Mike Botha Email & Phone Number

South Africa

The Infrastructure Engineering team that I am a member of has a team of three Senior Engineers. We provide architectural best practice, engineering solutions and technical thought leadership for our Companies Service Provider network.The core function is to provide stability of our National and International Cisco MPLS VPN backbone, ISP peering and Regional Metro Ethernet networks. In addition to my core function I am often used as a solution architect for larger Enterprise level customer networks and transition projects.

South Africa

Worked as a Network Solution Architect on various integration and expansion projects.Linux system administration and various auto Network management implementations

Onsite Network Engineer at General Motors South Africa Motor Manufactoring Plant.Openview Network AdministrationCiscoWorks AdministrationCheckPoint Firewall AdministrationLinux System administrationCisco LAN Network Support and Architecture designCisco Wireless Support and design

Cisco SMB Network consultant.

UNIX Network Management and related network management applications with more than 4000 end users in 98 offices throughout the Southern Cape. Scope of position is expansive and includes needs analysis, design, installation, implementation, support and troubleshooting:• LAN/WAN Network Services • High Level Desktop Support• UNIX Systems Administration • Network Management Applications• LINUX System/Web Administration• Openview System Administration • External Company Networks• Cisco Works System AdministrationDuties included consultations with private companies outside our organisation as a backup to our marketing team to secure contracts. Capture the convergence of Voice, Data and Video onto one IP Network and Managed Customer Networks market segment.Key Projects & Achievements: • Team lead and SME for various Telkom South Africa projects involving complex network re-design initiatives.• Team leader of a project to replace all older technology LAN hubs with state-of-the-art Cisco Catalyst Switching technologies throughout the network infrastructure under my control (368 devices) and resolving compatibility and connectivity issues which arose after the upgrade – Completed project 2 months ahead of schedule• Design, strategy planning and implementation of a project to change IP addresses of 1500+ workstations with total transparency to the end user and without affecting business.• Implemented open source software solutions and designed network monitoring/trending web server solution to supplement vendor supplied monitoring software (Nethealth).• Through redundant design configuration and effective network management strategies are able to provide a 24x7x365 network availability service level of 99.98%.• Installed, configure and maintain Cisco Works 2000 management software for inventory management, configuration management, software distribution, user tracking and proactive network device failure identification.