Consulting Skills: Experienced with assisting the consultative sales process, eliciting and defining client requirements, presenting emerging technology briefings, identifying and selling additional projects to existing clients, leading projects, diagramming business processes, writing proposals and technical documentation, identifying transformation management issues, training users, mentoring and being mentored. Distinguishing strength is an integrated perspective of business, technical and organizational transformation issues.
Technical Skills: From Web Mastering Lotus Notes, Domino, QuickPlace, Sametime and MS Internet Information Server. Developing Applications using LotusScript, Javascript and Java. Dreamweaver, Netscape Communicator, Remotely Possible, Internet Explorer, Pegasus, Wingate, WS_FTP, cc:Mail, Outlook Express, MS Office, Smartsuite.To managing systems, AS/400 170, 730, Compaq rack servers, IBM RS6000, Netfinity 5000, Intel PCs, IBM 4381, Silicon Graphics Iris Workstation, DEC VAX, 10/100 NICs and Hubs, CAT5 cabling. Cross-platform experience with OS/400, OS/2, UNIX, Linux, AIX, Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/Me/2000, Macintosh. Solid awareness of how System Administration, LAN/WAN, WWW/HTML and infrastructure issues impact application development and deployment. Major technical strengths include knowledge management and managing protocols TCP/IP, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, UDP, SSL, SLIP/PPP, IPX/SPX.
Notes Systems Administrator, VASTAR,
Houston, Dec 1999 - May 2000
Leading a team of Administrators and Developers of EnterpriseWide Notes
Domain containing 10 Notes 4.6 servers and providing 3rd level
Notes support to over 2000 Vastar Notes users spanning Gulf States and
offshore platforms by IP WAN using Netware 4.2. Implementing and rolling
out FxD Fax for Domino in VASTAR domain on NT4.
Senior
CLP Consultant, Lotus/IBM, Houston, Nov 1999 – Dec 1999
Implementing Domino.Doc 2.5 on the Domino R5 system on an AS/400 730
for SYSCO. Developing the Taxonomy in the Domino.Doc Knowledge Management
library. Preparing comprehensive documentation for KM rollout and training
Site and Library Administrators as well as end users.
Senior CLP Consultant, N3 Consulting,
Houston, Mar 1999 – Oct 1999
Administering specialized tasks in Domino R5 = > Clustering to perform
load balancing and failover support to manage high database availability.
Migrating enterprise messaging to Domino R5 from cc:Mail (db8). Implementing
SMTP for intermittently connected (dial-up) Domino mail servers utilizing
ISP’s ETRN. Implementing installations of Domino R5 for the AS/400 730.
CLP Consultant, Penta Inc., Houston,
Nov 1998 – Feb 1999
Administering, and implementing installations of Lotus Notes/Domino
4.62 on the AS/400. Migrated Domino 4.62 from IPCS NT4 to native AS/400
file system. Implementing and Configuring Domino.Doc 2.0 in Notes 4.63
on NT. Developing Web Applications using Domino.Action in Lotus Notes/Domino
4.6 to implement Domino server on the Web giving users browser access for
workflow and POP3 mail.
Projects Consultant, Kwetliso,
Johannesburg, May 1996 to Sept 1998
Technical member of the tender team to submit fulfillment of IT tenders
to the Government of South Africa, Parastatals and Banks. Technically Supervising
(hands on) Internet installations, web hosting, HTML design. Training clients
on all Winsock (Internet) applications. Setting up Virtual Domains and
joint venturing SUB-distributorships between Future Concepts and ISPs.
Administering Notes/Domino 4.6 server enabling Notesmail to Internet using
the SMTP MTA. Implementing VirtualMotion LanBridge and MailBridge for client's
LAN.
BPP Notes Administrator,
Lotus Development, Johannesburg, Aug 1995 to April 1996
Administering and consulting installations of Lotus Notes to Business
Partners (Distributors and Dealers). Administrator and end-user training
on Notes and connecting them to Lotus' Notes Network for Replication and
Mail Routing via remote dial-up and through the Internet.
MIS MANAGER,
Lotus Development, Johannesburg, Aug. 1994 to July 1995.
Manage and maintain all internal computer and communications systems.
Administer all Notes Servers, cc:Mail Post Office, NetWare file Servers,
Routers, Modems. Administer seamless communication between Notes servers
and cc:Mail Post Office with Lotus Mail Exchange. Providing Help Desk support
for Notes servers and end-users.
Systems Engineer,
Lotus Development, Johannesburg, April 1992 to July 1994
Demonstrate and Evangelize Lotus Software internally and all major
trade shows. Provide pre-sales support and training to clients on full
range of Lotus Software.
Customer Service
Spec, Lotus Development, Toronto, June 1991 to March1992
Provide telephone and telefax pre-sales and post-sales technical support.
Inside sales of software and corporate help desk sales. Hosting trade shows
and product launches. Lotus Notes Database Manager for Service Product
Information Database.
Technical Sales/Support, SD Consulting,
Toronto, Sept. 1990 to June1991
Selling and installing PC based point of sale systems. Provide both
telephone and on-site customer support. Involved in the development of
inventory control systems.
Salesmen/Broker,
Homelife Realty, Toronto, July 1987 to Aug. 1990
Syndicating and managing properties for offshore investors. Soliciting
in person, by phone and mail to list properties for sale. Marketing industrial,
commercial and residential properties for sale. Negotiating offers on behalf
of buyers and vendors.
Computer Animation Sales Consultant,
Digital FX, Toronto, May 1986 to Aug. 1986
Selling computer animation services to TV networks in Toronto. Contracts
gained by my efforts: CBC-The Journal, Global-Network ID. Selling computer
animation software to other graphics imaging companies such as Omnibus.
Developed hardware configuration to transfer graphics images to 3/4" broadcast
quality videotape.
Unix Systems Admin, 'C' Programmer,
Factotum Compusystems, Toronto, May 1985 to Aug. 1985
Writing 'C' modules for computer graphics package to be installed on
an IRIS graphics workstation. Wrote peripheral driver between OCR and UNIX
system. Promoted to Systems Administrator on UNIX operating system and
involved in debugging other programs.
Elected as Treasurer for Students Council Port Credit High School 1979
Captain Badminton Team - Port Credit High School - 1980
2IC Cross Country Ski Team - Port Credit High School - 1981
2IC Soccer Team - Port Credit High School 1981Minesweeper for 2nd Field Engineer Regiment DND Canadian Armed Forces- CFB Borden 1982
Received OSSHGD 6 Honours Awards for Grade 13 from Province of Ontario,Canada 1983
6 month Trek across North Africa 1983
Studied in the American University of Cairo and in Suks for 3 months
Reconnoitered Canadian Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia
Reconnoitered site of Marathon des Sables in Ouarzazate, Morocco.
Traversed Mediterranean from Tangiers to Gibraltar and onto Al-HambraCaptain - University of Toronto Soccer Team 1984
Graduate Industrial Engineering University of Toronto 1988Arranged the finances and Managed the rehabilitation and sale of a $1.2 million apartment complex 1989
Selected to join Lotus South Africa as a Systems Engineer as a Mentor to disadvantaged trainees 1992
Consultant to Government of Botswana 1993
Reconnoitered Lotus offices and hardware manufactures in Kuala Lampur(Malaysia)and Singapore 1993
Gold Medal winner at Lotus Olympics in Cypress 1993
Consultant to Canadian Embassy in Pretoria 1995
Consultant to Government of South Africa 1998Finisher three 21km half marathons Johannesburg 1998
Finisher First Colony 30km marathon Houston Dec 1998, 1999
Finisher Niagara Falls 50km UltraMarathon July 1999
Finisher Houston Methodist Marathon January 2000, 2001
Finisher Austin Motorola Marathon February 2000
Finisher Moonlight Madness 25K April 2000
Finisher Tall Pines Austin Town Lake Marathon May 2000
Finisher Inks Lake 50km UltraMarathon May 2000
Finisher SCOTT’S LOOP 6-HOUR ULTRA Marathon August 2000
Finisher DOUBLEBELT 25K September 2000
Finisher 25K Haunted Texas Trail Runs October 2000
Finisher San Antonio Marathon November 2000Naeem is in the IT industry for the past ten years, primarily with IT providers.
Naeem has been an IT Consultant for the past four years.
Change Management of LAN's internet connection, migrating from asynchronous V.90 using DHCP and Wingate proxy server to assymetric fractional T1 - IDSL using static IP addresses managing subcontractors COVAD and PDQ on the SWBell backbone.
Registering Domain names, alias domains, virtual domains and host names with register.com. In DNS tables binding the Domain names and MX records to static IP addresses to make the domain names publicly routeableand enable the SMTP router.
Implementing and developing Domino R5 for Linux
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.- Albert Einstein.
