IT Professional with 14+ years of experience

More than 14 years of multi-national experience in IT industry mainly in the areas of Network/System Administration, Storage systems, Desktop & Server Administration, IT Support, Operations & Disaster & Recovery.

September 2005 – Current
IT Consultant – ValueCorp Business Services Inc. (Toronto – Canada)
www.valuecorp.ca

July 2004 – July 2005 (one year contract)
IT Superintendent – ENI Iran BV (Assaluyeh – Iran)
www.eni.it

* IT Manager for South Pars Phase 4 & 5 Gas Plant. Managed the staff of 14 divided into 4 specific groups
September 2002 – February 2004
Network Systems Administrator – Inquiry Management Systems Ltd (Toronto – Canada)
www.ims.ca

November 1992 – September 2002
Network Manager – F. Hoffmann La-Roche Ltd (Karachi - Pakistan)
www.roche.com

* Roche world-wide operates under a global Informatics Division. The division was responsible for 3 global and various regional domains. There were 437 sites all over the globe. All of them were linked together via leased lines or dial-up connections. Working under the directions of Corporate IT, I had:
* Rollout Manager / Team Leader for various global projects e.g. Implementation of Global Desktop Environment and Standard IT Infrastructure. The project was known as CODEX (Common Office Environment – Domain – EXchange). Initially, it was a combination of Windows NT, MS Office, MS Exchange 5/5.5 and software distribution package known as Columbus. All updates are managed at Global and Regional levels. There were global roaming profiles for all users. Later, CODEX was updated with Windows 2000, Active Directory, MS Exchange 2000 and software distribution by NetInstall. I was the member of Regional Informatics Team for this project.
April 1992 – October 1992
PC Coordinator – Allied Engineering & Services Ltd. (Karachi - Pakistan)

March 1991 – May 1991
Computer Executive – Petroman Training Institute (Karachi - Pakistan)

Education:

* University Graduate and 2 years of Computer Science Diploma.

Professional Training:

* COE training workshop at Roche Welwyn, United Kingdom
* Advanced COE training at Roche Basel, Switzerland
* CODEX Team Leaders training at Roche Basel, Switzerland
* IT Induction Course at F. Hoffmann La Roche Ltd. Basle, Switzerland
* Internet Security and Firewall Concepts
* TCP/IP Architecture and Applications
* Introduction to Cisco Router Configuration (ICRC) 11.3
* Data Communication and Complex Network Engineering
* R-COE Training Course at Roche Basel, Switzerland
* AS/400 System Operator Workshop
* Using PATHWORKS for MS-DOS with OpenVMS
* Advanced VAX/VMS System and Performance management
* SAP/3 overview
* Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND)
* R-COE/2.3 Engineering Training Course at Roche Basel, Switzerland
* Roche Active Directory Design & Migration workshop at Roche Basel, Switzerland

* Netinstall Package Engineering at Roche Basel, Switzerland
* H2S Safety Induction Training
* Offshore Survival Training
* Permit to Work Training
* ITIL Foundation Certified

Professional Achievements:

* Design, Installation and Implementation of LAN with structured cabling and Wireless LAN on various occasions
* Installation and Implementation of Access Control System
* Installation and Implementation of IP based surveillance system (Motobix CCTV)
* Implementation of E-mail Servers (Lotus cc:Mail, MS Exchange, Linux SendMail)
* Implementation of Global Desktop Environment as Team Leader in various entities
* Y2K Project Manager for desktops and communication infrastructure
* VOIP using Cisco 2610 & Alcatel 4100 PABX
* Implementation of Dial-in facility using Cisco 2621, VPN by using Alcatel Time-Step and Microsoft VPN
* Migration of Windows NT 4 to Active Directory
* Co-Location of IT resources, Re-location of Office, Computer Center on various occasions
* Designed and Implemented Server Farm for Rendering purpose by using 5 x Dual/Quad Xeon/Itanium-2 CPUs running Windows 2000 Advanced Server with application layer of Maya 5.0 & Muster
* In 1999, I have been assigned additional responsibilities as IT Group Support Executive by the global HQ of F. Hoffman La-Roche based in Basel, Switzerland. My assignments were to provide IT support to various countries as advised. I have successfully implemented various IT projects at Roche Saudi Arabia (Jeddah) and Roche Bangladesh (Dhaka).