Experience

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  The Investment Funds Institute of Canada

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • IT Manager / Network Administrator

    • May 2006 - Present
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    • Responsible for general business planning regarding technology and systems required to maintain company operations. Recognizes new developments in information systems technology, and anticipates organizational modifications. Establishes long-term needs for information systems, and plans strategy for developing systems and acquiring hardware to meet application needs. Ensures confidentiality and reliability of corporate data, proprietary information, and intellectual property. • Manages the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of the organization's local area networks, wide area networks and telecommunication systems. Analyzes products and recommends use of new products and services to senior management. Acts as primary organizational interface with vendor and provides internal analysis and support. Manages LAN/WAN performance and security. Establishes and implements technical priorities, standards, policies and procedures for LAN/WAN usage throughout the organization. Ensures sufficient systems capacity for organizational needs.• Manages disaster recovery functions for information systems. Arranges and administers security measures to restrict unauthorized use of data systems and databases. Coordinates any security investigations and executes preventive measures. Organizes off-site storage necessary for recovery processes, and oversees development of recovery procedures. Supports organization's departments in planning and implementing security or disaster recovery actions.

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  LABELAD/Sandylion Sticker Design

  • Markham, Ontario

  • Network Administrator

    • Dec 2003 - May 2006
    • Markham, Ontario

    Proven Team Leader and result-oriented:• Administer and support over 22 Servers in a Windows 2003/2000 Active Directory environment including MS Exchange 2003 Server.• Provide leadership to the Helpdesk Team and assist in supporting over 200 Windows XP clients.• Responsible for planning and executing all technical projects. Also responsible for sourcing cost effective technical solutionsProjects:• Design and implement complete MS Exchange 2003 Server solution. Project lead in the migration from First Class E-mail System to Exchange 2003 Server including a Front-End Server, Disaster Recovery, Anti-Virus and Spam solution.• Design and implement a point-to-point wireless bridge network across 2 remote locations.• Design, build and support a File Server for Macintosh users, including a tape backup solution.