Alan Ruck Email & Phone Number

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Independent cloud consultant providing a wide range of Cloud Services from advisory cloud consulting to technical hands on cloud architecture, DevOps, cloud platform engineering, cloud migration, infrastructure management, monitoring and alerting through to technical training, coaching and team leadership. I currently have over 5 years of cloud specialist experience across various sized projects in multiple industries, various size customers from start-up to enterprise and multi-cloud platforms.Key Certifications:- Azure Solutions Architect Expert (2018-present)- Microsoft Certified Trainer (Azure) (2020-present)- Microsoft Transcript ID: 1050871- Access code: alanruck4451- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (2018-present)- Google Cloud Authorized Trainer (2018-present)https://www.ruckcloud.com - For further information and contact details.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

- Principal Cloud Architect on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)- Certified Professional Cloud Architect specialising in GCP Solution Architecture- GCP Hybrid Cloud Architecture- GCP Cloud Migration and Deployments- Azure, AWS Migrations and integrations with GCP- Google Cloud Authorized Trainer

Bath, United Kingdom

Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider- Microsoft Azure- Microsoft Office 365- Windows Server 2012 R2 - 2016- Active Directory- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013-2016- Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization- Technical Team Lead & Escalation point

London, United Kingdom

Promoted to Team Lead - Duties include: specializing in Windows Server architecture, infrastructure projects and server administration, migrations, change management (member of Central Advisory Board), technical architecture, server monitoring, patching, backups, virtualization, Hyper-V, private cloud, hybrid cloud, storage, firewalls and IT security operations. I have been involved in various migration projects relating to Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365 and Forefront TMG. I am also tasked with technical team leadership and management duties for a remote team of 24/7 server engineers.Server management specialist - Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, 2012 R2. Active directory, Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016. VMware ESX 3, 4, 5, 5.5. Hyper V, Microsoft private cloud, RDS, hosted exchange, firewalls, security. ISA server 2004+, Microsoft Forefront TMG, Sonicwall, Celestix & Cyberoam Appliances. *** Microsoft Azure & Office 365.

London, United Kingdom

Server management of Windows Server 2003, 2008 and Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007 server and network infrastructure, monitoring, patching, server administration, backups. HP & Dell servers/SAN support, projects, Tier 3-4 support. liaising with third parties providers and support teams, working on support cases directly with Microsoft and also various firewall and security technologies.Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, Exchange Server 2003, 2008. HP & Dell servers, Sonicwall, ISA, DNS, DHCP, RRAS, Group Policy, Backup Exec, Asigra, VMware ESX, Kaseya.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Server and network management, infrastructure projects, administration and support. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange server 2003, Active Directory, BES, VMware Server, firewalls, SMC routers, HP switches - installation, administration and maintenance, project management and roll outs of new servers and infrastructure migration projects, responsible for Capex budget. Tier 3 support.Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003, Backup Exec, Blackberry BES, Acronis TrueImage, SMC Networking, Ubiquiti long range wireless, website and hosting management.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

(Promoted to Field Service Engineer) - Onsite IT support, Microsoft desktop and server installation and support, networking and wireless installs, routers, switches, maintenance plan management, projects, remote support. Tier 3 - various projects including new server installs and migrations. Maintenance plan and SLA client management,Windows SBS server 2003 and 2008, Backup Assist, Commit CRM, Netgear routers and switches.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Remote support for desktop and server solutions, server monitoring and maintenance, help desk and ISP support. Tier 1 - 2 support. Dealing with ticket escalations and resolutions. Helpdesk support and assisting with issues with relating to web hosting and ADSL.Microsoft SBS 2003 monitoring and support, Windows XP, Office 2003, desktop support.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Freelance IT support consultancy and sales for the small business. Building up a client base of small business users and maintenance plan management. Managing sales and service of small business IT equipment - Desktop, server, administration, networking, routers, switches, wireless, maintenance plan's, web design, help desk, remote support, web hosting re seller and Tier 1-2.Windows 98SE - XP, Anti Virus, Linux Mandrake, CPanel, web development, sales reseller.