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INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT
Career Overview

Detail-oriented Infrastructure Solutions Architect adept at designing, implementing, upgrading, migrating and supporting information systems in large enterprise environments.

Qualifications

  • TOGAF 9 Certified
  • ITIL v3 Foundation
  • VMware Certified Professional (VCP5-DCV)
  • Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)

  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Work Experience
Capitec BankJuly 2012 to July 2014Infrastructure Architect
Stellenbosch, South-Africa
  • Designed, documented and executed technical architecture for networks, security, storage, open systems and applications.
  • Ensured architecture of infrastructure is in place to support critical business applications and meet service delivery.
  • Ensured the necessary IT organization governance and processes are in place and executed consistently.
  • Ensured infrastructure architecture is aligned with the business strategies and industry best practices.
  • Prepared and presented technical proposals to management.
  • Liaison with internal groups for projects affecting the IT structure of the enterprise and producing recommendation vital to future projects.
  • Established key vendor relationships and assessed emerging technologies.
  • Provided technology leadership to architecture capability and influenced technology direction of the enterprise.
  • Defined and documented processes and procedures regarding enterprise infrastructure architecture.
  • Provided senior technical support to both in-house operational IT staff and user departments for all business critical applications.
  • Developed and maintained accurate documentation and Visio diagrams to provide management with proper understanding of organizational needs.

Projects: 

  • Network Access Control (NAC).
  • Data Migration (NAS).
  • VPN with two factor authentication.
  • Windows 7 Migration.
T-SystemsNovember 2009 to May 2012Wintel Specialist
Cape Town, South-Africa
  • Served as Windows Server operating system expert, providing technical support for entire enterprise consisting of more than 800 physical and virtual servers.
  • Install, configure and support HP ProLiant, IBM Systems X Series, Dell PowerEdge server hardware.
  • Install, deploy, scale and manage VMware vSphere environments.
  • Extensive knowledge on network services and protocols.
  • Support Microsoft platform applications.
  • Taking ownership of cases and managing them to resolution effectively and proactively, in line with service level targets (SLA).
  • Ensure compliance to security standards.
  • Perform all functions/tasks according to processes and procedures related to contractual agreement based on the ITIL V3 IT service management framework.
  • Develop 'Best Practices' implementations for data center infrastructure and highly available services and applications.
  • Documenting of processes and procedures relating disaster recovery of data center infrastructure and hosted applications/services.
  • Liaison with many internal groups for projects that would affect the IT structure of the enterprise and producing recommendation vital to future projects.
  • Provide technology leadership to Wintel team and influence technology direction of the customer.
  • IT resource planning and management (space, memory and CPU).
  • Monitoring, alerting and capacity management using Tivoli toolsets.
  • End-to-end IT project coordination with special emphasis on technical leadership and guidance to operational team.

Projects: 

  • Lync 2010 implementation.
  • SharePoint 2007 implementation.
  • NetApp NAS implementation and data migration.
  • Active Directory forest upgrade (2008 R2).
  • SQL Server 2008 Cluster implementation.
T-SystemsMay 2007 to October 2009Senior Field Services Engineer
Cape Town, South-Africa
  • Installation, configuration and support on Windows Client OS hosted applications and services.
  • Installation, configuration and support HP ProLiant Server and Dell OptiPlex Desktop hardware.
  • Advance support on networking services.
  • Active Directory administration.
  • Exchange administration.
  • Perform all functions/tasks according to processes and procedures related to contractual agreement based on the ITIL V3 IT service management framework.
  • Liaison with many internal groups for projects that would affect the IT structure of the enterprise and producing recommendation vital to future projects.
  • Onsite Team Lead for the customer facing Desktop Support team.

Projects: 

  • Windows XP migration
SanlamAugust 2000 to April 2007Senior Technology Consultant
Bloemfontein, South-Africa
  • Technically and administratively responsible for the Microsoft enterprise desktop infrastructure and access network.
  • Installation, configuration and support Spotlight Interactive financial planning software.
  • SQL Server databases administration.
  • Conduct and present training workshops on Microsoft Windows and Spotlight Interactive software application suite.
  • Develop training material regarding Microsoft Windows and Spotlight Interactive software suite.
  • Initiated and lead value adding technology business projects.
  • Lead for junior technology consultant.
  • Budget management regarding travel expenses.
  • Researching new technologies.
Accomplishments
  • T-Systems South Africa Employee of the Month Award
  • Friend of Project Office Award
  • Functional Coach for Apprentice program
  • SQL cluster migration (Berlin, Germany)
Technical Skills
SkillsExperienceTotal YearsLast Used
Windows ServerExpert122014
VMware vSphereExpert52014
Active DirectoryExpert122014
Hyper-VExpert42014
Group Policy ManagementExpert122014
Windows 7Expert52014
Windows 8Expert32014
ConfigMgr (SCCM)Expert42014
SQL ServerAdvanced62014
SharePointSkilled22012
PowerShellAdvanced32014
VBScriptAdvanced42014
WSUSExpert62014
VPNExpert52014
MS ExchangeAdvanced42012
MS SharePointAdvanced42012
Office 365Skilled12014
MS ProjectAdvanced42014
MS VisioAdvanced42014
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Advanced12015
Server hardwareExpert82014
CiscoAdvanced22014
Server hardware monitoring toolsetsExpert62014
Netapp NASAdvanced32012
TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, FTP, SFTP, SMTP, SSLExpert122015
Skills
  • Project Management
  • Presenting
  • Business Analyst
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Enterprise Architecture development
  • Solutions Architecture development
  • ITIL
  • Documentation writing

Education and Training
Real IRM2014Training: TOGAF 9 Certification TrainingJohannesburg, South-Africa

5 Days training program

allaboutXpert2013Training: PRINCE2 FoundationJohannesburg, South-Africa

5 Days training program

Microsoft2013Training: PowerShell for IT adminsJohannesburg, South-Africa

5 Days training program 

Damelin Computer College1999PC Engineering Diploma: Computer EngineeringJohannesburg, South-Africa

1 Year Diploma Course

Sarel Cilliers Secondary School1997High School DiplomaJohannesburg, South-Africa

1992 - 1997

Interests
  • Golf
  • Running
  • Rugby
  • Hiking
  • Gaming
Additional Information
  • VMware Certified Professional 5 - Data Center Virtualization Certificate
  • Microsoft Transcript (Transcript ID (921421) and the Access Code (mcphein123)
  • ITIL Version 3 Certificate
  • TOGAF 9 Certified
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Capitec Bank
  • T-Systems
  • Sanlam

School Attended

  • Real IRM
  • allaboutXpert
  • Microsoft
  • Damelin Computer College
  • Sarel Cilliers Secondary School

Job Titles Held:

  • Infrastructure Architect
  • Wintel Specialist
  • Senior Field Services Engineer
  • Senior Technology Consultant

Degrees

  • Training : TOGAF 9 Certification Training
    Training : PRINCE2 Foundation
    Training : PowerShell for IT admins
    PC Engineering Diploma : Computer Engineering
    High School Diploma

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