Wasim Akhtar Email and Phone Number

Wasim is an upstream and focused IT professional with a distinguished career profile possessing over 20 years of technical experience; leading teams and delivering resilient, secure IT architectures across diverse landscapes and business sectors. He has a proven ability in defining strategies for technical challenges and delivering technical solutions in a secure, on budget and timely fashion. Wasim's natural aptitude for optimisation activities, risk reduction analysis and experiences in extracting service metrics to feed continuous improvement and innovation operations means he is agile in service delivery and cyber security environments. Confident executing projects & championing security in challenging business environments that demand high standards of compliance, quality and precision.Wasim is currently employed at a global aerospace company working to security frameworks like NIST and CAF whilst harnessing power of cloud infrastructures such as Amazon AWS GovCloud and Microsoft Azure.KEY SKILLS• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 & 2012• Active Directory, Group Policy, WSUS, DNS, DHCP, WDS, TCP/IP• Microsoft System Centre 2012 (SCCM, SCOM, VMM)• Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, vSphere, vCentre• Cisco Networking, TCP/IP, UDP, Cisco protocols• SIEM, IDS, IPS systems• Sophos, AVG Cloudcare, Webroot, Kaspersky• Evault SaaS, Asigra, Backup Exec, Windows Backup, Data Protection Manager• WMI, SNMP, Solarwinds, SYSLOG, Wireshark, Mobile Device Management• Autocad/Solidworks/Siemens NX/Edgecam/Cimco/PC-DMIS• PlanetPress/Papercut/Equitrac/Bartender