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SYED WAHAJ
MUHAMMAD ALI
IT Resume

About Me

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SLYTHERIN

Syed Wahaj Muhammad Ali

On-Site & Remote Enterprise IT Support • Level 2-3 • Financial Services & Life Sciences

📍 Carteret, NJ
✉ wahaj.2020@hotmail.com
📞 (732) 822-5713
💼 8 Years of Enterprise IT Experience

IT professional with 8 years of hands-on enterprise support, working across endpoint management, identity and access, Exchange hybrid, SCCM, Citrix, and cross-team incident resolution. Current role at CLS Group pulls in infrastructure, IAM, and deskside coordination on a regular basis. Writes PowerShell when something needs to be automated, and documents fixes so the team does not have to solve the same problem twice.

Technical Skills

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Expert
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Windows 10/11

Imaging, Troubleshooting, GPO

★★★★☆
Expert
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macOS

Jamf Pro, Repairs, Deployment

★★★★☆
Advanced
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Ubuntu / Linux

CLI, Services, Proxmox

★★★☆☆
Expert
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SCCM / MECM

Imaging, Patching, Agent Repair

★★★★☆
Advanced
🔐

Intune / Autopilot

MDM, Co-Management, BitLocker

★★★☆☆
Advanced
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Jamf Pro

macOS MDM, Policies, Installs

★★★☆☆
Expert
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Android / iOS / Mobile

Config, Troubleshoot, Repair

★★★★☆
Expert
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Laptop & Mac Repairs

Hardware Diagnostics, Component Swap

★★★★☆
Expert
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Active Directory

Users, OUs, GPO, LDAP, LAPS

★★★★☆
Advanced
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Entra ID (Azure AD)

Identity, Conditional Access, MFA

★★★☆☆
Advanced
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SailPoint IdentityIQ

Provisioning, Access Reviews

★★★☆☆
Advanced
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RSA SecurID

Token Admin, Enrollment, Resync

★★★☆☆
Advanced
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Okta / MFA

SSO, Factor Reset, App Assignment

★★★☆☆
Expert
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Exchange Hybrid

On-Prem + Online, Mail Flow, Attribs

★★★★☆
Advanced
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Exchange Online

Mailboxes, Quotas, EAC/PowerShell

★★★★☆
Advanced
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M365 Admin

Licensing, Tenant Admin, Reporting

★★★☆☆
Advanced
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SharePoint / OneDrive

Sites, Permissions, Sync

★★★☆☆
Advanced
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Teams / Outlook

Config, Troubleshoot, Admin

★★★☆☆
Advanced
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Teams Rooms / Zoom Rooms

Setup, Firmware, Maintenance

★★★☆☆
Advanced
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Webex / AV Equipment

Conference Rooms, Projectors

★★★☆☆
Advanced
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Crestron / Extron

AV Rack Wiring, Programming

★★★☆☆
Expert
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Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops

Director, Studio, Prod & Dev

★★★★☆
Advanced
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Networking

VLAN, DHCP, VPN, Wireshark, FW CRs

★★★☆☆
Advanced
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Wazuh SIEM / Splunk

Log Analysis, Monitoring, Alerts

★★★☆☆
Advanced
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BitLocker / TPM / LAPS

Endpoint Security, Key Recovery

★★★★☆
Advanced
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PowerShell

SCCM Repair, Bulk Exchange, WMI

★★★★☆
Intermediate
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Bash

Scripting, Diagnostic Automation

★★★☆☆
Intermediate
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Python

Scripting, Basic Automation

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Expert
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ServiceNow / Jira

Ticketing, SLA Mgmt, KB Writing

★★★★☆
Intermediate
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Symphony / Salesforce

Ticketing & CRM Platforms

★★★☆☆

Professional Experience

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Current Role
Oct 2024 — Present

Lead Deskside Technician

Stefanini Group — CLS Group (Financial Services), Carteret NJ

  • Manage the ticket queue day-to-day, handle P1/P2 escalations, and pull in Infrastructure or IAM when needed — most issues resolved without escalating
  • Worked a full-day contractor onboarding failure: SailPoint was not provisioning correctly, Exchange attributes were missing, and one of the DCs was the root cause — fixed by coordinating across Infrastructure, IAM, and Deskside
  • Fixed Exchange mailbox quota deletions and hybrid mail flow issues between on-prem and Exchange Online, tracking down attribute mismatches and routing gaps
  • Wrote Repair-SCCM.ps1 to stop manually fixing the same SCCM agent problems — covers 7 services, 14 schedule action IDs, and WMI repair; shared with the team
  • Wrote a bulk Exchange PowerShell script after doing the same mailbox changes one-by-one too many times
  • RSA SecurID admin: provision tokens, enroll new users, fix sync issues, and resync when tokens stop working
  • Manage Citrix across Prod and Dev — Director for session shadowing and troubleshooting, Studio for configuration changes
  • Put in firewall change requests to get SCCM agents talking to the ServiceNow server — wrote up the CRs and tracked them through
  • Wrote KBs for software limits, scripting standards, device decom, and the build process — if something had to be figured out the hard way, it got documented
  • Standard AD / M365 / Okta / Entra admin — accounts, GPOs, LAPS, MFA, license assignments, imaging and patching via SCCM
+5000 XP
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2.5 Years
May 2022 — Dec 2024

Lead Technical Specialist

Cognizant — Gilead Sciences (Life Sciences), Carteret NJ

  • Primary support for 200+ users including directors and lab staff — averaged 30+ tickets a day, most resolved same day
  • Handled M365 admin (licenses, MFA, mailboxes) and ran the macOS fleet through Jamf Pro
  • Wrote 10+ SOPs and quick-fix guides — repeat tickets for the same issues dropped noticeably after
  • Did all hardware support on-site — laptops, Macs, phones; also ran Blancco wipes on decommissioned machines
+3500 XP
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5 Months
Jan 2022 — May 2022

Technical AV Support Specialist

AVI-SPL, New York NY

  • Kept 300+ Teams and Zoom Rooms running — firmware, projectors, hardware swaps
  • Used Wireshark and Symphony to track down call-drop issues, cut drop rate by about 25%
  • Wrote a 10-page room health guide for local admins so they could handle basic issues themselves
+1500 XP
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2 Years
Dec 2019 — Dec 2021

Technical Support Specialist

Yorktel, Remote

  • L2/L3 support for Exchange Online, SharePoint, and OneDrive — 4.7/5 CSAT
  • Deployed Citrix Virtual Apps to 500+ users in an FDA-regulated environment
  • Built PowerShell and Bash scripts for common diagnostics — took about 15 minutes off the average ticket
+2500 XP
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3 Years
Oct 2016 — Dec 2019

IT Helpdesk & AV Technician

Video Corporation of America, Edison NJ

  • Imaged and deployed 400+ laptops a year using SCCM
  • Handled Active Directory, printers, and meeting rooms — about 40 tickets a week
+2000 XP

Education & Certifications

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A.A.S. Network Administration

Middlesex County College, Edison NJ

Class of 2020

Master's Degree (In Progress)

Foundation in networking, systems administration, and IT infrastructure. Currently pursuing further education toward a Master's degree.

Certifications & Credentials

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Google Cybersecurity Certificate

Google

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Cisco IT Essentials

Cisco Networking Academy

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Extron AV Associate

Extron

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TestOut PC Pro

TestOut Corporation

In Progress

Microsoft MD-102

Home Lab & Development

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Click any lab to explore details & see it in action.

Active
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Proxmox Hypervisor Lab

Full bare-metal virtualization stack running 8+ VMs and LXC containers, replicating enterprise infrastructure: AD, DHCP, DNS, VLAN segmentation, and snapshot-based testing.

Proxmox VE KVM LXC VLANs ZFS
Active
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Nextcloud Private Cloud

Self-hosted Nextcloud instance running on Proxmox LXC with Nginx reverse proxy, SSL/TLS termination, and automated backups — replacing Google Drive/OneDrive entirely.

Nextcloud Nginx SSL/TLS MariaDB Self-Hosted
Active
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Wazuh SIEM & SOC Lab

Production-grade Wazuh SIEM cluster ingesting logs from all lab VMs. Built custom rules for threat detection, set up active response playbooks, and practiced incident triage.

Wazuh SIEM IDS/IPS Log Analysis SOC
Active
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Windows 11 Enterprise Lab

Full Windows 11 Pro/Enterprise deployment lab with Active Directory, Group Policy testing, Intune co-management, BitLocker, and Autopilot enrollment simulation using real hardware.

Windows 11 Active Directory GPO BitLocker Autopilot
Active
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LLM & Claude Code AI Lab

Self-hosted AI infrastructure running Claude Code as an autonomous IT assistant via Telegram bot. Automates diagnostics, schedules tasks, monitors systems, and performs security audits — all from a phone.

Claude AI LLM Telegram Bot Python Self-Hosted
Active
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Intune / Autopilot Lab

Testing Intune and Autopilot configurations on Surface devices and Mac Mini, simulating real enterprise MDM deployment scenarios with compliance policies and remote wipe testing.

Intune Autopilot Surface Mac Mini MDM

Professional Development

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Active in Microsoft Tech Community forums

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Help junior techs with ticket triage when time allows

Get in Touch

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