Qorus is a Microsoft Software development House that specializes in document automation solutions. Key products are hosted on Public Cloud SharePoint farms across the globe using Virtual Servers on Azure.IT Responsibilities Include: (Hands on)- Staff management - small team of 2 systems engineers- Management and maintenance of all IT infrastructure- Develop and improve the architecture, functionality, and operational performance of all IT systems.- IT Project Management- Monitoring, control and measurement of services to meet customer SLAs, - Capacity Management and strategic planning.- Disaster recovery / Business continuity- Incident and problem management, Change control.- Supplier Management and Procurement,- Budget ControlSecurity Manager Responsibilities: (Hands on)- Develop, document and implement Policies and Procedures based on ISO27001- Complete customer security assessments / RFP's for new prospects.- Constantly assess and evaluate security posture and make recommendations to management- Provide security Training to staff and contractors- Perform internal audits based on ISO27001- Risk Management, Incident Management and Response and Disaster Recovery- Patch and Vulnerability Management- Security monitoring and alertingKey Projects and Achievements:- Design, build and manage 3 Multi Tenant SharePoint farms using Azure data centers across the globe. - HA and DR design and management for these solutions at 30 minutes PTO / RPO using globally dispersed SQL Always On availability clusters.- Migrate entire user base to new farms- Implement Centralized log correlation using a global Splunk deployment to all data centers.- Implement low cost Vulnerability assessment infrastructure using OSSEC and OpenVAS.- Design and implement processes to comply with customer demands for improved security.- Implement patch management program to patch all systems from Dev through production within 30 days.

IT Department restructuring saw the split of Operations and Infrastructure.Infrastructure Manager responsibilities:- All IT hardware for the Datacash group (6 International offices, 5 Datacenters) including:- Networking (LAN, WAN, VOIP)- Servers and Storage (HP, EMC)- Security (Perimeter, IDP, DDoS, SSL VPN, Bluecoat)- Datacenter facilities management- Budgeting and Procurement - Supplier management- Capacity and Lifecycle Management- Licensing management for all non-propriatary software- Corporate services for the Group (Exchange, Lync, Sharepoint, Cisco Telephony)- Desktop support- PCI Compliance Including Vulnerability and Patch management- Staff management: 3 teams - Service Desk, Infrastructure and Networking totalling 13 staff.Key Projects:- Group wide Windows7 upgrade- Duplicating production datacenter in CPT as stress test- 5 Successful PCI Audits- HA Database re-design- Data-center migration- Multiple acquisitions and mergers- 3 Office moves

Same responsibilities as previous role as Websystems Admin with the addition of:- Team lead 3 members- Architect responsibilities in High Availability design and implementation- eCogra complianceKey Projects- Several UK trips for hardware upgrades- Production Datacenter migration - redesign of solution architecture, load balancing and HA- Office + Datacenter Migration - Moved offices from Seapoint to Century city - 6 racks - 12hr pick and place.

- Responsible for all hosted systems hardware and software- Custodians for all code deploys to staging and production environment- High availability maintenance, MS failover clustering- Network load balancing on Cisco platforms- Network security Cisco PIX- Windows updates, AV and Vulnerability management- Troubleshooting applications and performance issues on IIS- 24x7 Monitoring and Support (Standby)- DNS and SSL certificate admin- Hardware and software lifecycle admin and licensing

- Relocated to CPT and started as support engineer- Basic Wintel support roles. Exchange, filer etc- Network Management - LAN, Frame relay WAN, dial up ISDN support.- Server support - Hardware maintenance- Postillion Software - Basic understanding and server support / resource management.- Completed MCSE Win2000- Reason for leaving: Retrenched after restructuring

-Approached to set up and manage a small internet service provider.-Setting up a SAIX ISP from the ground up.-Equipment procured, installed and configured: 1X Cisco 1601 router, 2 x 64K Diginet lines, 2 x Lucent Portmaster 2Ers with built in routers, 13 x 4-wire analogue leased lines connected to either Linux servers or Windows NT4 WAN server solutions, 2 Linux servers (respectively running mail, web, FTP and database services), 4 Windows NT servers running IIS4, Activeperl and FTP services.-Hosting ~ 50 web sites including several credit card enabled e-commerce sites. Several of the sites have their products hosted on database using either MS SQL server, MySQL for Linux or MS Access with Perl through ODBC.-Developing programming skills using VBScript, Javascript and Perl.-Scripting for all e-commerce solutions.-Developing Linux skills to include complicated wide area network routing and network monitoring.-Reason for leaving: Business liquidated due to withdrawal of financial backer.

-Administration of dial up Internet users.-Installing and managing wide area network connections.-Hardware maintenance.-Internet installations.-Providing telephonic support.-Linux based Internet services including DNS resolution, web and mail server operation. FTP servers etc-Wide area networking and corporate Internet connectivity. -Sites varied from small five-user Novell networks to larger sites running from MS Windows NT and Windows 95 front-ends on up to 70 computers.- Apart from gaining experience in a wide variety of software packages, gaining exposure to several different backup architectures became possible.-Gaining experience in accounting software and the latest technology.

- Starting with average computer literacy I progressed to a competent level as a hardware and software technician.- Acquiring knowledge on an extensive range of software as well as hardware products.- Familiarizing myself with several network architectures and software environments.

My employer at ESC needed an alternate source of income to supplement his Electronics R&D work so he started an electronics spares retail section that would source spares from Johannesburg and retail them in the Vaal triangle.I was responsible for all aspects of this division. I sourced, quoted, collected, invoiced and delivered electronic spares to several manufacturing companies in the area.Excellent exposure to the internal workings of a small business.