Managed service level agreements and vendor relationships.Managed a team of Systems and network administrators to ensure servers and network availability for applications and internal users.Promoted healthy work relationship among team members by encouraging healthy competition.Built customer confidence by providing 99% systems and network availability.Improved customer trust by delivery excellent QA testing on all internal and commercial applications developed locally or acquired.Improved the company's ROI via engaging new and improved technologies to reduce cost on infrastructure.Attended management and stakeholders meetings to understand and contribute to product development initiatives.

•Develop and promote standard operating procedures, document the environment and procedures as they change .•Install configure and administer operating systems UNIX and WINDOWS•Manage network configurations on servers and workstations•Administer storage including formatting and provisioning of LUNs,SAN management as well as resolve storage related issues.•Install Database and assist to resolve SQL issues on the application layer.•Deploy and manage enterprise solutions like MS Exchange,MS AD, etc to enhance company productivity.

Storage and Backup Engineer for MTN Nigeria 2009-2014• Ensure that all backups are configured, monitored and performing to world class benchmarks.• Monitor the SAN Storage and UNIX/LINUX/WINDOWS operating systems logs and provides appropriate action to resolve the problem. E.g. Logging the calls with Symantec/EMC/Oracle• Provide technical direction and vision of Operating systems technologies in relation to Efficient storage and Backups.• Effective allocation/reclamation of LUNs from various storage platforms and arrays including HDS, EMC, and SUN storages.• Ensure 95% Backup completion rate and storage LUNs stability.• Support and promote good governance and change control policies from storage and Backup perspective• Ensure underlining operating systems are up to date and have all the latest service packs, patches and critical updates.• Creating and maintaining an operations handbook for frequently performed tasks.• Perform, tuning and monitoring of backup’s statistics.• Perform and audit Disaster Recovery tests.• Perform Symantec Netbackup upgrades and relevant patches (currently operating version 7.5.0.6).• Perform backup to EMC Data Domain.• Perform EMC Avamar backups and reporting via EMC DPA.• Installation, configuration and administration of backups across all OS platforms (including SQL, Oracle, and mysql database servers, NDMP as well as for Exchange servers.• Ensure backup technology strategies are in place • Analyze backup requests and design appropriate solutions to meet client needs • Monitoring of scheduled backups to ensure success or take remedial action for failures • Provide technical pre-sales leadership and consult with customers.• Manage and maintain RPOs, and RTOs to meet organization’s SLAs • Assist and plan Restores and recovery.• Managing and creating VTL tape libraries, drives and VTL volumes on protected environment.