One of life's motivated people, I like to understand what makes people tick, be they peers or client, to get underneath their motivation, their business and to help, challenge, consult or mentor as the situation needs to help them to get the best from me and equally help them to be the best they can be. I thrive on being challenged and working in exciting, innovative environments delivering results with a customer first ethos.
My core competencies lie in leadership, Manages IT Services & Operations, Digital solution selling across business units, problem solving and collaboration with clients and Joint Venture companies at all levels. I have built upon a strong technical background over of career and understand the importance of change management, people, and process. I take services lead approach to all engagements and discussing the value of Professional services and education is key to the organization’s growth.
Articulate very well at CXO/Head level especially when organizations are looking at Business and IT Transformation, I use the proof of point method that follows the principle of mindshare of successful past projects.
The Business and Technology Graduate Consultant on ICT, along with 12+ years’ experience with Multinational & Corporate Companies in UAE, Oman, and Government of Pakistan (Ministry of IT & Telecom & Ministry of Finance)
Develop, update, and implement security measures and controls. Perform regular internal and external security audits. Design intruder detection and prevention systems to prevent network invasion. Analyze the source of security breaches. Recommend and implement security tools. Perform regular internal and external security audits. Gap analysis, Risk Assessment, Vulnerability assessments, organizational Business Continuity Plans (BCP).
My primary responsibility is to safeguard information system assets by identifying and solving potential and actual security problems. I also Implement security improvements by assessing current situation; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements. Additionally, I have given charge of managing the infrastructure of the organization. Here my responsibilities include: conduct extreme complex technical evaluation and suggest proposed physical architectures along with detailed designs, install, configure and maintain applications with IT infrastructure, conduct long range strategic plans of IT infrastructure plus operational aspects of application execution within infrastructure, and provide technical guidance to all federal government offices on their IT Projects.
My responsibilities include; advising organizations on IT solutions that will best help them grow and perform more efficiently, Plan, organize, control and evaluate IT and electronic data operations, Design, develop, implement and coordinate systems, policies and procedures, Ensure security of data, network access and backup systems, Act in alignment with user needs and system functionality to contribute to organizational policy, Manage staff by recruiting, training and coaching employees, communicating job expectations and appraising their performance, Audit systems and assess their outcomes, Handle annual budget and ensure cost effectiveness.
As Manager, my responsibilities include the development, management and maintenance of network (LAN & WAN); setting of various kinds of server roles like ICACS, Domain Controller, File Server, Amazon Cloud Instances & Remote Access Server, Email Server for various clients. Furthermore, I also handled the Software Division of the company mainly responsible for creating our own products suitable for various businesses in GCC region. I am also actively involved all in-house development of various web and mobile applications.
As Officer IT, I played a vital role in server’s management and open source application configuration. Perform hardware, software and network upgrades and maintenance and managing users on active directory and exchange server are the daily routine tasks. Configuring virtual machine, installation and management of various open source applications were task that I performed as open source application configuration engineer. Managing servers like; file server, Windows Server Update Services Server, Proxy (Squid & ISA) server, VPN Server, Help Desk Server, Database (MySQL) Server, backups and troubleshooting were also main tasks assigned to me. I also have expertise in Virtualization using VMware and Virtual Box. Conversion from windows to Ubuntu Linux is also in my main task sheet which include migration of all client terminal and some specific server machines to Ubuntu and Red-Hat respectively. I also provide technical support for usability issues and critical site problems, as needed. Managing SVN and enterprise wiki portal are additional tasks that were assigned to me. All the above mentioned responsibilities are to be completed under the standards of ISO 9001 – 2000.
My key tasks were network diagnosis, troubleshooting and management; manage Web & File Servers, configuration of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and domain controller on windows 2003, Oracle Database & Application Server. I was also managing in-house connectivity w.r.t network and servers, providing services related to Domain Controller, exchange servers to out-bound clients as well.