Employment

2018 -  April, 1974

Nationality : South African

English - First Language
Written or Spoken

Afrikaans - Second Language

Written or Spoken

Hobbies :
Soccer

Tennis

Table Tennis

Jogging

Swimming

School Attended : Westbury Senior Secondary

Subjects

English
Afrikaans
Technical Drawing
Metal Working
Mathematics
Physical Science

MCP Windows 2000 Prometric exam
MCSA Windows 2000 Prometric Exams
MCSE Windows 2000 Prometric Exams
N+ Prometric Exam

Novell Administration 3.1 1 supervisor course Khynoc syss educ centre
February 1995
Information Technology Technology S.A
1997
Intro A+ Absa 1998
Networking technologies Absa 1998
TCP/IP Eplained Absa 1998
Nds Technology atm support National Data Systems
12 - 8 - 1999
Help desk professionals workshop Movenpick Indaba Hotel
19 - 20 August 1999
Lotus 2.3 Absa 15 - 03 - 1999

Putting People First Absa 1998
Word Introduction and Intermediate Ast 2000
Excel Introduction and Intermediate Ast 2000
Ms Outlook Express V5 Ast 2001
Networking Essentails 70 - 058 Ast 2001

Flowchart
Wordperfect
Hardware and Software Absa
NT Workstation
IE 5 Internet Explore
Bdi and Bankfin Installation install workstations
Edm Synchronization Ast
Pollypm network tool Ast

NMS System
Dail up Netview
WAN
Timplex tdm system

Data comms overview course

LAN and WAN course
Install absa server and workstations os/2 and nt dos, matrec, os/2, nt and gamafax wks
Polypm
Edm synchronization

August, 2022 -  2002
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

Microsoft Certification Exams Completed Successfully
Exam ID Description Date Completed 216 Implementing and Administering a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure August 22, 2002 219 Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure August 02, 2002 227 Installing, Configuring and Administering Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration ISA Server 2000, Enterprise Edition July 12, 2002 217 Implementing and Administering a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure July 05, 2002 218 Managing a Windows 2000 Network Environment June 20, 2002 215 Installing, Configuring and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Server May 31, 2002 210 Installing, Configuring and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional May 10, 2002

N+ Comptia prometric exam.
Security +
IT Project +
Bay RS Router Configuration Grintek
IBM TSM 5.3
ITIL
IBM TSM 5.4 Implementation
IBM TSM 5.4 Administration
ITM

My short term career expectations are

To settle comfortably into a job where I is of assistance to everyone who requires it.

To pass on the knowledge I have to others.
To be able to enjoy the challenges set before me.

My long term career expectations are

To continue my studies.
To be able to be promoted in the company I am working.
To provide the best possible not only what I know but what I have to those who require it.

Excellent communication skills .I listen well, speak and write effectively when receiving or transferring information. telephone communications skills excelent
I have a clear bias for action and develop new ideas, devise and implement changes and improvements to job specifics.

PERSONAL QUALITIES IN THE WORK ENVIROMENT
as an employee

Self motivation acceptance of responsibility

Interest in work and desire to improve
Consider myself to be pro-active in terms of resolving problems or complaints
Possess the ability to operate under pressure and remain calm in difficult circumstances
To provide effective service with regards to I.T. enviroment.
Strive for 100% accuracy at all times.

as a colleague

Relate well to other staff members

Demonstrate consideration, tact and diplomacy in dealing with others
Able to keep confidence
Able to operate independently from superiors
Possess the ability to communicate telephonically in both official languages

NOVEMBER, 1992 -  NOVEMBER, 1998

NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR or
Manager

Assisting with the control and support of all organisations LANS
Computers and operational systems orientated functions
Software support
Hardware support
Have knowledge of modems, controllers file servers, data cabling, host communications and installation of computer equipment via lan.
Supervisor of department
Assist with all computer related problems and designs
Act as liaison officer between Asba Centro City and Support division
To ensure that all lans, computers or on-line
To ensure that 100% accuracy is maintained at all times
To provide a friendly and efficient and approachable service at all times

Mr Mark Hing

Mr Mike Webb

Telephone :

ABSA -
1 JULY 1999 TO 1 SEPTEMBER 2000

ATM Networks and HELPDESK SUPPORT CONTROLLER

First level support to inter Absa clients.
Atm monitoring
Problem management, escalation and co-ordinating
Strapping modems and sharing devices
Assisting branch custodians with atm hardware problems

Promoted to Second Level Support

Second level support to helpdesk back office
Assist entire Absa network, offline s
Assist branches with dail-up facilities.
Check problems on front end Wan February Telkom muxes
Investigate root problem analysis
Nms WAN tools for 160 and 4450 passports support
Assiting with Timplex system tdm problems

Tools
Nms passport system
Timplex system node
Netview
Dail up

SEPTEMBER, 2000 -  December, 2003

Analyst promoted to Senior Support Engineer or Domain Management

3rd Level Support
Desktop Support to all Absa Clients Hardware and Software
Domain Management assisting Technicains creating new users and reset passwords on domains

Make sure to work with in Sla Time.
Resolve problems Remotely using remote tools Dameware
Worked on the Active Directory migration project for Absa
Performance and capacity

Pieter Coetzee

Telephone :

January, 2004 -  February, 2007

My responsibilities include : - Networks Supervisor
Support on all hardware equipment, cabling, switches, etc.
Installation/Support of WAN cabling
Vendor management
Change Control management
Project planning for changes that affect the networking area.
Procurement of IT equipment and upgrade recommendations of existing services.
Plan definitions and processes to manage changes in the Network Rooms.
Support on Cash Focus servers, VPS server.

This area executes all new installations at a WAN level resulting in a further cost saving to the company as no other vendors are approached to render any installation services.

Aadil Ismail or +27824451290

ABSA
Bank 1 March 2007 to 1 October 2008
Specialist systems programmer or TSM Administrator
My responsibilities include : -
Setup scripting for CA Workload Agent to run backups.
Determine service level agreement SLA.
Check for known problems and identify the problem.
Determine the storage pool hierarchy and size of the storage pool s and distribution of the storage pool levels in the enterprise.
Determine the appropriate number and size of managed nodes given the environment.
Determine the hardware requirements to meet the solution design and evaluate whether existing hardware will meet the requirements of the solution.
Determine initial data management policies and storage management definition.

Determine additional functions needed for special data types databases, network attached storage, mail servers, etc.
Define client and administrative standards naming conventions, password conventions, option files, installation directories etc.
Develop implementation timeline.
Define the hardware to Storage Manager.
Register/customize administrator with proper authority.
Define data management policies.
Set up schedules/automation.
Test basic or advance client function backup/restore, archive/retrieve
Determine if a particular function is not working.
Issues/obtain output from query event.
Review dsmsched. log file for start and stop times to determine backup duration and success.
Review dsmerror. log file for discrepancies and unsuccessful conditions that may need further action.
Run command to check available scratch tapes.
Run checkout libvolume command.
Specify the degree to which start times are randomized in startup window of schedule on clients.
Correct scripts for CA administrators
Migrate old node infrastructure to new node infrastructure.
Responsible for TSM regional infrastructure implementations, escalations of risks and upgrades of the TSM infrastructure.
AIX, Unix Linux
Implemented ITM for TSM Reporting and alerting tool

March, 2007 -  Present
Senior Backup and storage Engineer

Training

Oversight of day-to-day backup and recovery support activities , backup job execution and monitoring and restore request execution .
- Ensure all backup and recovery environments meet Enterprise performance and availability requirements
- Support Enterprise Disaster Recovery initiatives
- Write shell scripts to automate various storage administration tasks
- Ensure backup and recovery systems and processes are compliant with corporate security policies
- Document software and system configuration
Set Presentations to clients
Setup Proposals for new clients
Doing an audit on the environment and make sure the TSM environment is up to date at all times .