Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan
I’m Zafar Iqbal, a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer focused on Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Cloud, ICT Strategy, and digital transformation. As a technology leader, entrepreneur, mentor, and explorer, I am passionate about turning innovation into practical value for businesses, professionals, and the wider tech community. My work spans cloud services, cybersecurity, AI-driven solutions, enterprise technology strategy, and emerging technology trends. Through ZiqbalTech, I share AI news, technology updates, cybersecurity insights, cloud developments, industry trends, and practical learning content in English, Urdu, and Hindi to help people stay informed and future-ready. My goal is to make advanced technology more accessible, useful, and relevant for professionals, founders, students, and decision-makers.
• Leading the business growth strategies through technology platforms, partnerships, and external relationships. • Establishing relationships with top-notch technology vendors, introducing and implementing new technologies in the Corporate Sector. • Identify, compare, and deploy different technologies to help clients to meet their requirements to optimize and smooth ICT operations. • Discuss and communicate technology strategies to partners, board members, advisory board members, and investors. • Taking the initiatives within the company and focusing on innovation, creativity, and emerging technologies. • Working closely with Sales, Business Development, Operations, NOC, and Software teams to deliver products, services, and projects timely. • Supervising, Developing, and Managing annual operating and capital budgets for purchasing, staffing, and operations.
Skills: Procurement · IT Management · Routers · IT Infrastructure Management · System Maintenance · Mobile Device Management · Communication · System Implementations · Emergency Situations · Virtualization · Firewalls · IT Operations · Information Technology · Computer Science · Infrastructure · System Configuration · Enterprise Network Design · Wireless Networking · Computer Network Operations · System Design · Network firewall · LAN-WAN · Mac · Windows Server · Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, File Server, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), CA Services, Remote Desktop and Terminal Services Key Responsibilities • Managing complete IT infrastructure, including operating systems, security tools, applications, servers, email systems, laptops, desktops, software, and hardware. • Maintaining data center equipment including servers, routers, switches, firewalls, printers, phones, and security updates; supporting internet, intranet, LANs, WANs, and network. • Windows Servers administration tasks -Active Director user/group, security permissions, group policies, print services • Working with partners/vendors to communicate project status, activities, and achievements • Monitor data-center health using existing management tools, observe, respond, and fix the hardware issues • Assist the help desk and support team with troubleshooting to identify root causes, and provide technical support • Perform routine and scheduled audits of all systems, including backups • Handling business-critical IT tasks and systems as per company requirements
Managing IT infrastructure and operations of all sites.
• Managed IT infrastructure and operations of all sites. • Supervise & administration and management of corporate network infrastructure including corporate firewalls, routers and switches. • Conduct software and hardware evaluations, provide technical analysis and implement systems to meet the company’s IT goals. • Work with the end users and find the needs of the end users regarding business application in standard ERP.
Managed IT Infrastructure of three sites connected over Fiber Network and systems management and administration.
Network Management and Administration. Configuration and maintenance of firewall, routers switches, and other LAN /WAN equipment, Installation and maintenance of web, mail, DBMS, DNS, Proxy servers etc. under Windows/Linux environment, Web TV for live TV Transmission using VLC.
Setup Computer LABs and managed IT infrastructure. Taught Matric/O Level Computer Studies