Craig B. Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Sysadmin at a large MSP, a broad role supporting covering a wide range of technology including servers and end users.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Working for the QRM Team, and providing general support for the QRM Application.

Greater Toronto Area Metropolitan Area

MSSQL Database Administrator Jan 2012 – Oct 2019TD Bank Financial Group, Toronto, OntarioWorking in a large, complex, and highly regulated environment I provide daily support, as well as new deployments and migrations from older versions of SQL to current versions. • Successfully deployed and supported dozens of MSSQL servers in fast paced and demanding locked down environment which includes development, testing, and production systems as well as disaster recovery. • Ongoing migrations – successfully migrated from older versions of SQL (2000/2005/2008) to newer versions (2012/2016) • Consolidations of multiple servers to fewer or one. • Deployed High Availability Systems – Including clustering, AAG, Mirroring, Log Shipping, SAN Hardware disk replication. • Provided both technical and process/procedural assistance to in-house developers, and external vendors. • Developed/Created SSIS packages to client needs, for automated ETL. • Implemented, maintained and automated maintenance tasks such as backups using both native compression and 3rd party litespeed, along with verification, Indexing etc. • Effective use of TSQL and other scripting languages (incl. batch, VB Script & powershell) to automate tasks and reduce manual work where possible. • Provided troubleshooting as needed (Performance, Stability, Connectivity) utilizing the native tools such as SQLTrace, DMVs and customized sql scripts. • Provided DBA support to peers, end users, and vendors with their database related issues, including oncall and after hours assistance. • Completed deployments of databases and applications from remote location, outside of business hours, including large databases, public facing systems and long running deployments. • Created and maintained documentation and procedures.

Greater Toronto Area Metropolitan Area

TD Bank Financial Group, Toronto, Ontario • Deploy and support IIS, Web applications, .Net Framework. • Deploy and support enterprise ftp and ftp/s systems, including MS AD User Isolation Mode. • Updating of DNS records, deply and maintain SSL Certificates, including wildcard and san end certificates, and Root and Intermediate updates when necessary. • Network Load Balancing on GSS, F5 BigIP, and Cisco CSS devices • Deploy, Migrate, Support, SAP Business Objects Enterprise reporting systems, including BOE Clustering, and it’s predecessors and ‘lite’ siblings such as Crystal Reports and Crystal Server 200x, on both IIS/.net and more recently Apache/Tomcat platforms, including the related database admin tasks (MS SQL Server)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Systems Administrator / Intel Server Support 2007-2008Indigo Books & Music Inc. Toronto, Ontario • Developed VBS Scripts for such things as deploying 3rd party software agents, DST updates, DNS updates, Automatic Archiving & Deletion of logfiles. • Migrated/Moved Windows Server Systems off of legacy hardware onto new hardware. • Deploy and maintain IIS Servers for public website, use CSS network load balancing hardware to spread load across multiple servers. • Worked with online development team to promote their code into test and production environments, assist in deployment and troubleshooting of inhouse online applications. • Worked with vendor and DBA group to implement Ingrian credit card encryption system. • Worked with rest of team on a wide range of tasks, including: physically racking server systems, building/cloning systems with ghost and PE, troubleshooting network problems, installing / administering SQL servers, patching systems and more.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Systems Administrator / Intel Server Support 1998-2007TD Securities, TD Bank Financial Group, Toronto, Ontario • Deployed and supported 100s of servers, primarily MS Windows in recent years, but also "legacy" systems - OS/2, Netware 3x/4x/5x and Netware 4.11 under SFTIII; • Worked closely with vendors, colleagues and TD Businesses to implement and support 3rd party financial industry applications such as Belzberg, Encompass, Predator and LoanIQ • Designed, deployed and maintained Symantec AntiVirus across Canada and international offices across 7 servers with 4000+ clients • Deployed 100 user rightfax system. • Developed various WSH scripts for different groups within TD Securities, to assist in tasks like administration, monitoring, reporting, configuration, auto logfile archiving/removal, integration of custom scripts in MOM. • Solid knowledge of HP iLO xml scripts and integrating those scripts with WSH/VBS enabled me to greatly reduce time and effort of setup and mass deployment of iLO cards and integrate them into Active Directory • Migrated legacy Netware servers to Windows and NAS servers.