Ammar Rashad

• Gather assess and understand customer requirements, both from a business and technical perspective
• Design effective solutions with client focused thinking and strong combination of technical and business relevance
• Provide cyber security design and consulting customers
• Provide product /solutions demonstration and Proof-of-concept (PoC)
• Work with local partners to deliver solutions to customers
• Hands-on experience on Lansweeper, Acronis Cyber Protect, DNS Filter, Admin by Request, Threat Down, CrowdStrike Spy Cloud and LastPass

Key Project Completed in UAE:

• Deployment of Acronis Patch and Vulnerability solution for 100 Clients Location: Abu Dhabi
• Deployment of Lansweeper for 300 clients Location: Riyadh, Saudia Arabia
• Deployment of Malwarebytes for 150 machines Location: Abu Dhabi
• Deployment of Malwarebytes for 350 machines Location: Abu Dhabi
• Deployment of Acronis Backup on cloud for 500 machines Location: Abu Dhabi

• Maintain data backup and recovery system using Veritas NetBackup Appliance
• Installation/ Troubleshooting/ upgrade on NetBackup servers and NetBackup appliances
• Maintain Infoblox DNS Firewall
• Working on Beyond Trust PAM solution working on Deep Security features which include anti-malware, predictive machine learning, web reputation, firewall, intrusion prevention, integrity monitoring, application control, and log inspection to ensure server, application, and data security across physical, virtual, and cloud environments
• Maintain VMware 7 Vcenter, DRS, NSX and NSX-T
• Maintain Window server 2019 Domain Controller, File Servers and DNS
• Maintain Storages Appliances

• Working on complete migration of Mail server from Lotus domino to Exchange 2019 for Askari Bank Ltd
• Configuring & troubleshooting Auto Discover, Offline Address Book, Scheduling & free/busy, Exchange Active Sync, Outlook Web Access, Outlook Connectivity
• Migration of NSF Files to PST using Transend Software

• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to keep projects on track
• Review performance and progress of different ongoing projects
• Preparation of RFQ, BOQ, and other project documents of local projects, which include Fiber Optic transmission, Datacenter, planning Air purification, Fire-rated Doors, civil works, and industrial/precision cooling system, etc
• Prepare project status report and presentations for senior management
• Administration of office 365 and Microsoft Team Panel
• Installation, Administration of VMWARE 6 and Hyper-V with fully Functionality
• Administration of AIX 7.0 for Oracle People soft
• Design and implement new Active Directory based on windows Server 2012
• Managing Troubleshooting Connectivity problems; Group policy management; assessing and reporting operational status
• Design and manage System Center Virtua Machine Manager
• Day-to-day SCOM infrastructure management/troubleshooting; new secondary site setup and Troubleshooting, client health
• Administration of IBM V7000, HUAWEI SAN

• Team leader networking staff consisting of Asst System Adm and 13 supporting staff
• Teach and facilitated students for computer network subject BSE and Telecom classes in lab
• Configuration and maintenance of domain controller, additional domain controller, fileserver, proxy server, terminal server, antivirus server, software server and printing server
• Maintained Kaspersky Anti Virus Server
• Responsible for WSUS Server
• Squid Proxy Server Implementation with full security

• Implemented and Administered a Microsoft Windows 2000 Domain and Additional Domain Controllers
• Implemented and Administered File Server, Print Server, Internet Server, Proxy Server, Firewalls