Waqar Ahmad

• Worked on major I.T based presales in Islamabad and in different northern region and achieved business responses through them.
• Also deployed against compute, storage and network equipment including security devices like WAF and NGFW
• Acquired project of worth over 4.7 million U.S $ from Telco by doing pre-sales, pitching technical proposal/solution and then lead to delivery of project as technical head ensuring that projects to mature collaborating with team in locally and in head office.
• Target meetings to assist sales to accomplished following business purchase orders after bidding in tenders. All bids in two years against my profile were 100% success technical acceptance.
• Managed projects with trackers and correspondence to client at every stage of progress till handover.

• Joined company as platform administrator in Nov 2007 and later promoted as System admin/Infrastructure Manager in April 2012
• Transformed platform of Electronic Voucher Distribution to Electronic Wallet using Docker and deploying it on Infrastructure built with next action for Kubernetes orchestration
• Saving thousands of dollars to the company
• Major shift from backend Oracle to Mongo/MySQL was deployed with failover and redundancy
• Worked and planned with IT team for the AWS cloud migration from in-house data center
• Executed with team against design for migration services
• Helped team building new deployment using AWS Cloud services
• Deployed initial EC2 instances with network VPC using terraform
• Knowledge of deployment for Jenkins/Chef and Puppet along with Ansible
• In Sept 2017 I migrated to infrastructure from private cloud of Equinix
• D.C
• And in April 2019 to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Public Cloud)
• Saved 1.2 million per annum only with this migration job
• Planned and Designed projects and implemented them via vendor management (infrastructure and application) with full infrastructure implementations, as per business requirement focusing on scalability, reliability and agility with less TCO and high ROI's
• In mid-year of 2016 we migrated our infrastructure to Private Cloud from physical Data Center for high ROIs and our business I.T model presented as 'Pay as you Go'
• Designed and launched DU Mobile E-Voucher Solution, ZAIN K.S.A E-Voucher solution, Launched Mobile Banking Service for Mashreq bank with 3rd party Vipera (Swiss company), about to launch RTA NOL Card Top-Up project, Side projects implementations include, VAS services, Mobile application content services, SMS2TV, TV Voting, SMS2Email, Company's web sites hosting's and administration
• Established and maintained connectivity's of services over SMPP and TCP/IP with SMSCs of Operators in and out of U.A.E, running paid contents on short codes
• Technical administration for Blue Tooth, Point of Sales over TCP/IP for VAS
• Did pre-sales and presented, projections for new technologies (Cloud Computing) implementations and benefits to company against department business stream.

• Managed full I.T infrastructure with implementations in existing and newly opened branches by administrating jobs through team
• Participated in maturing and finalizing commercial proposals (RFPs, RFQs) with vendors, with best practices and recommendations.
• Procured Computers Hardware (like blade servers) / Software and its accessories time to time, with technical recommendations.
• Installed, Configured and managed Cisco enterprise routers in H.O and branches, country wide.
• Designed and implemented IP subnet on LAN and WAN with DXX, ADSL and ISDN links.
• Designed role of Linux server as router and implemented VLANs, sub-netting for security.
• Administration of ADC server, MS Exchange 2000, PIBAS banking application on Oracle, MS-Proxy I.S.A Server for internet access.

• Worked in G.B.C Which was consortium of three mega project designers (Impregilo - Italian, Dublin-German, DongFong-China)
• Hosted web site of GBC on intranet server and managed email for organization with almost no downtime.
• Prepared and enforced I.T policy by approval of management and its implementation.
• Configured and Administrated services via proxy like Wingate and MSproxy for client access to internet.

• Established network specifications and analyzed workflow, access, information and security requirements.
• Implemented corrective plans of action for network availability and latency.
• Maintained network performance by performing network monitoring, analysis and performance tuning.
• Managed and Administrated company's web site, running crucial business, ensuring 100% uptime.
• Upgraded network by conferring with vendors and developed, tested, evaluated and installed enhancements.

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