SUMMARY

• More than 12 year experience in Information Technology and telecommunications sector with deep understanding of telecom infrastructure, business processes, applications and strategic planning.
• Analysis and review of strategies, business operations, adaptation of work processes, organization & competence changes, and plan & lead projects with total quality management. Achieved lowering Opex and Capex with operational efficiency.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Management, Planning and Operations of Enterprise Systems, Storages, Databases & Middleware
• Responsible for overall management and operations of IT infrastructure operations including high, medium & low end server systems, enterprise level data storages hosting business critical information systems and applications, and highly available datacenter operations
• Owner of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the function and IT infrastructure (systems, storages, databases, datacenters) performance falling within the managerial domain. Responsible for effective implementation, monitoring/tracking, reporting and improving of KPIs.
• Responsible for Data Center capacity planning and operations management including tasks' assignment and control
• Providing key interface to internal customers for identifying IT infrastructure requirements, developing functional specifications and initiating new projects for fulfilling requirements
• Seeking and obtaining sponsorships and budget commitments, including cost (Capex/Opex) approvals for new and ongoing initiatives.
• To drive Operational efficiency and cost optimization initiatives within his own area.
• Technical project Management including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control and closing.
• Performing project post mortems and post - implementation analyses for benefit/value tracking and lessons learnt.
• Responsible for recruiting (internally or externally), training/grooming, leading, motivating and maximizing utilization, efficiency and effectiveness of required and assigned/available resources.
• Providing a key interface for organizational interactions to senior management and other functional units such as Finance, Human Resources, and other technology units etc.
• Responsible for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the IT processes and interactions both internally within the function as well as externally with all interfacing entities in the organization.
• All top of the line technology vendors management with a business partner concept so all can provide maximum support for IT and business.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Explain team goals and objectives to assigned team members and assist team in organizing to accomplish work.
• Coach, facilitate, solve work problems, and participate in the work of the team.
• Provide information to the supervisor on performance of the team.
• Communicate assignments, milestones, and deadlines to the team and individuals based on supervisor’s instructions.
• Observe training needs and relay training needs and requests to supervisor.
• Inform supervisor of attendance and behavioral problems.
• Relay request for resources and supplies.
• Maintaining a balance between keeping a team focused on the task and allowing a team to make its own decisions
• Identify project/activities objectives and describe them to the team
• Formulate business cases, evaluate and plan technology upgrades and highlight anticipated benefits from the upgrades
• Research potential approaches and solutions and identify and recommend one or more chosen solutions and document alternatives considered and why rejected
• Review solutions that fit with organization’s strategic planning and initial estimate costs of all resources and complete Project charter and submit for approval

Confidential

Team Lead Databases & Senior Production DBA

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Oracle RAC for CRM system (without vendor support) using in-place migration from Oracle 9i to Oracle 10g and successful deployment of Oracle 10gR2 RAC using Oracle Clusterware with ASM on Solaris 10 which was 1st. in Pakitstan,3rd in ASEAN region & 10th in world and was nominated for National Youth Award of Pakistan by Confidential
• Implementation of distributed databases for CRM system to avoid single point of failure using hybrid replication
• Successful Migrations and upgrades from Oracle 8i to Oracle 9i,DMT to LMT and from 9i single node to 10g RAC for production mission critical systems of various sizes (3 TB ~ 6 TB)
• Successful VLM implementation at different 32-bit platforms on Linux & Windows
• Implementation of physical & logical standby databases & Oracle data-guard

Confidential

Database Consultant/Senior Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• I have worked for Ora-Tech (an Oracle Solution provider in Pakistan) as an Oracle DBA, primarily to provided databases production and operational support to various client’s databases running on SUN Solaris and AIX, Linux with Oracle versions from Oracle 8 to 9i and data volume up to 1tb.
• Provide production and on-call support as per SLA
• Carry out installations and customized configurations
• Implement Database Security and ensure data consistency and integrity
• Prepare and develop and backup recovery plans
• Code optimization, evaluate performance and to perform fine tunings

Confidential

Oracle DBA

Responsibilities:

• Oracle database, application server installations and configurations and patching
• Implement database security & integrity with FGAC, auditing and data encryption
• Code optimization and performance and backup management
• Work with offshore customers and developers to provide them with required services