Stephan Steenkamp Email & Phone Number

Rotterdam, Zh, Nl

Netherlands

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Responsible for infrastructure in 8+ countries across Africa.Manage +- 8 Subordinates.User base +- 1300.Talent and performance management of the team.Contribution to the formulation and maintenance of the IT Infrastructure Plan.Infrastructure components monitoring, maintenance and management (servers, network infrastructure, telephony systems).Talent and performance management of the team.Manage Infrastructure Projects pipeline to deliver projects on time and in scope.Stakeholder Management to coordinate the use of external resources and to partner with business leaders to integrate IT infrastructure plans with IT requirements.Contribution to the formulation and maintenance of the IT Infrastructure Plan.Ensure monitoring of IT infrastructure components (servers, network infrastructure, telephony systems).Manage the enterprise's IT Infrastructure organization, consisting of direct reports and indirect reports (such as individuals in desktop support and IT engineering); including hiring, training, staff development, performance management and annual performance review.Work with business and other IT infrastructure stakeholders to understand and determine the needs of the IT business and infrastructure requirements.Coordinate IT infrastructure projects with resources from the IT organization and business unit teams.Advise EXCO and Senior Management on client applications and technology initiatives.Coordinate the use of external resources involved in IT infrastructure programs, including, but not limited to, interviewing, negotiating contracts and fees, and managing external resources.Implementation of Infrastructure DR plans and procedures to ensure that business-critical services are recovered in the event of a disaster, and provide direction, support and in-house consulting in these areas.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Manage +- 25 Subordinates (reporting via a team of 3 other managers).Responsible for managing overall IT day to day operations to improve infrastructure costs, performance and end user satisfaction.Provide leadership in planning and managing computer operations and production support, systems and database administration and network operations.Ensure system performance and SLA's are met.Manage IT resource requirements to ensure appropriate balance between tactical and strategic demands.Implement IT continuous improvement programs.Manage strategic relationships with key IT product and service providers.Provide in depth technical expertise for both tactical and operational initiatives.Provision in close cooperation with third party service provider an IT infrastructure that is suitable for the group to access and use their business applications.Assess the relative impact of IT industry trends to current and future enterprise infrastructure needs and projects.Interface with business unit managers to define infrastructure support initiatives and solutions for improving service efficiency and effectiveness.Analyse and predict trends and develop long range plans designed to maintain cost effectiveness.Participate in IT strategy planning activities.Develop the reporting for vendor performance in areas that include quality, capacity, systems and responsiveness.Ensure the infrastructure team is mitigating, monitoring and managing infrastructure related risks.Work closely with project team members line managers for time allocation and prioritization.Manages a dynamic team of individuals, constantly searching for creative ways to elevate the capabilities of technology systems to meet business needs.

Sandton

Manage +- 6 SubordinatesTranslate IT Strategic direction and policy directives into detailed execution plansManage IT projects in line with specificationsDevelop, implement, maintain and monitor the firm’s infrastructure platform to ensure that technical hardware and software systems (i.e. operating systems, databases, networking, and applications software) are configured, installed, updated, maintained and operating efficiently. This includes: Planning, implementing and monitoring information technology conversions and upgradesAdministering WAN, LAN and SAN operationsMaintaining and optimising the telecommunications systems and operationsManaging, optimising and controlling the firm’s serversImplementing a sound security platform for the firm ensuring that security safeguards such as firewalls, anti-virus software and spam filters are correctly installed and updated on a regular basisOverseeing the maintenance, optimisation and utilisation of all firm-wide databases and document management systemsImplementing and managing the running and storage of daily systems back-ups in line with compliance policiesSetting up user remote access capability for staffMaintaining, repairing, upgrading and replacing hardware when necessaryEnsuring that critical services are monitored and acted on in accordance with set SLAs.Overseeing the maintenance, optimisation and utilisation of all firm-wide Enterprise Content Management and Business Processes Management

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Lead a team of highly technical resources.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Key Vmware Resource on a new virtualization project consisting of 3 sites 11 hosts and 110 virtual machines.Design, Architect and Implement entire Virtualization solution for the above project.Design , Architect DMZ virtualization solution. Intimate knowledge of HP EVA Storage solution and its relation to VirtualizationDeploy and upgrade ESX3.5 ESX4.0 and ESXI 4.1Troubleshoot Virtualization performance issues.Make use of Vmware Update Manager, Vmware Converter, Vmware HA and Vmware DRS

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Look after an environment running various applications for a user base of 700Network Administrator for JHB and Cape Town branchExchange 2007 Administration and ConfigurationActive Directory Setup administration and Configuration.Advanced 3rd Line supportRight fax administrationWrite and implement IT security policy and acceptable use policy.Responsible for McAfee antivirusResponsible for Microsoft SUS 3.0 patchingGPO administrationDNS, DHCP administrationResponsible for overall InfoSec strategy of IT and dealing with vendors in that regard.Server support on Dell infrastructureSupport on various applications relating to LAW industry: Hortors, ButterworthsScope and implement server monitoring solutionNetwork architecture for new Cape Town branch.Assist with planning and complete server migration to virtualized blade environment.Redeploy entire environment onto Microsoft Windows server 2008 as part of above projectConfigure and Administer HP EVA Storage solution.Configure and Administer ProLiant BL460c G5 and Proliant BL 680 Blade serversInstall and configure VMware Infrastructure.3rd line support for Filesite Document management solutionConfigure and deploy Microsoft Windows 2008 terminal server and TS web gatewayDraft and implement backup strategy for new environment. Install, configure, and maintain Websense Security Gateway for internet filteringEnterprise support for various other applications including: Elite, Zantas EAS email archiving, Server EP, Jutastat.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Support and Administer Exchange 2003Support and Administer Active DirectoryScope and implement GPO’s specifically related to security.Responsible for Patch Management for workstations and servers. Responsible for Internet Information server running various websites.Server support on Hp/Compaq based servers3rd Line support on all IT related issuesRotation Based weekend standby supportTeam responsible for 320 Servers running various banking related applications.Solely responsible and accountable for Altiris CMS Solution Including Deployment Server, Notification Server and Inventory managementLiaison between Security and Microsoft support teams

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Support on : Microsoft Office XP /2003, Aris , AS400 , Business Objects , Shairs , Standard Bank Cats, Rigthfax, AWD , Fiscus , IMS4, Microsoft Visio , Microsoft Project, Acrobat Writer, Sillica , Deimos, Quintas and General desktop support issues.Responsible for the successful rollout of Onebridge technology to P900 Cell phones to allow remote synchronization of email.Support on Palm, Symbian and Windows CE pda’s.Responsible for Linux FTP server that is used by Antivirus for Antivirus updatesGeneral hardware troubleshooting on HP Desktops.Configuration of new printers on windows 2000 print server.General support on HP and Nashua printers.Support on LBE call logging system running Microsoft IISKey resource in Testing and Rollout of Blackberry and Microsoft Active Sync to compatible devices.Solely responsible and accountable for Altiris CMS Solution Including Deployment Server, Notification Server and Inventory management.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Support Linux servers running Samba File sharing, Cups Printing, Squid internet proxy server, Checkpoint-1 Firewall and Email gateway.Experience with Red hat , Suse, Mandrake and OpenBSD Linux distributionsScoped and implemented domain wide Linux printing solutionDomain Administrator on NT4 and Windows 2000 Domains.Mail administrator on Exchange 5.5 Set up and troubleshoot Cisco and 3com switches“Patching” of network points and moving them into pre assigned V-LansImplementation and Administration of Symantec antivirus solution.Server Hardware supportGeneral Server support (Raid5 arrays , install and configure windows 2000 server, Backup solution)Responsible for Internet Information server running various websites.Responsible for training staff on Linux.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Responsible for running nightly extract of data from Oracle to SQLResponsible for general system reliability and stabilitySupport on server hardware running nightly extracts.Support on Microsoft Terminal Server and in-house application running on it.Responsible for training new operatorsResponsible for setting up new Funds on Terminal server.Setup and tuning of IIS server.Setup and tuning of SQL database server

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Install and Support Full Microsoft Office suiteInstall printers and maintain Windows Print serverBuild Desktops from components and install additional add-on cardsGeneral Software Fault Finding and SupportSupport on various in house financial applications.RAS Dial up.

Mcitp Ea

Matric

Altiris Notification Server,Altiris Deployment Server

Itil Foundation

Microsoft Operation Framework Essentials

Red Hat Certified Engineer

Vmware Certified Professional 3.5

Vmware Certified Professional 4.0