Our Team
Network Expert Inc has been in the business of providing IT services since 2007, across North America to various organizations, big and small. We have worked with companies on both sides of the border, providing excellent IT services backed by the most reliable solutions.
On the Canadian side we have provided services to giant such as AT&T, Bell, IBM, CAMH, Equifax and Sunlife. Included are services provided to IBM’s internal customers/business units like CHS/AUS. We have also supported up and coming companies like Technologen. Under the banner of Network Expert Inc. we were also able to serve American clients such as Flour and State Street Corp.
In March of 2015 we started a sister organization by the name of Network Expert LLC to support our US operations. This included supporting major pharmaceutical companies such as Regeneron, Alkermes and Takeda where our team worked on cloud and on-premise infrastructure alike providing services at the architect level.
We believe that our experienced team can handle any kind of IT projects with ease.
Team Members
Dr. Shahzad Ali
PhD. Cloud Computing, M.Sc. Computer Science, Postdoc in Automotive Safety life cycle Standard
Dr. Ali holds a Postdoctoral fellowship research in electric vehicles (EV) by reviewing the Safety Life Cycle of ISO 26262 standard at McMaster University (McMaster Automotive Resource Centre), Canada in 2020. Dr. Ali completed PhD degree in 2013 for improving server utilization patterns of the cloud data centers and avoiding unnecessary wastages of resources.
Dr. Ali works as a consultant on Cloud Projects and with his team’s support, he does architect and builds advanced applications (networking, security and migration) with innovative technology in the cloud.
Cloud Consultant
Mohammad Zahed Saeed
M.Sc. IT Heriot-Watt University, UK
CCIE#19769, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate & Professional
Mohammad Saeed manages the team of network consultants specialized in a broad range of network technologies.
He holds a master degree in IT from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK in 1996. In his IT career he has worked as an IT Professional in various international organizations like International Water Management Institute and National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences Pakistan, IBM and Bell Canada. He has set up Cisco Regional Networking Academy at College of IT at UAE University in AlAin UAE, prepared and delivered labs for various network related courses at the college and taught CCNA at the networking academy. He also trained instructors from other colleges and universities for CCNA. He is currently working as network consultant with AT&T Canada supporting one of its international customers. He has several certifications including CCIE#19769 (R&S), CCAI (Cisco Certified Academy Instructor), CCNP, CCNA, Brocade Certified IP Network Engineer, A+, Network+, Security+ and MCSE.
Cloud Network & Security Consultant
Waqar Ahmad
MBA Strategy Planning, UK
PMP, Certified Help Desk and ITSM Trainer, ITIL Certified
Waqar Haider is an MBA graduate of Strathclyde Business School, UK, and holds various trainer credentials including Help Desk Institute (USA/UK) Accredited Trainer, TRACCERT Canada Accredited Trainer and Project Management PMP Trainer.
Waqar holds a rich mix of IT and Business knowledge and expertise. His other certifications include Microsoft Certified Professional, Six Sigma Black Belt, IT Service Management (ITIL V3) and Business Process Re-engineering.
Previously he worked with oil and gas, utilities, BPO, manufacturing and retail industries providing services and solutions as well as project management expertise.
Project Manager
Syed Saqib Ali
M.S. Software Engineering
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Currently Syed Saqib Ali is working for one of the leading financial institutions in Canada, Scotiabank, as a Relationship Manager for Disaster, Backup and Recovery of their information Security and Compliance (IS&C) team. He worked as a consultant for IBM as a Data Center Expert for Migration and Management and has also worked for the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).
Saqib also works as a consultant on Cloud Projects as an Architect for designing, implementation and migration of servers, applications and storage.
Mr. Saqib Ali is the leading instructor for Microsoft Azure and our other Microsoft Certifications. He has been in the IT field since 1998.
Saqib is Microsoft Certified Trainer, with many certifications including Azure 103, MCT, MCSE, MCTS, MCPI. He has been providing training on Servers since Windows NT4.0. Also, he has training experience with Hyper V, Messaging Systems (MS Exchange Server 2007, 2010). CompTIA: A+, Network +, Security +, LPI Linux Plus, VMware: Virtual Machines Setup ESXi, V Center, and Linux: RHCE, Debian.
Microsoft & VMware Technology Consultant
Ahmad Bhatti
Master’s in computer sciences, B.COM
CCIE, Palo Alto ACE, MCSE/MCSA
Ahmad Bhatti brings his multiyear background in IT networking and IT security to the classroom. He is a CCIE with more than 7 years of experience in Network Design and Deployment. He is a CISCO Centric Engineer with implementation skills on CISCO ASA, JUNIPER SRX, Checkpoint Gaia, VYATTA and Palo Alto as well.
Ahmad holds extensive knowledge of deploying & troubleshooting L2/L3 TCP/IP, Multilayer Switching, L2/L3 QoS, Ethernet & of technology such as MPLS & IP Routing Protocols RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF &BGP, VPN IPSEC Tunnel between CISCO ASA, Juniper SRX and VYATTA.WLAN, Traffic Engineering, VPLS, VSS, and Load Balancing using F5/NetScaler.
He has multiple certifications including CISCO: CCIE Data Center CISCO Certified (CCNA, CCNP-SECURITY), Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE-SEC WRITTEN), CISCO Certified CCNA, CCNP-R&S, Training for Next Gen Firewall ASA with Firepower Services, Checkpoint CCSA, CCSE Training. Juniper Networks: JNCIA-JUNOS, JNCIS-SEC, JNCIP-SEC, Brocade:
CNE-250-WBT, BCVRE. PALO ALTO: Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE), Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE7/8/9/10) PCNSA PAN10, PANORAMA PAN OS 8/9/10, Palo Alto Migration Tools Expedition, PAN Configurator. MICROSOFT: MCSE/MCSA: Microsoft Certified System Engineer 2000/2003
He has worked with multinational companies providing services to Ghana Bank, Garlock Printing, USA; KCI, USA; Telaid IPT Voice Project, Interac-E-Transfer Money, IBM, Equity Bank Canada, SystemExperts (Data Center Services) CANADA, and ACN Abu Dhabi.
Network & Cloud Security Expert
Shiva Naveen Ravi
Master’s in Data Science | BTech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Shiva Naveen Ravi leads the efforts of applications digitalization through cloud computing. He has around 8 years of IT professional work experience in cloud computing, big data technologies, and artificial intelligence. Instrumental in realizing the journey towards the cloud for many multinational companies by providing services of establishing enterprise cloud foundation standards, lift & shift of data center applications to the cloud, migration of huge data stores from the data center to cloud, and modernization/re-architecture of data center applications taking full advantage of cloud offerings like elasticity, scale, and fault-tolerance with fully automatic deployment stacks. With his team’s support, he does architect and builds advanced applications with futuristic technology in the cloud.
Cloud application Migration Consultant
Ejaz Muhammad Irfan
MSCE Server Infrastructure, MSCA Office 365
Muhammad Irfan has over 18 years’ experience in Microsoft products including Active Directory, Exchange Sever, Site & Services, OUs, Group Policies, DNS, DHCP, IIS, DPM, and Terminal Services. He also has extensive experience of Azure AD Connect, Microsoft Office 365 and Active Directory Federation Services. In his IT career he works with many national and international organization and performs many Microsoft server infrastructure environments upgradations, Exchange Servers upgradation and Exchange server to office 365 migrations. As of now he is working as a managing consultant with a multinational company supporting one of its international customers. He has setup complete VmWare & Windows based new office environment for a US client in Pittsburgh. He also has extensive experience in Backups, Disaster Recovery, Synology Devices, MFA, SSO, IBM Mass 360, DUO Security, Public DNS migration, Intune, Certificate Services, WSUS, PowerShell Scripting, Compliance, ESXI and VCenter Server deployment.
