Chavdar Ivanov Email & Phone Number

Dudley

Birmingham, United Kingdom

- Performed large number of system and network installations on customers' premises, covering wide the range of operating systems and hardware- Connected CAD/CAM software packages to DNC machine tools; analysed serial communications protocols - Planned, established and maintained networks based on Microsoft technologies like AD;- Proposed, deployed, optimized and maintained Samba servers in mixed environments - Specified, part sourced, built and maintained high end workstations supplied by our department - Designed, deployed and maintained an Internet Access point for our customers- Proposed, specified, configured, maintained a line of internal and publicly accessible Unix servers- Researched options for developing company's SAN and NAS setup, proposed the adoption of a ZFS based solution, took part in its maintenance development life cycle- Assisted in configuring and maintaining of a line of Unix servers used by an extensive software development team in a mixed environment- Proposed the utilization of a Virtual Desktop Environment using high end accelerated graphics solution and verified the quality of service requirements with a pilot project - Researched, tested and deployed a range of virtualization solutions- setup XenServer solution for P2V conversion of a certain Unix loads, as well as network modelling and firewall hosting- Specified, configured and deployed a number of VMWare servers for Partner site usage, as well as for software development activities- Took part in establishing the virtualization solution for the company's server farm, based on a set of Hyper-V Clusters (2008R2 and 2012R2), utilizing highly available ZFS SAN solution- Researched. proposed and implemented workstation deployment solution based on Microsoft technologies (MDT and ADK)- Created, certified and maintained the OS and software images for the workstations supplied by the company, starting from Windows 8, up until the current Windows 10 TH2 release

Software and OS support; projects include establishment of CAD and CAM facilities in various engineering companies based in Bulgaria and abroad.

IBM mainframe OS/360 Assemler, PL/1, Fortran. DEC PDP11 RSX11M+ Macro, C; VAX/VMS Assembler, C, system management, networkingVAX Unix, C

Magister, Mathematics

Mathematics. Year 1-3 Pure Maths course, Year 4-5 Computer Science. Graduated with excellent grade. Master Thesis topic "On the recovery.

High School Diploma, Mainly Maths, Excellent (5.60 Out Of 6.00)