Imran Afzal has over 20 years of experience in systems administration and engineering, leadership, entrepreneurship, teaching and public speaking. He manages a team of about 60 systems engineers, administrators and team leads globally. He started his IT career with Time Warner in New York City in 2000 as a systems administrator. He has used his IT skills in many Fortune 500 companies such as financial firms, the fashion industry and tech media companies. He has spearheaded projects like data centre migration, the introduction and deployment of VMWare, monitoring tools implementation, Amazon cloud migration and many more. Afzal earned his bachelor’s in Computer Information Systems from Baruch College at the City University of New York as an honour student. He earned his MBA from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in operation management and IT.
Afzal has expertise in executive leadership, Linux, VMWare, Windows, public speaking and IT fundamentals. His certifications are in Linux systems management, UNIX operating systems, Linux system administration, system internals, VMWare Certified Professional, RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator) and Windows Server Certified. He has some the best-selling and highest-rated online courses with more than 250 000 students worldwide. He has helped more than a thousand students to land the job of their dreams in IT. He believes in education and giving back. He also established a non-profit school for children from pre-K (pre-primary) until 10th grade.
Imran Afzal has been teaching since 2010 and provides onsite and online training on many IT subjects. His services include one-on-one career advice, resume building and interview workshops. He also conducts onsite training for classes ranging between five and 25 people in the following topics: Linux Redhat, Linux Centos, VMWare, VMWare applications, documentation and project management.
