installed, configured, and provide troubleshooting for Server 2008. Migrated Windows Server 2008 from test environment to the production environment. Implemented and managed IP Addressing; configured TCP/IP addressing on a server. Created the Forest Root domain, and a Child domain in a production environment. Installed and configured an Active Directory Domain Controller. Established external trusts and cross-forest trusts. Managed an Active Directory site; replication schedules, site links and boundaries, used ADUC to create and manage computer, user and group accounts in an Active Directory environment. Used DcDiag, NetDiag techniques for troubleshooting. Performed authoritative and non-authoritative restore operations. Diagnosed and resolved issues related to masters role failure and AD database. Configured automatic updates for network clients by using Group Policy. Designed, planned and implemented Group Policy, delegation strategies and OU structure. Managed local, roaming, and mandatory profiles, planed strategy for placing Global Catalogue (GC) and evaluated the need to enable Universal Group Caching. Created approximately 500 user accounts in Active Directory and migrated all Windows NT users by ‘User State Migration Tool (USMT)’.

Hyderabad Area, India

Working on RRL project, Support on Servers .Roles and Responsibilities• Handled a LAN contains 1000 users in various projects• Taking care of Full access layer network contains 1000 users from 25 projects,• Configuring and Troubleshooting Access layer Switches,• Collecting switch details, switch utilization reports • Enabling switch ports for end users to establish connectivity with their project network• Handling MacAfee Encryption.• SCCM client configuration.• Pushing MacAfee Agents.