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• Reporting to the Senior Manager for Canada Federal Sector, responsibilities include:
• Project planning for private cloud infrastructure upgrades, using performance and capacity reports of current environments to recommend new systems appropriate to the customer’s needs.
• Work with multiple vendors to obtain comparative quotes for new equipment and life cycle replacements.
• Develop and update system architecture documents and diagrams.
• Prepare and present new or revised system designs to customers and other Kyndryl teams.
• Perform performance analysis of customer environments, including adding tooling when needed to determine bottlenecks and recommend solutions to identified performance problems.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Reporting to the Manager for UNIX/Storage Systems, responsibilities included:
• Worked with a team of four other infrastructure specialists, managing storage systems and SAN networks at four federal government agencies. Led weekly team huddles to ensure all account targets were met and staff.
• Collaborated with senior account architects and other team leads and specialists to identity infrastructure performance bottlenecks, and recommend solutions using existing systems, or suggesting new hardware if required.
• Worked on secondment with another specialist group leading the storage migration efforts for a provincial government data center move and end of life storage equipment replacement projects.
• Planned a full storage system overhaul for a customer that had introduced significant data growth and retention requirements due to COVID related changes.
• Performed routine system administration duties on IBM, Netapp, EMC, Brocade and Cisco SAN storage devices, including system commission and decommission, firmware updates, service change requests and secure data.

Edmonton Alberta

• Reporting to the Manager of Distributed Storage, responsibilities included:
• Meet with account executives, architects and customers on a regular basis to discuss how to better meet current and future business requirements, recommend upgrades, provide capacity planning and trending reports, then.
• Management of various SAN devices including NetApp, HP 3PAR and EVA, IBM SVC, XIV, DS, vSeries and FlashSystems in environments with Windows, VMware, AIX, HPUX and Linux hosts.
• Maintain Brocade fiber channel fabrics, made of directors, edge switches and blade modules.
• Deployed Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) to provide service desk integrated alerting as well as capacity planning and performance analysis capabilities.
• Overhaul and ongoing administration of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup and recovery systems for multiple customers on Windows VMware, Linux and AIX platforms.

Calgary Alberta

• Reporting to the Vice President of Corporate Services, responsibilities included:
• Designing new IT systems for new consolidated office space, using RFQ/RFP to interview and select vendors for internet/telephony services, managed printing, email hosting, desktop support and boardroom audio visual.
• Developing a three year IT budget with scheduled hardware replacement, annualized software licensing and a funded strategy to achieve compliance with the COBIT IT framework. Established vendor relations for ad-hoc.
• Building local cloud infrastructure using Dell iSCSI SAN storage and Dell and HP servers running VMware ESX.
• Provisioning Microsoft Server 2008 R2 for onsite Active Directory, DNS, Exchange, FTP, File and Print services.
• Deploying VPN services using Cisco ASA devices to provide site to site links and remote access for software clients.

Edmonton Alberta

• Reporting to the Data Networks Manager, responsibilities included:
• Managing a fleet of Dell, HP and IBM servers running Windows and ESX. Pioneered use of MSCS server clusters to improve service availability.
• Deployment of Microsoft Server NT4/2000/2003/2008 services including File, Print, DNS, DHCP, IIS and SQL, as well as Active Directory hardened with customized security templates and GPOs.
• Automation of routine tasks using Windows shell scripts, VBscript and custom SQL databases.
• Administration of mirrored EMC SANs and Brocade fiber channel switches.
• Development of security related systems such as file server content indexing, USB device inventory and an offline Microsoft patching tool.

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