I have 20+ years of experience and exposure to multiple flavors of RDBMS, OS and server hardware platforms. Comfortable working with various network hardware platforms and load balancers (appliances and software based). I can work as an individual contributor, in a team or lead a team.

Director, Systems Engineering @ From December 2012 to Present (3 years 1 month) Manager, IT @ From April 2012 to November 2012 (8 months) Director Of IT Operations @ Built new datacenter facility in Santa Ana to support business growth along with day to day support of existing servers and telephony equipment. New facility increased capacity 4X. From August 2011 to April 2012 (9 months) Infrastructure Architect @ Built datacenter infrastructure from scratch in two locations. Increased ad serving capacity 10X with hardware refresh to support business growth by adding locations. Acquire and bring two nodes on IP MESH network connecting 5 locations including one in EU. From July 2007 to August 2011 (4 years 2 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaSystem Administrator II @ Migrate legacy dMarc application services to Google datacenter From February 2006 to June 2007 (1 year 5 months) Director, IT Operations @ Build new datacenter infrastructure to support new business model from scratch. Manage infrastructure in three offices and a small IT team of two. From November 2004 to February 2006 (1 year 4 months) Manager, Network Services @ Maintain and upgrade network infrastructure across all company offices premises and campuses. Managed a team of 8 engineers. From September 2001 to November 2004 (3 years 3 months) Director Of Operations @ Built corporate and production datacenter infrastructure from scratch, hired and managed IT team. Work on Veritas cluster and Oracle server. From April 1999 to July 2001 (2 years 4 months) Systems Engineer @ Install, maintain and configure SGI and HP servers for ad serving, performed extensive work on Sybase servers supporting day to day operations. From April 1996 to April 1999 (3 years 1 month) Systems Administrator @ Datacenter Operations on HP-UX platform and INFORMIX RDBMS, also supported JCL on legacy HP platform From 1995 to 1996 (1 year) Technology Officer @ Datacenter Operations on various platforms including PRIMOS, VAX VMS and SOLARIS From 1990 to 1994 (4 years) Mumbai Area, India

MBA @ University of La Verne From 2003 to 2004 B.E, EEE @ Anna University From 1983 to 1987 Samee Ahmed is skilled in: Windows Server, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, Linux, Desktop Environment, Network Administration, Network Security, Network Design, Infrastructure, Virtualization, Vendor Management, Vendor Relationships, Vendor Contracts, Ubuntu, RedHat, Networking, Apache, Operating Systems