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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 Bank July 2012 to July 2014 Infrastructure 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-Systems November 2009 to May 2012 Wintel 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-Systems May 2007 to October 2009 Senior 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
Sanlam August 2000 to April 2007 Senior 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
Skills Experience Total Years Last Used
Windows Server Expert 12 2014
VMware vSphere Expert 5 2014
Active Directory Expert 12 2014
Hyper-V Expert 4 2014
Group Policy Management Expert 12 2014
Windows 7 Expert 5 2014
Windows 8 Expert 3 2014
ConfigMgr (SCCM) Expert 4 2014
SQL Server Advanced 6 2014
SharePoint Skilled 2 2012
PowerShell Advanced 3 2014
VBScript Advanced 4 2014
WSUS Expert 6 2014
VPN Expert 5 2014
MS Exchange Advanced 4 2012
MS SharePoint Advanced 4 2012
Office 365 Skilled 1 2014
MS Project Advanced 4 2014
MS Visio Advanced 4 2014
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced 1 2015
Server hardware Expert 8 2014
Cisco Advanced 2 2014
Server hardware monitoring toolsets Expert 6 2014
Netapp NAS Advanced 3 2012
TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, FTP, SFTP, SMTP, SSL Expert 12 2015
Skills
  • Project Management
  • Presenting
  • Business Analyst
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Enterprise Architecture development
  • Solutions Architecture development
  • ITIL
  • Documentation writing

Education and Training
Real IRM 2014 Training: TOGAF 9 Certification Training Johannesburg, South-Africa

5 Days training program
allaboutXpert 2013 Training: PRINCE2 Foundation Johannesburg, South-Africa

5 Days training program
Microsoft 2013 Training: PowerShell for IT admins Johannesburg, South-Africa

5 Days training program 

Damelin Computer College 1999 PC Engineering Diploma: Computer Engineering Johannesburg, South-Africa

1 Year Diploma Course
Sarel Cilliers Secondary School 1997 High School Diploma Johannesburg, 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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