Experience

TFG Infotec

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technology Specialist

  • Apr 2008 - Present

  - Azure Infrastructure management (includes setting up and management of SSO ADFS connections and setup/management of Azure AD synchronization) - Active Directory multiple forest support and maintenance (including forest functional level updates, AzureAD integration and all related network services) for all the domains and forests (about 800 domain controllers) - Creating scripts with Powershell related to the automation of day-to-day tasks, checks and monitoring - Microsoft Exchange support and configuration (Including a 2003 to 2010 to 2016 migration and 0365 migration planning) for 10000 mailboxes. Also did Google Workspace integration. Working closely with Information Security department and our external partner (Mimecast) regarding mail purification and threat protection - VMWare Support for 1000+ VM's (infrastructure, VM/Host management/provisioning, configuration and updates/upgrades) - Microsoft Server and infrastructure service support (patch management, installations, upgrades and antivirus) -3rd line support of the other teams in the company (roll-outs, upgrades, troubleshooting and support) - Disaster recovery - Capacity Planning - Managing edge services through external service providers - Assisting with and running various projects - Daily checks and maintenance Show less



Dimension Data

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Engineer

  • Apr 2001 - Sep 2007

  Project team for DDNS Western Cape from April 2001 – April 2002: Active Directory design, upgrades and roll-outs as well as Exchange upgrades, maintenance and roll-outs April 2002 – September 2007: working in Dimension Data’s Managed Services office in Paarl: - Migrating a long term insurer's network from a Windows 2000 environment onto Windows 2003 VMWare environment as well as the desktops from 2000 to XP (creating and managing new GPO’s and using SMS for OS provisioning and application management) - Setting up and maintaining a backup strategy using HP Openview Dataprotector - Setting up an Exchange 2000/2003 disaster recovery environment - Upgrading Exchange 2000 to 2003 and configuring Webmail - Setting up Nfuse for Citrix - Involved with the upgrade of Rightfax as well as configuring the Rightfax Connector for Exchange - Setting up Exchange servers, internet mail gateways and ISA servers in the perimeter networks (proxy and firewall mode) for a major dairy company's offices in Swaziland and Mozambique for office e-mail as well as Outlook Web Access. Daily responsibilities: - Maintaining the Active Directory infrastructure and DNS for a variety of clients - Daily/Weekly/Monthly maintenance/upgrades and patch management - Managing backups - Looking after Exchange 2000 and 2003 across multiple clients - Rolling out of new software (policy management) - Maintaining antivirus software - Administration of the ESX Vmware environment - 3rd Line / server support - Creating RIS images for new PC’s for the managed environments - Rightfax support - Administration of the Citrix Environment Show less