Kashif Khan

Senior Solutions Architect at data2cloud
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(386) 825-5501
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Muscat, Masqaţ, Oman, OM

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Experience

    • Oman
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Solutions Architect
      • Nov 2019 - Present

    • France
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
      • Apr 2018 - Oct 2019

      • Sep 2017 - Mar 2018

      • Interpret and translates clients requirements into viable, scalable, Hybrid cloud solutions to meet the business outcome.• Do hand-off once the cloud environment is setup along with training implied on cloud set up.• Designing and deploying AWS resources based on the architectural principle of AWS.• Migrating on-premises infrastructure into AWS and VMware private Cloud using PlateSpin Migrate tool.• Creating VPC, security groups, IAM role, EC2, S3 buckets etc as part of the AWS deployment.• Working on Proof of Concept for any new work as part of the project requirement.• Designing and deploying Microsoft Failover clusters and Hyper V environement.• Created high availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS) based cluster and migrated virtual machines using cold and hot migration, and Storage vMotion. • Performed physical to virtual (P2V) transition using VMware Converter. • Configured virtual switches, and distributed virtual switches. • Configured centralized logging on shared storage for troubleshooting and security audit.• Installed and configured VMware vCenter server and managed users and groups in vCenter. • Installed the VMware vSphere Web Client for web access. • Created high availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS) based cluster and migrated virtual machines using cold and hot migration, and Storage vMotion. • Performed physical to virtual (P2V) transition using VMware Converter. • Configured virtual switches, and distributed virtual switches. • Configured Host Profiles for rapid VM deployment. • Configured centralized logging on shared storage for troubleshooting and security audit. • Implemented a VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) infrastructure to provide DR services for approximately 70-80 ESX hosts and their associated virtual machines. Show less

      • Jul 2016 - Aug 2017

      • Jul 2015 - Jul 2016

      • Jan 2014 - Jun 2015

      • Part of 5 members Escalation L3 team who are responsible to attend and resolve all High Priority and escalated incidents on Windows, Hyper V Clusters and VMware for more than 20 Global accounts.• Part of Global DR team for VMware who will be involved in the DR activity for all supported client’s VMware environment with or without VMware Site Recovery Manager• Responsible for providing Technical Training to BAU team members for VMware Vsphere & Microsoft Hyper V & Clusters.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Sr. Support Engineer
      • Jan 2012 - Jan 2014

      Responsibilities as a Intern SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Microsoft EPS Process. • Working in Microsoft Server Setup Team. Trained on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 and Window Server 2012. • Troubleshooting all blue screens, setting the system for a good memory dump and analyzing the memory dump using windbg debugging tools. • Handling issues like Operating System installation failure upgrade failure, No boot scenarios, Blue screen troubleshooting, Service pack and update related issues, driver installation issues. • Hands on experience on Windows Virtualization software’s e.g. Hyper-V, Hyper-V Server 2008 and 2008 R2, HV Server 2012, Hyper Virtual server and virtual PC. Handling issues like setting up Hyper-V server, Creating and merging snapshots of vhd’s, troubleshoot issues related to snapshots, worked on Windows Hyper-V server 2008 and 2008 R2 like installing them on Bare metal machines, resolving issues related to remote management tools(RSAT) used on Vista and Windows 7 client machines, Worked on issues caused because of extending Virtual hard drives, Issues with basic Setup of virtual machines, Backups of running virtual machines, giving information about best practices while using Hyper-V, worked on Virtual server 2005, 2007. • Troubleshooting disk issues like, Corrupted MBR, Disks not getting detected in OS, Sector level troubleshooting. Issues related to Hardware and software RAID. • Operating system level troubleshooting of SAN, NAS & ISCSI. • Handling Backup and restore issues related to Windows NTBackup, Windows server backup. • Volume shadow copy services (VSS) related issues. Checking the status of writers and VSS providers. Changing the registry entries as per the requirement. Collecting Vss Trace analyzing Vsstrace at the basic level, providing updates for Vss components. • Running Windows Memory diagnostics and hardware diagnostic tests and analyzing the diagnostic results. Show less

    • System Engineer
      • May 2011 - Jul 2011

      Routine maintenance on security systems such as password reset, rebooting, patching, VPN login,issuing RSA token,Mac Cafe End Point encryption login issue,raising ticket (ITR) for all the issues Configure mail box on BlackBerry mobile. Configure Lotus Notes and all its applications. Synchronizing lotus Notes mail box to Google mail Solving user issues on Remote session using Cisco Webex and Dame Ware. Routine maintenance on security systems such as password reset, rebooting, patching, VPN login,issuing RSA token,Mac Cafe End Point encryption login issue,raising ticket (ITR) for all the issues Configure mail box on BlackBerry mobile. Configure Lotus Notes and all its applications. Synchronizing lotus Notes mail box to Google mail Solving user issues on Remote session using Cisco Webex and Dame Ware.

    • Graphic Design
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Associate Engineer
      • Jul 2009 - Apr 2011

      Installing new computer systems and connecting them in to LAN Installing the basic OS and the supporting software as per the guidelines of the organization Recording the model number of each installed hardware component and forwarding the details to the administrative authorities Attending the maintenance calls by the users Informing the users about precaution measures for some of the frequently arising system concerns Install and maintain network cabling & network hardware & software. Understand and have expertise in TCP/IP. Configure and manage servers & routers. Configure and maintain Anti-Virus programs. Troubleshoot and repair network issues Show less

Education

  • Visvesvaraya Technological University
    Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
    2005 - 2009
  • KBN College of Engineering
    Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Commmunication
    2005 - 2009

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