• Appointed with any operational implementations and deployments regarding new apps and products to be added in the environment and integrate with the current infrastructure setup.
• One of the best roles ever had, as i was designated to implement new applications which I never heard before and I had to do my own research and upskill - which suited me perfectly.
• Involved in big environments migrations from On Premises to IBM Cloud - very challenging as IBM Cloud being relatively a new player in CLoud services and many things had to be developed together with IBMs Cloud team.
• VM Ware vCenter (7.0 onwards) on prem to be interconnected with similar products in other geographical locations for moving the VMs back and forth
• Hyper V based environments - deployment and migrations
• Was also part of projects that involved databases Backup and restore / config - MsSQL / InfluxDB
• Active Directory operations together with Azure AD Connect - Sync + migrate ADFS services from on prem to Azure CLoud
• Applications i had to implement:
• VOIP - Mitel Solution
• Grafana
• Guacamole
• Graylog
• Prometheus
• Telegraf
• InfluxDB
• ElasticSearch
• OpenSearch
• Windows Remote Desktop Services (deploy servers + configure the published apps)
• Microsoft SQL
• Checkpoint
• WSUS
• Endpoint manager McAfee / Checkpoint / Symantec

• Migration of ESX hosts on prem / different locations
• Deploy and configure Windows Serve VMs .
• ACTIVE DIRECTORY ? Performing daily operations and creating / updating GPOs according
• Azure AD Connect- configuration with ADFS on prem
• Azure VDI environment config.
• VM Ware Hypervisors config / clustering / config
• AD migrations ? from on prem ? to another on prem
• Google cloud VMs deployment
• Linux VM configure and deploy

• Managing the infrastructure environment, VM WARE, together with storage.
• Over 20 ESX hosts and over 340 Virtual Machines.
• Creating and optimizing templates, HA, DRS, OS + apps clustering, etc.
• At OS level, managing Linux servers and Windows 2008, 2012,2016 servers in different configurations and roles (TS, MsSQL, WSUS, etc)
• ACTIVE DIRECTORY ? Performing daily operations and creating / updating GPOs according to client?s needs, constantly updating the policies as per the NATO security bulletins ? in the same time taking in stake the client?s needs and environment setup
• SCCM ? managing and deploying packages of new apps, updating the already existing apps, creating Windows 10 or Windows 7 image set up to be available for the Helpdesk for deployment of new machines, creating task Sequence
• WSUS? patching all the servers in the environment
• KMS ? windows activation service within the whole environment: clients /servers
• McAfee ? Antivirus Platform
• NETWORKING ? at OS and Virtual Environment configuration level, very light config in NSX

• Managing the infrastructure environment, VM WARE, together with storage.
• Over 20 ESX hosts and over 340 Virtual Machines.
• Creating and optimizing templates, HA, DRS, OS + apps clustering, etc.
• At OS level, managing Linux servers and Windows 2008, 2012,2016 servers in different configurations and roles (TS, MsSQL, WSUS, etc)
• AZURE ? managing the infrastructure, as IAAS, all the machines and servers were under our responsibility to create, configure, set-up, as well as for the Storage.
• Creating Windows Server / RedHAT VMs and configuring accordingly to the clients needs, integrating it in the environment, Networking and Storage assign.
• Creating Managed Storage to add extra VHD for theVM that required it and so on.
• Creating and configuring MsSQL database servers and configuring it accordingly as per the client to only get a log in for the DB side (SaaS) and not the whole server itself.
• ACTIVE DIRECTORY ? Performing daily operations and creating / updating GPOs according to client?s needs, constantly updating the policies as per the NATO security bulletins ? in the same time taking in stake the client?s needs and environment setup
• SCCM ? managing and deploying packages of new apps, updating the already existing apps, creating Windows 10 or Windows 7 image set up to be available for the Helpdesk for deployment of new machines, creating task Sequence
• WSUS / KMS ? patching all the servers in the environment
• SOPHOS ? Antivirus Platform
• NETWORKING ? at OS and Virtual Environment configuration level.
• EXCHANGE ? performing basic and day to day operations (migrating user?s e-mailboxes, importing PSTs, changing Databases in case of Extended e-mailboxes, etc)

As Lead:

As technical:

• Managing the infrastructure environment, VM WARE 6.0 based, together with storage.
• Creating and optimizing templates, HA, DRS, OS + apps clustering, etc.
• At OS level, managing Linux servers and Windows 2012 servers in different configurations and roles (TS, MsSQL, WSUS, etc)
• QRADAR: Installing and configuring in production environments.
• Symantec PGP: encryption of the on premises working stations (windows 7, 10, Linux)
• IBM IAM (Identity Access management system) ? administrating

• On premises Cloud Engineer
• Dealing with on premises infrastructure, bare metal servers (Esx), OS (Windows Server, RHEL), networking.
• Office 365 environment maintenance.
• Virtualization VM WARE environment ? creating VMs, creating templates, deploying new projects within existing production environments.
• Migrating physical machines into virtual.
• Configuring ESX hosts for different kind of environmental needs (DRS rules)
• Managing storage LUNs
• Migration
• Usually from premises to Cloud insuring minimum downtime and up versioning.
• Migrating Windows 7 machines to Windows 8, Rhel 5 to rhel 6, Upversioning MS OFFICE from 2007 to 2012, Upgrading Windows server 2003 and 2008 to Winows Server 2012 r2.
• ACTIVE DIRECTORY ? tasks regarding the whole domain management and consistency checks, also continuously working on GPOs to improve the hardening and the company needs.
• SCCM ? Deploying packages and creating Windows Client 7 image and deploy
• configuration via PXE
• WDS ? deploying new Win 7 clients
• WSUS ? managing the patching

• Being part in of one of the most important projects I ever got involved with.
• Creating a virtual environment of over 400 machines and then migrating from legacy to the new created environment.
• Configuring SUN servers from bare metal to ESX, using SUN Integrated Lights Out Management.
• Hypervisor (ESX 5.5) configuration, Clustering, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Fault Tolerance, VM WARE ? patching hosts, migrating ESX 5.0 to 6.0, managing the virtual environment as a whole (VMs, DRS config LUNs etc).
• VB scripting and batch scripting for solving various Active Directory tasks.
• Configuring WINDOWS SERVER 2012 as:
• Exchange 2013
• ACTIVE DIRECTORY - (LAPS, GPO, DNS, DHCP)
• WSUS ? patching
• WDS ? deploying Win clients
• SCCM ? deploying packages, updating apps versioning
• License Server, Print Server, Antivirus Server, Remote App for Thin Clients and Fat Clients.
• Up versioning, migrating servers from the old virtual environment into the new environment with as little downtime possible

• Higher responsibility regarding the production environment servers, coordinating the patching activities and security solutions, client?s specific production related software. 
• Security and audit policies of Windows based servers (2003, 2008), VM Ware environment.
  • Complementary software troubleshoot and install (CYGWIN, McAfee, SAV)
  • VM Ware - patching hosts / VMs
  • Windows Security & patching, keeping up to date with Microsoft latest security releases(Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows XP, Vista, 7)
  • ?Symantec PGP: encryption
• Description: Being part of SAP team and directly designated to manage the SAP servers maintenance.
• Patching the servers regarding the security policies applied. Managing the backups via the Tivoli StorageManager and also locally with System State.
• Managing the free space on servers so the SAP applications to run smooth and without warnings in the monitoring system.
• VM Ware environment management (VMs, LUNs, Networking, Templates, migration)
• ACTIVE DIRECTORY ( Users management,GPO, DNS, DHCP)
• WSUS ? Patching
• Troubleshooting software as issues occur.
• Installing and troubleshooting Cygwin, managing the Symantec and McAfee servers and clients.

Security and audit policies of Windows based servers (NT, 2000, 2003,2008), security patching , backup plans and virus prevention and cleaning, various troubleshooting, VM Ware environment. Dealing with servers? compliance to the security policies applied, each customer has certain levels of restrictive policies (ITCS 104, GSD 331), solving security deviations according to these policies.

• VM Ware
  • ESXi vSphere 5 server install
  • adding new VMs to the ESX servers
  • Switches and networking configure
  • cloning
  • Cluster install, HA, DRS, FT
  • vMotion, OVF deploy
  • creating data stores
  • configuring HBAs for SAN data store connection,
  • Backup & restore (VM Ware Data Recovery)
  • host / storage profiles configure and apply.
  • patching hosts / VMs
• SAN ? configuring Open Filer and Star Wind SAN types (creating LUNs and iSCSI targeting)
• Hyper-V
• Windows Security & patching, keeping up to date with Microsoft latest security releases(Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows XP, Vista, 7)
• Active Directory (Forests and also single Domain Controllers, Group Policies, Users admin, File servers, DNS)
• Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance
• MS-SQL
• Clusters
• Installing operating systems
• Root cause analyzing
• Troubleshooting software applications on workstations.
• Security error detection and prevention
• CITRIX
• BMC Remedy

Organizing the tasks and resources in a 7 member team of professionals. Planning and developing projects for each client and managing resources. Responsibilities, experiences, and projects included:

• IT maintenance & troubleshooting hardware & OS + software
• NETWOKING: -Designing the network considering the client?s needs and coordinating the tasks such as the deadline not to be in overdue.
• Backup solutions
• E-mail
• Maintenance of the client?s websites, which included:
• Web hosting
• Databases
• Web design
• Linux based workstations maintenance (medium skill)
• Databases (relational databases) troubleshooting -mostly in ACCESS but SQL also.