Ch.Rehmat Ali                                                                                                                       +92-300-9461522

                                                                                                                                                +92-321-9461522

305, Block.4, D-I, Town Ship                                                                                                [email protected]

Lahore, Pakistan                                                                                                             

 

 

Profile

 

  • Masters in Information Technology (MS-IT) from Preston University, Kohat.
  • Over 8 years of experience in WinNT / Linux System and Network Administration.
  • Over 8 years of experience in establishing LANs of more than 50 nodes in public & private sectors.
  • Technically certified with the industry’s giants like SUN, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Red Hat, LPI, etc.
  • Successfully passed SCSA, SCNA, RHCT, RHCE with 80%, 93%, 100%, 93% marks, respectively.

 

 

Work History

           

HP Support Engineer                                                                                     Aug 2004 – Sep 2009

HP Singapore, Singapore                                                                                  Islamabad, Pakistan

 

o       Provided onsite support and services to Nokia Networks on account of HP Singapore.

o       Tasks included inspection of the server rooms and monitoring of the equipment installed on different locations (3 offices in Islamabad, 1 office in Lahore, One office in Peshawar as well as One Head Office of Nokia Mobile Pakistan in Karachi).

o       Equipment included HP DL380 G3,G4,G5 rack mounted servers, HP Storage Arrays, HP MSL 6000 Tape Library, HP ProCurve 2650 Switches, Cisco Catalyst 2940, 2950, 3550 series, all these devices were installed, mounted and configured by myself and occasionally reconfigured and fixed also in case of bugs, errors and mis-configurations.

o       Provided support to Nokia Mobile Pakistan in Karachi to install and configure HP ProCurve 2650 switches.

 

 

Consultant (Linux/Unix)                                                                                Dec 2008 – Feb 2009

Teralight Pvt Ltd, Islamabad                                                                             Islamabad, Pakistan

SAMENA Telecommunications Council

 

o       Configured RHEL 4.7 machines with Apache as web server for both www.teralight.com and www.samenacouncil.org with Tomcat, Java and Mysql.

o       Setup BIND to serve name-server requests with master and slave configuration.

o       Setup Postfix as primary mail server to serve the requests from both domains, with compilation of mysql and sasl-authd options for virtual users.

o       Configured Pure-Ftpd as primary ftp service on web and ftp servers to store web and ftp related users and site information and details.

o       Setup MySql as the database system for the organization to server requests regarding web, mail, ftp and db users and queries as well.

o       Successfully Implemented and setup the following protocols and services also for Teralight Pvt Ltd, like httpd (ssl), postfix (smtp-auth), mysql 4/5, phpmyadmin, squirrelmail, mailgraph, nagios, dkfilter, iptables, portsentry, tcpwrappers, sshd, logwatch, logcheck, awstats, rsync, webmin, etc..

o       Successfully setup and configured replica servers and services located at Arizona, USA.

 

System Administrator (Linux/Unix)                                                              Nov 2006 – till to date

Axvoice Inc. USA                                                                                            Lahore, Pakistan

 

o       Responsible to manage linux servers based on CentOS 4.4 & 5.

o       Managing web, mail, db, ftp, ntp and nfs services on 64bit Intel machines.

o       Responsible to maintain web and db backups on periodic basis.

o       Successfully Implemented and maintaining the following protocols and services at Axvoice, like httpd (ssl), postfix (smtp-auth), mysql 4/5, otrs, php, phpbb, phpmyadmin, wordpress(blog), phpmybackup, asterisk-1.4.2, bootp, squirrelmail, mailgraph, mailscanner, spamassassin, clamav, mrtg, nagios, smokeping, dkfilter, iptables, portsentry, tcpwrappers, sshd, logwatch, logcheck, awstats, cups, yum, etc..

 

Linux Instructor                                                                                             Jan 2006 – Oct 2006

EVenture Solutions Pvt., Lahore                                                                       Lahore, Pakistan

 

o       Teaching Red Hat Enterprise Linux courses to professional users at institute premises.

o       Teaching Enterprise Linux customized courses to professional users and administrators so that they can successfully deploy the Linux and its tools, and can efficiently maintain their production servers.

 

Red Hat Instructor                                                                                        Nov 2004 – Nov 2005

OpenTech Pvt. Ltd, Lahore                                                                              Lahore, Pakistan

 

o       Worked as a Red Hat Instructor to teach Enterprise Linux courses like:

§         RH033  (Red Hat Linux Essentials)

§         RH133  (Red Hat Linux System Administration)

§         RH253  (Red Hat Linux Networking and Security)

o       These courses build the greater understanding of Linux users from scratch to expert level. In result, they will feel confident to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the enterprise computing environments.

o       Also responsible to provide support to public/private sector’s clients using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

 

Systems Administrator, (Linux / UNIX)                                                       April 2004--Sep 2004

Freezone Internet Services, Kingston, U.K                                                        Lahore, Pakistan

 

o       Handling Freezone’s 30 live servers running Debian, Solaris, Fedora, HP-UX, including NS, MX, SMTP, POP, WEB, DB, Intranet, Ticketing system and  Messenger servers.

o       Configured POP3/IMAP/eSMTP servers using Postfix/Courier/Mysql, on Debian 3.0 having more than 10,000 mailboxes.

o       Configured Cerberus HelpDesk System (ticketing system) for customer support department using Apache, Postfix, Amavis, Clam-av.

o       Maintaining MXs servers on Solaris 8 & 9 on Sun Fire E250 & E450 as inbound email gateway/router for customer’s emails for more than 7000 domains.

o       Maintaining the main hosting server on Debian 3.0 with Apache, Apache-ssl to host around 3000 sites.

o       Maintaining the (Ensim) Webppliance 3.7 on Fedora, hosted 700 domains, running sendmail, apache, mysql, pop3, squirrel-mail, bind, proftpd, clam-av, spamassassin.

o       Configured NAGIOS to monitor all servers and their services.

o       Pureftp-MySql and Proftp are running to serve the hundreds of ftp clients to their virtual domains space.

o       PowerDNS is running with MySql to resolve more than 4000 domain names.

 

System Administrator, (NT & Linux)                                                           July 2000--March 2004

Hamdard University Karachi, Islamabad Campus                                              Islamabad, Pakistan

 

o       Installed and Configured Samba2.2.1 File Server on Mandrake 9.0

o       Configured Squid Transparent web proxies on FreeBSD/x86 and Red Hat 7.2

o       Configured NAT, IP-Masquerading to masquerade internal traffic to external link on Red Hat 7.2

o       Configured webmin 0.9 for remote administration on Mandrake 9.0

o       Configured static routes to connect LAN segments via Red Hat 7.2

o       Installed and configured Apache2.0 to host online digital library site on Red Hat 7.2

o       Set up a lab of 20 PCs with three OS (Red Hat 7.2, FreeBSD4.8, Win2000 Pro) on each system to provide variety of operating system for research purposes.

o       Setup university web site with Apache 1.3.1 on WinNT 4.0 Server (Compaq ML-370)

o       Set up Network Supervisor to monitor LAN traffic on 3Com Layer-II Switches.

o       Configured Bind 9.2 as caching-only name server on Red Hat 7.2

o       Configured WinNT as PDC with Exchange5.5,Worldclient and Wingate

o       Managing HP Network Printers (HP 2200 DN , HP 2100 TN)

o       Installed and configured DSL modem for internet connectivity of 512 Kbps with port forwarding.

o       Configured TCP/IP port blocking with Zone Alarm Pro on NT Server 4.0

 

Network/Hardware Engineer                                                                        Nov1998--July2000

            BIM&CS (Bahria University)                                                                            Islamabad, Pakistan

 

o       Installed Windows NT 4.0 network including LAN cabling and testing

o       Configured file services on Windows NT 4.0 Server on Dec Alpha

o       Installed and configured MS Proxy 2.0 , IIS 4.0 for web and proxy services

o       Configured one lab of dual boot with NT workstation 4.0 & Red Hat 6.0

o       Maintained & troubleshoot the network printers and LAN Print Servers.

 

Network & Hardware Engineer                                                                    Jan1999--Sep1999

Computer Graphics & Systems                                                             Islamabad, Pakistan                                         

o       Established LAN for APC Factory, HIT, Taxila Cantt.

o       Installation of NT Workstation for World Bank on Dell Notebooks and configured them to communicate with central server at Washington Headquarter of World Bank

o       Provided LAN based support & services to OGDC, Blue Area

o       Provided system support services to Federal Beuro of Statistics (FBS), G-8

 

Network and Hardware Engineer                                                                 May1996--Nov1998

Data Tech Services (Pvt) Ltd. Blue Area,                                                          Islamabad, Pakistan

 

o       Established LAN of 20 nodes for Naval Head Quarter (NHQ), G-6

o       Established labs based LAN to 21-Century College for Computer Professionals, F-8

o       Experience to configure/setup/troubleshoot these devices (HP, Epson Printers, Planet Printer Servers, Stabimatic UPS, 3Com/D-Link N.I.C, US-Robotics Modems, Seagate, Caviar, Quantum, H.D.Ds)

o       Experience to assemble, install, configure and troubleshoot the computer system (486, Pentium-I, Pentium-II, Pentium-III, etc)

 

 

Experience

 

Operating Systems

o       Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 & 4 (WS, ES)

o       Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7.2, 7.3, 9.0

o       Fedora Core 2/3/4/5

o       CentOS 3.3/4.4/5

o       Suse Enterprise Linux 9.3

o       Mandrake Linux 9.0 

o       Slackware Linux 9.0/10

o       Turbo Linux Server 7

o       Debian/GNU Linux 3.0

o       Solaris 8 & 9 (on Sparc)

o       FreeBSD 4.8/5.2

o       MS Windows NT 4.0 Server/Workstation

o       MS Windows 2000/XP Professional

o       MS Windows 3.0,3.1,95/97/98

o       MS Dos 6.22

 

Microsoft BackOffice Components

o       Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

o       Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0

o       Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5

o       Microsoft Proxy Server2.0

 

LAN / WAN Devices

o       Ethernet Hubs  -  Unmanaged                           (3Com)    (Super Stack II 500)

o       Layer 2 Ethernet Switches – Managed              (3Com)    (Super Stack II 3300)

o       Layer 2 Ethernet Switches – Managed              (Cisco)     (1900, 2940, 2950, 3550)

o       Layer 2 Ethernet Switches – Managed              (HP)         (ProCurve 2650)

o        

o       Layer 3 Routers                                                (Cisco)    (2600, 2501, 1751 Modular)

o       ADSL  Modem/Router                                     (S.Stream5200, DSL305EU)

o       Wireless Bridge                                                (Cisco)    (AiroNet 340)

o       Wireless Access Point                                      (3Com)

 

Linux/Unix Tools

o       Apache, Squid, Samba, Postfix, MySql, NIS, NFS, BIND, DHCPd, Vsftpd, WuFTPd, Proftpd, PowerDNS, Kickstart, RAID, LVM, Amavis, Clam-Av, SpamAssassin, Nagios, Cerberus, Webmin, Squirrelmail, IPTraf, Chrootkits, rsync, rinetd,  SUNWvts, SUNWexplu, Squid-Graph, Squid-Guard, Adzapper, Dansguardian, Mysar, net-SNMP, MRTG, DRBD, SNAT, DNAT, Port-Forwarding, etc…                             

Security Tools

o       Snort 2.0, PortSentry, Tripwire, TcpWrappers, Ssh, Nmap, Iptables, etc..

o       Zone Alarm Pro 4.5/6.5/7

 

Network Designing Tools

o       Microsoft Visio 2002

o       Visio Professional 5

Languages

o       C,C++

o       HTML

o       BASH

 

Other Tools/Apps

o       Apache Web Server 1.3.0 for NT, VMWare 5.2, SecureCRT, PenguinNet, SSH Secure Shell 3.2.2, MDaemon, World Client Pro, Wingate Proxy Servers, Win Route Pro 4.1, Win proxy 2.0/3.0, CSM Proxy Servers, MS FrontPage 98, 2000, Links & Lynx , PcAnywhere, Radmin, VNC, etc..

 

Hardware Platform

o       Intel 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium Pro, Pentium–III,

Pentium-IV, SparcStation5, SF250, 450, V240, HP Compaq ML-370,

HP DL380 G3, G4, G5 Servers 3.6-Xeon, HP MSL6030, HP Storage Array, TOSHIBA, DELL

 

 

Education

 

            Preston University                                                                             Pakistan

o       Master in Information Technology  (MS-IT)                        (2005)

 

 

Certifications & Trainings

 

Red Hat Corporation, U.S.A

o       Red Hat Certified Engineer    (ES 3)   (93% marks)            (Dec 2004)

o       Red Hat Certified Technician (ES 3)   (100% marks)          (Dec 2004)

 

Sun Microsystems, U.S.A

o       Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 9   (80%)  (Apr 2006)

o       Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 9 (93%)  (Jun 2007)

 

Hewlett Packard, U.S.A

o       HP-UX Certified System Administrator                               (2003)

 

Linux Professional Institute, U.S.A

o       Junior Level Administration (LPIC- Level 1)                       (2003)

 

Cisco Systems, U.S.A

o       Cisco Certified Network Associate 2.0,                              (2001)

 

Microsoft Corporation, U.S.A

o       Microsoft Certified Professional                                          (1999)

o       Microsoft Certified System Engineer                                   (1999)

o       Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet              (1999)

 

Brain Bench Corporation, U.S.A

o       Linux Administration (general)                                             (2005)

o       Certified Network Technician                                             (2000)

o       Certified TCP/IP Administrator                                           (2000)

o       Certified Windows 95 Administrator                                   (2000)

o       Certified Windows NT 4.0 Administrator                (2000)

o       Master Windows NT Workstation Administrator                (2000)

o       Certified Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Administrator        (2000)

 

 

Centia Private Limited, Singapore                                                    (2005)

o       Successfully completed a 15 days Training Session on Sun Hardware (Sun Fire 5800, 3300, E450, V240,etc..) and SunOS (Solaris8 and Solaris9).

 

COM Wave Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad.

o       Attended Training Sessions of Cisco Router Configuration & CCNA 2.0

BIM&CS and UNDP, Islamabad.

o       Attended three days workshop on Web Authoring arranged by UNDP & BIM&CS.

National Teachers Technical Training College, Islamabad.

o       Certification in Computer Networking (Novell NetWare) & Turbo C Programming.

RBC Computer Training Center, Islamabad.

o       Certification in Computer Hardware and Maintenance.

Bareela Information Technology, Pvt. Ltd., Islamabad.

o       Attended three days workshop on Cisco Router Configuration and Implementation.

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