
herbert chikabida
senior infrastructure specialist
About
I am Technical Specialist who has gained a significant amount of experience in the IT industry Designing, Implementing and supporting Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions. I possess a good balance of business, sales and technical acumen and have consistently proven my ability to successfully conceptualize, design and implement cutting edge solutions based on the latest technologies and industry best practice. I possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with all ranks of staff to CIO/CEO Level. I am adaptable, and able to prioritise my workloads, work by myself or as part of a greater team. I am focused, versatile, dependable, and multi-task oriented, flexible, positive, emotionally stable, and able to adapt effectively to challenging and emergency situations
south africa
johannesburg
information technology and services
windows server, sccm, active directory, data center, infrastructure, itil, dns, operating systems, microsoft exchange, microsoft sql server, troubleshooting, app v, windows desktop administration, virtualization, disaster recovery, vpn, project management, hyper v, vmware esx, servers, system deployment, vmware, wsus, dhcp, group policy
Experience

systems engineer
asc service

senior infrastructure specialist

sccm technical specialist
kinetic it
* Develop a Managed Operating Environment (MOE) for Western Australia Department of Health (DOH) (30 000 Users) * Develop a Standard Operating Environment (SOE) for Western Australia Department of Child Protection (DCP) (5000 Users) * Design, and oversee the Implementation of a System Centre Configuration Manager 2012 Environment for Department of Lands and Administration (Landgate) (3500 users) * Create a Windows 7 and Office 2010 MOE for Landgate and create refresh migration strategy * Provide Pre-Sales and Technical Advice/Support around System Centre Suite of products

system centre technical specialist
dimension data
* Design, Proof of Concept and Implementation of a System Centre Configuration Manager 2007 Environment for Western Australia Department of Transport (DOT) * Architect and Implement a new System Centre Configuration Manager 2007 Environment for Western Australia Department of Finance (DTF) * Provide System Centre Technical Advice and Strategy * Provide Pre-Sales Advice and Support around System Centre Suite for Dimension Data customers * Design, configure implement and maintain System Centre Infrastructure in Customer Environments * Provide Level 3 line support for SMS/SCCM/MOM/SCOM infrastructure and client issues * Train and Mentor Graduate Junior Engineers

technical specialist
carter holt harvey
Design and Migrate 80 SMS 2003 Primary and Secondary Site Systems to SCCM 2007 R3 Site Systems across all the Carter Holt Harvey Business Units -Create and deploy new Version of Client SOE based on Windows 7, x64 and x32 for OS Deployment using SCCM 2007 -Replace Ageing Hardware on over 55 Application Servers and Re- platform on Windows Server 2008 R2 and migrate legacy SQL Databases to 2005 Cluster. -Identify physical candidates for virtualisation -Provide third level support for the MS Infrastructure across the Data Centres and Facilitate handover/transitioning of project infrastructure to Operations Teams -Design, Install and Support Manufacturing Execution Systems e.g. Elixir, SCADA, ESCADA, Syncro, TimberSmart -Liaise with other Technical Services teams, and other CHH groups such as Wintel Operations and the Service Desk, to optimise operational services. -Create documentation including proposals, reports, user communications, designs, tech specs and any operational and user documentation as required. - Migrated existing Servers to ESX 3.5 infrastructure

senior wintel engineer
anz
Conduct an audit and report of all the Data Centre Equipment -Design and Test a migration strategy for the Wintel Infrastructure to a New Data Centre -Identify any candidates for decommission and create the decommissioning strategy -Supervise the Installation and racking and stacking of HP Blade Servers and Storage in the Data Centres -Coordinate with hardware vendors, support specialists regarding equipment needs, supplies and DC access -Build and configure HP Blades Systems and Chassis -Create and Assign SAN Storage as per requests -Provide Wintel BAU Infrastructure Support and Swift resolution of 3rd line support issues and providing root cause analysis for incident management -Exchange Server migration from 5.5 Organisation to 2003. -Infrastructure upgrades to meet Wintel Architecture Standards -Technical Resource for the Proxy Server Migration Project (ISA 2000 to ISA 2006) -Technical Resource for the ECCP Project. (Implementing Infrastructure for the Call Centre and corporate Voice Platform) -Provide Change Approval and Peer Review for the Wintel related Change Requests

system management architect
axon computer systems ltd
* Conduct a discovery, analyse and document technical business and user requirements, procedures, and problems. * Design and implement a Microsoft Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain, SCCM, SCOM, Exchange 2007 environment for Department of Labour (DoL) * Design, Build and document Windows Server 2008 SOE Image for IBM Blade Servers. * Design, Build and document Windows XP3 Professional and Tablet SOE Image for the departments Desktop, Laptop and Tablet PC’s. (50 different Hardware types) * Design, Implement and document Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2008 Client and Server SOE Group Policies. * Design, Implement and document the migration of services to the new consolidated environment in the root domain, and identify migration tools * Provide third level support and Subject Matter Expertise on Wintel Issues
technical specialist
porirua city council

soe infrastructure specialist
eds group
* Design and implement a standard COE Windows XP desktop delivered by RIS * With a “zero touch” methodology and support for multiple languages at the user * Interface level * Design, Implement and support server 2003 global Active Directory Domain. * Migrate Lotus Notes Emails and Databases to Exchange Server 2003 * Application Packaging and Deployment of Applications and OS patching with SMS 2003 * Build, Install and Configure Dell Servers into the Data Centres * Project Lead for Field Engineers * Design Cross Forest migration strategies and write up migration plans * Third Level Support for Data Centre and Onsite RIS and SMS Infrastructure

technical consultant
maclean computing
* Plan detailed implementation processes for the installation or upgrade of client networks * Perform simple and complex implementations including; servers, network equipment, SAN infrastructure, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, antivirus solutions, antispam solutions, Citrix Presentation Server or terminal server, VPN systems, power protection, and other equipment solutions required * Advanced troubleshooting for server and network equipment * Develop and implement business continuity plans to include disaster recovery procedures * Create full documentation for client environments * Perform security and performance assessments on customer sites

senior ms engineer
enform

site champion
integr8 it
* Capacity Planning, and Performance Management; * Ensuring that all service level agreements (SLAs) for information technology services across the client organization are delivered according to SLA Agreement; * Developing, managing, and administering IT best practice, Software Update Policy’s, and ensuring PCI Compliance; * Facilitating communication between Integr8 IT Nerve Centre, Client IT department and 3rd Party Providers * Lead and Manage all site based Integr8 staff (Desktop, Server, Network, Virtual Infrastructure Teams; * Facilitate IT procurement for clients * Manage and maintain IT Asset Register, Issues and Risk Register * Technical Lead for: * Windows Server 2008, 2012 Server Infrastructure * Exchange 2010 and TMG * SCCM 2012, * SCOM 2012 * Windows 7 / 8 / 10 and Office 2010 /2013 Workstations
Education
kutama college
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