Asen Karakolev
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English Full professional proficiency
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Russian Limited working proficiency
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Bulgarian Native or bilingual proficiency
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Shan Nadarajah
Asen was very knowledgeable in his IT field and dedicated worker.
Shan Nadarajah
Asen was very knowledgeable in his IT field and dedicated worker.
Shan Nadarajah
Asen was very knowledgeable in his IT field and dedicated worker.
Shan Nadarajah
Asen was very knowledgeable in his IT field and dedicated worker.
Credentials
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CCNA: Switching, Routing, and Wireless Essentials
CiscoOct, 2020- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Pixotope
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Norway
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Media Production
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1 - 100 Employee
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as a IT Manager at PIXOTOPE
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Feb 2020 - Present
Management and support for large computer network based on CISCO, Microsoft, HP and Apple switches, routers, servers, workstations, printers and business applications. Windows server 2008 / 2012/ 2019 /2021 Troubleshooting and critical performance/ capacity monitoring. HP,Dell,MSI,Apple Servers and Workstations support .Work with Office 365 to deliver computer software and hardware for large enterprise. Work with CISCO software and hardware. Veeam maintains. Google accounts management. Management and support for large computer network based on CISCO, Microsoft, HP and Apple switches, routers, servers, workstations, printers and business applications. Windows server 2008 / 2012/ 2019 /2021 Troubleshooting and critical performance/ capacity monitoring. HP,Dell,MSI,Apple Servers and Workstations support .Work with Office 365 to deliver computer software and hardware for large enterprise. Work with CISCO software and hardware. Veeam maintains. Google accounts management.
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Grammer AD Bulgaria
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Bulgaria
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Automotive
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1 - 100 Employee
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as a Plant IT at GRAMMER AD
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Oct 2014 - Present
Management and support for large computer network based on CISCO, Microsoft, HP and SAP switches, routers, servers, workstations, printers and business applications Administration of Microsoft Exchange Server’s 2010 with activesync for employees Windows server 2008 / 2012 Troubleshooting and critical performance/ capacity monitoring. HP Servers and Workstations support .Work with HP B2B portal and SAP SRM to deliver computer software and hardware for large enterprise. Avaya IP office 500 and large CCTV NDVR systems management and support. Work with CISCO software and hardware. Symantec backup exec 2014 maintains. VMWare vSphere failover management NAS devices management. AD user’s and Group’s support for large amount of users, printers, laptops and workstations. Windows Server 2008 print server management SQL Server 2012 backup and disaster recovery plan implementations. MDF/ ODF fibber optic management for large CISCO VPN hub. CISCO VPN for mobile user’s implementation. Building large new fiber optic ring (12G50/125 OM3 TRQ) at Grammer Plc. Plant, ODF, MDF, IDF installation. Design and create new industrial CAT 6, 7 / OM3 copper and fiber data racks and networking for large production lines and factory administration offices. Implement new industrial WiFi network based on Cisco Aironet 2600 / 2700 Series Access Point and CISCO 2504 wireless controller management and support (encryption, user account, etc ..) Support up to 50 network printers, scanners and plotters with Microsoft print server and HP Jet Direct, install drivers and mange printer jobs for large amount of users. Show less
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TSD Services LTD
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United Kingdom
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as a Application Support Engineer at TSD Services LTD
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May 2014 - Oct 2014
Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing with Windows server 2008 / 2012 Troubleshooting and critical performance/ capacity monitoring. PowerShell and SQL scripting. Implement and support MS SQL 2008 for .NET and ASP business applications backend. Plan and implement backup and disaster recovery plan on server 2008. Server Logon scripting and log monitoring with SolarWinds. Manage and maintain Dell, HP and D-Link servers, computers and networking hardware, Citrix Xenapp management. Cluster administrator and service management in large network maintains and support Citrix application portal administration. CISCO management for switches and routers. Windows Server 2008/20012 root cause analysis in cluster environment. Kerberos and Windows Authentication support. Office 2007-2013, Office 365, Internet Explorer installation and support for end users. VoIP and cellular support Show less
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as a IT Support manager at Sole Coms LTD
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May 2010 - May 2014
24/7 On-Call support and weekly Site/cluster code updates. Technical Support for production servers/workstations, problem determination/resolution. Administration of Windows 2000/2003/XP/7/8 servers and workstations. VMware and VDI virtualization. Support for Linux & Solaris based Web servers. MS Office 2010, Microsoft Office - Microsoft Word, Outlook & Excel 2003/2007 installation and maintains. Administer Windows 2000/2008, IIS, and accounting software database with Windows 7. Implementing VPN for remote access to business applications and resources. Design and implement server 2008 DHCP, DNS, IIS, VPN and AD for new servers. Server 2008, Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing, Problems with windows XP/7 troubleshooting and critical performance/ capacity monitoring. PowerShell and SQL scripting. Implement and support MS SQL 2008 for .NET and ASP business applications backend. Plan and implement backup and disaster recovery plan on server 2008, VB scripting for AD and server tasks. Server Logon scripting and log monitoring. Evaluate and recommend storage, archiving, and disaster recovery solutions. Manage and maintain Dell, HP and D-Link servers, computers and networking hardware, VMware Vsphere 5 support Show less
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Atlas Software Technologies
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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as a Senior Systems Administrator at Atlas Software Technologies
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Feb 2008 - Apr 2010
Network Area Storage Deep Technical Support at a managed services support centre. Net App storage / NAS installation, configuration and support. Cloud infrastructure for virtual desktops, virtual servers and iSCSI storage support. Administer Windows 2003/2008, IIS, and MS CRM databases, Exchange servers. Implementing agents for remote administration. Bare Metal Recovery and Restore. Support networking topology and AD and DNS zone, Cisco switches and firewalls. Server 2008, Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing, Exchange servers. Implement MS SQL 2005/2008, Backup synchronization with large data storage centre. Mange server virtualisation. Setup VMware servers, Astaro Secure Gateway, Shavlik patch management for windows servers; ImageX / Symantec Ghost imaging. Evaluate and recommend NAS storage, archiving, and disaster recovery solutions. Strong daily documentation skills. Design, administration, performance tuning and optimise backup; schedules. Linux and Solaris server’s virtualization and disaster recovery plan implementation; MS Visio; SAN / NAS / DAS Storages support and MS Office 2002/2003/2007. VI Client, P2V and V2P (Virtualization). ConnectWise trouble ticketing system, troubleshoot and resolve issues remotely. MS Cluster support. Lotus Notes support. Project Management (MS Project). Citrix Cloudgateway Enterprise support. Show less
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as a Senior Systems Administrator at United Electronics, Corp., Inc.
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May 2005 - Jan 2008
Administration of factory-wide network and system administration of UNIX systems and software packages. Virtualization environment: Xen, VMWare ESX/Infrastructure, Sun VirtualBox. Production server installation and maintenance (SMTP/LDAP/IMAP/X.500, WWW, LPR). Production and user/Support/administration of Norton backup exec system recovery and Storagecraft image manager. Update Servers and Monitor Central Antivirus Server (Symantec Endpoint Protection) in order to keep the servers up-to-date and healthy;Monitoring Applications : Dell Open Manage, Nagios, Cacti, RRD, MRTG and reporting. Implement MS SQL 2005, backup synchronization with large data storage centre. Windows servers Active Directory, MS Exchange server’s management. Integrate Windows 2003 servers, and NAS devices. Create a VPN tunnels and Secure T1’s with Sonicwall pro 2040, and VPN hardware. Migrate webmail to MS Exchange server. Configure VPN clients for end-users. Virtualization with Microsoft 2003 storage server and Oracle VM technologies. Support MS SQL server 2003 for Micrososft CRM. Ticket Request System for end user support, Windows Vista/7 installation and support. Barracuda anti spam and firewall with server 2003 AD integration. Zoning handling with Barracuda. Show less
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Greatsys
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China
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as a System Administrator at IT Support company Greatsys
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Jan 2003 - Apr 2005
Installation Configuration and Support of Linux and Windows Servers. Windows XP installation and support, Norton Antivirus, Trend Micro Client Server Suite installation. Responsible for troubleshooting (Software and Hardware) of Linux Servers. DirectAdmin on Linux servers support, Apache MYSQL, Exim, DNS, FTP. Linux Firewall installation and configurations Brocade and Juniper rules definitions. Use trouble ticket system for tracking customer interactions and problem resolution. Monitoring with CiscoWorks, HP OpenView NNM, OpenNMS, Nagios, Cacti, WatsUP; IP Services/Misc: NAT, NetFlow, WCCP, SNMP, NTP, Server Load Balancing. Windows 2000/2003 Servers and Active Directory work with users and groups, Backup Exec and Acronis backup, GFI vulnerability assessment. Barracuda spam filter and rules deployment. Microsoft servers and XP patch management. Maintaining Microsoft SQL and Windows 2003 AD users and groups. Have in-depth knowledge of software and hardware products of such vendors like Cisco Systems(IOS, ASA OS, CatOS, SAN-OS), CheckPoint (FW-1, VPN, UTM-1, VSX), Juniper Networks, Websense, TrendMicro, IronPort (Mail&Web security platforms), IBM,Snort (Sourcefire), Linksys, HP ProCurve, ZyXEL, D-Link. Windows Server (2000/2003). Trend Micro desktop /server. Show less
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GLOBAL Securities
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United States
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Financial Services
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as a Systems Administrator at GLOBAL Securities
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Jan 2000 - Nov 2002
Installation Configuration and Support of MS SQL and Windows Servers. Responsible for troubleshooting (Software and Hardware) of SQL 7/2000 and Oracle database servers. Maintaining Macromedia JRun application server and business applications, Windows NT and Windows 2000 installation and support. Server 2000 AD integration with end users applications and support. Database migration from Oracle to MS SQL server. SQL Server monitoring, backup and recovery procedures implementation. SQL server backup / restore scripts implementation. Server tasks and performance monitoring. Analysing servers log files and integrating technical solutions. Microsoft Office 2000 support. System capacity planning and VB scripting deployment on windows server 2000.ODBC and Progress RDBMS support and customization. Show less
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Education
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1995 - 2001
Technical University of Sofia Bulgaria
Master of Science in Computer Systems, Computer Systems and Management Information Technologies and Support -
1989 - 1993
Technical school John Atanasoff, 6000 Stara Zagora (Bulgaria)
Degree in Automatics and Programming Systems, Automatics and Programming Systems -
Cisco Networking Academy
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