Zahir Hussain Shah is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional who has worked with businesses from small- to medium-sized organizations to gigantic multinational companies, providing IT consultancy and solution delivery. He has been working in the IT industry for over 7 years now. Currently he is working with UAE's prestigious oil and gas sector for providing solution designs and delivery using Microsoft Hyper-V, clustering, Active Directory, Exchange Server, Lync Server, and System Center.

He has also been honored with the industry's most prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the year 2011/2012, for his excellent contribution in the Microsoft server systems technical communities. Apart from the daily office life, Zahir is an author, public speaker, and a blogger. He owns a successful blog (http://zahirshahblog.com) on Microsoft private cloud, messaging, unified communications, and systems infrastructure solutions. He also has CISSP, MCSE, MCITP, MCTS, and CCNA certifications.