Paul Leskov

Systems Administrator at Texon
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(386) 825-5501
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Houston, Texas, United States, US

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Jim Gross

Paul is a proactive, dedicated and outstanding Systems Administrator. His attention to detail when preparing equipment for remote locations is excellent and always has gone the extra mile. Paul has always done a great job whenever the going gets tough. It’s not often our machines act up - but when it does he resolves the problem quickly. His knowledge base is great and always solves the problem the first time. Paul will be a great asset to any organization given the chance and I highly recommend him.

Richard Murphy

Paul is an outstanding networking and infrastructure professional. He handled a very complex environment at Texon with over 40 servers, 2 server rooms, a disaster recovery site, and multiple remote locations. Due to the nature of our business, we often had to ship systems and equipment build up remote locations. This required perfection on Paul's part when sending equipment to the site because the sites were so remote, that basic IT equipment was unavailable. For these remote installs, Paul took the extra step of photographing and labeling the connections and creating detailed illustrated instructions. This meant that the individual installing had no doubt about what they needed to do. Paul's proactive nature regarding his responsibilities with virus, spyware, and other protection software meant that we rarely suffered any downtime due to malware. He also is very knowledgeable regarding Virtual Server Environments and Storage Attached Networks as they were the technologies used for the majority of our servers. Finally, Paul is also a great person to work with and he has my highest recommendation.

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Credentials

  • MCSA1: Windows Server 2003
    Microsoft
    Jan, 2011
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

    • Oil and Gas
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Systems Administrator
      • Oct 2008 - Present

      Experienced systems administrator with expertise in the key areas of IT infrastructure, including MS Windows W2K8, W2K12 server and VMware environment - servers and View Desktops - Nimble storage integration, replication and support, VMware SRM and Disaster Recovery. Supporting of EMC Data Domain storage and backups with EMC Networker. Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills, experienced in implementation of complex solutions for the needs of company and rapidly changing environment, meeting expectations within project needs and budget. Proactively managing 99% virtualized server and user desktop environment of more than 60 servers and 150 virtual desktops, ensuring systems stability and minimizing downtime. As a member of IT team, actively participated in many successful projects and provided significant cost savings for the company, disaster recovery and enabled flexibility and remote access for the users: - Converting physical server infrastructure to a virtual, based on VMware ESXi, Dell PowerEdge hosts and Equallogic storage. Helped with transition to Cisco UCS hosts and Nimble SAN later on. - Took the lead in implementation of VMware Horizon View desktop and transition of all users from physical to virtual desktops, allowing all users to have access to their virtual desktops remotely. - Performed various tasks during Disaster Recovery project and Data Center migration to a DR site. Performed complete data volumes/datastores transition from Dell to Nimble SAN, backups and replication setup. Installed and configured Cisco UCS servers. Implemented VMware Site Recovery Manager based on Nimble storage replication. - Managing of company's antivirus protection using Symantec Endpoint protection. - Implemented EMC Data Domain backups and replication system with EMC Networker. - Deployed and tested touch screen systems for remote crude oil terminal sites. - Took the lead in a recent upgrade of Windows Domain infrastructure from 2008 to 2012. Show less

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    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Desktop Analyst/Network Support Specialist
      • Jan 2008 - Aug 2008

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    • United States
    • Printing Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Technology Specialist
      • Aug 2006 - Jan 2008

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Education

  • State University of Economics and Finance, St.Petersburg, Russia
    Masters, Economics
    1994 - 1998
  • Houston Community College
    Computer Systems/Networking
    2004 - 2005

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