Dharmesh C Prajapati

MCSE – ID 5783779

Email:

Mob: +973 36584294

MCT, MCITP Windows 2008,MCTS,Senior Network Consultant offering 12 Years including3.5 year of International Exposure

Technical Expertise | Implementation & Installation | Troubleshooting | Team Management

Objective: Seeking to steer IT Operations as an IT Managerwhile integrating technical expertise and leadership skills that drives organizational performance to world-class levels.

Synopsis: With 12+ years of experience in the IT industry, I have acquired a tremendous amount of hands on and technical project management knowledge. My current objective is to apply my technical knowledge and project management skills to help lead a competitive growing company to a new level of success and guide them towards a new age of advanced technology.

Additional Excellence in:Windows Server, User Accounts & assigning Group Policy, Hardware & Network Maintenance, Setting up ISA Server, Edimax Load balancing router with inbuilt firewall balancing 4 DSL Lines from different ISP, Mapping of Live IP’s to Local IPs, Setting up Merak Mail Server and Configure Wireless Routers.

Adept in:DHCP & FSMO Roles, Troubleshooting (Microsoft product line - Win 2000 professional, Win XP, Win 2K server & Win 2003), Expert on Implementation/Installation of LAN /WAN using CISCO products, VoIP, ISDN PRI & BRI, VPN, IPLC and Active Directory & various securities third party tools.

Technical Skills Set

  • Operating System: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/2003/2008/NT Server 4.0 / NT Workstation 4.0,DOS, Novel Netware
  • Languages: C++, VC++, HTML
  • RDBMS: Sybase (T-SQL) My-SQL MS SQL, SQL2000/2005
  • Web-Server: IIS 6.0, Apache
  • Firewalls: Kerio Winroute Firewall, Microsoft ISA
  • Others: AIX 5.2, MS-Office, Unix Shell Programming, TCP/IP, CISCO routers, T1, Ghost, Sharepoint 2007 administration, SCCM 2007

Career History

ALMOYED GROUP WLL – MANAMA, BAHRAIN / DOHA, QATAR

Project Manager IT / System Administrator (Oct 2007 onwards)

Job Profile:

  • Installing and managing Sharepoint 2007 Server
  • Install, support, and project manage the opening of 75+ retail locations
  • Provide Tiers 2, and 3 end user support for 90+ corporate users.
  • Install, configure, and troubleshoot secure LAN’s, WAN’s, & Intranets. Consistently managed numerous simultaneous technical projects / lead engineer for many client-related openings, installs & upgrades. Provide networking solutions that both accommodate special needs on time and within budget
  • Responsible for up grading Windows Server 2003 to 2008.
  • Responsible for Installation & Maintenance of Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition / Windows 2008.
  • Maintenance of DNS Forwarders.
  • Maintainand troubleshoot DHCP servers.
  • Managing Active Directories and assigning folders Access permission.
  • Thorough Knowledge of FSMO roles.
  • Managing SQL databases.
  • Taking backups.
  • Setup and maintain Kerio Winroute Firewall.
  • Maintaining Exchange 2003 Servers.
  • Troubleshoot Hardware and software issues
  • Setup and maintain Trend Micro’s Office Scan Client/Server Edition

ACT Computer

Sr. System Administrator (April 2006 – Oct 2007)

Job Profile:

  • Upgrading the Faculties as well as the Technical team for Exchange 2003 and Special MCSE 2003 batches.
  • Responsible for Installation Maintenance of Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, managing Active Directories, maintaining the DNS forwarders and managing the CVS for smooth Operations.
  • Assigning folders Access permission, maintaining Apache servers, maintaining setting up MS SQL database, attaching database from .MDF / .LDF files and taking backup of the database.
  • Maintain and manage the Hardware and Software inventory
  • Coordinating with Support Executives based in USA for technical problems related to Remote Servers.
  • Maintained Office Scan Client/Server Edition
  • Maintained ISA
  • Maintained Exchange server 2003

IIHT

ConsultantIT

Job Profile:

  • Involved in the Installation & Maintenance of Windows2003 Enterprise Edition with Exchange Server 2003 and Maintaining Active Directories.
  • Setting up and managing Merak Mail Server.
  • Conducted Courses like A+ (Hardware), N+ (Networking) & MCSE with Exchange 2003.
  • Efficiently conducted Corporate In-house Training for ITGIPL Executives of Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd.
  • Conducted Training for MCSE 2003 Messaging Track and upgrading the non resident IT studentteam from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 and Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003.

Previous Assignments

Organization / Designation / Period
Neff Auto Spares & Hardware Ltd. – Mombassa, Kenya / System Administrator / Sep 2005 – Mar 2006
Jaychem India / System Administrator / Aug 2002 – Aug 2005
Internet Information Providers (IIP) Sister Concern Marathe Infotech / Network Engineer / Jan 1999 - Aug 2002
NIIT Ltd. / Senior Trainer / Mar 1997 – Jan 1999

Responsibilities:

  • Installation & Maintenance Windows 2000/2003 Server, maintained server with Exchange Server 2000/2003 & Active Directories, Reports & Documentation for the Imports and maintained Hardware & various Networks (Neff Auto Spares & Hardware Ltd.)
  • Installed & Maintained Windows 2000 Advance server with Exchange Server 2000 & Small Business Server 2000, recovered Database from EDB files and maintained Hardware & Network of Computers (Jaychem India).
  • Instrumental in maintaining Customer Relationship, updating Web site and creating PHP Modules for the portal. Maintained updated the web site and In-house network consisting of 80 computers with windows 2000 professional, Advance Server and installed Windows XP and also maintained Hardware & Software(IIP).
  • Trained Students, Installed and configured Windows NT Server / NT Workstation, Proxy Servers, Managed Hardware, Implemented Network, Security, Windows and Antivirus Solutions(NIIT Ltd.)

Education

MBA (IT)

Diploma in Computers, NIIT
MCT,MCSE MCITP, MCTS

Seminar / Trainings

Attended Microsoft's Seminar for the Launch of Windows 2008 in Bahrain (17th Mar 2008)

Participated in Training of Windows NT 4.0 Server, conducted by NIIT Ltd., Delhi

Undergone Courses on C++under UNIX from NIIT Computer Institute

Personal Information

Date of Birth:7th November 1975

Gender – Male

Marital Status - Married

Languages:English, Hindi and Gujarati

Nationality – Indian

Passport No. : F3620856

Contact Information

Current Address - NIT, P.O. Box# 933, Manama, Bahrain

Mob: +973 365 84294, +91 9879792018 (India) Tel: +973 17740033

Permanent Address: F-4, New NikitaPark, Behind Sun N Step Club,

Memnagar, Ahmedabad – 380052

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