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Professional Profile
IT Architect with over seven years of information technology experience in heterogeneous environments such as data centers, enterprises and manufacturing. I poses strong analytical skills in identifying areas of improvement and facilitating appropriate changes. Successful background working with stakeholders to develop architecture framework that aligns strategy, processes, and IT assets with business goals. Successful delivery of projects in a
fast paced, highly pressured environment and in maintaining effective relationships with clients. For the past years, focused on cloud projects developing private, hybrid and shared cloud solutions to consolidate IT infrastructure and lower operational costs. Have proficiency designing and building highly available, highly scalable solutions utilizing different set of technologies.
Professional Experience
Cogeco Data Services, Toronto Jan, 2013 to Present
IT Architect
Responsibilities:
Designed and implemented disaster recovery solutions based on VMware SRM, NetApp OnCommand suite and Veeam Backup & Replication suite.
Advanced support of virtual infrastructure based on VMWare vSphere 5+ and Hyper-V 2012 R2 hypervisors
Supported backup infrastructure based on Backup Exec and Veeam Backup & Replication.
Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
Lead complex client migrations between heterogeneous environments
Lead development of custom IaaS, PaaS, solutions based on FlexPOD, Microsoft System Center suite, VMWare vCloud suite, Netapp OnCommand suite
Lead development of workflow processes for VMWare vCloud director automation suite.
Took lead on designing & deploying highly scalable cloud project based on FlexPOD infrastructure with the support of VMWare vSphere 5.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 hypervisors.
Perform SAN administration utilizing FC, NFS, iSCSI protocols. Capacity management and troubleshooting storage issues.
Technical Environment:
Windows Servers 2003/2008/2012, Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010,2013, Linux (Red Hat, Centos, Fedora, etc), Netapp FAS series, Equallogic PS & Compellent series, IBM StorWize series, SCOM 2012, SCVMM 2012 R2, Cisco UCS, FlexPOD Infrastructure, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco N5K, Microsoft SQL 2005+, Cisco ASA, Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2, Microsoft RDS farms, Powershell, Bash scripting, VEEM Backup & Replication v7/8, Symantec Backup Exec 2012, NetApp OnCommnad Suite, Falconstor CDP, VMWare vSphere 5+, VMWare SRM 5+, VMWare vCenter 5+
DBRS, Toronto March, 2012 to January, 2013
Systems Administrator
Responsibilities:
Maintained and supported physical and virtual servers
Integrated Office 365 into Exchange environment with single sign-on capability
Advanced support of Windows based Active Directory domain
Supported Exchange messaging platform with Blackberry integration
Implemented Mobile Device Management solution for Andorid and iOS platforms
Completed system builds, upgrades, migrations, hardening, code deployments and patch management.
Designed and implemented disaster recovery solution based on VMware SRM 5.0 and Netapp replication.
Advanced support of VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure
Supported backup infrastructure based on Backup Exec software
Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
Worked with developers team to implement highly scalable financial analysis tools in Amazon AWS cloud
Technical Environment:
Windows Server 2003/2008, Active Directory 2003/2008, VMware vSphere, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Office 365 integration, Airwatch MDM integration, Openfiler, Netapp FAS series, RHEL 5/6.3, IPSwitch Gold monitoring system, SunSystems financial system, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Amazon AWS, Google Postini, Backup Exec, Amazon AWS, RoambiBI.
Achievements:
Took a lead on integrating Office 365 e-mail cloud solution into existing Microsoft Exchange environment project
Successfully upgraded Infor Sunsystems financial system
Improved servers and workstations update process by implementing centralized Windows Servers Update Service server.
Designed multi-platform desktop image to support automated integration globally.
Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery solution based on VMware SRM product.
Completed Amazon AWS cloud integration project
Took a lead on RoamBI financial tool integration project.
Research In Motion, Waterloo February 2011 to December 2011
Systems Administrator
Responsibilities:
Maintained and supported more than 300 servers globally responsible for manufacturing Blackberry devices.
Completed system builds, upgrades, migrations, hardening, code deployments and patch management.
Managed manufacturing IT operations center.
Administered backup solution based on Backup Exec
Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
Prepared and configured new server and storage hardware for new site setup.
Technical Environment:
Windows Server 2003/2008, Active Directory 2003/2008, VMware ESXi Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Netapp FAS series, RHEL 5, Nagios monitoring system, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Backup Exec, SVN, .
Achievements:
Designed and implemented complex centralized McAfee antivirus solution globally, which helped to reduce downtime by more than 5% caused by virus/malware outbreaks.
Took a lead on implementing global Nagios monitoring solution, which helped to reduce downtime by more than 12.5% and stay pro-active.
Reduced backup window time by more than 26.5 percent.
Improved servers and workstations update process by implementing centralized Windows Servers Update Service server.
Designed and implemented disaster recovery solution globally, based on VMware HA and Netapp replication products.
Designed multi-platform desktop image to support automated integration globally.
Netpulse/Pathcom, Markham October 2009 to September 2010
Systems Administrators
Responsibilities:
Maintained and supported production and testing environment with 100+ servers.
Completed system builds, upgrades, migrations, hardening, code deployments and patch management.
Maintained and supported messaging environment including Exchange 2007 and Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0.
Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
Technical Environment:
Windows Server 2003/2008; VMware ESXi Server; Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008; IBM System Z, RHEL 4. Kaseya monitoring/patching system; Netapp SnapManager, Tivoli Backup, etc.
Achievements:
Improved server updates process through Kaseya server.
Participated in complete Datacenter move to new location.
Designed and implemented security policies throughout organization.
Quiettouch, Toronto June 2007 to November 2009
Systems Administrators
Responsibilities:
Maintained and supported complex datacenter environment with more than 1000+ servers.
Completed system builds, upgrades, migrations, hardening, code deployments and patch management.
Maintained and supported messaging environment (Exchange, Blackberry Server, Sendmail)
Maintained and supported backup infrastructure.
Maintained and supported firewalls and monitoring solutions.
Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
Technical Environment:
Windows Server 2003/2008; Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007, Microsoft SQL 2005/2008, Microsoft ISA Server, VMware ESXi Server; RHEL 4, Centos 5, Zabbix, Neverfail, IPTables, etc.
Achievements:
Tech lead on Microsoft Exchange 2003 to Microsoft Exchange 2007 migrations
Designed and developed infrastructure for Barracuda SPAM filters.
Participated in Microsoft SQL 2005 to Microsoft SQL 2008 upgrades.
Participated in Microsoft SharePoint upgrades and migrations.
Completely redesigned backup infrastructure to accommodate growing storage needs.
Took part in designing DR/HA solutions using Neverfail product.
Designed different scripts to accommodate different client needs.
CDI Computers, Markham December 2006 to May 2007
Technical Support
Responsibilities:
Operations management and entry level field services support.
Completed system builds, operating system installation and updates.
Technical analysis and troubleshooting desktop related issues and entry level servers issues.
Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
Technical Environment:
Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, Windows XP.
Achievements:
Extensive troubleshooting skills allowed me to become a team lead.
Education
Diploma, Computer System Technology, Seneca College.
Professional Accomplishments
MCSE - Microsoft Certified System Engineer
MCSA - Microsoft Certified System Administrator
MCITP - Microsoft Certified IT professional
MCTS - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist