Rochelle Van Staden

Experience

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  Business Information Technology Systems (Bits)

  Jan 1996 - Dec 1997

  Trainee Network and Desktop Technician

  Duties Installing of software & problem solving;Reparation of PC hardware;Networks (trouble shooting on Cabling and system).

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  Q-data networks cabling

  Jan 1998 - Jun 1999

  Senior Cabling Technician

  Installation of LAN and WAN systems (copper, fibre, radio, laser); Network troubleshooting and maintenance (Cabling); Managing two (2) Teams; Training new employees to cabling standard.

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  Fintec (Cable com/stream computer Services)

  Jul 1999 - Dec 2001

  Senior Engineer

  Network layouts on new and old installations; Installation of WAN and LAN systems;Fibre and Blown Fibre installation; Desktop Support; Desktop Installation; Trouble shooting on software and networks; Installing, configuring and managing routers (Cisco), switches (3Com); Manage people to do installations; QA and certify installations;Project management, recruiting new client’s and managing branch in PE for 8 months. Show less

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  Belay Rapid Resources

  Sept 2002 - Jul 2003

  Project Leader

  Position HeldProject Leader, Network specialist, Administrator, QA and Assessor on Network system and layouts.Duties Network specialist and administratoron NT networks;Assessment on new network installation and development;Quality insurance on depleted network installations.Managing installation on cabling, desktop deployment, server deployment and switch / routers;Configuring and managing switches (3COM) and routers (Cisco);Managing BE companies to do installations (costs, stock, invoices)Setup of red hat linux 9 installations (Basic);SAP front end and configuring;Oracle setup and installationsClients I – Fusion, AST, DOJDuration2002-09 to 2003-09DutiesNetwork assessment on new buildings managing new network cabling installations, managing desktop deployment, installing 3Com switches and routers, QA on final deployment, configuring switches and routers, building of server environmental rooms, cabinets and handling site over to client. Show less

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  EDS

  Aug 2003 - Sept 2006

  Team Leader: Backups, Storage

  Position Held Managed of 3 teams on the GlobalBP Account, namely:DSMC Coordinator Storage/disaster recovery team24/7 Operations Server teamDuties DSMC Coordinator: Plan, implement and coordinate all windows server SR upgradesRaising all change controls and attends change board meetings for approvalsMake sure the source files is made available on the central RTR serverDuties Disaster Recovery Team (8 People): Backup and restore Senior administrator;Team leader for backup and restore;Follow up on Teams processes and Attendance to their daily responsibilities;Supporting of big account’s backup and Restores remotely, 500 servers in the UK,120 servers in SA/Africa, 650 servers in The US;Running Win 2000 and 2003 servers;Backup Software supporting, VERITAS Backup Exec 7, 8.6, 9.1 & 10.0d,Brightstor Enterprise 10.5, Arcserve Brightstor 11.0 & 11.1, Arcserve 2000,TSM (Tivoli storage manager) & Veritas Netback up 5.x;Restores required daily;Has done several full server restores in given server clusters;Responsible for raising Change Control For work required on servers regarding Backups & hardware;Daily, weekly & monthly responsibility For reports on backups ran & restores Done, I.E percentage the backups and restores complete;Attending change board meetings for Change approvals;Creation of change and actioning of Change approvals, Responsible for creating and updating. ITIL backup processes.Duties 24/7 Operation Team (8 people)Manage people to monitor ± 3000 servers in the following regions:America (North & South), UK, Africa, SATheir responsibility to monitor servers:hardware failures, space concerns, non responsive apps and services, Server fail over, Network connectivity and problemsTheir responsibility to assist users:Move of users within AD, New Creation of users within AD, Make sure the mail accounts gets created by the exchange team Show less

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  BCX

  Sept 2006 - Jul 2010

  Principle Backup & Storage Engineer

  Duties Backup Management Backup software utilize: Backup Exec9.1, 10d, 11d; Netbackup 5.1, 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, TSM 5.5 and Storage, disaster recovery and backup-restore;Cluster backup requirementsResponsibility for client liaisons according to there requirement;Implementation of the Backup infrastructure as per client agreement;Support as per agreed Proposal;Reporting towards client’s satisfactory;Responsible for raising change Controls on any change required;Attend meetings as per client’s request;Make sure that support and products is to latest technology;Risk Assessment and Impact Analysis.Implementation and testing.Project Management as per the client’s requirement.Co-ordination and Scheduling of test restores.Backup Libraries Experience:-HP ESL, MSL series.- IBM 3584, Jaguar series.- ADDIC • Storage Management Manage HP storage (EVA 4, 5 &6000)for 2 client (Nampak & BHP Billiton) • Architectural Management Design of Backup environment to accommodate SAN, Cluster servers, WAN etc. for current and new clients. Due Diligence and AuditsAssist with Cluster design to accommodate the backup environment.Assist in SAN design to accommodate the backup environment.Do environmental studies for latest technologies.Propose new improved technologies.• Server Management Apply Critical patches on Backup and SAN server environment and apply driver updates.• SAN Support Design and Implementation of HP EVA SAN Carve and LUN presentationZoning on Cisco and Brocade switchesHardware SupportDesign according to best practiceReporting • Disaster Recovery DR Coordinator. Risk assessment on all DR’s.Attend server upgrade meetings for acknowledgement of changes. Have done DR testing to success on Exchange clusters, SQL clusters, Oracle servers, File & Print and SAP server etc. Show less

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  Dimension Data at Standard Bank Group SA

  Aug 2010 - Jul 2015

  Senior Backup Consultant & Product Specialist

  General DutiesManage the Backup team as Technical lead (14 people)Team: Incident Management, Team Track Management, Change Management, Coordinating Team Meetings, operational duties & productivity, task assignment to team.Coordinator and Approver from a backup perspective for all new Designs for SBSALead for all New innovations, Tech planning and implementationsPresenter for knowledge transfer and integration to Backup team and other SBSA teams.Senior Technical LeadOversea NetBackup 6.5 POC.Facilitate and manage the backup migration from Networker to NetBackup.The Environment consists of 2 Business Units: People Business Banking (PBB) & Corporate Investment banking (CIB). PBB has one clustered Solaris Master Server backing up +-4000 production clients. CIB has 2 x Clustered Solaris Master server environments backing up each +- 1500 clients each.Owner of all Best practices, Technical innovation, problem solving for Netbackup and Veritas clusterBackup Hardware Managed : IBM TS 3500 Enterprise Libraries (TS1120, 1130, 1140 Tape drives), EMC DL4200 & 2 x SL5200 Disk Libraries, Data Domain: DD880, DD890, DD990Design’s, Documentation & Infrastructure strategySBSA Pre-design workshop, approvals and attendance for precision, continuity and best practices making sure new Business Units align with Backup environmentBackup Infrastructure strategy and capacity planning, Facilitate all SOP documentation Achievements / Successes2010-2011: Impellent NetBackup 6.5, Move all backups from Networker to NetBackup2011: Upgrade NetBackup to 7.0 and later to 7.1, Implement EMC Disk Libraries & Data Domains2013: Upgrade all 3 environments from version 7.1.0.2 to 7.5.0.6 successfully2014: Split NBU environment into 4 (2 x Windows masters, 2 x Unix Masters) Replace and configure current servers with NBU 5230 appliances with new NetBackup design. (4 x Master Appliances, 22 x Media Appliances with 72TB Storage (MSDP). AIR replication in place between 2 Data Centers. Show less

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  Dimension Data

  Apr 2013 - Jun 2016

  Solutions Architect: Data Management, Data Centre Business Unit

  Employed in the DCBU (Data Center Business Unit) Division of Dimension Data as a Solutions Architect and Product Specialist for Data Management. Among my responsibilities is to actively engage with customer from a Pre-Sales focus in order to identify solutions to meet business requirements.Key Roles and Responsibilities: Take responsibility for solution design, business development, and transition of projects from presales to delivery and sales support. Participate in and/or lead scope of work determination. Provide assistance on Data Centre solutions, product plans and roadmaps. Understand the client’s environment, business needs and provide expertise and consulting on the relevant solutions. Co-ordinate hardware and software quotations with account teams. Develop and deliver scope of works, hour/cost estimates, professional proposals and design documentation. Ensure the implementation of the solution using project management principles. Big and Dark Data assessments and analytics. Deployment and Implementation of Solutions and Operational handover. Data Centre Product Coverage:Cloud EnablementStorage: EMC HP NetApp FujitsuBackup Software: Veritas Backup Exec (Cert) Veritas NetBackup (Cert) Veeam EMC Networker EMC Avamar CommVault TSMBackup Hardware: EMC Data Domain EMC Disk Library Veritas NetBackup Appliances (Cert) Tape Libraries: HP, IBM, Quantum, DellVirtualization: VMWare Hyper-VData Assessments (Dark Data): Veritas Data Insight (Veritas Partner Certified Implementation Expert) Converged Infrastructure Show less

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  IOCO Tech

  Jun 2016 - Jun 2021

  Data Analytics Manager: Data Management

  Employed in the Technology Solutions Division at EOH as a Solutions Specialist for Technology solutions in Data Management (Storage, Backups, DR, Virtualization, Archiving, Data Classification etc.). Among my responsibilities is to actively engage with customer from a Solutions, Senior Technical and Pre-Sales focus in order to identify the customer’s need to meet business requirements.Latest achievement:  Design, Build-Deploy and Document the EOH BaaS (Backup as a Service) and DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) solution based on Veeam’s, Cloud Connect technology.  Deploy, Implement and support 4 x Veritas NetBackup 5240 appliances at Department of Home Affairs Deploy, Implement and support appliances: 2 x Veritas NetBackup 5340, 2 x Veritas Access and Cloud Catalyst at Liberty Life Remediate Commvault backup solution at SASSA Key Roles and Responsibilities: Take responsibility for solution design, business development, and transition of projects from presales to delivery and sales support. Participate in and/or lead scope of work determination. Provide assistance on Data Centre solutions, product plans and roadmaps. Understand the client’s environment, business needs and provide expertise and consulting on the relevant solutions. Co-ordinate hardware and software quotations with account teams. Develop and deliver scope of works, hour/cost estimates, professional proposals and design documentation. Ensure the implementation of the solution using project management principles. Big and Dark Data assessments and analytics. (Data Classifications etc.) Deployment and Implementation of Solutions and Operational handover. Core Software Vendor / Product focus: Storage in general: Dell, EMC, Huawei, HP Virtualization: VMware and Hyper-V Veritas: Data Insight, Information Map, InfoScale Availability, Resiliency Platform, Enterprise Vault, eDiscovery, Backup Exec (8 – 16), NetBackup (version 4.x – 8.x) Veeam CommVault Show less

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  BCX

  Jul 2021 - Oct 2022

  Specialist-Systems Engineer

  Specialist Systems Engineer in the Data Centre Data Management Team.

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  Nexio South Africa

  Oct 2022 - now

  Technical & Solutions Specialist- Data Management

  Employed in the Technology BU: Cloud, Data Center & Data Management division at Nexio as a Technical & Solutions Specialist.Key Roles and Responsibilities: Technology Solutions Architect Presales Tender responses Specialist in Backup & Data Management 3rd Line technical support on Data Management product set New deployments, document and handover Solution Architecting, Technical & Deployment Support into Africa Countries. Always stay on-top of new trends and technologies Product Manager for Cloudera & Opentext (Micro Focus)Core Vendor / Product focus: Analytics• Cloudera• Opentext (Micro Focus)• APTARE IT Analytics Cloud• AZURE• Morpheus Storage• EXAGRID• Veritas Appliances• Dell/EMC• Huawei• HP VMware Veritas Stack• Access / Appliance• APTARE IT Analytics• Data Insight• Information Studio• Resiliency Platform• Enterprise Vault• eDiscovery• Backup Exec• NetBackup / Appliance• Flex Appliances• Info Scale Veeam Commvault Rubrik Dell DPS Show less