James McDaid

James McDaid

Server / Storage Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Technical Project Manager at Smurfit Kappa

  • Education

    • Whitehall College of further education

      1994 - 1996
      Diploma Diploma in information systems
    • UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

      2023 - 2025
      Project Managent & Leadership
    • University College Dublin

      2022 - 2022
      Distinction
  • Experience

    • Dell Technologies

      Dec 2002 - Mar 2007
      Server / Storage Engineer
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise

      Mar 2007 - Mar 2012
      Senior Server / Storage Engineer
    • PFH Technology Group

      Mar 2012 - Dec 2016
      Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer

      Vmware, Citrix, and Microsoft Certified Professional with over 15 years technical IT experience in leading Companies and State bodies such as Hewlett Packard, Dell, IBM, and currently with PFH technologies based onsite at Failte Ireland. Leading enterprise technical I.T projects and overseeing delegated projects. Resolving day to day technical escalated issues. Designing technology platforms and keeping documentation up to date. Advising and mentoring other team members with technical solutions. Virtualisation Technologies: • Vmware ESX / ESXi 3.0 – 5.5, Citrix Xenapp 4.0 – 7.6. Microsoft HyperV.Microsoft Enterprise Technologies: • Operating systems from Windows NT 4.0 – Windows 2012. Active Directory, Replication, Group Policy, IIS, DNS, DHCP, Monitoring and Maintenance etc.• Microsoft Exchange version 5.5 – 2010, Microsoft SCCM Application / Patch Deployment,• Microsoft SQL 2008R2 - 2014, Microsoft CRM – 2010 & 2013• Microsoft LYNC 2010 – 2013, Microsoft Forefront TMGBackup and SAN Storage Technologies:• Commvault Simpana 10, Veeam, Microsoft DPM 2010, Veritas Backup Exec, Arcserve,• SAN Technologies - Iscsi and Fibre Chanel technologies / Concepts• SAN Arrays – Dell / EMC Clariion, HP P4000, HP P2000, HP 3PAR.• HP, DELL, IBM enterprise level servers. HP Systems Insight manager. Rack and Blade enclosures. Show less

    • Temple Street Children’s University Hospital

      Dec 2016 - Dec 2019
      Network and Infrastructure Manager
    • Smurfit Kappa

      Dec 2019 - now
      Technical Project Manager
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • PRINCE2® Foundation Certification Training

      AXELOS Global Best Practice
    • ITIL Foundation Level

      AXELOS Global Best Practice
    • Citrix Certified Professional - XenApp 6.5 Administration

      Citrix
      Jun 2015
    • VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV)

      VMware
      Aug 2015
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