Jignesh Rathod Email & Phone Number

Auckland, Nz

Glenbrook, Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland

• Perform Server Recovery Exercises for customers to prove recoverability of servers from their backups.• Work on Activations due to an emergency or crisis to recover customers failed servers and services.• Work on Planned Activation with customers to simulate a Disaster Recovery Test at Plan B’s Standby Office facilities to determine if their critical servers, services, and applications can be restored and operational within certain time to meet their Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery preparedness.

Auckland, New Zealand

Operations support and management of SAS IT Datacenter that includes:- Windows Servers, Network and Storage managed services for various clients- VMware virtualised environment and IaaS

Auckland, New Zealand

Production Operations (Sep 2010 - May 2016):• Provide Level 3 production operations services for approximately 1500 Windows servers in support of our regional account by following standard ITIL framework for Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management.• Technical lead for the DNS service and Proxy Access Configuration (PAC) file management.Integration Engineering (Dec 2003 - Sep 2010):• Provided Server and Desktop Engineering services i.e. Plan, define, design, build and test solutions in support of our global account by adhering to Global Engineering Quality Management System.• Windows Lead Engineer for Terminal Servers and Alcatel-Lucent Technologies VITALQIP DHCP Servers.• Create “Installation and Delivery” procedures for SCCM deployment of software driver version upgrades, OS service packs, Microsoft hot fixes and monthly security patches.

Auckland, New Zealand

Systems Engineer for Windows and Unix based turn-key solutions.These are some of the projects that I participated and completed successful:• Hastings Public Library, Hastings – Transformed existing proprietary Library system to Windows Server with TCP/IP network based Library system. On-site installation and configuration of servers in Hastings and connected Havelock North and Flaxmere branches via ISDN with Cisco routers.• Fiji Electricity Authority, Fiji Islands – Migrated their proprietary system (Y2K non-compliant) to Windows servers running UNIVERSE DBMS and Trained End users. Installed and configured SonicWALL Firewall appliance.• Rarotonga Electricity Authority, Cook Islands – Onsite configuration and Integration of Compaq Windows NT application server, Workstation PCs and Peripherals to co-exist with their Novell Netware LAN.• Dunedin Electricity, Dunedin - Upgraded Motorola UNIX server to DEC Alpha UNIX server by on-site installation and migration of application/data to the new server and configuration of Ethernet/RS232 Terminal server devices.