Experience

Africa Data Centres

• South Africa
• Computer and Network Security
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Technical Specialist - Information Security

  • Nov 2022 - Present

  Tasked to protect where you store your business-critical data to the highest standards demanded by today’s leading cloud providers, carriers and enterprises Tasked to protect where you store your business-critical data to the highest standards demanded by today’s leading cloud providers, carriers and enterprises



Nexio South Africa

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Network Security Engineer

  • Jun 2022 - Nov 2022



Liquid Intelligent Technologies South Africa

• South Africa
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Security Manager

  • Dec 2016 - Oct 2021

  Successfully Built and Managed a Neotel Security Operation Centre. Consulted in the Tender bidding for Information Security products. Build and maintain vendor relations and processes. Operationally responsible for the Managed security portfolio. Including Next generations Firewalls (Cisco, Palo Alto and Fortinets), End point security, Cloud proxies, NAC (Cisco ISE). Reverse proxies. Just completed the Implementation of Cisco Application Centric infrastructure Data Centre. Budgeting on the department OPEX Create and manage clients' weekly/monthly security review meeting. Create and manage staff KPIs, in alignment with company strategy. Consulted as a Change Authorization Board member. Responsible for creating dashboards to ensure visibility on my portfolio.



Neotel SA

• Midrans

• IT Networks

  • Aug 2014 - Nov 2016



UTi Worldwide (DSV A/S)

• Denmark
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Network Engineer.

  • Apr 2007 - Jul 2014

  Ensuring high levels of network infrastructure availability and proactive monitoring. Been attached to a Senior Manager (General Manager) for a mentorship program for a year. Work on Cisco ASA 5540, IronPort Proxy, Nexus 7K, 5K and 2K Switches, on escalation. Work on WireleLan Controllers, Cisco ACS, Tipping point IPS. Design and implement new Campus and Datacenter Networks. Document and implement network operation proceedures. International and local travel, for project meetings and infrastructure deployments. Member of Change Authorisation Board for Africa regional infrastructure and initial Approver. Present budgeting for the following year, and a member of regional infrastructure annual strategy. Regional technical lead. Service owner for WAN and network Security – Managing remote technical resource who do the implementation and operations. Vendor management (Include Dimensions Data, MTN and VOX) Reporting to the portfolio manager, with dotted lines to the Global architects. Sitting on the UTi IT Security Council, currently formulating polices. Interface with IT Security auditors and provide feedback. Design the LAN/WAN infrastructure with 3rd Party vendors and approve then forward to Senior management for approval. Sit on a UTi 4th level of technical escalation, Evaluate and recommend a technical solution for use in the environment. Training and mentoring junior network engineers.



Golden Rule

• Johannesburg Area, Woodmead - South Africa

• Network Engineer

  • Sep 2006 - Apr 2007

  Contracted to International Healthcare Distributors. Ensure high availability of UTi Pharma Network Direct interfacing with vendors Project member and part of planning until closing of the project. Help Project managers in defining tasks, pointing risks and highlighting the dependences. Writing all the technical documents and making available on share point for second line and first line support. Meeting Business SLA. Deployed Technologies which include (Cisco ASA Firewalls, ACS, 6509 and Nexus switches, Call manager and Wireless infrastructure.) Attending meetings. Planning day move and spreading the load amongst engineers. Monitoring and defining the KPI from Senior managers. Driving to other branches and offering remote support to other branches. Implemented VPN Solutions, Antivirus mitigation. IPS monitoring and responding to alerts. Verifying if the patches were deployed by WSUS service owner. Reporting and giving evidence of any abuse as detected by the technology. Admin access to active directory and exchange to help with basic troubleshooting. Technologies Used: Cisco ASA Firewall Tipping point IPS Cisco 6509 Core switches. Cisco Call Manager v 6 – 8 Nexus 2,5 & 7Ks Cisco ACS v4 & 5 Cisco 3560s on access switches MS Windows 2003 and 2008. WAN on Internet Solutions hosted MPLS, with QoS. Windows XP and 7 environments. Riverbed WAN optimization. Trend Anti Virus Cisco Works LAN management system. SCOM Service dashboard. Sms and email alerting, based on severity.



Integral Networking

• Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Senior Network Engineer

  • 2005 - Sep 2006

  Configuration and Installation of the Routers on a point to point WANs Install desktops PCs Setup exchange server and AD. Supervise the cabling team and do site survey for cabling jobs. Rolled out the ADSL connectivity for clients on MTN MPLS. Driving across the provinces. Support Medium clients site and server room infrastructure equipment – (Switches Firewalls and CE routers. Reporting direct to the director. Configuration and Installation of the Routers on a point to point WANs Install desktops PCs Setup exchange server and AD. Supervise the cabling team and do site survey for cabling jobs. Rolled out the ADSL connectivity for clients on MTN MPLS. Driving across the provinces. Support Medium clients site and server room infrastructure equipment – (Switches Firewalls and CE routers. Reporting direct to the director.



Telco Internet

• Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Internet Systems Administrator

  • Feb 1998 - May 2005

  ISP P.O.P., LAN, Internet Café Networks Design and Setup Configuration and set-up of Cisco Routers and Switches, 3Com Switches, Livingston Portmaster Access Servers, Tigris Access Routers Network Monitoring and Server Management Networks and Wireless Radio Networks Client Networks Support Setup of Linux & Windows Mail, DNS, Web Servers and Proxy Servers Operating Systems: Linux, Windows 2000,NT, 98 Firewall: Microsoft ISA, Gauntlet, Cisco access-lists Setup and Configuration of Linux Mail, Web and DNS Servers. E-Mail Server Software: Microsoft Exchange, Sendmail, Mdaemon, Eudora Mail Ensuring constant flow of emails Ensuring virus updates are done in time Filtering e-mail spanning Ensuring disk space availability Training of Junior technicians. Planning day to day operation of the department.