Faizan Gul Awan

Experience

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  Nayatel Pvt. Ltd

  Oct 2005 - Sept 2009

  Systems Engineer

  o Providing Value Added Services to customers for LINUX and Windows 2000/2003 environment.o Monitoring of email traffic on all mail servers and maintaining proper flow of emails by taking necessary steps.o Managing and configuring Linux servers such as DNS, Squid, Sendmail, Apache, DHCP and JFFNMS.o Configuring of email hosting services by configurations on Qmail and Sendmail servers.o Handling matters related to Domain Registration and Web Hosting.o Monitoring network statistics and stability through JFFNMS.o RADIUS Authentication and Accounting Servers.o Troubleshooting the network in case of any malfunction.o Administration and Managing MBL/NTL Application Servers.o Managing and monitoring email routing on Scan server running SUN Solaris OS 10. Show less

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  JSI-Research & Training Institute Inc.

  Sept 2009 - Dec 2010

  IT Officer

  o Maintaining and troubleshooting office network for smooth operation.o Maintaining Exchange server 2003 and Domain controller.o Taking backups of exchange server and shared data on regular basis.o Maintaining smooth Internet connectivity.o Maintaining Linux machines being used for routing and SAMBA.o Taking measures to make the shared folders usage easy when restoring a deleted file.o Taking necessary steps so that our Email server IP does not get listed on global spam reporting servers. Show less

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  Special Communications Organization SCO

  Dec 2010 - Sept 2013

  System Engineer

  o Maintaining and troubleshooting Email services based on Exchange 2007 with Clustered environment.o Maintaining and troubleshooting Active directory server 2003.o Installation and Maintenance of Centralized Anti-virus server (Symantec Endpoint Protection) for the Enterprise.o Taking backups of Active Directory, Exchange server and shared data on regular basis.o Deploying and maintaining Linux machines to be used for different purposes as per management requirements.o Managing Internet and Security Acceleration (ISA) server so that Firewall and URL filtering needs be fulfilled.o Developing virtualization infrastructure by using Hyper-V server 2012.o Maintenance of Hp EVA 4000 and IBM DS4300 based Storage Area Network.o Installation and management of Terminal Server used for the supporting legacy end user systems for Internet services.o Installation and management of corporate File server and setting policies to restrict user access to different levels. o Installation and Maintenance of Office Communication Server 2007.o Installation and Maintenance of SharePoint Portal server 2007.o Tivoli server manager for backups.o Helping IT Technicians in PC and Printer related issues and helping them in taking steps to stop the reoccurrence of the issues faced.o Taking necessary steps so that our server IP does not get listed on global spam reporting servers.o Helping IT technicians in blocking USB flash disks on the client PCs as they are a major source of virus attacks. Show less

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  Ufone

  Sept 2013 - now

  Manager Unified Communications

  o Experience of Exchange 2016 migration to Exchange 2019 based on Server Core 2022.o Experience of Exchange 2010 migration to Exchange 2016.o Setup and management of Office 365 cross tenant migrations for Cloud mailboxes.o Setup and management of cross Forest migrations for On-Premises mailboxes.o Managing Office 365 setup.o Managing Azure Information Protection Labels and Policies for email and documents tagging.o Installation and configuration of RMS connector for on-premises Exchange environments.o Managing Azure AD Connect server upgradation and configuration.o Management and troubleshooting of email services based on Exchange 2010, Exchange 2016 & Exchange 2019 Hybrid with DAG environment.o Upgrading and Optimizing Exchange infrastructure to bear end user load properly.o Managing public DNS servers of Ufone.o Handling Active Directory operational tasks including setting up of policies, creation of users and groups.o Handling operational tasks related to public and AD integrated DNS.o Handling DHCP operational tasks.o Handling SharePoint Administration tasks. Show less

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  LMKR

  Sept 2024 - now

  Manager Enterprise Services & Cloud

  o Managing client Office 365 environments to support business needs. o Optimization of existing internal email environments based on full on-premises, hybrid and cloud only setups. o Optimized the current Hybrid environment to support migration of users to Office 365. o Set up a new optimized environment based on Server 2025 CORE with latest Exchange. o Active Directory operation tasks. o Azure operational tasks.