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Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

• Engage with clients to understand business requirements and recommend technology solutions to solve process difficulties• Plan and implement infrastructure projects from initial proposal to deliverables • Assist clients with system lifecycle planning and provide long-term infrastructure goals• Simplify corporate networks, servers, and storage as much as possible to reduce management costs and distill infrastructure to core business needs• Identify system bottlenecks and provide solutions to correct the issue• Understand network security requirements for customers and propose solutions to meet their business requirements as well as current global threats• Review disaster recovery and business continuity strategies• Provide stakeholders and end users with an understanding of solutions to their technology needs in plain English

Mississauga, Ontario

• Provide infrastructure expertise, direction, assistance and support• Mandate corporate policies regarding the location, safety and security of servers, user equipment and intellectual property (IP) Designing and documenting standard disaster recovery (DR) plan to be followed by technical and non-technical staff• Successfully consolidated 15 physical servers onto three servers running VMware vSphere. This implementation saves our company $20,000/year in cooling and hardware costs.• Manage relations with vendors and suppliers• Plan lifecycle of all server, network appliances and end user equipment. This includes SAN environment, servers, network switches, and server room environment control• Project planning with detailed implementation for fiscal year and ensuring the project scope is scheduled in manageable components• Manage all network functions, including DNS, Active Directory, DHCP, GPO´s, and Exchange 2003/2010• Planned and deployed Microsoft Active Directory domain• Implement full VMware infrastructure to facilitate disaster recovery plan and to manage network growth. • Deployed Microsoft Exchange 2010 and migrated all users to new e-mail system• Migrated staff to Wyse thin clients to reduce helpdesk support costs• Compose monthly IT manager reports and statistics for review by CEO• Train, mentor and supervise IT staff on helpdesk support procedures

Diploma, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

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