Denis Grimard Email & Phone Number

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. F5 provides solutions that make applications secure, fast, and available for everyone, helping organizations get the most out of their investment. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications, F5 optimizes applications and allows them to work faster and consume fewer resources. Our extensible architecture intelligently integrates application optimization, protects the application and the network, and delivers application reliability-all on one universal platform. Over 16,000 organizations and service providers worldwide trust F5 to keep their applications running. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices worldwide.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

F5 Networks – Built an HA pair of 8900 appliances to provide internal services, and an HA pair of 3900 appliances for DMZ services. Internal f5 is providing LTM, WAM, and DMZ is providing LTM APM, and GTM. I have built many iRules, Virtual servers; APM enabled Virtual servers for web based pay-stub and performance management. Windows System Administration - Contributed to the vision and direction for tactical and strategic server architecture, performance analysis, technical work in the planning, installation, documentation and administration of all Windows based server applications and hardware. Served as a senior level technical resource on complex problems for both local and remote servers Virtualization Management - Responsible for designing, documenting, and implementing a virtualized Enterprise Windows server environment utilizing VMware virtualization technologies.Change Management - Responsible for all aspects of change management in the Windows server environment. Reviewing proposed technology changes and considering all risks and impacts, review implementation and back-out plans, testing all proposed changes thoroughly and to success before implementation, creating detailed documentation, and communicating with internal and external business units. Hardware Management - Responsible for the implementation, support and maintenance of Windows based server and supporting hardware. Experience in troubleshooting and resolution of server hardware issues along with experience in data center operations. • Monitoring & Server Optimization - In depth experience implementing and managing a comprehensive hardware and software real time monitoring solutions. I took a proactive approach in server maintenance and monitoring using my experience in server performance tuning and optimizationDesigned and implemented VMware vSphere 4 and 5 for Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Australia.Australia Datacenter upgrades, moves and virtualizations.

My first 4 years of my career at Viterra was as the lead technical analyst in a unionized position for the Windows server team. I was promoted “Out of Scope” and have since managed desktop delivery, Windows Server, VMware, Citrix email and Help Desk teams.• For 10 years I worked in a change control environment and am well versed in proper change management methodologies. I have attended all change control meetings for whichever group I was managing throughout those 10 years.• Team and technical lead for all Wintel Disaster Recovery to IBM site in Markham, Ontario.• Managed a team of unionized staff in delivering a 2060 concurrent user Citrix farm consisting of 120 Windows server on IBM Blade and x3550 hardware delivering a business software portfolio of over 120 applications in a 24X7 multi-country environment.• Decommissioned and integrated all server and software resulting from an acquisition of Agricore United (240 virtualized servers, associated applications and infrastructure). • Provided final level of technical support to all support levels as required for desktops, Windows servers, VMWare servers and guests for both hardware and software.• Managed lease refresh of servers including appropriate destruction of data and secure disposal of assets.• Managed a team of staff in delivering Windows, Citrix, and VMWare server support. This consisted of four unionized staff members, and over 120 Intel servers.• Led a well-integrated team of windows systems administrators and desktop technicians focusing on maintaining the company’s efficient and reliable computing infrastructure. • Very experienced in dealing with vendors for quotes, purchases, and contracts.• Experienced in dealing with unionized staff, including all aspects of Performance Management

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