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Wazid Ahsan

Wazid Ahsan

Technical Specialist
Delhi

Summary

A Microsoft certified and Azure certified IT professional with total 8+ years of working experience in managing M365 services and Azure active directory.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications

Work History

Technical Specialist

HCLTech
11.2021 - Current
  • Working for client- Adecco Group in consulting and supporting role, handling 70000+ users as Messaging Escalation Engineer
  • Governing, managing requirements from client to be fulfilled within SLA agreement to prevent any business loss
  • Have thorough ITIL Process knowledge on Request, Incident, Change & Problem Management
  • Creating profit by identifying EN project, value adds, automation
  • Transforming M365 services by constantly identifying and implementing new features in M365 roadmap
  • Creating powershell scripts to easily cater bulk request and reduce manual effort
  • Upskilling/Cross skilling L1 & L2 resources via monthly training's, knowledge sharing sessions
  • Handling P1/P2 bridge calls, assisting team technically and collaborating to mitigate business impact and get the issue resolved in timely manner
  • Handling monthly and weekly review presentation call with client
  • Preparing monthly roster for team, managing leaves and people management in case of urgency
  • Defining new process for service improvement , governing creation of SOPs, KB article for service desk and Local IT teams
  • Ticket (incident, task, change) scrubbing on daily basis for team members
  • Directly taking ownership of aging incidents, providing action plan on roadblocks.

Information Technology Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2019 - 12.2021
  • Proficiency with Office 365 Email Protection mechanism ( SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
  • Configuring and Managing mailboxes, Auto-discover, Compliance features, Permissions, Mail flow
  • Setup and configuration of mail flow and protection (spam, malware, spoofing etc.)
  • Managing Recipients, creating Organization relationship for Free/Busy,Compliance Management (Journaling, Auditing, eDiscovery), Mail flow, CAS features (IMAP, POP, Active Sync, MAPI)
  • Handling Exchange Server Cumulative Update and Security Update
  • Experience on Ironport Email Security Gateway- creating and managing dictionaries, outgoing & incoming mail policies
  • Register application in Azure AD, renew certificate or secrets for application, creating azure AD group
  • Defining new process for service improvement , governing creation of SOPs, KB article for service desk and Local IT teams
  • Handling BAU operations.

Technical Support Engineer

Microsoft
12.2017 - 08.2019
  • Adding vanity domains, verifying and updating DNS records management
  • Experience with mailbox migrations(PST migration, IMAP, Cutover) from Exchange Server to Exchange Online
  • Troubleshoot Mailflow and Routing issues by analysing Email Headers, Message trace, Extended Message Trace & NDR's
  • Troubleshoot issues with Policy and Compliance : E-discovery, In-place Archiving, Auditing,Litigation hold,Retention hold,In-place Hold, Retention Tag and Retention policies
  • Outlook Configuration and resolve Outlook related issues such as Synchronisation, auto discover error
  • Hands on in various aspects of Office 365 (like Azure AD, Online mailboxes,OWA issues, Inbox Rules, Safe Senders, Sender Blacklists, Connected accounts etc.)
  • Creation of Sharepoint Sites, permissions and sharing
  • Troubleshoot Onedrive related issue - synchronisation problem, providing Onedrive access etc.

Analyst

HCLTech
05.2015 - 11.2017
  • Office 365 applications installation and activation
  • Creation of mailboxes- User, shared, resource mailbox
  • Managing and assignment of O365 licenses
  • Providing delegation access on mailboxes
  • Creation of mail enabled security group, distribution list, add/ remove members etc
  • Performing sanity of exchange servers
  • Setting up SMTP relay from smtp server/multi function devices to Office 365
  • Troubleshoot Onedrive related issue - synchronization problem, providing Onedrive access etc
  • Managing Exchange server patching and other BAU related tasks.

Education

B-Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Lovely Professional University
04.2001 -

ICSE - 12th

Little Flower School
04.2001 -

ICSE - 10th

Little Flower School
04.2001 -

Skills

    Microsoft Exchange

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Certification

Microsoft Certified: Identity & access administrator

Timeline

Technical Specialist

HCLTech
11.2021 - Current

Information Technology Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2019 - 12.2021

Technical Support Engineer

Microsoft
12.2017 - 08.2019

Analyst

HCLTech
05.2015 - 11.2017

B-Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Lovely Professional University
04.2001 -

ICSE - 12th

Little Flower School
04.2001 -

ICSE - 10th

Little Flower School
04.2001 -
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