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Skills:IBM AIX, RHEL, Windows Server, VMware vSphere ESXi

Senior System Administrator 06/2004 - current
Pakistan International Airlines, Karachi, Pakistan
Industry: Airline/Aviation
System Administration of Windows,AIX/Linux Environments
• Work as team leader of system administrators. • Provide 24x7 production environment monitoring and support IBM AIX, Sun Solaris and RHEL . • Maintain and augment automated monitoring of mission-critical systems including security audits. • Maintain and improve access controls to all production computer systems. Document and enforce IT security policies through use of automated tools. • Manage backup of mission-critical code and databases and write PERL scripts to automate routine tasks. • Conduct and follow all change management processes to support ISO and company wide IT policies. • Lead and manage complex technical projects with cross functional teams members • Manage and maintain existing computer systems hardware to minimize downtime and maintain a high level of availability. • Work with software and database engineers to diagnose performance-related issues. • Document configuration changes, as well as processes and procedures, as required to satisfy external auditors and clients. • Interact with external data center staff on computer systems and network-related installation, configuration and trouble-shooting. • Maintain and support virtualized environment with HMC and VMware vCenter Server • Configure, manage and maintain enterprise storage systems IBM DS 4700 and IBM DS 8300--
Systems Manager 05/2001 - 06/2004
Bahria University, Karachi, Sindh Pakistan
Industry: Education/University
Work as an IT Manager, Manage IT infrastructure and related Services.
Ensure management and operational availability of six computer labs and its associated network of 300 nodes served by eight server machines running Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux operating systems with Oracle 9i Database. Also Facilitate Internet via Broadband and ISDN connections. • Administration of Windows 2000 Active Directory through Group Policy and with integration of DNS Email Infrastructure Deployment on Exchange 2000 Server and Outlook Client • Deploy and Administration of Microsoft ISA Server 2000 in Integrated Mode through Access, Protocol Rules and Filters • Administration of Oracle9i Database through Hot Backups/Restore, Import/Export, Table Spaces, User Administration, Privileges • Deploy and Administration of Internet Infrastructure through ISDN BRI on Cisco Router 2600 for Uplink and Broadband via Satellite for Downlink--
Systems & Network Engineer 08/1999 - 10/2000
Professinal Services, Karachi, Pakistan
Industry: IT
Working as Core System and Network Engineer and design and implement different networks.
• Implement solutions to enable a wide variety of businesses to achieve profitability through automation and IT transformation by designing, managing and supporting several turnkey IT systems. • Design and Implement Network of 20 Windows 95 clients connected with Windows NT 4.0 and Linux Server respectively. • Configured DNS Server and Samba on Linux for sharing resources between Windows and Linux. • Design and Deploy Internet infrastructure through DDP and Simplex Downlink • Provide support and maintenance of hardware such as adding & trouble shooting cards and Network related issues such as adding clients.--
System Officer 12/1998 - 07/1999
Karachi International Container Terminal, Karachi, Pakistan
Industry: Transportation/Shipping
Responsible for system support and administration of IBM AIX operating system Windows 95, and Mac OS 8.0
Key Project and Accomplishments: • Backup/Restore of AIX and Oracle Database running under AIX • User and Print Administration and Maintenance • LAN and WAN Administration and Maintenance • Manage Structure Cabling Systems of IBM • Managed installation and day to day maintenance of third-party application software • Developed utility programs in Perl for maintenance and administration tasks • Configured and maintained send-mail on Linux and SMTP mail agent on Windows NT servers--

University of Karachi 01/1996 - 12/1997
Karachi, Sind, Pakistan
Degree: Master's Degree
Major:Computer Science
Area of Interests are Systems and Networks

Sr. System Administrator