Hammad Naeem

• Directed a complete revamp of the existing DevOps infrastructure achieving a more efficient and stable environment for application release
• Architected the migration of a traditional application to the Azure Application Environment (ASC), enabling seamless support for 7 million subscribers
• Oversaw a team of senior engineers to design and implement a container-based deployment using Kubernetes, reducing server instances by 50%
• Architected and deployed a zero-trust security model leveraging service mesh technology and AI-driven threat detection, resulting in a 90% reduction in security incidents and achieving SOC 2 Type II compliance in record time
• Development of a custom, AI-powered capacity planning tool, optimizing cloud resource allocation and reducing infrastructure costs by $2.5 million annually while supporting 200% YoY growth
• Redefined Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines by adopting GitLab, leading to a 20% improvement in software builds
• Managed cloud resources effectively using Terraform, realizing a 30% cost saving
• Established proactive monitoring using Kibana, Logstash (ELK Stack), and Grafana, reducing system downtime by 30%
• Mentored junior DevOps engineers in adopting industry best practices, raising team productivity by 20%
• Improved quality control with the integration of automated test scripts during the build process, reducing bugs by 70%.

• Review the current state of IFAD data protection (Microsoft Technology: AD RMS, Azure Information Protection, Purview)
• Support the migration of AD RMS to Azure Information Protection (Analyze, Plan, Implement)
• Create and deploy Data Labelling across O365 Exchange online, Microsoft Office 365 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Teams, SharePoint Online
• Implement Security rules for email based on data labelling
• Support other activities related to Azure and O365 security
• Creation and Deployment of Azure Virtual Desktop Environment and Documentation
• Deployment and testing of Azure APIM services
• Audit of Group Polices
• Deployment of Elastic cluster and run book creation

• Design cloud environments with a focus on Azure and AWS and demonstrate technical cloud architectural knowledge, playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA, and development of cloud infrastructures running in 24×7 environments
• Implement and oversee all aspects of the cloud environment including provisioning, scale, monitoring, and security
• Delivery of cloud strategies, aligned with business objectives and with a focus on cloud migrations
• Provide leadership in infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques including mass application movements into the cloud including implementation of Azure or AWS within global enterprise environments
• Nurture cloud computing expertise internally and externally to drive cloud adoption
• Act as key stakeholder for validation of new cloud or SaaS solutions adhere to architecture roadmap
• Implement required systems, solutions, and processes needed to manage cloud cost, monitoring, scalability, and redundancy are accounted for and continuously validated
• Ensure all cloud solutions adhere to security and compliance best practices
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Data Platform, DevOps, and Integration Teams to ensure cloud adoption follows standard best practices.

• Migration with MS Teams
• Migration of 7900 users from Exchange 2013 to 2019 with Teams presence for On-prem mailboxes
• Assessment and Design
• Implementation & Troubleshooting
• Postproduction Support
• West Coast university – integration of CUCM VOIP with MS Teams (Service Delivery Engineer)
• The scope of the project is to integrate Cisco Call Manager VOIP with Microsoft Teams
• Review existing O365 Tenant
• Prepare the Tenant for Voice Ready on MS Teams
• Integration CUCM with Ribbons SBC
• Create Voice Routing Polices, Dial plan, Voice Route Patterns, Emergency Services, Translation rules, Normalization rules and auto attended configuration
• Enable Teams VOIP for pilot users’ group
• Admin Training
• Post-production support
• LA Public Library – Health Check of AAD and on-prem Active Directory (Service Delivery Engineer)
• Setup Azure AD Health check of on-prem Active Directory Infrastructure
• Analyze health of current AD Infrastructure
• Documentation of the problems and remediation
• Prepare AD for Azure AD Integration
• Setup Azure AD
• Schedule health check automation for future
• San Joaquin County – Proof Point to Microsoft ATP Migration (Service Delivery Engineer)
• This project was to migrate Proof Point on-prem security appliance to Microsoft EOP/ATP Services
• Inventory of Proof Point Rules
• Comparison between ProofPoint and ATP
• Created Implementation and recommendation document for the administrators
• Conduct Training of Admins
• Deployment into Production

• Environment: Vagrant, JSON, AWS and Azure Stack, PowerShell DSC
• AWS, AWS Code pipeline, EC2, S3, Cloud Formation, Dynamo DB, Kinesis, VPC, IAM, Azure Micro-Services, Cloud Watch, Git, Jenkins, ANT etc
• Creating fully automated CI build and deployment infrastructure and processes for multiple projects
• Developing scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins and Bitbucket and AWS AMI’s
• Have experience of working with Docker- docker hub, pulling images Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, IAM through AWS Cloud information templates
• POC on Implementing AWS Kinesis based consumers in Lambda and pipeline data to a data lake while allowing real time analytics using DynamoDB and ordering based on the location of mobile users and ordering trends
• Designing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups and OpsWorks
• Used Azure Micro services architecture
• Creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch
• Creating Lambda function to automate snapshot back up on AWS and set up the scheduled backup
• Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle
• Experience with ElasticSearch, Logstash&Kibana stacks
• Experience with Nagios monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services
• Worked closely with developers and managers to resolve the issues that were risen during the deployments in different environments.

• DFS Namespace Migration (, Migration of DFS Name to DFS Clustered Namespace and Data Migration
• Assessment of exiting DFS Infrastructure
• Design and Plan new DFS Clustered Infrastructure
• Setup and configuration
• Scripting for Data Migration
• Data Migration
• Testing and Validation
• Decommission of existing DFS Infrastructure
• SMART – AD, Exchange Migration, and Intune Implementation (Technical Lead)
• The project scope is to Migrate legacy domain controllers to 2019 and Exchange Mailboxes to O365
• Deploy Intune for 300 Users
• Assessment of Current Infrastructure
• Design the New Infrastructure
• Configure Hybrid Exchange Environment
• Setup O365 Tenant
• Migrate 360 Mailboxes
• Configured Intune Tenant
• Setup Intune Compliance Policy
• Setup Intune Device Configuration Polices
• Setup Intune Hybrid Join Automatic Enrollment Policy
• Knowledge Transfer Session
• Sensus – Active Directory Audit (Architect)
• Full Audit of Active Directory environment
• Health Check of Active Directory
• Complete Audit Documentation
• Offered Best Practices on Re-structuring
• Community American Credit Union – AIP/ATP, DLP and Intune (Lead Engineer)
• CACU is looking for protecting the sensitive data of customers PII encryption, data classification, data loss prevention and corporate device Protection
• Workload data to protect (e.g., Exchange, SharePoint)
• Prevention of sharing sensitive information (e.g., PII)
• Monitoring of sensitive information
• DLP classification schema
• DLP reports to generate
• M365 Labels and Azure Information Protection
• Endpoint protection
• Define O365/M365 DLP policies (up to 5 policies)
• Identify use cases and groups
• Document requirements and develop implementation plan
• Implement DLP policies including exact data match (EDM)
• Implement AIP and ATP policies
• Test and modify policies as necessary
• Finalize documentation and perform knowledge transfer
• Wilbur Curtis – Lync to Microsoft Teams Migration (Solution Architect)
• The project involves migration of Lync 2013 On-prem users to Microsoft Teams and their contact Center migration of 250 Users
• Assessment of current infrastructure
• Design the new infrastructure
• Configuration of AudioCodes SBC
• Setup Lync in Hybrid Environment
• Mass migration
• Documentation
• Cutover to new system
• Validation and Testing
• Postproduction support

· Discovery and documentation of new Microsoft Exchange 2019 environment

· Provisioning and installation of new Exchange 2019 servers, which includes a high availability (HA) design with redundancy within two FLNG datacenters (Alpheus DC and Quintana DC). The multi-site solution will leverage multiple copies of each database availability groups (DAG) for quick recovery activation.

· Configuration of Exchange Enterprise 2019 and the following integrations

a. NetScaler

b. MDM AirWatch

c. Proofpoint

d. Exchange Web Services

e. Veeam Exchange Backup

f. Firewalls

· Mailbox migration from legacy Exchange 2016 Server to new Exchange 2019 servers

· Test and verify new Exchange 2019 environment, which includes test e-mail send/receive, integration testing, site redundancy and failover.

· Exchange 2019 server performance and internal mail service testing.

· Site failover and HA verification

· Final server cutover and decommission legacy Exchange server

· Knowledge Transfer

• Knowledge Transfer, – MDM Migration (Service Delivery, )
• The project is to migrate VMware Airwatch to Microsoft Intune for 17K users
• Review of the existing VMware Airwatch infrastructure
• Comparing features and capabilities Airwatch vs Intune
• Provide documentation on capabilities
• Review and update existing mobile device management policies
• Prepare Intune
• Setup Applications in Intune
• Configured Certificates and app warping
• Device Enrollment into Intune
• Migrated pilot users’ group
• Created conditional access polices and compliance polices into Intune
• EHS - Application Assessment Proposal (Assessment Engineer)
• Assessment of current Cloud Setup hosted on Azure and provide suggestion on Cost Optimization, High Availability, Stability
• Assessment of Current Setup
• Created Detailed Analysis Report on Cost Optimization, High Availability and Stability
• CCCD O365 Migration Project Phase 2-4 (Service Delivery Engineer)
• Migration of 7K mailboxes to Exchange online and setting up High Availability of Hybrid server for mail flow
• Performed assessment of Current environment
• Created Design and Implementation documents
• Implemented the solution with Zero Down Time
• Created Automation of the Delivery
• Postproduction Support
• Robinson Nevada Mining – Windows File Renaming (Project Lead)
• The project is to place automation for 165K files placed on Server 2008 having file names more than 255 Characters which cannot be moved to 2016 due to invalid paths
• Perform assessment of Current File System and Hierarchy
• Created Inventory of Current File System with Permissions
• Created Automation scripts to move files after renaming into valid path
• California Student Aid Commission – O365 Health Check (Service Delivery Engineer)
• California Student Aid Commission (CSAC or client, herein) has requested assistance with their O365 assessment
• Due to hosted services in cloud, Microsoft do not offer full access to back-end infrastructure, focus was on Compliance and security
• Performed complete assessment of O365 and On-prem infrastructure
• Documented potential risk and Area of improvement
• First 5 LA – SCCM Deployment (Service Delivery Engineer)
• Deliver System Center Configuration Manager 2016 deployment to LAN networks by deploying a single primary server including Windows 10 deployment, reporting and software update functionality
• Responsible for design, planning, implementation and Admin Training
• TAMS – SharePoint 2016 Setup (Service Delivery Engineer)
• Project scope is to setup a copy of SharePoint production environment for Dev and Staging
• Responsible for installation, validation and Postproduction support.

• SCCM Deployment Co-Management with Intune, 2022)
• SCCM 2010 Deployment for 600 Devices with Cloud Management Gateway
• Co-Management with Intune
• Autopilot Deployment
• Mobile Device Polices
• Hybrid AD Join profiling
• Compliance Policies
• Configuration Profiles
• Testing and Validation
• Documentation
• SCREEN – Intune and Azure AD Conditional Access Setup

• Implementing new projects builds framework using Jenkins & ANT as build framework tools
• Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework AWS Code Pipeline and Jenkins, Bitbucket
• AWS server provisioning using Cloud Formation Scripts
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch
• Used tracking tool JIRA and triaged the issues and maintained bugs using JIRA tool
• Integration of BitBucket, Jenkins, AWS Code Deploy with Patterns/Release, Git, and Hockey App
• Created Security Groups, configuring Inbound/Outbound rules, creating and importing Key Pairs
• Manage the integration of new software projects and products into the build environment
• Hardening of Servers
• Worked with AWS API Gateway with BitBucket and Jenkins using Lamba Function
• Created S3 Buckets for storage
• Created Cloud Formation Scripts for Server creation

• Developed, tested and implemented new system architectures to improve performance.
• Identified areas of improvement in existing systems and provided solutions to resolve issues.
• Monitored system performance and maintained uptime for critical applications.
• Diagnosed technical problems related to hardware, software, networking or other components.
• Conducted regular maintenance activities on servers, storage systems and networks.
• Implemented security measures such as firewalls, antivirus protection and access control policies.
• Designed backup strategies for data recovery in case of disaster scenarios or unexpected outages.
• Evaluated new technologies for potential use within the organization's IT architecture.
• Performed capacity planning tasks to ensure adequate resources are available when needed.

• This project involves setting up Hybrid exchange setup with Exchange online to facilitate 20K users and 150 faculty members
• Performed complete assessment of their environment, design and worked on deployment
• Kingston – Lotus Notes to Office 365 Migration
• Intune Configuration for MAM and Hybrid AD
• Azure AD Conditional Access Configuration
• Compliance Profile
• Device Configuration Profile for Windows and MAC
• App Protection Polices
• App Configuration Polices
• Mobile Device Configuration polices (IOs/Android)
• Mobile Device Compliance Polices
• Microsoft Defender configuration
• Endpoint AV Policies
• Testing and Validation
• Mass Deployment
• Fine Tuning
• Town of Truckee – AD and O365 Setup (April -2022)
• Enable Email “Dial-Tone”
• Create Office 365 Tenant - @townoftruckee.com
• Create Office 365 cloud accounts
• Email license cloud accounts for 120 users
• Reconfigure MX records
• Test mail flow
• On-Premises AD Setup
• Export users from legacy Domain (town.truckee) and import into new AD
• Setup & configure Azure AD Connect server
• Configure user proxy address to match Office 365 addresses
• Sync on-prem users to Azure AD and convert to hybrid users
• Perform security assessment, AD, MFA, Conditional Access & Office 365 (email attachments, safe links)
• Implement Azure MFA for up to 10 users
• Implement Azure Conditional Access (up to three policies)
• Implement Office 365 Safe Attachments
• Implement Office 365 Safe Links, – SharePoint Support
• Support and administration of SharePoint server 2010, simple PowerShell scripts and Active Directory user account integration
• Customization of websites SharePoint Designer

• On 3000 Lotus notes mailbox
• Performed assessment of mail files to determine the total database size, document count (calendar, contacts, groups, mail, and tasks), and size by days
• Provided Optimal Version of O365 for them
• Helped them in setting up E-Discovery and governance
• Tools: Quest Lotus notes migrator for Exchange

• G-Suite to O365 Migration (, The project was to migrate Bank of Zachary users Mailboxes to exchange online, google docs to share point online and enabling Skype of Business
• Individually have worked as lead engineer from design to deployment and successfully migrated mailboxes, google docs and enabled Skype for business for 65 users along with SSO
• Lake and Tier – Active Directory and Exchange Audit (Sep-2017)
• The project was to perform complete assessment of their AD and Exchange, find out vulnerabilities and recommend best practices
• Infrastructure includes 10 Domain Controllers, 3 Exchange servers

• Projects Highlights
• Museum of Latin American Art – Exchange 2010 to O365 migration
• This project involves migration of 460 user from Exchange 2010 to O365 with AD Sync
• I have worked from design till deployment with zero downtime
• Synageva Bio Pharma - Exchange 2007 coexistence with 2010 for 300 users
• Setting up new environment for Exchange 2010 and setting up mail flow, email polices, mailbox creation in coexistence
• Momenta Pharmaceutical -: Hybrid Environment of 450 users between Exchange 2010 and O365 with OKTA SSO
• Created the feasibility of OKTA Single sign on Product with O365
• Set up and hybrid environment of Exchange with O365
• Performed beta testing after deployment
• Technical Connections - Migration of 7000 users from Exchange 2003 Office 365
• Worked as PM and delivery engineer, responsible for all task from design till deployment, – Deployment of SharePoint Online (O365)
• Design and requirements gathering for a large, security complex, deployment system in Office 365 (SharePoint) with over 40,000 list items
• Worked with developer and guided him to create and automated PowerShell scripts to send emails based on criteria, import items from CSV files and assign unique security permissions
• Wella Professionals – SharePoint Administration and Upgradation
• Responsible for the company intranet and collaboration portals built up SharePoint 2010
• Office 365 & SharePoint 2013 / Azure upgrade planning, presentation and demonstration
• Training internal department members on administration of SharePoint, governance and best practices
• Analysis and documentation of SharePoint architecture including central administration, SQL & Windows 2008R2
• Creation of backup/restore and import/export site documentation for sites, lists, libraries, site collections and farms, governance and other best practice documentation

• Description: Huge project of building complete new modern virtualized data center on 3000 Physical servers to Virtualize 15k VMs for production use
• Deliverables:
• Created cluster nodes on CISCO UCS, VM template creation, Installation of VMs, Setup of Vmware Horizon view, Vmotion setup and guest level configuration
• Projects including all aspects of the Citrix Products suit such as XenApp, XenServer, XenDesktop, Provisioning Server and Edge Sight
• Deliverables:
• Setup Citrix Infrastructure on Windows for 670 VDIs using Xendesktop and hosted 360 apps on XenApps.

• Worked with clients such as US Government, US Military, Lockheed Martin Novartis, IBM Canada, HP, Symantec, Enrst and Young, Target, Nvidia, Department of Homeland Security, Sempra, Dell and more
• Implemented exchange and AD automation for them using PowerShell Scripting

• Migrated 1500 users from Exchange, Plan and created fully functional design to migrate their users from Exchange 2007 to 2013
• Trained in-house engineer for migration work
• Supervise the project till completion, project was completed with zero downtime.

• Supervised Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, and network security devices for 450 users
• Handled Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2 installation, deployments, troubleshooting and automation
• Managed Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
• Virtualization configuration for servers
• Conducted manipulation of SAN (storage area networks) and DAS (direct-attached storage) and associated HBA’s (both SCSI and Fiber-Channel) plus
• Windows Storage server with iSCSI connections
• Assistance in developing, improving and maintenance of imaging, deployment solution
• Handled Updates, patching and software installations via
• Group policies (GPO)
• Responsible for SQL Server 2005-2008 for Windows Server 2008
• Managed Power shell automation for creation of virtual servers to vhosts
• Managed all new projects for servers, and other network resources
• Developed and updated documentation, appraising user and administrators of
• Vital information.

• Administered a Windows based client infrastructure with a Thick, Thin and VDI environment
• The production endpoint environment consisted of
• 3000+ client operating systems hosting a multitude of Financial applications
• In addition to daily support functions, a team lead role was held in
• Numerous enterprise level projects for infrastructure and applications
• Implemented LANDesk Endpoint Management Software
• Implemented Endpoint Encryption with PGP and McAfee
• Implemented Client Patch Management
• Upgraded McAfee EPO Infrastructure 4.0 - 4.5
• Administered VMware View
• Consolidated Windows Imaging Solution
• Redesigned Endpoint Deployment Process
• Redesigned Group Policy for Client Endpoints
• Developed Windows 7 and Office 2010 rollout
• Worked with National and International resources for technology upgrades and integrations

• Project was to upgrade Exchange 2013 to latest Service Pack and Roll up update, setup journaling
• Identify the potential risks in their messing environment
• Documentation of the risk along with recommendations
• Worked independently from design till delivery
• Billabong – Tenant to Tenant Migration (Service Delivery Engineer)
• This project was to migrate 4700 mailboxes along with 7000 SharePoint Lists and 250 O365 Modern groups from O365 tenant to another O365 Tenant
• Design the plan the project timeline
• Perform initial Assessment of environment
• Selected Tools for migration
• Setup source and destination environment for migration
• Created Test plan
• Test migration with Pilot users
• Migrate all users and SharePoint Data to destination tenant
• Perform Data validation
• Perform Full migration
• Post-Production support
• Sloan – Exchange

• To O365 Migration (Service Delivery Engineer)
• This project involves setting up Hybrid exchange setup with Exchange online to facilitate 1500 user
• Worked on Mailbox migration tasks, setting up SMTP relay for LOB applications
• Postproduction Support, )
• Responsible for Building back-end infrastructure on Azure, AWS, VMware, Hyper-v
• Helping development teams on Messaging and Cloud System Design
• Provide training on System Engineering to development teams
• Analyze and test the product – identify the bugs
• Perform Network analysis

• (Formally Par4 MSP) - Multi-tenant Exchange migration from, to 2013 of 20,000 Users
• Created a road map, assess the existing infrastructure and successfully completed the work from design to deployment
• Tested the project when it goes live.

• Worked with clients such as US Government, US Military, Lockheed Martin Novartis, IBM Canada, HP, Symantec, Enrst and Young, Target, Nvidia, Department of Homeland Security, Sempra, Dell and more. Implemented exchange and AD automation for them using PowerShell Scripting