Syed Ghani

Experience

• 

  ProQuest

  Jul 2000 - Oct 2011

  Managed and was key part of Online Operations team. Team was responsible for SLA adherence for all of ProQuest online offerings for content, features, availability, response times etc. Team owned production environment for all online presence products and responsible for uptime, maintenance and SLA adherence to customers both external and internal.Played a key part in planning, implementing and developing a playbook for the main data center move of company's data center from self hosted data center in Ann Arbor, Michigan to a managed datacenter in the Washington DC area. Part of a key team that managed all logistics and resources for the move. Move was accomplished within normal company maintenance window timelines.Played key role in the company's move from an old software platform to a more modern and agile platform that was modular and imminently more customizable. This change in platform necessitated key technological changes to company infrastructure including network, storage, hardware, database, access methods etc. Show less

  • Principal Systems Administrator

    Nov 2006 - Oct 2011

  • Sr. Systems Administrator

    Jul 2002 - Oct 2006

  • Systems Administrator

    Jul 2000 - Jul 2002
• 

  F5 Networks

  Nov 2011 - May 2020

  Consultant - Professional Services

  As a member of the Professional Services team at F5 Networks, I help customers deploy and utilize F5 technologies to help solve business problems.This includes deploying new technologies, augmenting capacity, making business solutions highly available, securing existing applications or finding creative ways to help solve technical and technological problems.I continue to work with very high profile clients in industries like government, finance, security, insurance, healthcare, education, entertainment, energy, IaaS providers, SaaS providers etc. Show less

• 

  Zscaler

  May 2020 - now

  Sr. Consultant, Professional Services

  Help organizations make their digital transformation journey. Help organizations and customers make the transition from the traditional hub and spoke networks to enabling secure access for any device from anywhere either to the internet or from the internet to private applications.Specialize in DLP and help provide automation solutions.