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Gavin Balarin is listed as General Manager at Derivco, a with 2081 employees, based in Oviedo, Florida, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Gavin Balarin.
Gavin Balarin previously worked as Head of IT Monitoring at Derivco and Systems Business Unit Manager at 2Cana Solutions. Gavin Balarin holds Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Business Informatics from University Of South Africa/Universiteit Van Suid-Afrika.
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I have over 25 years of hands on in-depth technical and senior managerial experience. I am a proactive leader who can anticipate business needs. Through my highly collaborative nature I focus on building relationships across all departments to create an environment that allows teams to produce their best work. I believe in and inspire a customer-centric approach across my portfolios, with an emphasis on delivering high quality services at a high velocity via optimized, automated and repeatable processes.I am a results-oriented leader capable of delivering across a number of initiatives, while remaining aware of the client experience, emerging technologies and cost-effectiveness. My technical expertise, business acumen, strong communication skills, and demonstrated experience with complex and quickly evolving organizations, all contribute to operational excellence across numerous domains/functions.My duties and experience across my 25 years of firsthand in-depth technical and senior managerial experience have included setting the technological strategic vision across an organization and driving adoption of new infrastructure technologies and processes. The overseeing of all activities of cloud, server, storage, network, endpoint, and other technologies needed for modern, efficient, effective information technology success. Providing tactical and strategic direction for all components of Data Centers (on premise and cloud), Networks (voice, wireless, security, data), Servers and Storage, System Applications, and End User Services. Leading efforts to standardize operations. Determining change management strategies. Establishing and maintaining service level agreements (SLA's) to ensure the IT function exceed stakeholder expectations while adhering to compliance, financial reporting, and security controls. Establishing key performance indicators (KPI's), objectives and key results (OKR's), metrics and other health measurements. Tracking indicators against industry benchmarks and standards. Inspiring thought leadership and creative insights. Identifying skill gaps. As well as creating a culture of continuous improvement across the business.I am a big picture thinker who is focused on the synergy between the various components which make up the whole. I am hard-working and pride myself on excellence. I am a firm believer in knowledge sharing and encourage all staff to push the boundaries of their perceived abilities.My most recent experience includes the establishment of a branch office and the running of a subsidiary of a company.
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Orlando, Florida, United States
As the general manager I play a pivotal role in overseeing the U.S Office, ensuring that operations run smoothly, goals are met, and the company achieves sustainable growth. Key responsibilities:• Strategic Planning• Operational Management• Financial Management• Transformational Team Leadership• Decision-Making• Performance Monitoring• Risk Management
Durban Area, South Africa
As head of IT Monitoring Services my role included the strategic planning, management and oversight of various teams which fell within the monitoring division:• Network Operations Centre, • Incident management, • Problem management, • Site Reliability Engineers,• Monitoring team. As a member of the senior management team I also played a role in future proofing our organization, thought leadership and process hardening across the business. Key Responsibilities: • Reduce Mean Time to Respond and Resolve – using Incident Orchestration, Automation and Response • Enable the business to make data drive decisions• Establishing and maintaining service level agreements (SLA's) ensuring IT meet or exceed stakeholder expectations while adhering to compliance, financial reporting, and security controls• Overseeing all aspects of monitoring activities, such as planning, budgeting, recruitment, designing and implementation• Provide relevant technical guidance• Identifying and overseeing execution of appropriate agreed upon methodology, work, research, reporting and deliverables• Working knowledge of performance and fault management tools in an enterprise environment such as Elastic Search, Prometheus• Establishing key performance (KPI's), objectives and key results (OKR's), metrics and other health measurements. Tracking indicators against industry benchmarks and standards. Regular reporting to stakeholders and senior management • Providing appropriate thought leadership and creative insights. • Providing leadership in the recruitment, training and development of top quality talent, ensuring high levels of performance and productivity.• Building morale, motivating and instilling productivity and teamwork, creating and promoting a positive and supportive work environment. Identifying skill gaps at team level as well as creating a culture of continuous improvement.
Durban Area, South Africa
I performed the role of Business Unit Manager for this IT Company as well as a fractional IT Manager for various customer.Some of my responsibilities included:• IT manager• Systems management• Management of the Server, Network, Desktop, Telephony and Helpdesk teams.• Technical planning, design and implementation of new systems and upgrades to existing systems.• Interface between technical staff and non-technical executive business team• Disaster Recovery and high availability planning, testing and management.• Strategic IT planning and implementation (five-year plan). • ISO, BS7799 and SAS70 process implementation and compliance.• System monitoring and statistical history• Standard operating procedures and SLAsSome Achievements:• Planning and overseeing the moving of 800 people and all the IT infrastructure to a new building with no downtime• The development & implementation of a real-time monitoring and statistical information systems• Single seat administration via scripts written in Perl and PowerShell and other automation tools• Designing and deploying a fully automated, un-attend, installation systems• Assisting clients in obtaining ISO 27001 certification and SAS70 standard• The development and implementation of high availability systems and disaster recovery• Designing and developing an cloud-based monitoring, alerting and reporting system
Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
I joined this company as a Windows Administrator and worked my way into the position of Business Unit Manager (IT Manager) for this Information Technology company. As a Senior Systems Engineer I provided fourth line support on Windows systems as well as provided Microsoft SQL Database Administration.• Systems management for 2Cana Solutions and key clients.• Developed and implemented automation wherever possible.• Designed and deployed a fully automated, un-attend, installation system of windows workstations and all the desktop applications utilising tools such as RIS/RDP and group policy.• Architected and implemented a high availability system in a clustered environment for a health care insurance company as well as designing, planning, implementation & testing their disaster recovery strategy and process. • The development of several administration tools and early warning systems written in VB.net and PowerShell.• Technical support and installation of servers including hyper visors, clustered servers, Citrix servers, SQL servers, active directory and exchange mail servers, SAAS and IAAS cloud solutions.• Senior level Microsoft SQL Database administration and junior level Oracle Database administration.• Installation, configuring, testing, monitoring, maintaining and administering new and upgraded software database applications, servers and workstations.• HA/BCP/Disaster Recovery architecting, planning, testing and management.• Developed & implemented a real-time monitoring and statistical information system through dynamic aspx pages (web), Perl scripts and PowerShell hosted in Azure.• Implemented single seat administration via scripts written PowerShell and via other automation tools.• Designing and developing an azure cloud-based monitoring and reporting system.
Durban Area, South Africa
I was a systems administrator in an environment which a mixture of NT 4.0 servers and Novell 3.x & 4.x servers and windows workstations. Responsibilities:• The rollout of new software packages.• The running of projects.• Second line desktop support (from Windows NT 4.0 workstations through to Windows 95 and windows for workgroups 3.11).• Network troubleshooting. Achievements:• The creation of an Intranet.• The rollout of company wide applications through remote administration methods.• Upgrade workstations from windows 3.11 to Windows NT 4.0.• Automated applications with "smart icons".
Harare Zimbabwe
This was a small IT company which offered support to a wide variety of customers on various systems ranging from home computers up to medium sized corporations.Responsibilities:• Active Directory• Microsoft Exchange.• Hardware support.• Technical support.• Software support.• Trouble-shooting of both hardware and software related problems.• Consulting and sales.• End user training.Achievements:• The implementation of an NT 4.0 domain with an Exchange Server and a Proxy Server.• The support of single master model NT domains in other companies.
Harare Zimbabwe
I joined the company as a sales representative and worked my way into the position of Sales Manager for this large mining and industrial supply company.Responsibilities:• I was responsible for a team of eleven sales representatives in three major cities in Zimbabwe.• Co-ordinating the price list of over 3000 products.• Setting yearly budgets.• Training and motivating the sales team.
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Michael Adam
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Mahesware Tegalapalli
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Advanced Systems Development 77% Business Management A 77% Business Management B 75% Computer Networks 86% Corporate Governance.
BUSINESS DATA 82% OPTIMISATION 79% DECISION STRUCTURING 76% NUMBERS AND FUNCTIONS 84%
Activities and Societies: Design and Implement Cloud Data Platform Solutions Provisioning SQL Databases Administering a SQL Database.
Activities and Societies: Provisioning SQL Databases Administering a SQL Database Infrastructurehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/users/gav.
Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure Microsoft® Certified IT Professional.
Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist: Windows 7, Configuration Microsoft® Certified IT Professional: Server Administrator on Windows.
Microsoft® Certified IT Professional: Database Administrator 2008 Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2008.
Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure Planning and Maintaining.
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Certified Professional: Microsoft Certified Professional
Activities and Societies: Captain rowing team
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Gavin Balarin works for Derivco.
Gavin Balarin is listed as General Manager at Derivco.
Gavin Balarin is based in Oviedo, Florida, United States while working with Derivco.
Gavin Balarin has worked for Derivco, 2Cana Solutions, Unilever, Pangie Computers, and Albco Holdings.
Gavin Balarin's colleagues at Derivco include Michael Adam, Ana Claudia, Dylan Seppings, Anatoli Prokofjev, and Tevin Moodley.
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Gavin Balarin holds Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Business Informatics from University Of South Africa/Universiteit Van Suid-Afrika.
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