Experience

Firhaj Footwear (PVT) LTD

• Marketing Manager Local Sales

  • Jan 2015 - Present

• Head Of IT Department

  • Sep 2009 - Jan 2015

  o Responsible to perform technical operations and system administrationo Responsible to research on latest technologies, tools to evaluate to improve IT / hosting infrastructureo Responsible to manage servers that includes but not limited to• Web and FTP servers (IIS, GeneFTP), stats server, etc…• Database servers (SQL Server 2005, 2008, MySQL), SQL Server Reporting services, etc…• Mail servers & DNS servers, Anti-spam Solutions (SpamAssassin on Linux)• Hyper-V Hosts, VPS and dedicated servers• Hosting Control panel (Helm, WHM/cPanel, WebsitePanel) • Support, live chat and billing systemo Routing & Remote access services, routers and firewall administration• Cisco Router 2811 with IOS 12.4, Cisco ASA 5505, Cisco Catalyst 2960G, BGPo Remote administrationo Monitoring System (PRTG, Icinga Monitoring)o Customer / Technical support (1st level live chat, ticketing)o Participate in community forums to help customers and community members to fix their problems, write How To/ knowledge base articles and blog posts.



Vantage Printers

• India
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

• IT Manager

  • Jun 2006 - Sep 2009

  o Analyze, Design and implement LAN infrastructure that include network data cabling.o Establish and manage IT Department, IT Labs, Lead IT team.o More than 150 nodes. Manage more than 1200 User accounts, and implement security policies.o Active Directory Domain, IIS, DNS and DHCP Server, Active directory management and administrationo Managing IT Department and leading IT team, to motivate IT team and training of new/other staff memberso Corporate infrastructure and strategic planning.o Design and implement network Infrastructure (LAN and Remote), wireless LAN.o Software & Hardware installation, configuration and system support.o Enterprise Security Solutions that includes Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)• Secure Email (digitally Signed and encrypted), Secure Web (SSL)• Digital Certification Authority• Digital Certificates Validation Authority (OCSP Responder)• Digital Document Signing Server (Server side digital document signing with corporate digital keys) Remote Access Services and VPN Server Deploy and managing Ascertia Advanced Digital Signing Server for enterprise trust (Digital signing, Digital signature verification, Time stamping, Digital Certification Authority and OCSP responder services).  Network and System Security• Firewall and Proxy serverso WinRoute Firewall, Wingate Firewall, Zone Alarm Firewallo MS ISA Server• Antivirus o Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition o Anti Spyware



Edge System International

• Pakistan
• Information Technology & Services

• Marketing Manager

  • 1998 - 2006

   Network administration • More than 100 Nodes (Corporate LAN, WAN, Remote, virtual machines and Online Servers) • Installation, maintenance and Support• Domain Controller, Active Directory, Group policy, DHCP and DNS Server(s) Email Servers (Mail Enable Enterprise (email server with web access), MS Exchange Server and outlook web access, Kerio Mail Server, Ascertia Secure Email Server, Apache James) Corporate Email accounts management, domain management using hosting control panel Administration of MS SQL Servers (7.0, 2000 and 2005, testing SQL Server 2008) Administration of Microsoft Share Point Portal Server Microsoft Visual Source Safe Server (6.0 and 2005) and Tortoise SVN Corporate online, remote servers and online web/ FTP sites • IIS (FTP, SMTP and Web server [HTTP/HTTPS])• Terminal Services / Remote Administration, using Terminal services, RDP, VNC, Symantec PC Anywhere and Go To Meeting Administration and integration of Multi platform (OS) Network Environment • Apple MAC OS• Microsoft Windows (NT, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 98/2000/XP/Windows Vista / Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and 2008)• Sun Solaris, SuSE Linux Enterpriser Server and CentOS/Red Hat Linux/Fedora