Leading, mentoring, and developing the infrastructure team, promoting a culture of high performance andcontinuous improvement.• Collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to support and enhance business operations througheffective use of technology.• Oversee back-up and recovery plans ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures arefunctioning efficiently.• Ensure the deployment, proactive monitoring, maintenance, upgrade, and support of all IT Enterprise Systems,including Servers, Storages, Networks, Backup Solutions, Virtualisation, Operating Systems and Hardware.

•Overseeing and determining timeframes for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations, and outages.•Lead the Technical section team to manage the development and maintenance of PMD’s technology infrastructure (which includes Networks, Servers, databases, storage devices and related power equipment) and applications/services hosted by PMD.•Align company's technology development plan with company's business goals and future trends.•Identify and implement technology solutions to meet Company’s technical & business requirements as well as future trends.•Ensure scalability and optimal performance of PMD’s technology infrastructure and services. •Manage development of software solutions (including web portals and mobile applications) solutions and ensure their enhancements/modifications as per company requirements following the best practices.•Monitor and ensure the back-up/restoration of the networks, systems & databases.•Manage and implement robust Disaster Recovery Plan for the technology infrastructure and PMD services.•Provide progress updates on the ongoing projects to the Coordination and Projects section of the technical department and CTIO.

•Plan, design, implement, and oversee the development & and progress of infrastructure planning-related projects and project tasks. •Monitor capacity of information technology systems to determine cost and productivity levels, and to make recommendations for improving the IT infrastructure.•Analyze business requirements by partnering with key stakeholders across the organization to develop solutions for IT needs.•Prepare and review RFP, RFQ, Bid proposals, Contracts, SoW, Technical Evaluation Reports, and other documentation for the Infrastructure Project.• Liaison with Technology and other Business teams; actively participate in each infrastructure and technology-related projects and initiative; suggest/recommend best options that leads to cost-effectiveness, operational efficiency, and efficient use of available resources.•Developing, planning, and making recommendations for timely replacements of EOL/EOS systems and solutions. Also providing recommendations to adopt innovative technologies against EOL/EOS replacements.

•In coordination with IS Architect/Principal Technology Advisor, deploy and maintain all systems (Linux for IBM Power Servers), and infrastructure; particularly pertaining to financial management and control systems.•Install, configure, evaluate and maintain Linux/Windows Servers, application software and system management tools.•Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability. •Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify practical solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.•Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.•Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks. •Participated in the design of information and operational support systems.•Consult with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.•Document all technical details and architecture to CMMI-III level or equivalent.•Contribute technical and professional knowledge and experience to improve BISP IS operations and technical platform. •Develop and provide a weekly project status report describing the status of the above activities and any issues that may emerge, with conclusions and recommendations in regard to the BISP IS software development operation.•Any other technical task required in a team environment for solution delivery.

Responsibilities:1. HPE Networks portfolio, which includes Routers, Switches and Aruba Wireless solutions.2. Attending meetings with business development managers and acting as a technical expert3. Lead implementations and act as a primary technical contact for projects allocated. 4. Network architect as per customer requirements.5. Provide Level 3 support to enterprise customers. 6. Opportunistically pursues additional business development opportunities within customer firms.7. Install, configure and upgrade and enhancements to software/network systems. 8. Responsible for OS and Network deployments. 9. Responsible for the development of the bid, proposal, and presentation of the solution to the prospect.10. Providing technical leadership through specific customer engagements. Projects: Complete campus designing which includes HPE Layer2/3 Switches, Aruba wireless Controller IAPs Successfully presales HPE top of the rack switches in textile industry Provide wireless solution to university which includes controller, IAPs and HPE Switches

I worked in Nayatel Private Ltd, as Assistant Manager inSystems department. Responsible for the high availability of systems, servers and relatedcomponents and the security of the business applications. My acheivements in departmentwere:•Improved system security by limiting users using unjustified root access.•Proactively monitored and administered production and development servers remotely and at the data center.•Designed and implemented backup procedures.•Actively participated in disaster planning. Researched new software's and evaluated new hardware prior to using it in production mode.•Active/Passive MySQL server implementation.•Linux cluster and DRBD implementation by using OCFS file system.•Squid proxy server with WCCP protocol.•Capable for administrating heterogeneous Operating Systems.•SOP's Technical manuals and grooming of juniors.•Managing company's CRM and Business Logic servers.•Achieved 50% reduction of data center costs through the introduction of the following initiatives, carried out on production environment.Projects:1) Implemented Virtualization [Citirx server] solution in Nayatel andachieved the goal of saving, Power,Space and Administration cost ofservers.2) Build SAN servers by using iSCSI protocol and successfully run in production network.3) Implemented High Availability MySQL Server Cluster with DRBD replication4) Real-time data synchronization between Primary and Secondary SAN5) AAA server [Free RADIUS] with Oracle databases.6) LAMP and RADIUS server implementation in government organization7) Alcatel AMS server on Solaris 108) Squid Proxy Server implementation in government organization9) Data Center solutions to Governoment Organizations: Implemented Windows Active Directory server,DNS Server and ISA server and Exchange ServerMicrosoft Exchange Server 2008. Test and configure hosted Exchacnge Server

Management of the following servers for the chain of NUCES-FAST:a) Windows 2003 Active Directory Serverb) Microsoft Exchange 2003 Serverc

Here are the brief activities and duties which I performed during my job inCollege of E & ME were:a) Perform broad range of network administrative tasks.b) Taught courses to UG & PG classes.c) Ensured software remained up to date.d) Identified and resolved security vulnerabilities via key systemenhancements. Recommend new hardware and software.e) Provided technical support and trained staff to maximize workflowefficiency.f) Provide organization with customized network solution.g) Completed extensive network migration, moving system fromWindows- to Linux-based environment; trained staff on newplatform.h) Implement Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11 b (Wi-Fi) up to 11 Mbps datarate.i) Managed computer network more than 300 computers and profilesof 1100 users on windows 2000 server.

Sachal COMSATS Internet Services Multana) Responsible for Technical Operation of ISPb) Provided support to Help Desk for complex/major network problems.c) Apache web-server (ver. 2.0.x.x),d) Squid web-cache 2.x Stablee) Configuration of DNS Server for SUN Solaris.f) Configuration of Send mail, SAMBA and FTP Serverg) Squirrel Mail (Web interface for send mail)h) Maintain a heterogeneous mixture of Window and Linux machines.

I worked as a Network Administrator in Hi-Tech Quality Solutions. Tasks/projectsincluded windows 2000 server, Wingate proxy server and WAN connectionsa) PC support (Linux and/or Windows 2000) of a group of around 10Java Developers and testers, plus a handful of Business Analysts.Occasional backup PC support for the rest of the company (around60 employees in the office).b) The usual constant keeping-up-to-date with new software, hardware,and security patches/issues.c) Network configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of thecompany's switches,d) Local web server configuration and maintenance.e) Management of users profiles.f) Taking time-to-time Backups.7) Network Administrator: 2000 –2001 College Of Professional Studies (AJK)Rawalpindi Campus.My tasks included user account management, software installation/upgrades. Helpdesk: prompt, friendly responses to users' queries.Managed hardware deployment and purchasing proposals.