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5000 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario

With a national network of thousands of independent advisors, ivari provides a full range of insurance products designed to help Canadians make the right choice for their protection needs.- Manage the daily operations of the Technical Services team (12 staff) in the following key technical areas (physical and virtual server infrastructure, active directory, mail and messaging, SAN storage, corporate applications, Backup and recovery, Database, level 2 enterprise application support, cloud).- Manage resources to support various projects and initiatives. - Recommending and implementing new technology to ensure the IT infrastructure is able to sustain market competitiveness. - Maintain proper lifecycle management practices aiding in responsible budgeting process with leasing contracts. Lead a team to provide excellent services to IT & business customers.- Relationship Manager collaborating with other departments and vendors. This includes regular planning sessions to ensure that IT understand and can appropriately support all business initiatives.

Milton, Ontario

IT Consulting for SMBs. Specializing in Infrastructure Project Management, Network Architecture and Database Management.Currently contracted to Transamerica Life (North York) in a PM role migrating WFG Canada from a Mitel 3300 MXe phone system to Transamerica Life's Avaya Aura system.

Toronto, Canada Area

GuestLogix Inc. is the leading global provider of onboard store technology and merchandising solutions, which help airlines and other travel operators create, manage, and control onboard retail environments tailored to their needs and their passengers. Serving approximately 90% of the North American airline passenger traffic and 40% of the global airline passenger traffic, GuestLogix has become a trusted onboard transaction processing partner to airlines around the world.The Company's global headquarters and centre for product innovation is located in Toronto, Canada with regional head offices around the globe including GuestLogix USA, serving the Americas, located in Dallas, Texas; GuestLogix Europe, located in London, UK, serving Europe, Middle East and Africa; GuestLogix Asia Pacific, located in Hong Kong; and a sales and support office located in Singapore. Logistics centres are situated in Toronto, Dallas, London and Seoul with a software development centre located in India. GuestLogix is pleased to be recognized as one of Deloitte's North America Technology Fast 500 and Canada Technology Fast 50 companies. GuestLogix is publicly traded on The Toronto Stock Exchange (GXI.T).

Guelph, Ontario

Review of existing infrastructure and technology vendors; upgrades to infrastructure as appropriate including new hardware (client and server), backup and email solutions (hosted versus in-house), domain and active directory structure and full documentation.

Pro.Mo (Productivity Management Office) is a boutique consulting firm where I was responsible for all technology consulting with clients. Of note is work with Captial Paving where I was responsible for implementing a completely new infrastructure (new server room, routers, switches, Internet, desktops, laptops, phone system, Blackberrys, etc) as part of their expansion into new office space.

Bayshore Home Health is Canada’s largest provider of home health care services with over 70 locations across Canada and employs 800 plus administrative staff and over 7,000 field staff across the country.Bayshore co-locates its data centre at 151 Front Street West, Toronto and manages over 200 servers (physical and virtual) with all branches on a fully redundant, Canada wide private WAN. All branches access their applications via Citrix Xenapp through a variety of client hardware (thin clients, desktops, laptops, tablets).

Markel Insurance is Canada’s largest trucking insurance company with 4 locations in Canada including a training facility for clients. Markel employs approximately 300 people and has 2 data centers (one internal and one co-located at 151 Front Street West, Toronto). Markel manages more than 120 servers (physical and virtual) and employees access their applications over an MPLS network.

Guelph is a vibrant, growing community of 100,000 plus people. The city employs 600 plus people located across the city in 15 plus locations connected back to the data centre at City Hall via dark fibre.

TD Insurance Meloche Monnex is Canada's leading provider of group home and auto insurance for professionals and alumni.

 Manage the daily operations of the Technical Services team (12 staff) in the following key technical areas (physical and virtual server infrastructure, active directory, mail and messaging, SAN storage, corporate applications, Backup and recovery, Database, level 2 enterprise application support, cloud). Ensure all IT governances and disciplines are met.  Manage resources to support various projects and initiatives.  Recommending and implementing new technology to ensure the IT infrastructure is able to sustain market competitiveness.  Maintain proper lifecycle management practices aiding in responsible budgeting process with leasing contracts. Lead a team to provide excellent services to IT & business customers.  Relationship Manager collaborating with other departments and vendors. This includes regular planning sessions to ensure that IT understand and can appropriately support all business initiatives.

Pc Support & Lan Administration, Information Technology

Ba, Psychology/Business

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