Munjid AL-AKHDAR

My role is to design, manage and develop Tier III high available and secure Virtualized Data Centers based on latest technologies, Develop IT services to fulfill business requirements. Design and implement Disaster Recovery plane to ensure IT services continuity. Managing RFP and proposals evaluation, and control projects implementations.

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:  

• implementing  2 Tier III Data Cener
• Business Continuity based on synchronous storage replication achieving near zero PRO.  
• Design 4 virtual data center, to host 500+ VM, 300TB Storage, 5+TB RAM, 128 CPU.
• Develop and maintain server and storage capacity planning.
• Design and manage implementation of DR project for IT services continuity including applications, Email, Citrix Access, VPN Access, and external DNS Global Load Balancing.
• Agentless AV and IPS for Virtual DC.
• Multitenant hosting of mail and web services.
• Design Enterprise D2D Backup solution with offsite replication and offloading to LTO7 TL.
• Proposing new technologies and managing POCs and RFPs with vendors and partners.
• Enhancing and developing sophisticated Active Directory GPOs and Access.
• Countless successful project implementations of various technologies. 

SENIOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR* TEAM LEADER* POSITION PROFILE: Worked with a leading company in IT service outsourcing, to provide IT services consultation and management to UAE Air Force & Air Defense. My job was to manage a team of IT experts to manage Windows Active Directory Services and all related services like Email, DB, anti-virus, Backup, Server Clusters and other services. Beside managing and maintaining network management activities by applying best practices and standards such and ITIL Frameworks using HP OpenView Suite and other management solution.

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Network Operations and Security Center for the UAE Air force (Partial) Service Desk framework based on ITIL v. 2 for UAE Air Force
• Disaster recovery data center for UAE Air Force.
• Desktop hardware and software security solution using Reflex for UAE Air force.
• Desktop management solution using Altiris. Mail system migration.

ABU DHABI, UAE SUPPORT ENGINEER POSITION PROFILE: Worked with a Microsoft solution provider, as a member of the support team for Microsoft products, my role was to install, support, and troubleshoot mainly Microsoft products and Compaq servers' hardware. And I have good experience in configuring Cisco Switches and Routers.