Resume: Saad Faruque

faruque@gmail.com # +91-9739377851 http://www.faruque.org

Cooke town, Bangalore

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 Career Objective:  

With over 12 years of ICT administration background and 7 years ICT infrastructure implementation experience in various industries. I enjoy focusing on systems design and integration. I always look for innovative approach to get the most out of technology and setup scalable and sustainable systems. With this in mind prefer fling myself in as a senior managerial/techno-managerial position in a growing enterprise.

Industries Worked in: Education, banking, internet service provider, online retailer, NGO, training, printing house etc.

 Techno Managerial Profile:

I demonstrate strong leadership, organizational, communication and project management skills in my line of work. Management skills I practice in my line of work:

• Supervise and motivate technical team and by demonstrating strong working knowledge. Focus on better integration of technology in business with my systems analysis and preparing/refining system policies and procedures
• Believing in team work, having passion and taking ownership and responsibility with integrity and work ethics.
• Successful work/role delegation by training and team performing monitoring.
• Implementation of professional development programs to create resource backup team sustainability and staff motivation
• Analyzing and understanding business needs, future planning, technology budgeting procurement control
• Effective communication with good negotiation and presentation skills
• Appropriate resource allocation, time management, planning, focused to the goal and meeting deadline
• Use critical thinking and problem solving skills to find solutions and troubleshooting

 Technology Profile:

I work and demonstrate strong systems integration and troubleshooting skills in the following area:

• Data centre: virtualization, SAN, system monitoring, environment monitoring and control, power backup, redundancy, system backup and recovery, server and service monitoring technology with escalation matrix.
• Server: directory service(ldap/ads), radius, operating system and core services: OS: Windows and Linux, update management, enterprise antivirus, Internet proxy,
• Network: LAN Switching, Advanced routing, bandwidth control, firewall, NAT, web content filtering, wireless network
• Unified communication and Collaboration: with Email, task, calendar sharing, document sharing systems and VoIP with video calls, IM, File and print sharing,
• Others core skills: scripting: PHP and Bash; security and network analysis tools for system auditing and network troubleshooting, web servers, database management, mail server, spam and virus control, SSH, VPN.
• Brief list of areas I worked earlier in my career, skills might not be current: OS: FreeBSD, Sun Solaris and MS Windows (NT, 2000); Networking: PPPoE, VSAT (Satellite link), DVB over IP, frame relay, Internet Dial-up Systems over PSTN using PPP; Point to point Radio equipments: UC-Warless, BridgeNet, Speed LAN, and Smart Bridges; Other services: SAMBA, legacy webmail systems Internet relay chat (ircd), chat room bots; Server Hardware: IBM netfinity, eSerice. Dell Business servers, CISCO: entry level Routes and Switch, CISCO PIX; Programming: C++ and Pascal.

 

 Vendor Certification and Training Programs Undertaken

Certifications: RHCE (2006), CCNA (2004), RHCT (2004), MCSE, (2002), RHCA, (in progress)

Training: Redhat Certified Network Architect curriculums: clustering and storage management, directory service, selinux, security, system monitoring and performance turning, enterprise virtualization (2009-2010)

Completed RedHat Certified Engineer curriculum on Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 (2006), Redhat 9 (2004)Microsoft Authorized curriculum in a Microsoft Authorized Training Centers on MCSE track (2002)

 

 Professional Experience:

IT Manager, Stonehill International School                                      (Aug 2008 to Present)

http://www.stonehill.in , IB world school (scale: 1000 users, 300 stations and 500 mobile clients)

Job Profile:

• Direct and manage complete IT systems and operation for scalable integrated environment addressing operations and education needs
• Technical team building for ensuring sustainable developing human resource starting recruiting, provides in house training and followed by role delegation, supporting with procedures and guidelines
• Technology planning and budgeting for integration, expansion and hardware/software maintains

Technology highlights:

• Systems and Network administration: Windows and Linux OS, tire three data centre with virtualization and storage, redundant LAN serving, voice, data, CCTV, PA, unified communication system, systems monitoring, and backup-recovery
• Others services: Helpdesk management, systems-security management, enterprise antivirus, internet content filtering, learning and school management system.

IT Consultant, Council of International Schools                                  (Oct 2007- Aug 2008)

http://www.cios.org (scale: can 1000 users, 300 stations and 500 mobile clients)

Project responsibilities:

• Started working at the planning stage on development and setup IT infrastructure and integrating technology into operations and education
• Budgeting initial capital investment and five year expansion and maintenance cycle followed by sourcing hardware/software and systems integrators for supervised implementation
• Ensuring long term viability by documenting the system, preparing guidelines and recruiting systems/network administrators and IT support engineers

IT Manager, International School Dhaka                                                                                               (Aug 2005- Aug 2008)

http://www.isdbd.org, IB world school (scale 800 users, 300 stations and 500 mobile clients)

Job Profile:

• Redesign and manage complete technology infrastructure and IT operation for scalability, addressing operations and education needs; technology planning and budgeting for integration, expansion and hardware/software maintains
• Technical team building for competent human, provides in house training and eventually role delegation by preparing procedures and guidelines

Technology highlights:

• Systems and Network administration: Windows and Linux OS, redundant LAN serving, data, voice, email systems, backup-recovery
• Others services: Systems-security management, enterprise antivirus, learning and school management system

 

Head of Network Operations Center. ISP, MTL BD                                                 (2004-2005)  

Internet service provider http://www.mtlbd.net  (scale 2,000 clients, 4 POP)

Job profile:

• Re-design ISP infrastructure for scalability and sustainability

• Supervise network operation centre and supervising technical team with systems and network administration, data centre helpdesk management and demonstrating working knowledge in system troubleshooting, training and supervising
• Plan and deploy expansions and Develop new solutions and services; introduced citywide fiber optic backbone

Technology highlights:

• OS and supporting systems: FreeBSD, Linux, MySQL
• Network: Routing and switching, VSAT links, Point-point radio link, fiber-optic backbone, link redundancy, bandwidth control, iptables firewall; and ppp, PPPoE for client access

 

Network Administrator                                                                                                             (2002 – 2004)

Senior Officer, IT Department, BRAC Bank Limited

http://www.bracbank.com(scale 12 brunches, 600 users, 400 workstations)

Scope of work:

• Maintain and expand banks inter-brunch connectivity and support for systems and network troubleshooting
• Systems administration of operating systems and backup, server hardware maintenance
• Rollout new brunch IT infrastructure such as server, switching, connectivity, software, printer and backup etc. by meeting deadlines

Technology highlights:

• Network administration: LAN; WAN, Wireless link; DDN; routing, link redundancy and firewall with CISCO PIX
• Systems administration: OS: Windows NT, Linux, NT Directory service, system backup, webmail system with sendmail and IMAP Lotus domino server

My early career 1998-2002*

 Systems Administrator (2000 – 2002)

Shaplanet

ISP division of Tetterode (BD) Ltd. (Internet service provider)

 

Systems Administrator (2000 – 2002)

Neural Systems Ltd, Bangladesh (training institute)

 

Support engineer (2002)

Mitsui & Co. Ltd. Bangladesh (Japanese Consultancy)

 

Support Engineer(trainee) (1998 – 1999)

Tetterode (Bangladesh) Ltd.

Dhaka, Bangladesh (Publishing and printing equipment)