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Saleem Roshan Ali
: A1/26, Al-Muslim CHS, Sector 34A,
Near Memon (MMI) Hospital Safoora, Scheme–33, Karachi-75280, Pakistan.
Cell: +923003750524 / +923122912917 Email: salrosh@gmail.com Residence: +92(21)-34644884
SUMMARY
Earned 20+ years experience in Systems, Network, Service Desk & ERP management, operations, develop, Risk
mitigation, IT Audit & Banks’ Examination. Delivered SOA work & challenging jobs in WIN AD/Exchange
(Win2008/3/X; Exch07/3/X, ISA), UNIX/LINUX (Send-mail, Oracle Application) on Fast Ethernet/Fiber optic
networks. Architected, Supported & run IT sites of IBM, HP, Fujitsu Siemens, Dell, Novell, Microsoft, ORACLE
RDBMS & SWIFT crop in DMZ/FW. Supervised ha Primary (SAN/DRAID/Cluster/Replica), Backup & DR sites
Objective ”Seeking à Senior IT Role which can whet my talent with dynamic environment leads to career growth”
International Recognition and Projects
Delivered IT Trainings on Systems, Networks and SWIFT to officials of Da Afghan Bank (DAB) Kabul in IMF Project
Supervised SWIFT Upgrade, Migration and Development of Backup and DR Sites at SBP under World Bank Project
IT Automation of State Bank of Pakistan –SBP’s business and functions and Creation of IT DR underWorld Bank Projects
Educate & Run Rotary Club Computer Center of Rotary Club Int Karachi: Win prize books of Microsoft Press 2003 &CDs
Technical Skills IT Inspector/Auditor/Architect/Consultant/Educator/Site-Replica by Double Take
MS Windows/Exchange 2007+/3/X, SAN HP DS2300/EVA3K, VERITAS Replicator, IBM RS/6K, SQL, ORACLE, C++
Certifications
SWIFT Certified Support Engineer – SWIFT Belgium Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer – Brain Bench
Qualifications
PGD Islamic Banking & Finance 1st Div-80% University of Karachi, SZIC, Karachi Pakistan Dec’2007
MS (IT) Com & Info Processing CGPA 3.0 Hamdard University Karachi Pakistan Feb’ 2002
BE (Computer Systems) 4 Years Grade A Mehran University of Engg & Tech Sindh Pak Nov’1993
Intermediate / Matric (Science) Grade A/A Board of Inter/Secondary Education Karachi 1987/1985
Work History
State Bank of Pakistan – SBP <July 2001 – Continue>
Information Systems & Technology Department (Joint Director)
IT Educator/ Bank Inspector / Audit Coord / IT Architect / Project Lead / Sys Administrator Sr
Working for the last 14 years, started in IT automation of Central Bank in World Bank Project. Supervised and
coordinated in Deployment of Systems’ Infrastructure of latest software, databases and business applications
countrywide. Performed Lead Role in Deployment & Upgrade of Enterprise AD, Webmail, SWIFT Infrastructure
Migration/Upgrade; and Backup & DR Sites. Conducted Banks’ Examination, IT Audit & Inspection.
Roles and Responsibilities
Supervising ERP Applications/Oracle Databases’ Operational tasks and related IT Service Desk (NOC)
Supervised and coordinated in Databases (Oracle 11.5.3 to 5.10.2), SW (Applications) and HW Upgrade Proj
Updated IS Inspection Manual, Conduct IS inspection, compiled and Reviewed Audit/Inspection Reports
Inspect Temenos T/24, ATM Applications, Oracle DBs, SWIFT, HP-UX, Linux, Win DC, Domino & Firewalls
Worked for IT Audit Compliance/Coordination in IT/DR & liaison support. Devised SOPs & Op Manuals.
Managed and supported countrywide AD infrastructure on Fast Ethernet & Fiber Optic env of over 2,500
nodes using Win/Exch 08/07/03/2K/XP/Prof with team of 4 System Engineers and 7 Operation Officers.
Supervised & coordinated with foreign/local IT consultants/vendors & IT specialist for System deliverables
Implemented comprehensive Disaster Recovery and Backup/Restore procedures for SWIFT & MS Setup.
Assist in Business Continuity - BCP, DR Site MOC Exercise, IT Audit for the best reliability/availability
Coordinated for hw/sw procurement or sign SLA/support and maintenance contract with vendors
Initiate new ideas like deploying Domain-Email Failover Setup, Clustering, Central Storage SAN time2time
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Major Projects and Achievements
Developed Quick Databases (Oracle 11gV2) Upgrade Plan and lead DBA team in test upgrades
Worked on comprehensive Enterprise IT Disaster Recovery for entire SBP under World Bank project
Coordinated to arrange 1-week SWIFT International Training Program at SBP Learning R Center.
In IMF Sponsored Training-Apr’06, delivered SWIFT and IT trainings to foreign Central Bank at Kabul.
Delivered IT and SWIFT trainings to foreign Central Bank Officials in IMF Delegation at SBP in 2005.
Supervised RTGS/SWIFT Upgrading projects with High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
Awarded by Microsoft USA with honorary gift of Microsoft books and CDs on 2003 Upgrade Elite Solution
Recognized for Employee Recognition (ER) Level-3 Award on quality work at foreign central bank DAB
Drive SWIFT team in Upgrade Procurement Project and whole team was recommended for ER level-3
Recovered a crashed SWIFT Server of Central Bank of Afghanistan DAB and restored data successfully.
Installed and configured a new Test SWIFT Server at DAB for learning and testing of SWIFT operations
Upgrade of existing setup into Windows 2003 / Exchange 2003 using In-place and Swing methods.
Migrated and upgraded Windows AS/Exchange ES 2000 from HP Net Server LH 6000 with RAID-5 into
RAID 1+5 for NOS +Exchange database on external shared storage HP DS2300/ HP EVA3000.
Implemented AD architecture of 17 remote sites, 28 DCs and 18 Exchange servers including 2 child domains
Designed and implemented 1st SBP File Storage Server, enhanced with SAN box and migrated old data.
Supervised the project of configuration and implementation of Web/Remote email Access.
Setup and configuration of Norton Antivirus for Exchange Enterprise and SMTP Gateway Servers
Designed and implemented Failover environment for Single Master DC/Exchange Servers.
Deployment, configuration and implementation of Central Antivirus Server at SBP and SBPBSC
Implemented new Hardware ( DS23000, NetServers, RAID15) with system and Application software
Designed and implemented new System policies/procedures for Email, File Storage and domain logon
Migrated/Upgraded production systems into Windows2K AS from Windows NT (Acer Altos to HP Net
Servers LH 6000 and LXr 8500). Migrated NT4/Exchange 5.5 enterprise into Windows2K/Exchange2K.
Coordinate to Test/Configure Cluster of E03, SAN, enterprise systems monitoring, audit and security tools
UIT, Hamdard University, Karachi <Jan 2000 – Jul 2001>
Faculty of Computer Systems Engineering
Senior System, Network & Sec Administrator / Visiting Faculty HAMDARD UNIV postgraduate
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Managed, supported and supervised systems, network, R & D and development IT infrastructure with IT staff.
Designed and implemented state of the art IT learning setup and library Information Management System LIMS
Major Responsibilities and Achievements
Worked as Senior Systems Administrator to manage, support and maintain the organization wide Fast
Ethernet environment of over 200 nodes using Windows-NT 4.0 Domain Controllers, FILE, Proxy, Print and
Oracle DB /Application Servers using 3COM switch by supervising the team of ten (10) Sys/net Engineers.
Configured and maintained messaging services, DNS/DHCP/WINS, Quota servers, user and system
policies, users’ accounts, profiles and home folders, strong systems and network security, inter-domain trust
relationships, backup/restore and Disaster Recovery for NT PDC, BDC servers on Samsung ALPHA with
NT/98 workstation environments. Fixed 3COM 3c905b NIC Int issue. Deliver Tech Learning to staff daily.
Network comprises of 3 labs, all faculty offices, development and electronics Labs, library, Finance,
administration and management offices. All hardware were safe-powered with UPS backups.
ISRA University Hyderabad < April 1998 – Dec 1999 >
Faculty of Computer Science
IT (System & Network) Administrator & Senior Faculty Member
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Managed, sup and maintained system/network infrastructure of IT Labs, faculty, finance, management, medical
staff of University and ISRA Hospital. Played IT Advisor role and performed as Senior Faculty/ IT educator.
Major Responsibilities and Achievements
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Performed as senior member of Curriculum & Academics Committee and Faculty of Computer Science.
Supervised and completed the IT Automation Project for clinical labs at ISRA University Hospital Pakistan
Implemented, supported and managed a Fast Ethernet LAN setup of NT 4.0 PDC/BDCs, ORACLE
RDBMS/Developer 2000, DHCP, WINS, FILE/Print, Proxy and Linux NOS Servers.
Conducted graduate/postgraduate level IT-courses on ORACLE, network operating systems (Windows NT
4.0 / Windows98, LINUX), Office97 and programming languages: C++, HTML, Java script.
IBA, University/City Campus, Karachi < Jan 1996 – Mar 1998 >
Center for Computer Studies (CCS)
Manager IT Labs, Systems, Databases & Network
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Managed, designed and deployed IT infrastructure setup at City and University campuses and connected them
over the network. Supervised IT staff and looked after all trainings, development and students’ projects.
Managed multi flavor NOS environments of NT4.0, N/Netware 3.12, AS/400, AIX RS/6000 and LINUX.
Supervised and coordinated in deployment of systems and network infrastructure.
Managed and supported operations of ORACLE Enterprise, MS Proxy, DHCP, Print and Sendmail Servers.
Major Projects and Achievements
Implemented and interconnected campus-wide LANs into a central backbone network.
Established ORACLE client/server connectivity in NT4.0/Win98. Deployed SendMail and Internet dish
Other Responsibilities
Conducted lab courses and assisted/supervised students in graduate/postgraduate projects.
Managed & maintained an inter-campus remote access connectivity and Internet dish solution.
Inaam Alvi Computers (IAC) Pvt Ltd, Karachi < Jan 1994 – Dec 1995 >
Software Publishing Company - R & D Division
Network System Supervisor cum Lead Software Engineer
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Managed & maintained windows 3.1 LAN of N’Netaware, setup of 15 nodes which were connecting two
departments located at different floors. IAC was marketing software products in USA, Canada, England, India
and Middle East. Designed and developed multi-lingual software in C/ C++ & Taught Soft dev in C language.
Major Projects and Achievements
Developed multi-lingual Quraan & Hadees Info Management Systems ISLAMICA and Language Master
Upgraded LAN to Novell Netware 3.12 in Windows for Workgroups connecting two distant IT divisions.
Professional Courses/Trainings
Window and Exchange Active Directory 2012/13
Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise by Inobits SA
Microsoft Exchange 2003 Enterprise by Inobits SA
Microsoft Exchange 2000 by MS CT Dubai
Project (Software) Quality Management
Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPS)
Microsoft GTM Security Workshop by MS CT
Microsoft ISA 2000 Adv Server by MS CT ME
Enterprise Systems Security Eval & Training
Computer Networking by IBA-LUMS
Microsoft Windows 2000 Infrastructure&AD
Operations SWIFT Alliance Access and Entry
● Information System Audit by Oriel Edu Net ● Managing SWIFT Alliance Access
Activities & Association
Reading, Indoor Games, Travelling, Internet Surfing, Attending seminars & exhibitions ● Member PEC
Member of Pakistan Engineering Council ● Member ILUMNI GSESIT Pak ● Member Cyber Security
Papers/Seminars & Research Work
● Role of IT in the Dev of Pakistan ● Enterprise System & Net Security ● B2B Biz on Net ● Health in IT
Personal Data
Date of Birth 08th Feb, 1971 Marital Status Married NIC# 42501-7561029-5