Shah Adeel Ahmed Email & Phone Number

Riyadh, Sa

Riyadh Region, Saudia Arabia

• Coordination within internal IT on Security Related issues (Patch Management)• Management and Administration of CISCO ESA, Cisco Umbrella, VMware AirWatch and TrendMicro Suite• Threat Intelligence for Email Gateways, Network, Servers, and User Endpoints Blocking of IOCs Malware Analysis Yara rule scanning for malicious IOCs• Investigation of Threats identified by SOC• Automated Vulnerability Assessment & Management with Qualys• Deployment of standard/custom level remediation/mitigating controls against identified vulnerabilities• Technical Coordination with Internal & External Auditors for Certifications

Riyadh

•Deployed and Managing McAfee ePO (McAfee ePO with VSE, MOVE, HIPS and SA) on Physical and Virtual Windows Server and Clients in accordance with best practices. This includes monitoring McAfee ePO operations and alert logs, notifying their chain of command in accordance with local incident handling procedures, and updating deployed products with appropriately approved policy set changes, programmatic updates, and patches, if necessary.•Supporting weekly activity reports on the assessment status provided to appropriate Authorities.•Responsible for installation, implementation, management, and upgrades of Security Products in Production environment considering no downtime•Managing McAfee MOVE for VDI and virtual environment•Enabled Intrusion Prevention.•Email filtering rules to capture spam and malicious emails through EOP and Forefront.•Port and vulnerability scanning for Applicaion/Web Servers using Kali-Linux.•Blocked USBs for end points•Disabled unused accounts in Active Directory.•Managing VCE vBlock Virtualization Infrastructure of ZAIN-KSA Riyadh and Jeddah, Hosting Critical Operations like IPCC, IPT and Kingdom-wide Shops VDI.•600+ VM’s Administration, Maintenance and Monitoring through vCenter•400+ VMWare VDI’s Administration through Horizon View•90 ESXi Hosts on CISCO UCS Blades•Optimization for Maximum uptime of Bare-Metal VMWare Infrastructure as per System Health Trends•Critical Application System’s optimization based on Historic and current Usage Trends and Graph•Identification of Critical Systems with Exclusive Backup policies as per Industry Standards•Hands on Experience on Tools and utilities like Veeam and vRealize Operations Manager•Coordinating with Vendors mainly VCE, CISCO and McAfee.•Coordinating with Network and Storage Teams for smooth operations•Daily Operational Tasks with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, File Server and Print Server.•Providing Inventory reports to Management through BMC ADDM

Provide Technical consultancy on:• HyperV• VMWare• Capacity Planning• Cloud Base Backup Strategies• Cloud Base VM’s Hosting• Hosting and Administration of US and Canada based Clients on Different service providers Mainly GoGrid and DHI Cloud Solutions.• VM’s Administration, Maintenance and Monitoring through vCenter• 30+ Clients VM’s on Cloud based Hosting• 150+ local VM’s Administration• Resource Management of VMs,• Server Monitoring with WhatsUp Gold

• Responsible of running smooth Operations in SouthIraq.• Previously Assigned responsibilities of IT Manager in Baghdad and Erbil• Servers Installations, including Microsoft windows,Hypervisor and VMs on ESXi platform.• Installations and Managements of VMs.• Major responsibilities are Windows Server and desktop administration, New product rollouts/deployments.• Setup & implement Disaster recovery system and procedures to ensure full data integrity, security and recovery in case of disaster. Using Symantec Exec and Nasuni Cloud.• Monitor report and recommend IT infrastructure resource utilization.• Maintenance of IT hardware and software licensing policy and ensure compliance with data disposal or retention procedures.• Budget planning, procuring and asset management and controlling IT expenditure within the region.• Re-organization of Control Risks LAN/WAN in the Southern Iraq to cover all 8 sites.• Recruit, train, plan and delegate tasks to junior members of the team • Act as IT technical authority to the management team advising on trends and suggesting improvement to control risks computing infrastructure.• Project management of all IT-related projects, ensuring timely delivery within set budget.• Identify and prepare hardware for disposal when appropriate, ensure hardware is stripped and secured before disposal• Recce of Suppliers for Erbil to deploy Fiber in CR office• Assisted ExxonMobil to Deploy their office in COB-STS and HB after that took over by Halliburton IT• Assisted ExxonMobil to Procure VoIP Phones, Configuration and deployment• Co-ordinate between BP IT and CR for deployment of IT services• Deploy Welfare Network at Schlumberger Camp for CR Employees

• Responsible for the smooth running of Data Center Operations.• Responsible for the smooth running of the Internet network to worked with US Team.• Email, DHCP and LAN management with 100+ users• Maintains and Backup of Mantis and Concurrent Versioning System.• Migrate Windows environment to Linux to avoid licensing Issues use Virtual Box for development environment.• Provide Online Trouble shooting via LogMeIn and TeamViewer to US and India Office.• Implement Open source Chat Server. • Implement CCTV.• Implement Linux based Firewall Smooth Wall• Implement virtualization

• Responsible for the smooth running of the Internet network.• Installation and configuration of servers and services.• Monitor and troubleshoot ISP networking devices and servers and creating backup procedure to minimize the downtime.• Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Askari Commercial Bank Ltd X.25, Radio and VSAT links that includes Idirect equipment, Launch Pads, Hosts, Controller and ATM’s.• Monitoring and Troubleshooting of ICI countrywide network through routers.• Monitoring and Troubleshooting of PSO countrywide network through Idirect.• LAN Administration with Window 2000 Server & Windows 95/98.

Bs, Computer Science

S-S-C, Engineering