Sam Pathirana (Bsc.(Hons), Vcp, Mcse, Mcts) Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Doha, State Of Qatar

• Handled the Systems Infrastructure Operations and leading a diverse Team (virtualization and SAN) of professionals to deliver run the Bank (RTB) operational goals.
• Suggest, Design and Implement changes to the existing infrastructure systems to improve productivity and business continuity of the organization.
• Liaising with vendors, technology partners, principles and suppliers in selecting right solutions for the Bank and negotiating the technical details of those solutions.
• Coordinating with other IT Departments within the Bank and assist them in formulating and fine tuning the various IT Policies and Standards including Information Security Policies.
• Handled the Systems BAU Requests to cater the day to day business requirements and other changes by making configuration changes and perform troubleshooting on the existing Systems. These Systems Include;o VMware.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Designing of a comprehensive Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategy, Policies and Technology Solution for Brandix Lanka Ltd one of the largest business conglomerates and the largest apparel exporter in Sri.
• Designing & Implementation of a Comprehensive Proof of Concept of System center configuration manager 2007 for head office and 21 branches (one primary site, four secondary sites, 13 branch distribution points) for.
• Design and implement Active Directory, Exchange Server, ISA Server, WSUS, Antivirus solution for new Business cluster integration to Brandix.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Key Responsibilities
• Microsoft product implementations for Active directory infrastructure technologies, Email systems, Microsoft security products, vulnerability assessments, Incident response management, Risk management and consultation.
• Implementing projects to migrating and restructuring of Microsoft active directory infrastructure and Microsoft exchange organizations
• Preparation of project proposals for product positioning and infrastructure designing such as Active directory infrastructure solutions, Exchange server deployment, PKI infrastructure and perimeter level security.
• Microsoft disaster recovery planning and high availability (clustering) solution implementation
• Planning and implementation of Microsoft infrastructure optimization (I/O).

Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Designed VLANs, IP subnets and routes.
• Designed and Implemented DHCP, DNS (a split type DNS infrastructure that uses 4 DNS servers) and WINS.
• Designed and implemented the Microsoft “Active Directory” directory services.
• Implemented and configured wide messaging infrastructure. This task included installing and configuring Microsoft Exchange Server with Outlook Web Access (OWA) and Outlook Mobile Access (OMA)
• Installed and configured Microsoft SQL Servers as the Database for the “Integrated Management System” application.
• Implemented Symantec cooperate edition as the Corporate Antivirus solution

B.Sc(Hons), Computing And Information Systems

Higher Diploma, International Advanced Diploma In Computer Studies

Diploma, International Diploma In Computer Studies (Idcs)