Adeel Mahmood

ADEEL MAHMOOD Cell: - Email:-Islamabad, Pakistan. https://pk.linkedin.com/in/adeelch Summary An accomplished and multi-talented Presales Consultant with experience in providing pre- sales technical engagements, architecting, consulting, and designs for clients by demonstrating a high level of competency in the planning, implementation, and migration experience for deploying end to end converged solutions. Having extensive hands-on and pre-sales experience in technical design including servers and storage, data protection and archiving, virtualization, networking, firewall, and other associated networking technologies. Highly resource with a drive for excellence to satisfy organizational goals and objectives. Professional, detail-oriented, motivated to drive projects from start to finish as part of a dynamic team. Overview      1.5 years’ experience of working as pre-sales consultant with the products from market leaders. Six (6) years’ experience as a Lead Infrastructure & Platforms on HPE, DellEMC, Veritas and Veeam integration projects focused on analyzing customer’s environments, their storage requirements, connectivity needs, and providing hardware systems analysis and implementation. Six (6) years’ experience as Storage Engineer supporting, implementation, and management of 20+ HPE P6000/P4000, IBM v7000, DellEMC Unity, VNX, SC, and Hitachi with several HPUX/Linux and Windows clients. Multiple project experience installing and configuring HA, DR, performance tuning, and HPE 3PAR storage systems, with VTL based backup solution. Strong interpersonal skills to interact with customers, senior level personnel, and team members. Experience 14 years IBL-UNISYS 3 months Mar 2020 – Present 1.3 years Sep 2018 - Dec 2019 5.7 years Jan 2013 - Sep 2018 6.3 years Aug 2006 - Dec 2012 Technology Consultant MULTILYNX Solution Architect MULTILYNX Lead Infrastructure & Platforms MULTILYNX System Engineer Technical Proficiencies Hardware:    HPE 3PAR 7000 and 8000 series including mid-range storage systems. DellEMC Storage systems: Unity, SC series and Power series. Software Defined Storages: HPE, Dell EMC. ………      HPE, IBM, and Dell EMC Storage Networking. HPE Aruba and Dell EMC Networking. HPE Synergy Frame, HPE and Dell EMC Blade Enclosure Infrastructure. HPE, Dell EMC virtual and physical tape libraries. IBM Storage 7000 series. Software:  HPE Data Protector, HPE RMC, Veritas Netbackup, BackupExec, Veeam. Operating System:     VMware ESX, HPUX, Linux and Microsoft Windows Server. Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, creation, and testing of complex storage system designs. SAN solutions sizing, deployment, administration, and support. Strong knowledge of and experience with SAN replication technologies (BC/CA). Key Skills         Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Excellent knowledge of physical/software-defined Storage, Backup, virtualization related infrastructure. Good knowledge of servers, blade infrastructure, and operating systems. Strong troubleshooting and planning skills. Experience in Storage, Backup deployment and implementation. Excellent organizational and communicational skills. Good working relationships with team members. Dealing with vendors, service providers and consultants for support and deployment related concerns. Professional Experience IBL-Unisys (www.iblunisys.com) Technology Consultant Mar 2020 – Present Responsibilities as Technology Consultant:  Planning, Designing and Deployment of Solutions.  Preparing high-level technical solution Scope of Work with detailed deliverables and timelines, layout schematic drawings, compliance & BoM.  Presenting technical demonstrations and assisting in the development of responses to customer requests and proposals as required.  Evaluating the organization's technology use and needs.  Carry out proof of concept trials and technology demonstrations for partners & enterprise-level customers.  Engaging with customers before the release of RFP for influencing technical specifications.  Wrote and executed RFQs & RFPs. ……… Multilynx (www.multilynx.pk) Solutions Architect Sep 2018 – Dec 2019 Responsibilities as Solution Architect:  Finding the best technical solution among all possible to solve the existing business problems.  Describing the structure, characteristics, behavior, and other aspects to project stakeholders.  Interfacing directly with clients, defining features, phases, and solution requirements.  Implementation of Enterprise Storage, Backup, Virtualization, and DR based solutions. Lead Infrastructure & Platforms Jan 2013 – Sep 2018 Responsibilities as Lead Infrastructure & Platform:  Manage infrastructure team by training, coaching, communicating job expectations and appraising their performance.  Lead strategic efforts toward storage consolidation, long-term storage growth, and planning backup policies and procedures.  Provide deep technical expertise and support to the Enterprise Infrastructure team.  Create level 1 and level 2 troubleshooting scenarios (SOP) for team members.  Provide Level 2 and higher production support.  Prepare documentation including data center designs, procedures, presentations, and process.  Enterprise Storage, Backup, Virtualization and DR based solutions' deployment, administration and support. System Engineer Aug 2006 – Dec 2012 Responsibilities as System Engineer:  HP Enterprise Storage Systems (3PAR / EVA / XP) deployment, administration and support.  HP Tape Library Systems/Virtual Tape Library Systems deployment, administration, and support.  HP Data Protector & Symantec NetBackup solutions deployment – Backup, recovery, administration, and support.  SAN Solutions designing and deployment.  SAN consolidation.  Datacenter environment management and support.  HP-UX deployment, administration and support.  HP Integrity, PA-RISC systems and Blade Systems deployment, administration and support. Projects:       Deployment and configuration of Dell EMC Blade Chassis, Servers, Fabric expander and TOR including VMware (vSphere, vCenter). Requirement gathering, solution designing and Implementation of DellEMC based SC and Unity based storages for local Universities. Implemented CommVault (multiple Cell Servers implemented for each zone) with HPE StoreOnce and Tape Library for long-term backup archiving. HPE Synergy Frames, Virtual Connects and OneView deployment and configurations. Deployment, Administration and Support of HPE Blade Chassis, Blade Servers, 3PAR 8400 storages, FC switches and Aruba Networks including VMware (vSphere, vCenter). Designing and implementation DR based solution using Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5. ………    o Designing and Implementation of (each site) local Backup jobs, backup copy jobs, VMs replication (failover and failback), SureBackup, SureReplica and Virtual Labs for the Oraclebased test environment. Evaluation, sizing, deployment and configuration of HPE 3PAR 8200 Storage System for VMwarebased environment of 120 VMs. The snapshot-based backup solution for the virtual environment was implemented using HPE RMC and HPE StoreOnce Backup System. HPE XP1024 Storage System – Firmware and storage capacity upgrade. Implemented Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 to backup the complete SDDC environment at primary site and replication to DR site; including failover/failback scenarios. Education and Credentials  Bachelor in Information Technology (BS-IT) Professional Certifications and Training Certifications       HP CSA – HP UX 11i v3 Certified System Administrator. HP ATP – Storage Solutions V1. Hitachi Data Systems – Storage System Certified. Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) v9.5. Veeam Technical Sales Professional (VMTSP). CVSP19 - CommVault Sales Professional Accreditation. Trainings          DellEMC Pre-Sales enablement (Storage Portfolio). HP StoreOnce Single Node Service and Support. HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Installation, Startup and Support. HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN Implementation, Service & Support. HP StorageWorks P6000 SAN Implementation, Service & Support. VMware NSX deploy, install and configure v6.2. VMware Workspace ONE: Deploy and Manage v9.x. VMware Cloud Automation: Design and Deploy v7.1. IBM Storwize V7000 Implementation Workshop. ………