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Toronto, On

• Designed, directly manage, and support mid-sized data center including standalone and blade servers (Dell/HP/IBM), Netgear/Cisco switches, firewalls (SonicWALL/WatchGuard), DAS/SAN storage, Hyper-V/VMware highly available environment, Veeam disaster recovery and backup procedures.• Serve as Security Administrator to control access to network resources using VPN access, firewall rules, ACL and NTFS, audit tools, secure email communication using PKI, manage Antivirus (F-Secure/SentinelOne) and Anti-spam (EOP/AppRiver) systems• Member of Global FMG IT Core Team to resolve 2-3d level issues and design major corporate projects• Recommend and develop IT budgets and strategic plans, report to company’s executive management, liaise with vendors and suppliers.• Manage Active Directory/Azure, Windows servers 2016/2019/2022, Exchange 2016/Online, Group Policies, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Remote desktop services• Design and manage company network, switches, and firewalls, implement VLANs and VoIP subnets, STP, LAG, VPN tunnels between remote offices and client VPN access (SSLVPN, L2TP, IPsec)• Develop and implement PowerShell and VBS automation scripts.• Provide helpdesk assistance to 70+ users.

Toronto, On

• Member of a technical support group to provide network administration and server/desktop technical support to business customers.• Served as a Security Administrator for customers managing various antispam and antivirus solutions, remote desktop access via Microsoft RDS and client VPN access, backup, and disaster recovery.• Managed Dell and IBM servers, SonicWALL/D-Link routers, and firewalls.• Installed and administered Windows 2000/2003 servers, Active Directory, GPO, DNS/DHCP, Microsoft Exchange 2003, SQL 2000, Blackberry Enterprise server.

Lida, Belarus

• Manage IT operations of a bank branch as a leader of a team of 4 members. Provided project management and applications deployment, helpdesk, technical support, and network administration.• HP servers, Cisco switches and routers, Microsoft Windows 2000 servers, Lotus Notes/Domino