Naveed Ali Email & Phone Number

Saudi Arabia

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Qatar, Doha

-Reports to Group IT Head in development and execution of Policies, Annual IT budget & future Implementation Plans-Responsible to manage a Data Centre operation that includes HP, Dell and IBM rack servers, SAN, Tape Library, Security Firewall, Barracuda spam controller, Fiber and VPN connectivity between different site offices.-Responsible for day-to-day IT operation, Win Server 2008 r2 & 2012 (AD, DNS, DHCP, GPO), MS Exchange 2013, IIS, Microsoft Dynamic Navision, office 365, Azure Cloud & Storage, ADFS, and support and implementation other business applications.-Co-ordinate with service providers, business partners and hardware/software vendors to ensure successful implementations with minimal disruption to business.-Managing and administrating Exchange and SQL Database in clustering mode.-Implement information security best policies and standards in IT environment to avoid unwanted threats.-Coordinate with IS Internal Audit, External Audit and other regulatory authorities to their satisfaction representing IT Dept.-Managing and administrating the central Symantec Backup Exec 2016 Suite.-Manage the performance routine equipment checks and preventative maintenance. Maintain up-to-date documentation of designs and configurations.-Manage the deployment of content (policies, signatures, or rules) for the security infrastructure.-Installation/Configuration of SonicWALL firewall in Azure cloud with Site to Site VPN between Azure cloud and head office/DR site.-Real time monitoring of network using SIEM tool and doing deep analysis of security attacks.-Manage the response to day-to-day security change requests related to security operations.-Perform enterprise & IP Networks (LAN, WAN), Servers, Vulnerability Assessment using different security tools-Involves in Incident analysis, incident responses, incident remediation, fine tuning and developing co-relation rules.Conducted IT awareness sessions for employees’ organization wide.

Karachi

-Reports to CTO in development and execution of IT Strategy, Policies, Annual IT budget & future Implementation PlansResponsible for overall IT related activities, installations, configurations and maintenance of network with 99.9% guaranteed uptime.-Managing above 300 active network nodes countrywide which are connected through LAN & WAN using different connectivity mediums like. Fiber, Radio Link, Microwaves, ISDN, DSL and VPN.Infrastructure designing, planning and supervision of Data Centre operations that includes HP Blade Serves, SAN, Tape Library, Active Directory, Financial Application, Security Firewalls, Internal Web Services, Fiber Connectivity etc.-Facilitate IS Internal Audit, External Audit and other regulatory authorities to their satisfaction representing IT Dept.-Implementation and administration of following Servers ( Domain Server, MS Lync Server, WSUS, TMG, IIS, Oracle Financial Asterisk Server & Kaspersky Endpoint Security with Encryption)-Configure HSRP-VSS between Core Switches for redundancy and for load balancing.-Conduct active penetration tests and discover vulnerabilities in information systems.-Managing group and end-user IT Policies for effective management of network-wide security policies and procedures.-Supervise IT Helpdesk & Network /System engineer’s team.-Conducted IT awareness sessions for employees’ organization wide.Achievements:Implementation of Microsoft CRM Dynamic 2011Implementation of HP Enterprise Blade Center & SAN Storage SolutionImplementation of VMware vSphere 5.1.0Implementation of Corporate WAN/ LAN (Fiber, Radio, Microwave & DSL)Implementation of DR services (Internal & Third party)Implementation of Microsoft License compliance organization wideImplementation of Comprehensive IT Security and other policiesImplementation of Kaspersky Endpoint Security with Encryption

Karachi

Joined ARY Communication Pvt. Limited as Network Engineer and got promotions to the level of Assistant Manager IT. The ARY Communications Pvt. Ltd is a part of ARY Group, holding LDI, DTH and international & Domestic Call Center licenses and provides IT and communication services to other companies of ARY Group.Role & Responsibilities:•Installed and Configured Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System for ARY Network T.V. channel Pakistan•Planned, scheduled and coordinated IT infrastructure activities, including installations, testing and configuration of hardware and software.•Configured VTP, internal VLAN on Cisco 3550 •Deployed and manage route maintenance of ARY Call Centre that included but not limited to LAN/WAN, Cabling and data transfers.•Planned backups, disaster recoveries, IT Support, •Manage team of technicians and junior Systems Engineer(s).Achievements:Implementation of Microsoft Windows DomainImplementation of Microsoft Exchange ServerImplementation of international & Domestic Call Center Implementation of ISA ServerImplementation of IVR Solution Implementation of Corporate Web Server