Professional Profile
Our instructor is a professional engineer and holds a bachelor degree in Electronic engineering from NED University, Karachi. Pakistan. Adnan’s overall job experience is spread over 20 years of professional services and management in the field of Information Technology. Before joining TLC he has worked with Si3, one of the largest systems integrators in Pakistan, as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Si3, he was a part of IBM Pakistan and Pakistan ICL, now called Fujitsu, for nine and five years respectively. 

His main area of expertise is IBM POWER architecture, IBM POWER entry - enterprise server brand portfolio running IBM AIX operating system and IBM/NetApp storage, data replication technologies. One of his main areas of interest is built on studying and offering solutions based on High Availability subsystem and Site Disaster Recovery. He has also provided consulting services to several organizations in Pakistan in the area of Disaster Backup Recovery, Systems Securities, AIX Systems Health Check and Optimizations, System Performance Monitoring & Management, IBM presales server and storage sizing & application benchmarking, Building IT strategies and IT policies, and Solution design based on cross brand technologies offered by IBM Dynamic Infrastructure primarily Business Resilience, System Consolidation and Virtualization, and Cloud Computing.

Adnan’s contribution to IT R&D is significant; he was a part of IBM’s international research teams and contributed in 10 IBM Redbooks. He is a passionate presenter and instructor and has been involved in conducting IBM AIX education and training courses both locally and internationally (GBM and BBM) from Users level to Advanced level for IBM and Si3 customers.

IBM AIX Operating System
Our instructor is associated in imparting UNIX training since 1991. He is a passionate instructor and has conducted various UNIX courses based on AT&T SVR4, SCO UNIX, and IBM AIX locally and internationally for IBM customers from user’s level to advanced level in various IBM Education Centers.

Contribution in IBM Redbooks
Following is the list of IBM Redbooks in which Adnan has contributed during his job at IBM on assignments in Austin, Texas, USA. These Redbooks are based on IBM AIX state-of-the-art UNIX operating system and IBM POWER Architecture.
  RS/6000 43P 7043 Models 150 and 260 Handbook
  IBM eServer pSeries Systems Handbook 2003 Edition
  IBM Certification Study Guide AIX 4.3.3 Communications
  IBM Certification Study Guide AIX 4.3.3 Installation and System Recovery
  IBM Certification Study Guide AIX 4.3.3 Problem Determination Tools and Techniques
  IBM Certification Study Guide AIX 4.3.3 Performance and System Tuning
  IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - AIX 5L Communications
  IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - AIX 5L Installation and System Recovery
  IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - AIX 5L Performance and System Tuning
  IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - AIX 5L Problem Determination Tools and Techniques

IBM Redbooks are developed and published by IBM's International Technical Support Organization, the ITSO. ITSO develop and deliver skills, technical know-how, and materials to technical professionals of IBM, Business Partners, and customers and to the marketplace in general.
 
Professional Certifications and Accreditations
Information Security Foundation based on ISO/IEC 27002
ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
Foundation Certificate in Green IT - BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
VMware Technical Sales Professional 5
VMware Sales Professional 5
IBM Certified Systems Expert - Infrastructure Technical Designer V1
Power Systems with POWER 7 and AIX Technical Sales Skills V1
IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Cloud Computing Architecture V1 
IBM Certified Solution Expert – Dynamic Infrastructure Team Leader
IBM Certified Specialist – Dynamic Infrastructure Virtualization & Consolidation Technical Design 
IBM Certified Specialist – Dynamic Infrastructure Business Resilience Technical Design
IBM Certified Specialist – Dynamic Infrastructure Energy Efficiency Technical Design
IBM Certified System Administrator – AIX 7.1
IBM Certified System Administrator – AIX 6.1 
IBM Certified Specialist – IBM System p5 Sales V5.3
IBM Certified Specialist – RS/6000 Solution Sales
IBM Certified Specialist – AIX Installation, Backup and System Recovery 
IBM Certified Specialist – AIX System Support
IBM Certified Specialist – AIX System Administration
Microsoft Certified Professional – Internetworking with Microsoft Windows NT4.0 TCP/IP