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Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Canada Area

• Designed and built IT projects, steering cloud configurations and services towards industry-leading security.
• Installed and maintained over 60 Citrix XenApp servers farm with over 180 applications
• Initiated major migration project for SCCM 2007 to 2012. Over 27,000+ clients deployed all across the globe, covering APAC, EMEA, USAE and USAW regions
• Redesigned large and complex Active Directory structure (over 80 sites), GPOs and WSUS update procedure to proper fit the current business needs
• Provided Autodesk with expert options on new and emerging technologies like VDI and Oracle Xsigo
• Led large scale VMware upgrade project with over 5,000 VM servers, 10 vCenters and 600 ESX Hosts

Toronto, Canada Area

• Integrated “Arizona AFO” network to our head office domain, migrated Active Directory users accounts, Exchange mailboxes, Security groups, GPOs, Print Servers, Network mappings and Folder Redirection for user's.
• Migrated VMware vSphere 4 Infrastructure to vSphere 5 High Availability clusters, upgrading ESX hosts,datastores from VMFS 3 to VMFS 5
• Replaced Dell Equalogic ISCSI and RS16 SAN with NetAPP FAS2448 Fibre Channel SAN 8 Gbps per port. Use Brocade HBA, Brocade FC Switches 300
• Implemented cost effective storage efficiency features from NetApp’s SAN as Data Deduplication and Compression
• Designed, deployed and managed Microsoft Windows servers, Microsoft Exchange Servers, DNS, DHCP and SQL instances
• Maintained FreePBX with only SIP trunks for inbound/outbound, iSymphony, Call Center Stats from Asternic. AASTRA 6757i Voice over IP Phones

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Design, plan and document network and server implementation for businesses
• Install and configure WatchGuard XTM 510 Security Appliance, configure firewall policies and rules.
• Work with Dell Power Edge Servers, PERC 6/i RAID Controllers and Dell Open Manage
• Install, configure TZ210 & TZ180, TZ150 Sonic Wall security appliances firewalls
• Install, configure, test and maintain Windows SBS 2008 with Exchange 2007.
• Install and configure Dell Power Connect Network Switches 2824, 2848, 6248, 2724P series.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Plan and implement virtualization for 50 Windows physical servers with VMware VSphere 4
• Virtualize Windows 2003 & 2008 R2 DC, Exchange 2003 & 2007, Linux, SharePoint's servers
• Generate and analyze weekly reports on virtualization infrastructure performance
• Excellent experience and knowledge with designing installing and implementing VMware VSphere, VMware ESX server, VMware Virtual Center, setting up V-Motion, HA Clustering, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM.
• VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines
• Experience of fiber channel SAN NETAPP FAS3020, work with SANs in VMware environments and troubleshooting SAN related issues