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Sweden, Stockholm, Se

Birkirkara, Mt

Balluta, St Julian’S, Malta, Mt

Balluta, St Julian’S, Malta, Mt

Balluta, St Julian’S, Malta, Mt

• Identifying any issues/weaknesses in production environments in order to deliver solutions• Working with different teams, identifying requirements, to provide solutions• Performing capacity planning in order to handle growing production environments• Find and test new infrastructure to improve operations• Automate recurring processes where possible• Prevention being better than cure, enhancing monitoring as far as possible• Liaising with 3rd party vendors and suppliers• Optimizing team communications to facilitate collaboration, resulting in improved and increased output• Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) together with the relevant testing

Gzira, Mt

Oversaw IT Operations covering both Internal IT as well as well as our customer facing systems. • Working with a mix of open source and proprietary applications• Design and deployment of HA setups• Automated recurring processes with various scripts• Debugging and investigation of issues to find the root cause, in order to address accordingly• Monitoring of server hardware, networking and applications• Installation, configuration and maintenance of servers and networking

Responsible for the day-to-day running of the company’s client-facing infrastructure, as well as managing improvement and migration projects. One of the company’s main activities is SMS routing, and this involves interconnection with a number of sites, clients as well as service providers. The setup consists of multiple high-availability installations, mainly running on Linux servers. The servers are made up of a mix of both physical as well as virtual machines, with a MySQL backend.

Uppsala, Se

Responsible for the life cycle of project delivery of client installations as well as the on-going support and maintenance. The delivery project involves understanding client requirements together with the setup in place, in order to understand how our products can integrate with a client's system. This then moves on to the actual installation, testing and integration with client's systems, finishing off with the hand over of the installation. Such systems are made up from a number of components, including physical and virtual servers, high-availability databases, clustered applications, networking equipment other than the actual applications making use of the supporting systems.Technologies used include Linux Servers, MySQL Databases, VMWare, Dell Servers and Storage Systems and Cisco/Juniper/Dell Networking among others.

Basingstoke, Hampshire, Gb

Engaged on the technical implementation of the Malta eID and eResidence project as well as being involved in the on-going maintenance of the ePassport and biovisa projects.Duties include:• In-depth planning of the overall technical implementation, together with allocation of required resources.• Installation and configuration of firewalls, switches, load balancers, servers, SANs, Fibre Channel Switches.• Configuration of systems following a change management process in line with ITIL practices.• Technical documentation of system architecture, security implementations and backup strategy among others.• Documentation and implementation of high-availability fail-over testing.Further information can be provided upon request.

Austin, Tx, Us

Providing pre-sales assistance by answering technical queries, providing support as well as web demos. I was also responsible for training of the inside sales team as well as technical training for resellers and distributors.

Austin, Tx, Us

Day to day running of the technical support department in Malta, managing a team of 10 Technical Support Representatives dealing with customers world-wide helping out with issues with any of the GFI products, ranging from answering queries about the capabilities of the products and configuration to analysing of logs and remote connections to client servers.

London, Gb

Running the department consisting of IT Manager, IT Executive and 2 IT Officers. Working on an Active Directory network consisting of file server, mail server, interface server, application servers, database servers, payment gateways, satellite Internet connection, leased line, various proxies & routers, firewalls, Point-of-Sales, and over 100 client computers.

Valletta, Mt

Working on an Active Directory network consisting of file server, mail server and database server as well as 45 clients. Servers running on Windows 2003 Small Business Server and Windows 2000 Server, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint as well as SQL.