Nabeel Ahmed

Nabeel Ahmed House # 38, Street 1, Block A, PWD Housing Society, Islamabad, Pakistan Email:-Skype ID: nabeel.ahmed124 Cell: - CAREER OBJECTIVE Dedicated, energetic and motivated team player seeking a career that would enable me to highlight my skills in Compute, Storage, backup & Recovery, Virtualization, IT management, and Administration. WORK EXPERIANCE Afiniti Software Solutions Pvt Limited Position: Senior Server Engineer Responsibilities: Feb/2022- Till Date • Deployment and Administration of NetApp SAN, FC Switches and Synology NAS appliances across the globe. • Resolve SAN and NAS hardware and software issues. • Monitoring and share health report of Storage equipment across the globe. • Documentation of all the hardware and software configuration as per the design. • Ready the servers remotely by guiding onsite engineer and add in existing cluster. • Manage Synology File Server user permissions and access policies. • Assist other teams for designing Storage requirement and provide solution for implementation. State Bank of Pakistan Position: Assistant Director ITD. Responsibilities: Feb/2020- Jan/2022 • Manage Microsoft Exchange Email solution along with on-premise email security solution. Design and implement email policies with best practices as per requirement. • Manage Windows File Server user permissions and access policies. • Manage Patch management solution. Apply latest patches on End user systems and Servers to fix latest vulnerabilities. • Provide support to Bank user’s related to Active Directory, Antivirus, Internet Proxy, and File Server. • Implemented and currently managing Enterprise Backup solution. Backup Job scheduling and fixing backup Issues. Testing of backups by restoring on and off. • Managing SAN solution and provisioning of new storage to application owners based on requirement. Computer Marketing Co. Pvt Limited Islamabad Position: System Analyst. Jul/2019- Jan/2020 Projects: • FBR Pakistan Active-Active DataCenter o Installation of Huawei Servers, Storage and backup solution along with cable management. o Huawei SAN 18500 implementation in Hyper Metro Mode. o VMware installation on Huawei Servers 2288H V5. o VMs migration from old SAN to new SAN. o CommVault 11 backup solution implementation. o Huawei 5500 SAN and IBM Tape Library Implementation as backup storage. o Installation and configuration of TOR switches. • LRH Peshawar SAN Solution o Installation of Huawei Servers 2288H V5 and VMware OS installation o Implementation of Huawei Storage 2600 V3 in FC mode. o Dell Brocade 6510 SAN Switch installation and zoning configuration. o Storage provisioning to VMware hosts. • Punjab Agriculture Department Lahore o Installation of Huawei Servers 2288H V3 and Windows OS installation o Implementation of Huawei Storage 2200 V3 in iSCSI (IP) mode. o Storage provisioning to Windows hosts. o CommVault backup solution implementation with disk base and Tape based storage solution. DWP Technologies Pvt Limited Islamabad Nov/2014- Jul/2019 Position: Assistant Technology Consultant. Projects: • InterState Gas Pvt. Limited o Implementation of Dell SC SAN in iSCSI mode, Dell servers and Microsoft OS installation. o Hyper-V cluster configuration. o VMs creation and management. o Installation and configuration of Active Directory and Exchange 2016 on VMs with customer coordination. o Hyper-V cluster testing with all possibilities. • Civil Aviation Authority Karachi o Design and Implementation of DELL EMC Unity 400 SAN, EMC Networker backup solution, EMC Data Domain 6300 & Tape Library backup storage solution on PR and DR site. o Backup policies and scheduling configuration. o Solution was both FC and IP based. • State Bank of Pakistan Hyderabad o Implementation of DELL EMC Unity 400 SAN in FC mode. o Zoning configuration between existing Servers and new SAN. • Pakistan Bureau of Statistics Pakistan (PBS) PR site (Islamabad) o Lenovo Flex system Enterprise Chassis implementation and Configuration o Installation and Configuration of VMware 6 in blades and created new VMs. o Lenovo Server x3650 M5 rack mounting and Windows server 2012 installation. o Lenovo Storage v3700 installation, configuration and storage provision. o Zoning configuration of FC switches for host connectivity with storage. o Host registration to storage and assigned new volumes to host. o Veeam backup software installation and configuration. o Configured and scheduled VM backup. o Replication of backups to DR site via Veeam backup software. DR site (Lahore) o Lenovo Server x3650 M5 rack mounting and Windows server 2012 installation. o Lenovo Storage v3700 installation, configuration and storage Provision. o Host registration to storage and assigned new volumes to host. • EMAAR Pakistan o EMC VNXe 3200 Installation, Configuration and Storage Provisioning to Hosts. o EMC Data Domain 2200 Installation, Configuration, VTL configuration for data backup. o DD to DD replication from PR site (Islamabad) to DR site (Karachi). o FC switches Cabling, Configuration and Zoning. o EMC Networker backup Solution Implementation. o EMC backup solution upgrade from v8.2 to v9.1. • Pakistan Railway o Design and Implementation of EMC SAN VNX 5200, Lenovo Flex System Enterprise Chassis and Brocade SAN switches along with backup solution. o Zoning Configuration, storage provisioning and OS installation on Blade servers using Boot from SAN technology. o Design and implemented EMC Networker backup solution. • Survey of Pakistan o Storage provisioning of EMCVNX 5300 to Hosts o Configuration & Implementation of EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA) and EMC Centera. o Archived VNX (Source) data to Centera (Target) o CTA & Centera Code upgrade. • NADRA EMC VNX 5200 Power up, Initialization and Enabler installation. • Allama Iqbal Open University o Dell Storage (PS 6100) & Servers (R710 & 810) implementation. o Dell & Server OS installation and configuration. o Storage provision of Dell Storage to Hosts. PROFESSIONAL SKILLS • • • • • • Post and Pre-Sales Skills of System Hosting and Administration. The ability to prioritize projects, tasks and resources to deliver good results across the team. Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks and work in a fast paced environment. Ability to communicate professionally with sound organizational skills. Extensive knowledge of troubleshooting and maintaining multi-port storage arrays (Dell EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Huawei & Lenovo). Assembled and configured rack & blade servers (Dell, Huawei, HPE, Lenovo). Extensive knowledge of storage area networks (SAN), local area networks (LAN), data warehouses/centers, and disaster recovery. • • • • • • • • Implementation of Storage Infrastructure using Storage protocols, FC, iSCSI FCoE, CIFS, NFS etc. Administration of Storage infrastructure along with capacity planning, performance monitoring and designing of storage systems. Knowledge of FC Switches (Brocade), Implementation, configuration and zoning. Working knowledge of VMware, Hyper-V, Oracle KVM installation, configuration, VM creation, storage allocation and VMware Management. Virtualization cluster management. Design and Implementation of backup and Recovery solution. EMC Networker, CommVault and Veeam backup software implementation and configurations. Installation of Operating System, Applications and System Troubleshooting. Identify and resolve systems integration issues. Provide on call support to end user clients via remote session. Microsoft Azure, O365, Windows Active Directory, Exchange and File Server Management. Design and Implementation of Symantec Antivirus and Email Security Solution. Basic knowledge along with hands on experience of networking, LAN, WAN, switches & routers and its protocols. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS • Huawei HCIP Storage Certification. • Huawei HCS Pre-Sales Server Training and Certification From China. • Huawei HCS Pre-Sales Storage Training and Certification from China. • EMC UNITY Solution Specialist, Implementation Engineer (EMCIE). • EMC Information Storage Associate (EMCISA). • Dell EqualLogic, Server, Storage, Networking. • Lenovo Server Basics. PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION. Degree Name BS Communication Systems Engineering Institute of Space Technology Islamabad Qualification (Group) Intermediate (Pre Engineering) Cadet College Jajja, District Rawalpindi. Matric (Science) Cadet College Jajja, District Rawalpindi. REFERENCES Ilyas Amir Technology Consultant DELL Technologies Pakistan - Study Period- -