Systems Administrator
Tmc-Yellow Pages Group
North York, On, Canada
TMC-Yellow Pages Group is Ontario’s largest publisher of classified advertising and web sites. Principally specialized in automotive and real estate advertising, TMC has 65 print publications including AutoTrader, as well as Renters News, Resale Homes and New Homes & Condos. It also hosts eight web sites including www.Autotrader.ca. Duties:Being part of the infrastructure team which included 5 Systems Administrators, my duties were to administer and support network infrastructure, design and implement VLAN, WLAN security design and implementation; planning and managing a verity of projects, Telecom and VOIP troubleshooting, install, configure and troubleshoot Windows 2003, Active Directory, MS SQL, MS Exchange 2003, MS ISA 2004, Windows Clustering, Disaster Recovery planning, SLAs, and build book documentation; monitor and manage servers performance, provide shift based 24/7 systems support for over 256 servers.Analyzed network bottlenecks, prepared upgrade plan, Re-designed network paths, Implemented a parallel network, moved sections gradually, and documented the performance. Results: Seamless migration of 1017 users connected to 256 servers over 5 adjacent buildings to new network, 30% increase in production speed, eliminated all network congestion problems. 30 – 40 % faster bandwidth for intensive processes like sever back ups. Eliminated single point of failures. Selected as the project of the year for I.T and presented to the company president. implemented WLAN and monitored performance. Results: Boardrooms equipped with state of the art secure and flexible WLAN units. Led the development and documentation of a series of disaster recovery plans for network infrastructure, multiple site – to – site connections, MS Windows A.D, MS Exchange, MS SQL, MS ISA, data and systems backup. Results: Single point of failure elimination, high availability environments, and very low recovery time latency.