Andrew Lin Email & Phone Number

Markham, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Financial Technology

Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Act as a trusted advisor to our customer in various engagements ranging from technical product support to analysis of business constraints.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Install and administer Linux/Unix/Windows servers, such as RedHat, Solaris and Windows.Administration of AWS cloud, VMware ESXi and vSphere infrastructure.
• Experience with Ansible, BIG-IP F5 load balancer, Splunk, Confluence, Jira, Bluecat Proteus and Adonis IPAM.
• Migrated VMware virtual Linux/Solaris servers to new datacenters. Designed and implemented datastores that were shared with remote VMware clusters to minimize outage of the servers during migration. Setup knowledge.
• Converted the Endeca physical servers to VMware virtual servers using the VMware converter.Support Tomcat, Apache, MySQL, Postfix, Java, SAS, Terracotta, and Endeca.Wrote scripts in Bash, VMware PowerCLI and Ansible to.
• Converted the VMware RDM disks to VMDK disks for the Celo database servers as part of the Dell VxRail migration.
• Provide system administration functions, including system provisioning, upgrade, patching, user access provisioning and scripting.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Build and configure Windows Linux servers. Provide technical analysis, troubleshooting and administration of Windows, Linux and Vmware ESX.
• Wrote VMware PowerCLI scripts to automate the manual Disaster Recovery procedures for servers, greatly reducing the recovery time. Wrote scripts to automate the import of replicated SAN disks, register datastores.
• Analyzed Red Hat pricing and converted the annual subscriptions to Virtual Datacenters model, significant cost saving was achieved.
• Evaluated, recommended and implemented Centrify Identity Consolidation, Privilege Management and Audit Server Suite for Linux. Built proof-of-concept servers for evaluation, installed and implemented production.
• Built and installed Airwatch Enterprise Mobility Management servers in multiple sites. Centralized the management of mobile devices and enforced DLP.
• Installed/configured Postfix email servers and migrated services from BSD Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Build, maintain, troubleshoot Windows, SQL, Exchange and VMware.
• Administered Cisco Pix firewall.
• Installed and configured Microsoft Data Protection Manager providing backups for Exchange and SQL servers.
• Installed and configured VMware server with Dell Equallogic SAN

Toronto, Canada Area

• Provide training and mentoring to System Admins.
• Installed and configured Windows 2003 Active Directory Servers.
• Designed and implemented VPN WAN to connect over 180 remote sites across North America using Cisco/Juniper routers and firewalls.
• Implemented Cisco MPLS WAN, VoIP and Polycom video conferencing.
• Designed new computer room, created optimal layout of cable racks/server cabinets with HVAC and FM200 fire suppression system.
• Installed and configured Equalogic ISCSI SAN.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Planned and implemented the merger of two data centres after the acquisition of Olsten Corporation.
• Supervised junior IT associates and performed network/systems administration.
• Liaison with vendors on issues related to new computer/network equipment purchases, repairs and installations, as well as Frame Relay/ATM/ISDN circuit repairs and installations.
• Planned and implemented Disaster Recovery procedures for Adecco Canada, consisting of hot servers located at Sunguard (Comdisco) Canada, complete with frame-relay backup connection to the main data centre in New York.
• Provide Windows servers/desktop support and administration.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Provided Tier 1, 2 and 3 technical support/consultation to external clients.
• Provided systems design consultation to the sales staff.I built the Exchange server for Ministry of Health, provided onsite support to clients such as IMAX, Aventis, Enbridge etc.

Toronto, Canada Area

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