Sohail Riaz

OBJECTIVE

Mobile : Email: MSN ID:

92 - 333 - 9183920 sohaileo@gmail.com sohaileo@hotmail.com

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To work in an esteemed environment where my intellectual and physical capabilities can be utilized with an organization that mature the competencies of its members.

SKILLS SUMMARY
5+ years of System/Network Administration Using Linux, Windows Operating Systems. 3+ years of Oracle 8i/9i/10g Installation/Administration/Management. 2+ years experience of Team / Project Management. 1+ years of application development using shell and perl scripting. Designed, implementation and administrates experience of large networks using latest technologies includes Linux, MS Windows Operating Systems and Cisco Routers at wired and wireless media. Strong skills for picking up new technologies, ideas, concepts and can demonstrate exceptional interpersonal, analytical and problem solving skills. Hands-on experience of leading all stages of Network Development, including requirements, definition, design, development, maintenance and support. Implementing systems like DNS Servers, Mail Servers, Database Servers, Proxy Servers, Web Servers, Directory Servers, LDAP, FTP Servers, DHCP Servers, SSL, Streaming Servers, Firewall Servers, Bandwidth Controllers, VPN and others related to networks.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) Icon Integrated Services, Jaipur, India.

RHCE # 804006019622746

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
MS Information Technology IMSciences, University Of Peshawar (In Progress). Master in Computer Science. Department of Computer Science, University Of Peshawar (2000-2002). Bachelor in Computer Science. Department of Computer Science, Islamia College Peshawar (1997-1999).

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Communication Skills Operating Systems Programming Languages Web Development Databases Enterprise Servers/Standards Security Tools Mail Servers Web Servers Web Hosing Control Panel Proxy Servers Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Urdu All Linux / Unix Flavosr, MS Windows NT/2000/XP C Language, PHP, Bash Shell Scripting, Perl Scripting Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Swish Oracle, MySQL BIND, LDAP, Clustering, Load Balancer. IPTABLES, Snort, Tripwire, SSL, VPN, DSA Keys, Public / Private Keys. Qmail, Sendmail, Postfix, MS Exchange Server, POP, IMAP Apache, MS IIS. CPanel/WHM, Plesk, Webmin, Ensim Squid, MS ISA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FAST ADMINS (Pvt.) Ltd. http://www.fastadmins.com March 2004 Till Date

SENIOR MANAGER TECHNICAL / CONSULTANT

Providing technical support to hosting companies, ISP, Portals, Educational Institute and direct clients. Managing Linux / Unix Based System Administration / Management for different clients. Creates/Administrate/Manages Clusters , Load Balancer , High Performance Web Servers , High Performance SMTP / POP / IMAP Servers , Distributed FileSystems , File Servers , High Performance Proxy Servers, Firewalls, Database Servers with Replication and Clusters, DNS Servers, FTP Servers and Monitoring Servers. Providing Off-site and On-site Trainings.

Emerging Technologies - Training & Solutions http://etech.com.pk January 2004 Till Date

SENIOR MANAGER IT
Responsible for conducting RHCE Training. Responsible for conducting ISP Setup Training with Red Hat and Cisco routers.

Responsible for design, implementation and administrates of a Network Projects

FAST - National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences Peshawar Campus http://www.nu.edu.pk September 2003 June 2006

SYSTEM MANAGER
Designed, implemented and now administrates 2 Computer Labs using wired and 1 Computer Lab using wireless containing 150 nodes, software employed is Red Hat Linux & Windows 2000 Advance Server based Servers and windows 2000 professional & Red Hat Linux based Workstations at nodes. Network Servers implements BIND DNS Server, MySQL Database Server, SSH Server, MS Active Directory, NIS Server, Samba File Server, MS Exchange Server, Oracle Database Server, Apache Server, IIS Server. Setup MS Active Directory for centralized users management with roaming profiles and home directories. Restrict users from using system unauthorized with help of policies. Configure Squid Proxy Server for university internet need using fiber optics, in which total bandwidth management is done through bandwidth controllers. Configure Firewall server based on Fedora Core 3 using IPTABLES, SNORT, PORT SENETRY to prevent network from outside attacks. Configure NTOP to monitoring all the Traffic going through Firewall server Managing Oracle 9i Database Server running application for Student Management System and Online Testing / Admission System.

OSSP, Open Source Solution Providers. http://www.ossp.com.pk January 2005 Till Date

SENIOR CONSULTANT
Maintain several online Linux Servers & Data Centers of OSSP Clients. Responsible for design, implementation and administrates of a Network Projects. Responsible for giving full technical support to the clients.

IQRaNET Internet Service Provider Peshawar http://www.iqranet.net April 2003 September 2003

SYSTEM ENGINEER
Maintains & administrates Network Servers for IQRaNet Services

Mail Server using Qmail, Courier-IMAP and MySQL at backend for users for about 5000 users. Web Server with SSL Support managing 35 sites using Apache. 2 Cache DNS Server using BIND 3 Proxy Server using SQUID cache proxy server for bandwidth

management. Firewall Server using IPTABLES, SNORT, PORT SENETRY. Radius Server & Cisco 2500, 2600 routers management.

INARA Institute of IT (Networking Minds), Peshawar April 2003 September 2005

TRAINER: Linux System Administration

Gives Training on Linux System Administration to their students from beginner level to advance level. Implement Mail Server Using Qmail, Courier IMap, MySQL, Spam Assassin, Calm Antivirus, Autoresponder, VQAdmin, Qmail Admin etc for IMCPAKISTAN (NGO) http://imcpakistan.org.pk.

NWFP, University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar. April 2002 September 2003

LAB INCHARGE
Responsible for the maintainance of the computers and network resources at 2 Computer Labs containing 60 nodes having Linux and MS Windows operating systems. Giving technical support to students and new staff on new technologies.

PROJECTS
Fedora URDU Localization Project
Currently working on Fedora Localization Project to translate Fedora in Urdu Language.

Web Cluster with High Availability and Load Balancing

Developed Web Cluster with High Availability and Load Balancing for Iventster to runs http://www.xuqa.com with 5 Apache Servers and 2 LoadBalancer

Database Balancing

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High

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Load

Developed Database Cluster with High Availability and Load Balancing for Iventster to runs http://www.xuqa.com with 4 MySQL Servers and 2 LoadBalancer

 FastToaster Linux (a MailServer Linux Distribution)

Developed FastToaster Linux (a MailServer Linux Distribution) , giving automate installation of Qmail server with addons at installation time.

High Performance Squid Proxy Server

Developed High Performance Squid Proxy Server for 500 nodes using it for internet need at FAST NU Peshawar Campus. http://www.nu.edu.pk

Mail Server Using Qmail

Developed Qmail Server with MySQL, Courier IMAP, Qmail Admin, Mailing List, Spamassassin, CalmAV Antivirus for IMCPAKISTAN (NGO). http://imcpakistan.org.pk

Mail Server Using MS Exchange

Developed MS Exchange server for nu.edu.pk domain to use as internal / external mail server for sending and receiving mails. http://www.nu.edu.pk

Bandwidth Management and Content Monitoring

Developed a Bandwidth Manager with Content Monitoring to allow clients a specific bandwidth and block unwanted content from browsing / downloading at FAST NU Peshawar Campus.

Monitoring System for IQRaNET Servers

Developed a Monitoring System for IQRaNET Servers to automate the Services Recovering after crashing. If it cant recover it then it mails to the all the admins about the crash. http://www.iqranet.net

MIS System for Department of Health

Developed an online MIS for Department of Health Govt. of NWFP using PHP/MySQL/Apache and supervised online data entry of 20,000 paramedics staff of the Department

Pocket Based Single PC ISP Setup

Developed Pocket Based ISP Setup Project Using RedHat Linux 9 at Deparment of Computer Science, University of Peshawar

Linux Based Router for (RIP/OSPF/BGP)

Developed Linux Based PC Router having features of running RIP and OSPF routing protocols to communicate with CISCO routers.

REFERENCE
Provided on request