Ahmadi, Ahmadi, Kuwait
Led the successful migration of a legacy ArcSight logging system to Elastic Stack, ensuring seamless data migration, validation, and improved log management efficiency. Designed and maintained advanced Kibana dashboards, delivering real-time system health and application performance insights that enhanced decision-making for engineering and business teams. Engineered and optimized Logstash pipelines and Kafka performance, ensuring reliable, secure, and on-time data delivery in compliance with SLAs. Improved Elastic Stack and Kafka cluster performance through shard management, lifecycle policy optimization, and JVM tuning, increasing system stability and scalability.
Identified and remediated critical vulnerabilities using ACAS Security Center and DISA SCAP, documenting mitigation efforts and maintaining compliance in eMASS. Partnered with cross-functional teams to establish and sustain secure classified and unclassified operational environments, reducing security risks. Ensured 100% compliance with DISA IAVMs, STIGs, and cybersecurity training requirements, resolving issues and reinforcing adherence across all personnel. Delivered expert guidance on IT security policy implementation, asset management, and POAM documentation, strengthening organizational cyber resilience.
Administered and maintained AD DS, DNS, and DHCP for classified and unclassified enterprise networks supporting 10,000+ users and 80+ servers, ensuring secure, high-availability infrastructure. Configured and enforced Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to standardize configurations and deploy software, achieving a 97% reduction in security vulnerabilities. Led Active Directory migration initiatives and resolved complex incidents, including replication, authentication, and trust issues, minimizing downtime and service disruptions. Partnered with security teams to audit and harden Active Directory, aligning with corporate policies and industry best practices to strengthen overall network security.
Redesigned and redeployed the organization’s virtual infrastructure, upgrading ESXi hosts from v5.0 to v5.5, boosting system performance, stability, and scalability. Led the deployment of a new QA Hyper-V environment and managed 50+ Windows servers, VMware systems, storage solutions, and network equipment to ensure operational efficiency. Performed advanced server performance analysis and tuning, optimizing SQL Server workloads and enhancing application responsiveness in virtual environments. Resolved critical IIS issues affecting web and application servers and streamlined change management processes, minimizing downtime and operational disruption.
Directed a team of 9 IT help desk staff and 2 network engineers, ensuring efficient delivery of technical support services across the organization. Designed and implemented targeted training programs, increasing troubleshooting efficiency and reducing project resolution times by 20%. Managed an $825K annual budget for the University Library IT department, optimizing spending to maximize technology investments. Enhanced operational performance by aligning team capabilities, resources, and processes with organizational goals.
Designed and deployed a secure VPN solution on Windows Server 2008 R2, strengthening network security and ensuring reliable remote access. Streamlined SIEM alert management by analyzing thousands of weekly events and converting them into prioritized, actionable security incidents. Implemented and maintained comprehensive software and hardware inventory systems, improving asset tracking accuracy and lifecycle management. Delivered end-user training and executed targeted system upgrades, boosting operational efficiency and minimizing downtime.