RESUMEOBJECTIVE
Seeking for a challenging Full Time position in Information Technology division as Senior Windows Systems Administrator, Network Administrator, Security Analyst, Project Lead, where my eleven years of IT experience in Systems Design, Implementation, Integration, Systems Administration, Computer Networking, Infrastructure and Operations will contribute to the improvement of an organization’s workflow processes.
SUMMARY
• Eleven (11) years of IT experience in Systems Design, Installation, Configuration, Implementation, Administration, Networking and Project Implementations.
• Strong skills in Networking and Administration.
• Strong Skills in Windows NT 3.X/4.0 (8 years), Windows 2000 Server (2 years), Windows 2003 Standard/Enterprise Server Operating Systems (2 years), Active Directory (1.5 years), Outlook Web Access (3 years)
• Strong skills in Microsoft Back Office (Internet Information Server) IIS 4.0 (6 years) / 6.0. (2 years), MS Exchange Server 5.5 (3 years), Terminal Server Citrix Metaframe 1.8 ( 4 years), Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 & Web Interface (8 months)
• Strong skills in configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting server-class hardware.
• Microsoft and Novell Certified –MCSE 4.0, CNA (E) 3.12
• Excellent experience in LAN/WAN design and installation.
• Excellent experience in Windows Desktop (95/98/NT/2000/XP).
• Knowledgeable in ADMT 2.0, WSUS 2.0, ADS 1.0
• Exceptional organizational skills, meticulously detail oriented
• Excellent documentation skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently without on site management and zero supervision.
• Exceptional multi-tasking skills; prioritizes and performs a variety of concurrent tasks with minimal direction and completes tasks quickly and efficiently
WINDOWS NT/ 2000 / 2003 SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION SKILLS
• Installation, Configuring, Administration and troubleshooting of Windows NT Servers / Workstations / Windows Server 2000/Windows Server 2003 /Active Directory.
• Design and implementation of Windows NT / 2000 / 2003 domains and trust relationships.
• User accounts management, permissions, security.
• Installation, Configuring Web Servers with SSL functionality for secure transactions.
• Create Volume Shadow Copies, Set Disk Quotas
• Manage File, Print, Application and Web Servers
• Hardening of servers based on their functionality and based on Windows Server 2003 security guidelines (Domain Servers, Web Servers, File & Print Servers)
• Create and Manage OUs, Groups, Users, Group Policy
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communication Engineering
M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology,
University of Bangalore, India – July 1994
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
PURSUING MCSE 2003 CERTIFICATION
CERTIFIED NOVELL ADMINISTRATOR (CNA) - July 1995
MICROSOFT CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL (MCP) – June 1999
MICROSOFT CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL + INTERNET (MCP+I) - June 1999
MICROSOFT CERTIFIED SYSTEMS ENGINEER (MCSE) - June 1999
TECHNICAL AWARDS
Millennium Challenge Award – ITTS Director – Honeywell Sensing and Control - 2000
Pursuit of Perfection Award – General Manager – Honeywell Sensing and Control – 2001
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Networking TCP / IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, Telnet, FTP, POP3, SMTP, SNMP, PPP, DHCP, WINS, DNS, Ethernet, RAS, BootP
Operating Systems Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, 2003 Active Directory, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0, Citrix Metaframe 1.8, Windows 95/98, DOS 6.x, Novell NetWare 3.x/4.x, Linux Red Hat 6.0/6.1
Backup / Storage Cheyenne Arc Serve for NetWare 4.11, Veritas Backup Exec 7.3, 8.5 Single User & Multi-user version for Windows. EMC2 Direct Attached Storage, SAN (Storage Area Networks)
Email/Internet/Web
Servers/Active Directory, DNS and Group Policy Tools IIS 4.0/6.0, PC Anywhere, RADMIN v2.1, VNC 3.3.3 R2, MS Outlook. Nslookup, Repadmin, replmon, GPupdate, GPresult, GPmonitor, GPinventory, GPMonSrv, NTDSUtil, dcdiag, netdiag, dnscmd, dnslint, fsutil, Sonar, UltraSound, Netdom
Hardware Platforms DELL Power Edge 2300,2400,4300, 4400,4600,6300,6400, 6450 series server, DELL Power Vault 110T, 120T DLT 7000 Autoloader, Exabyte Mammoth Tape Drives, IBM eServers. Xseries 235, 255, 340, 345, 365. IBM RXE 100 Unit, HP NetServer, DELL Workstation 610, Gigabit Ethernet
Mail Servers MS Exchange Server 5.5
Antivirus/Other Software’s Norton Antivirus 7.0 for Servers and Desktop, Sybari Antigen for Exchange Server 5.5, IBM Director v4.12, IBM ServRAID Manager, Remedy Change and Problem Management Software, WSUS 2.0, ADMT 2.0, ADS 1.0
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Music Now LLC August ’05 - Current
Chicago, IL
Network Engineer (Windows)
• Server Security & Hardening – Currently working on fixing security issues in around 33 Windows 2000/2003 servers ((Domain Controllers, File and Web servers). This includes applying hot fixes, clearing all security vulnerabilities (registry modifications, access permissions, IIS vulnerabilities, turning off unnecessary services) based on the report provided by a third party security company.
• This might lead to security hardening on all these servers’s based on their functionality using security templates and group policy settings.
McKesson Corporation September ’04 – June ‘05
Dubuque, IA
NT Systems Administrator / Implementer (Consultant)
• Setup, Install, Configured & Managed Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Domain Controllers, Active Directory Integrated DNS for ASP Citrix Farm Environment, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation server 3.0, Web Interface (NFUSE) for McKesson’s Horizon Patient Folder and Horizon Physicians Portal project.
• Managed Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 with Web Interface (NFUSE), SQL Server 2000. A total of 4 Windows Server 2003 AD Domain Controllers, 18 Windows Server 2003 / 2000 Application servers (10 virtual servers on VMWare Esx Server), 2 SQL Server 2000 database server, 2 IIS 6.0 Web server running Citrix Web Interface (NFUSE) and 3 Citrix MetaFrame Presentation server 3.0 and 3 Citrix Metaframe XPe.
• Managing Citrix Farm, Troubleshooting and applying hot fixes.
• Publishing Applications within the Farm / Assigning Permissions
• Manage printers
• Co-ordinate with other teams during this project.
• NT Lead / Implementer for this project.
Honeywell, USA / IBM Global Services March ’00 – August 04
Honeywell Datacenter
Freeport, IL
Senior Systems Administrator (Consultant)
Responsibilities:
• Administering more than 30 Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 servers, 8 MS Exchange 5.5 Servers, 10 Novell NetWare 4.11 File & Print servers and IIS 4.0 Web servers including installation, configuration and maintenance.
• Supporting Engineering design systems (CAD, PDM) Matrix One Servers.
• Managed and Implemented projects act as technical lead and participate in technical installation/Configuration of projects.
• Migrating from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 using ADMT tool.
• Performing Security Audits/Implement Security on all NT/Win2k and Windows Server 2003.
• Apply Change Control Processes to make changes to Servers.
• Asset Managements, Validation, Disposal and updates in portal.
• Server Builds/Refreshes/Upgrades.
• Document all systems’ configurations, upgrades, and service records.
• Backups:
Installation and management of software, server administration, tape management
• Installing autoloaders for backups and troubleshooting backup problems in Software and Hardware.
• Maintaining and managing computer security by upgrading Service Packs and Patches for NT servers, upgrading Antivirus Software's..
• Upgrade BIOS, ESM and other hardware related upgrades.
• Manage & monitor all servers, applications, services through Whats Up Gold and making sure that the systems are all up all the time 24x7.
• 24 x7 Pager Duty
Mediamanager Pte Ltd, Singapore Jun ’98 – Mar ’00
Systems Analyst/Operations Manager – ISP Data Center
Responsibilities:
• Manage Day-to-Day operations of the Datacenter.
• Day to Day administration of Windows NT 4.0(NT Servers, NT Workstations, Windows 95), Red Hat Linux 6.0 & 6.1 Mail and Web Servers, IIS 4.0 Web Servers, DNS BIND, DHCP, WINS and see that the network is running 24 X 7.
• Managing the operations team on daily basis and getting the necessary work carried out.
• Manage and administer Linux Qmail Servers for the ISP and also for clients.
• Project lead for Cyber Hotel Network including network design, installation, setup of systems – that provides Internet and Email through set top boxes to hotels via television. Implemented in 4 major hotels in Singapore (Grand Hyatt, Changi Meridien, Royal Crown Plaza, and Copthorne).
• Project Lead/Implemented and developed an advertising concept for around 100 7Eleven stores in Singapore.
Mass Media Interactive, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jul ’97 – May ’98
Network/Multimedia Specialist
Responsibilities:
• Installation, Administration and troubleshooting of Windows NT Servers / NT Workstations / Windows 95 systems.
• User creations with permissions and security management.
• Network Management, Performance tuning and Optimization.
• Developed interactive multimedia kiosks using Macromedia Authorware 4.0, Design Graphics and User Interface using Adobe Photoshop 4.0, Edit Video using Video Action NT/Adobe Premiere 4.2
• Developed Sega City (Asia’s first virtual indoor them park) kiosk as lead developer.
Dowlog Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Jun 96 – May 97
Multimedia Specialist
Responsibilities:
• Developed Multimedia cdrom titles in mathematics, physics, chemistry, English, Arabic Grammar, Science and Geography in accordance with the Saudi Arabian national curriculum. The development environment was Macromedia’s Authorware professional v3.5. Was a leading member of 65 strong development team. The project team produced a total of 62 titles.
Netlink Technologies, Madras, India Aug ’94 – Jun ’96
Technical Support Engineer / Project Lead
Responsibilities:
• Managed multimedia development projects, product testing, and network project management.
• Installing, managing, maintaining and troubleshooting Novell NetWare v3.11/v3.12.
• Design & Implementation of Novell Network for large International Clients.
• Administer the Local Area Network of the company running under Novell 3.x
• Provide on site client training programs on Novell NetWare 3.x.
• Developing CBT’s (Computer Based Training) on Novell NetWare 2.x & 3.x. this project resulted in a product called “NetAware”. This product was very well received in corporate Asia and was a widely used CBT for user and system manager network training.
References:
Available on Request
AHMAD NABEEL M. HAMEED
P.O.Box 4176 Abu Dhabi, UAE
(050) 5612727 and / or (02) 6771986
ahmad_hameed84@http://hotmail.com
OBJECTIVE : Obtaining a good position that
provides me an opportunity to utilize my
educational skills
NATIONALITY : Jordanian
DATE OF BIRTH : October 1984
MARITAL STATUS : Single
EDUCATION :- Bachelor Degree in Information Technology
& Computer Sciences June 2006
Computer Information Systems as a major
Accounting as a minor
Yarmouk University, Irbid Jordan
- General Secondary Certificate June 2002
Science Section (98.2%)
Al-Mutanabbi Secondary School,
Abu Dhabi - UAE
GPA : 79.8%
RATING : Very Good
CERTIFICATES : MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional)
MCSA 2003 (Microsoft Certified System
Administrator)
LANGUAGES : Arabic and English (Fluent)
OVERALL QUALIFICATIONS:
A skilled and qualified IT Engineer with the ability to communicate easily with others in a highly competitive environment. Implementing and supporting Domain Controllers using Microsoft Windows Server 2003-Enterprise Edition as well as other servers as DHCP, DNS, WINS, RRAS, FTP and Web Servers. Good in office applications (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage and Access) and Internet research.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
- Installing, Configuring and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional
- Managing & Maintaining Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
- Implementing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure "Network Hosts"
- Implementing, Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure "Network Services"
- Implementing Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004
- System Modeling using Rational Rose
- Programming languages (MS Visual Studio.NET (ASP.Net & C#.Net), HTML, C++ & Oracle)
- Multimedia Designing using Macromedia Flash MX
- Microsoft Office (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and FrontPage)
- Internet Research
MINI PROJECTS:
- Building a website using HTML coding in Notepad and uploading it to the Internet
- Building a multimedia flash file using Macromedia Flash MX with action script
- Project Management for a website using MS Project 2003 for time scheduling. MS Word for project charter, quality management plan and risk management plan. MS Excel for cost management
RELATIVE SKILLS:
- Excellent communicator and team player
- Able to work accurately under pressure
- Time manager
PREFERENCES : Available upon request
LAST UPDATED : September 2006
