S YED M UHAMMAD A LI Z AIDI

Email: alizaidi14@hotmail.com | Contact No.: +923335600014, Whatsapp +97450495592

PROFILE FOR: S E N I O R I N F R A S T R U C T U R E S P E C I A L I S T (S T O R A G E , B A C K U P , V M W A R E
S P E C I A L I S T ,L I N U X ,U N I X , ~ S Y S T E M A N A L Y S T )

Seeking a challenging position with an organization of repute in Telecom / IT sector

with a view to add further business value

Snapshot: Dedicated and resourceful IT professional with 15+ years of experience across diverse
organizational domains.
Currently functioning as System Engineer from World Bank as a Consultant with Benazir Income
Support Programme (Pakistan).
Seeking challenging assignments as Senior Infrastructure Specialist & System Consultant with a reputed
organization.

⧫ Significant exposure in Hyper-Converged Infrastructure solution designing, SAN design (EMC Unity
(All Flash Array), VMware, Hyper-V, Backup Infrastructure, Product Demonstration,
implementation, Technical Assistance, Planning, analysis, administration, pre-sales, and
troubleshooting for enterprise Architecture.
⧫ Well versed in products like storage (EMC, HP, Hitachi, SUN, IBM), UNIX (Solaris, HPUX, BSDI,
RHEL Linux, OEL, CentOS, AIX), backup infrastructure like (EMC Networker, Data Domain, EMC
Archival solution, HP Data Protector, Symantec Net backup), MDS SAN Director & MDS & Brocade
SAN Switches and VMware vSphere 6.5, 5.5 & WINDOWS 2000/2003, 2008, 2012R2, 20016 NT4.0/98.
⧫ Understanding and knowledge of Project Management methodologies.
⧫ Successfully delivered Migration Projects as Technical Lead & Project Management
⧫ Proficient in the preservation of assets by implementing disaster recovery, backup procedures,
information security, and control structures & EMC Storage Solution.
⧫ Storage Devices and Servers Administration, planning with Heterogeneous Environment with Remote
Access & Remote Access (HPXP-24K, HPXP-1024, EVA-6000, EMC UNITY (All Flash Array), VMAX3,
VMAX-20K & EMC-40K, EMC CLARION, EMC VNX, EMC Celerra, IBM DS8100, SUN StorEdge3511)
for Heterogeneous OS Environment (Solaris, HPUX, Redhat, AIX, Windows) running Billing,
Mediation and CARES Interconnect Applications.
⧫ Planning and Assignment of EMC CDR Archival solution using Clarion (CX-120), Celerra (VG2) Cloud
Tiering Appliance and Centera. Planning and Assignment of Storage to Billing and Mediation devices
according to data growth.
⧫ Proficient in developing, implementing, and overseeing policies and procedures to ensure consistent
storage provisioning, UPTIME, regulatory compliance and data protection.
⧫ Deploys the solution architectures for medium to large enterprises.
⧫ Proficient in the preservation of assets by implementing disaster recovery, backup procedures,
information security and control structures.
⧫ Backup and Restore Administration with HP Data Protector (5.5/6.0), EMC Networker and VERITAS
Net-backup and HP ESL 712E/9595 Enterprise Tape Library
⧫ SAN Planning and Implementation of new Nodes, Fiber Cabling, SAN Zoning (Hard and Soft), Fiber
Switches & Director administration with Fabric OS
⧫ Administering Heterogeneous OS Platforms (Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Redhat, CENTOS and Windows on
Intel and SPARC) servers running Single-E-View, SIEMENS Mediation and CARES applications.
⧫ Administering VERITAS Volume Manager (3.0,4.1) Enterprise Storage Foundation.
⧫ Ensuring smooth operation of Storage and Application platforms with 99.9% up-time.
⧫ 24/7 Pro-active Monitoring of Business-Critical Servers / Applications with NAGIOS and MRTG and
HP NMS for SAN management (Storage Essential & Performance Adviser).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Currently Working as Consultant for World Bank Project at Benazir Income Support
Program (BISP) Islamabd (Pakistan) from January 2021–till date

Job Profile:
⧫ Administration & management of Infromation Technology Infrastructure of BISP.
⧫ Administration & configuration of Oracle Linux (OEL), RHEL and Centos 7.9.
⧫ Administration of Oracle Exadata x8m-2.
⧫ Administration & configuration of Tomcat Apache, Sendmail.
⧫ Administration of Oracle Exadata x8m-2.
⧫ Administration & configuration of IBM V9000
⧫ Administration & configuration of IBM SPECTRUM
⧫ Administration of IBM Power System.
⧫ Administration of IBM x3650.
⧫ Administration, Installation & configuration of Esxi 6.5, 6.7, 7.0
⧫ Administration of Windows Hypervisor.
⧫ Administration of VMware vSphere 5.5 & 6.5 & 7.0
⧫ Administration of Windows 2012, Windows 2016, Windows 2019.
⧫ Administration & Configuration of Internet Information Server & XAMPP Server.
⧫ Coordination & Managing Application Developers.

Doha Bank Qatar ~ Senior Consultant~ October 2014 – October 2020

Job Profile:
⧫ Render Storage Consultancy to Doha Bank Qatar.
⧫ Provide primary storage area network (SAN) support including storage allocation/de-allocation,
pro-active system health check, performance tuning, problem determination, and capacity
planning and disaster recovery & monitoring.
⧫ Perform SAN and Storage-based data migration.
⧫ Prepare critical storage reports used for business and technical decisions.
⧫ Planning, designing, and implementation of storage, SAN network, data protection of Enterprise
Infrastructure.
⧫ Manage BCP/DR exercise at the storage level.
⧫ Manage day-to-day system administration tasks for enterprise storage.
⧫ Administration of XtremIO Generation-4.
⧫ Administration of EMC UNITY (All Flash Array)
⧫ Administration of VPLEX VS2 (METRO Cluster) with XtremIO & VMAX-40K
⧫ Administration of EMC UNITY 650F & 550F AFA with Unisphere 4.4.1.
⧫ Administration of EMC VMAX 20K, 40K & VMAX-3.
⧫ Administration of EMC Unisphere 8.1.
⧫ Administration of eNAS & VG2.
⧫ Administration of EMC Solution Enabler 7.1 & 8.1.2
⧫ Administration of EMC Celerra, EMC Centera, EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance.
⧫ Administration of EMC VNX 5300, 5100,7500.
⧫ Administration and migration of VMAX 20K to VMAX 40K using different EMC migration tools.
⧫ Administration of EMC SRDF with Split, Failover & Failback scenario.
 ⧫ Administration of FAST-VP.
⧫ Administration of EMC Powerpath 5.3 & Legacy Multipathing on the different OS which includes
SUN, Linux, and Windows 2008 R2, 2012 & 2016.
⧫ Administration of EMC Networker (8.1.1.4) & 8.2.4.9 with Data Domain 4200, 2500 & 670.
⧫ Administration of EMC Networker (9.1.1.7) with Data Domain 4200, 4200 & 670.
⧫ Restoration of the File system, VM & FLR through Networker 9.1.1.7.
⧫ Administration of Cisco MDS 9400 SAN Switches/Directors.
⧫ Administration of Cisco MDS 9706 SAN Switches/Directors with VCE.
⧫ Administration of different EMC data migration tools used during migration which includes EMC
Powerpath, EMC Open Replicator, and EMC Open Migrator.
⧫ Administration of EMC Powerpath 5.3 on the different OS which includes SUN, Linux, and
Windows.
⧫ Administration of Avamar 18.2
⧫ Administration of EMC Data Protection Advisor.
⧫ Data Mobility with EMC VPLEX for seamless migration of data from VMAX100K to UNITY.
⧫ Administration of VMware vSphere 5.5 & 6.5.
⧫ P2V & V2V migration using migration tools VMware Converter.
⧫ Administration of VPLEX VS2 with XtremIO & VMAX3 & VMAX40K.
⧫ Administration of VxBlock 540 with Generation4 XtremIO, VMAX & UNITYAFA.
⧫ Administration of EMC Recover point.
⧫ Administration of DNS, DHCP & File Server.
⧫ Ensure backup/restore activities as per the standard operating procedure (SOP).
⧫ Documented SOPs, system activities, system guides, and troubleshooting procedure guides
⧫ Perform daily health checks and provide a status report of storage systems & backup system
⧫ Maintain and expand the existing storage and backup strategies and infrastructure
⧫ Ensure that system and resource capacity planning is managed.
⧫ Administration of Oracle Exadata x8m-2

IBM Saudi (Riyadh) ~ System Analyst ~ October 2013 – March 2014

Job Profile:
⧫ Render DR solutions to various customers
⧫ Involved in administration of IBM Storage V7000, NetApp storage V6240, IBM VSR (Virtualized
Server Recovery) Solution, Linux Servers, EMC Data Domain 890, Brocade SAN Switches,
VMware 5.5 administration.
⧫ Administration SAN Volume Controller (SVC).

Beijing Teamsun technology Co Ltd., Islamabad – Pakistan ~ Senior System Engineer ~

February 2013 – September 2013

Job Profile:
⧫ Ensured systems & storage support for various customers
⧫ Involved in management/ administration of HP servers including HP rx6600, rp4400, rx2620,
rx7640, DL580, DL380, storage like MSA500 MSA1000, EVA 44000 and HP virtual tape library
VLS9000
⧫ Administered Oracle SUN servers like M3000/4000, M5000, SF V890, SF V440, SF V490, SUN
SPARC T5220, T5440, T5100 and various storages like StorageTek 2540,3510,3310 and 6100
including IBM servers x3350, x3650, x3850 P570 and P550 and IBM DS 4500.
⧫ Focused on firmware (BIOS, HD and Array) upgrade of HP Servers (DL380, DL580),
administration of Solaris, AIX, HPUX and Linux.
⧫ Rendered qualitative presentations on solution and support related issues
⧫ Prepared RFP/ RFQ responses and technical proposals for various storage projects
⧫ Maintained regular interaction with customers and rendered qualitative presentations on solutions
related to Storage and Systems
 ZAIN Telecom IRAQ~ Senior SUN and Storage Administrator ~ Mar 2012 – Jan 2013

Job Profile:
⧫ Functioned as Senior SUN and Storage Administrator at Digital Processing System (DPS)
rendering managed services to ZAIN Telecom IRAQ.
⧫ Provide primary UNIX systems support including pro-active system health check, performance
tuning, problem determination and capacity planning
⧫ Involved in administration of Server/ Storage Devices and planning with Heterogeneous
Environment (EMC VMAX-10K, EVA6000, Sun Server M4000 and M5000) for Heterogeneous OS
Environment (Solaris, Red hat, Windows) running Billing (TABS), Remedy Applications
⧫ Administered Billing server (TABS) running on SUN Solaris (M4000/5000), Symantec VERITAS
Cluster Server version 5.0, EMC VMAX Storage, EMC Networker (7.6.1) with Data Domain 860,
EMC Celerra NS80g with Rainfinity/ Centera, NMS (UPTIME)
⧫ Work on EMC BRS Solutions including EMC Networker, Data Domain, AVAMAR and EMC
Archival solution, Brocade MP-7500B SAN Switches & Brocade 4800 SAN Director
⧫ Administration and installation of EMC Powerpath on Windows and Unix operation Systems
⧫ Manage various aspects of Shell Scripting

PTML-UFONE GSM Ltd, Islamabad, Pakistan ~ Assistant Manager IT (UNIX, LINUX and
SAN) ~ Nov 2006 – Mar 2012

Job Profile:
⧫ Provide primary storage area network (SAN), network-attached storage (NAS) and content-
addressed storage (CAS) support including storage allocation/de-allocation, pro-active system
health check, performance tuning, problem determination, capacity planning and disaster
recovery.
⧫ Administered storage devices/ servers, planned with heterogeneous environment (HPXP 24K,
1024, EVA6000, EMC VMAX-10K, CLARION, IBM DS8100, SUN StorEdge3511) for
Heterogeneous OS Environment (Solaris, HPUX, Red hat, AIX, Windows) running Billing,
Mediation, CARES, Interconnect Applications, AVAMAR
⧫ Planned/ assigned EMC CDR Archival solution using Clarion (CX-120), Celerra (NS40g, VG2 &
VG8) Rainfinity and Centera including planning/ assignment of Storage to Billing and Mediation
devices based on growth of data
⧫ Focused on administration of Backup/ Restore with HP Data Protector (5.5/6.0), EMC Networker
(7.6.1), Data Domain 880, and HP ESL 712E/9595 Enterprise Tape Library.
⧫ Administration of Symantec Net Backup.
⧫ Planned/ implemented SAN of new Nodes, Fiber Cabling, SAN Zoning (Hard and Soft), Fiber
Switches administration with Fabric OS
⧫ Installed/ configured EMC VTL (EDL4100) integrated with HP Data Protector
⧫ Involved in administration of heterogeneous OS Platforms (Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Red Hat,
Windows on Intel and SPARC) servers running Single-E-View, SIEMENS Mediation and CRM,
CCBS for billing applications, VERITAS Volume Manager (3.0, 4.1) Enterprise Storage Foundation
⧫ Ensured smooth operation of Storage & Application platforms with 99.9% uptime
⧫ Monitored Business Critical Servers/ Applications with NAGIOS, MRTG and HP NMS for SAN
management (Storage Essential & Performance Advisor)
⧫ Administered Sun Management Centre through monitoring of Critical Systems and Applications
⧫ Upgraded Packages, Patches, Software and Firmware for Solaris, Linux, Windows, SAN Switches
firmware and Storage Devices
⧫ Administration and installation of EMC Powerpath on Windows and Unix operation Systems
⧫ Developed solutions and RFP’s for different solutions related to Storage
⧫ Prepared RFP/RFQ responses and drafted technical proposals for various storage projects
⧫ Documented SOPs, system activities, system guides and trouble-shooting procedure guides
⧫ Installed/ configured Command View AE (6.0) with XP24K.
 ⧫ Code upgrade for Clarion and Celerra.
⧫ Administration of Brocade SAN switches, zoning, configuration & firmware upgrade.
⧫ Groomed/mentored new team members based on requirements.

Successfully Delivered Projects:

⧫ Successfully migrated as Storage Team Lead on STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION using converged
System of EMC VXBLOCK 540 with XtremIO Generation-4 using VPLEX VS2.
⧫ Successfully migrated as Project Manager & Technical Lead for EMC Networker 8.2.4 to EMC
Networker 9.1.1.7 which includes Planning, Design & implementation.
⧫ Successfully migration of data from EMC VMAX 20K to VMAX 100K which includes planning,
data migration using EMC SRDF, zoning and configuration of devices.
⧫ Successfully migration of data from EMC VMAX 20K to VMAX 40K including zoning
configuration, migration of data using different EMC tools like EMC Open replicator, EMC Open
Migrator, EMC PowerPath.
⧫ Storage consolidation/ migration of XP1024 to XP24K including planning, disk design & RAID,
zone configuration and creation of CA Journal Pool, pair, replication and migration strategy
⧫ Server migration from SUN SOLARIS (V890) to HPUX Superdome as UNIX and Storage
Administrator/ Technical Lead
⧫ Implemented EMC CDR archival solution including deployment, configuration of Clarion (which
includes RAID configuration) Celerra, FMA and Centera.
⧫ Implemented BC (Business Copy) on Solaris10, HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition (6.0) with
the help of HP engineer, configured/ implemented HP Performance Advisor, VERITAS Net
Backup Server.
⧫ Implemented/ configured VMAX including planning, disk & RAID design replication and
migration strategy including Heartbeat Cluster (2.1.3-3) on Centos 5.4
⧫ Migrated Celerra (NS40g) to VG-8 including planning, disk design/ data migration from Clarion
to VMAX and data migration from Old Celerra to New Celerra using Open Migrator and IP
Replicator

ACADEMICS
Education
 Master’s In information technology, University of Arid Agriculture Murree Road Rawalpindi 2006
 Bachelor’s in computer science, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad 2001

Professional Development
 HP Data Protector Accredited Integration  EMC Associate Information Storage and
Specialist Certified ManagementVersion 4.0 (EMCISA) Certified
 ITIL V3 Foundation Certified

IT F O R T E
 Administration of Replication technologies like EMC SRDF, HP Continuous Access, HP Business
Copy, EMC-SRDF, EMC-FAST/FAST-VP, HP AUTO LUN, Symantec Enterprise Vault, VMware
Architecture, EMC BRS Products, EMC VNX, VNXe & UNITY, Administration, EMC AVAMAR,
Administration of ESXi 6.5 & 5.5.
 Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8,9,10, IBM AIX 5.3, HP Superdome (Montecito), HPUX B.11.31,
HPUX B.11.23(rx3600,4600), Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.2, 7.x, 8.0.9.0. , Centos 5.4, Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE,
Red Hat Enterprise Edition AS 3.0,4.0 and 5.0, Professional/Advance Server, BSDI/OS 4.x, FreeBSDI,
BSDI, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000/2003
 Understanding & theoretical knowledge of IBM Metro & Global Mirrors
 OS and Applications: Squid Proxy Server, Apache Web Server, Send Mail, Qmail, HP SIM/ ICE, DNS
(BIND), Radius NT, Samba/NIS/NFS.VPN, IPSEC, IP chains, IP Firewall (IPFW), IIS 4.0, Sendmail-
8.x.x, installation/ configuration of Solaris, Free BSD, AIX, Red Hat Linux 7.x,9.x operating system,
configuration, send mail, Squid proxy server, DNS/ Apache Web Server, configuration of SSH, SCP,
SFTP, NFS, User creation, installation/ configuration of IIS4.0, SQL Server7.0 and Cold Fusion for
 Windows NT, Citrix in depth knowledge, DHCP, Windows 2000 Administration, implementation of
a firewall solution using IP Chains and IP Tables on Red hat Linux

PERSONAL DETAILS
 Nationality: Pakistani
 Languages: English, Urdu, Punjabi and Arabic
 Reference: Available on request