Ahmad N. Yasin is a Senior Microsoft Infrastructure System Engineer from Jordan with over 5 years of experience working with Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory, Exchange, Office 365, and Azure. He holds multiple Microsoft and Google certifications and has worked on projects in several countries migrating customers' environments to newer versions and Microsoft Cloud services. He also founded the AzureDummies blog and was a Google Student Ambassador.
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Ahmad N. Yasin
Personal Information
Nationality: Jordanian
Date of Birth: 20/1/1990
Marital Status: Single
Job Title: Senior Microsoft Infrastructure System Engineer.
Address: Amman, Jordan
Mobile Number: +962 79 0238231
Email Ahmed.n.yasin@gmail.com
LinkedIn Profile: https://jo.linkedin.com/in/ahyasin
Blog: http://AzureDummies.com
Experience:
Specialized Technical Services - STS
March 2013 - Present
Senior Microsoft Infrastructure System Engineer
Acting as a technical team leader, my responsibilities include:
Planning, designing and implementing Microsoft infrastructure products (On Premise and Cloud services)
such as AD, Exchange, Office 365 and Azure services.
Migrating customer’s existing environment to new versions in order to meet their business requirements.
Daily support for customers in order to solve their technical issues remotely and on site.
Meeting with customers to help move or expand their existing environments to Microsoft Could Services.
Microsoft Technologies worked on:
Active Directory (2003,2008,2012,2016).
Microsoft Exchange (2007,2010,2013,2016).
Office 365 Services (Exchange Online, Yammer, One Drive, Skype for Business).
Operation Management Suite (OMS).
Advance Thread Analytics (ATA).
Windows Azure Services (Azure Active Directory such as AD, MFA, SSO, Application Proxy), IAAS, PAAS.
System Center Products specially in SCCM, SCOM, SCVMM.
Hyper-V and Clustering
Remote Desktop Services, Applications vitalization and VDI.
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EDUCATION:
University of Jordan
September 2008 – January 2013
Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering and Technology with a GPA of 3.06 out
of 4 (very good degree).
General Secondary Education Certificate, class of 2008
Scientific path with an average of 91%.
Certificates
Microsoft Certificates:
windows 7 configuration.
Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center.
Install and Configuration windows server 2012, 70-410.
Administer & Deploy System Center 2012.
Configuration Manager, 70-243.
Enabling Office 365 Services, 70-347.
Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements, 70346
MCSA: Office 365.
MS: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions 70-533.
Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions 70-532.
Google Certificate(s):
Google Student Ambassador– MENA
TechNet Contributions
1. Operation Management Suite (OMS) – Concept and technical guide:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Operation-Management-Suite-a1998719
2. Case study for securing RDP protocol connection using Azure multi-factor authentication:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Secure-RDP-Connection-to-d07c430a
3. Azure Multi-factor authentication – concept overview:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Azure-MFA-Concept-Overview-49a8be38
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Scientific Activities &Volunteer Work
Founder, Blogger at AzureDummies.com blog:
August 2015 – Present
Azure Dummies blog is caring about Microsoft cloud technologies specially about Azure Services and office 365, I
am trying to publish an articles related to the concepts of Azure and office 365 services in addition to technical
implementation guides, to visit the blog http://azuredummies.com
Google Student Ambassador
Google Inc.
January 2012 – January, 2013
Ambassadors are thrilled by new technology, enthusiastic about Google, and involved in their school communities.
They have majors from Computer Science, to Anthropology, to Business, to Zoology! Google Ambassadors have
the opportunity to enhance their professional development, leadership, and communication skills, and access to a
unique network of Google Ambassadors across the world. Plus, there’s swag!
Projects
During my career with STS, I have worked on a number of key projects related to various Microsoft technologies which are
located in different countries, such as Libya, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Sudan and United Arab Emirates, examples
of these projects are:
Site Description Responsibilities Products/Technologies location
One of the biggest
oil Company in
Africa
Prepare office 365 tenant, enable directory
synchronization by installing AD Connect then
start Migrating around 1700 mailboxes to office
365 using hybrid Migration, Enable S4B for all
Migrated users.
Exchange 2010, Office 365
(Exchange online), AD Connect,
S4B.
Libya
One of the leading
payment service
companies.
Migrate Exchange 2007 to Office 365 using staged
migration technology for more than 1000 users, in
addition to enabling DirSync to sync local users to
office 365
Exchange 2007, office
365, DirSync
Jordan
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One of the biggest
chain restaurant
groups.
Migration Exchange 2003 to office 365 for
more than 500 mailboxes using staged
migration technique
Exchange 2003, office
365, DirSync
Saudi
Arabia
One of the biggest
Telecom companies
Migrate Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 for
around 4000+ Mailboxes
Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013,
Active Directory, IronPort
IRAQ
One of the leading
trading companies
To implement enterprise Mobility suite (EMS)
solution including Mobile Device Management,
Azure MFA, Azure RMS, Password reset, Azure
App Proxy, Enrolled more than 1000 + Mobile
Devices
EMS, MFA, RMS, App Proxy,
SSO, Self-Password Reset.
Jordan
One of the biggest
government Water
Companies.
Responsible for preparing Azure Site, Network
Mapping, Storage Mapping, and protect more
than 200 Virtual Machines using Azure Site
Recovery between two VMM sites including
windows
VM’s and Linux VM’s
SCVMM, Windows Azure,
Hyper-V, Linux
Saudi
Arabia
One of the leading
online payment
solutions in Jordan
Prepare azure tenant and establish a VPN
Site to Site connection then Migrate
VMWARE virtual machines to Microsoft
Azure using Azure Site Recovery technique
Windows Azure,
Fortigate, VMWARE 5.5,
VPN
Jordan
Micro-Credit
Company
Extend on premise Environment to Azure to achieve
high availability, we achieve high availability for
SharePoint, SQL using mirroring feature, 3rd
party
app. In addition to configure backup vault in azure for
on premise data, also we established a VPN site to
site connection
Windows Azure,
Fortigate, SQL, VPN
Jordan
Government
company
Implement an Azure Multifactor
authentication service using MFA standalone
deployment to secure remote access
Windows Azure, MFA Jordan
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IT Private
Company
Implement Azure Application Proxy with
Azure SSO, as a POC I implemented the Azure
Application proxy and enable single sign on for
Exchange 2013 OWA through Azure Proxy.
Windows Azure, SSO,
Azure Application proxy
Jordan
one of the leading
contracting
companies
Migrate exchange 2010 for more than 800 mailboxes
to office 365 (8 accepted domains) using hybrid
deployment including enabling EOP for on premise
users
Exchange 2010, office
365, DirSync, EOP
Saudi
Arabia
One of the biggest
insurance
companies.
Migration existing environment and install new
products
AD 2008 to AD 2012 R2,
Exchange
2007 to Exchange 2013,
Implement SCCM 2012
R2,
Implement SCOM 2012R2,
Implement SCVMM 2012
R2, Implement TMG 2010
Saudi
Arabia
A leading telecom
company
Extend on premise environment to windows azure to
achieve high availability.
Implement a complete
infrastructure in azure as
a high availability for local
environment
Jordan
Oil and Gas
Company
Security Assessment for the current environment. Full check for whole environment,
checked the security side in
addition to high availability and
gave
a customer a
recommendations report
Dubai
One of the biggest
Telecom
companies.
WSUS Services Deployed a WSUS services for HQ
and 12 branches using Windows
server 2010 R2 and SQL cluster for
WSUS database.
Iraq
One of the biggest
Telecom
companies.
Migration existing environment and install new
products
AD 2003 to AD 2012 R2,
Exchange 2007 to
Exchange 2013,
Implement new SCCM 2012R2,
Implement new ADRMS 2012 R2.
Palestine
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One of the biggest
Telecom
companies.
Migrate Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 for around
4000+ Mailboxes
Exchange 2010 to
Exchange 2013
IRAQ