Andrei Kurpatov Email & Phone Number

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.
• 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.
• 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)

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