Experience

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  Adt security services

  Mar 1997 - Jul 1998

  Security officer

  Security guard performing the following tasks :Perimeter patrol in and out buildingvehicle and people search on exitIncident report writingOccurrence book updating

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  Magnum security services

  Jul 1998 - Mar 2004

  Security officer
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  Goldreef city casino

  May 2007 - Apr 2015

  • Administration of all Virtual machines on System Center 2012 R2 Hyper-V• Configuration of Hyper-V Cluster, Storage and Virtual machines• Configuration of Hyper-V Replica servers and enabling Replication between hosts• Create virtual networks – External, Private and Internal connections• Creating new Virtual machines, Snapshots and VM Cloning• Live and Quick Migration of Virtual machines as required• Administration of computers & user accounts on Active Directory• AD File server support, maintenance and network drives mappings• Group policy administration, configuration and maintenance• Report unresolved calls to external system support and make proper follow up• Develop and Maintain installation & configuration procedures• Mentoring and coaching of junior technician and IT Interns graduates• Exchange 2010 installation, configuration, administration and support• Advanced TCP/IP printing setup and configuration Show less • Log calls on Radical Helpdesk system and assign active calls to respective technician• Monitor and administer daily check list for all servers – low disk space and availability• Oversees all activities on the helpdesk and help when required• New user creation, changing and unlocking user`s passwords on Active Directory• Microsoft Office Suites installation (Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 & 2010) and configure Outlook • Windows desktop installation - Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8 Pro• Telephonic hardware & software support on all Windows systems• Assist users through VNC, Teamviewer, and Remote Desktop & Remote Assistance Show less

  • Senior System Engineer

    May 2007 - Apr 2015

  • Junior Engineer

    May 2007 - Mar 2010
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  Eoh

  Sept 2015 - Dec 2018

  Vmware administrator

  • Manage Production and DR VMware environment hosting 50 IBM PureFlex hosts• Responsible of implementation, configuration and troubleshooting VMware issues• Managing 150 virtual servers through VMware realizer Operations – VROPS• Provisioning, cloning and template creation on new servers • VMware tools installation and updating on Windows and Linux servers• Integrated vCenter 6.5 with Active directory for authentication purposes• Successfully upgraded vSphere 6.0 environment to 6.5 and 6.7 respectively• Configuration of standard and distributed switches, HA, VMkernel, DRS, vMotion, VLAN`s, Fault Tolerance- FT and VM port groups• P2V - converted 20 physical server running Windows and Linux operating system into VMware using VMware standalone converter 6.1• iSCSI, Fiber channel and NFS storage configuration on vSphere hosts• Basic VMware PowerCLI and Microsoft PowerShell scripting• Successfully design and implemented VMware Site recovery for DHA• 50 virtual machines replicated to Recovery site • Active directory 2012 R2 troubleshooting and administration• Create new users and groups and assign permission to shared resources• Group policy, users and computers administration and troubleshooting• Servers roles installation and configuration - DHCP, DNS, WDS, VPN, IIS, DFS, TCP/IP Show less

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  Netsurit

  Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

  Senior vmware engineer

  • Responsible for managing and administration of SILICA Financial Services running VMware 6.5 environment with 90 ESXi hosts including DR site• Infrastructure Design, implementation, management and maintenance on SILICA Financial Services VMware environment• Responsible for replicating servers from Production to DR site through Syncredibles• ESXI host version upgrade through ISO or offline zip bundles• Monitoring and administration of VMware Horizon View 7 environment hosting 705 virtual desktop infrastructure – VDI• Responsible for creating and updating Golden Images of all client VDI`s• New pool creation and assign permissions to relevant users• Provisioning of new Windows and Linux servers as per client`s request• Copying of VDI Golden Images to DR site for failover purposes• VMware tools install and updating via Update manager• Configuration of Standard and Distributed switches on a newly installed host• Configuration of port groups, VMkernel, HA, DRS, FT and storage devices• NTP configurations on all ESXi hosts to Active Directory time sync• Capacity planning and reporting via Veeam One monitor and Manage Engine• Monthly datastore cleanup by deleting zombie vmdk files• Liaise with the external vendors, internal stakeholders and third-party support for all IT related issues• Provision, monitor and decommission virtual servers as per management`s approval• Restoring any VMs from backup VEEAM backup solutions as per request• Perform Cluster Management by balancing VM load between cluster nodes through DRS and vMotion• Performing the physical to virtual and virtual to virtual migration using VMware standalone converter• Performing vstorage migration from one datastore to another for maintenance purposes Show less

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  Bmw group south africa

  Jan 2020 - now

  Virtualization engineer

  Virtualisation Engineer For Citrix and VMware Horizon VDI