IT Project Manager
Consolidated Telecoms
Total years of experience :10 years, 1 Months
• Draft and validate a Project Schedule.
• Host a Customer Kickoff with all Stakeholders.
• Develop Project baseline, identifying and validating Project Scope, delivery requirements, key milestones and acceptance criteria .
• Validate Quality Assurance standards are met.
• Execute as defined and agreed in Project baseline.
• Regularly review, monitor and control project actions, risks, issues and schedule, communicating to Project Stakeholders as agreed during Planning Phase.
• Identify and review Project Change Requests as required.
• Obtain sign off from relevant stakeholders as milestones are completed.
• Verify with Project Stakeholders that the Project has been delivered as agreed.
• Identify lessons learned to improve future engagements and celebrate success.
• Setting budgets and agreeing project time scales and deadlines with clients.
• Holding weekly internal and external meetings to check the project progress.
• Managing staff to ensure that all milestones are achieved within the agreed time frames.
• Ensuring effective quality control processes are in place to monitor deliverables produced.
• Maintaining client relationships.
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks.
• Ensuring that projects conform to PMI methodology and required standards.
• Conducting regular impact analysis in order to assess the consequences of the project deliverables on other sections of the business.
• Keeping accurate administrative records of expenditure, accounting, costing and billing.
• Assisting the technical team in their design and development tasks.
• Producing project definitions to include validated functional requirements, scope, roles, responsibilities, budgets, timescales and resources.
• Strong technical knowledge in Microsoft as virtualization, Microsoft Exchange, Teams, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, office365, Azure and Gsuite.
• Strong technical knowledge in VMware solutions as virtualization, Networking, vCenter, vSphere, vSan and vMotion.
• Strong technical knowledge in Dell EMC technologies as hyperconverged, Standalone servers and Storages.
• Strong technical knowledge in Veeam solutions as Veeam backup and replication and Veeam one.
• Strong Technical knowledge in Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (Advanced Threat Protection, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Intune, Azure Information Protection, self-service password reset, Multi-Factor Authentication, Advanced Threat Analytics).
-Deploying, configuring, managing, migration, upgrade and maintenance of HCI Infrastructure "Dell EMC vxRail series"
-Deploying, managing, migration, upgrade and maintenance of HCI infrastructure "Azure stack HCI"
-Deploying, managing, migration, upgrade and maintenance of HCI infrastructure"Storage space direct"
-Windows Server 2012 and later "setup, upgrading, migration and administration".
-Administering active directory domain using standard Microsoft snap-ins such as active directory users and computers, domains and trusts, sites and services, and others as necessary(Creating objects in active directory, creating shares, managing share permissions, delegating active directory object permissions, managing groups and permissions, creating and managing group policies).
-Managing domain services such as Domain Naming Service (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol(DHCP).
-Exchange server 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 setup, administration and migration to exchange online.
-Experience designing, implementing, and managing both onsite and hosted email solutions.
-Knowledge of the following networking components: switches, firewalls, load balancers and proxy servers.
-Virus scanning administration.
-Configuring and managing Veeam backup and replication using best practices to helps businesses achieve comprehensive data protection for all servers (virtual, physical and cloud-based).
-Prepare disaster recovery (DR) plan and demonstrate successful functioning of DR using Veeam cloud connect and Azure.
-Vmware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technologies.
-Deploying Office 365 services that include: Exchange online configuration and email migration, Teams configuration, install, directory synchronization, email migration with staged, cutover and hybrid approaches.
-Configure Veeam backup for Office 365 to protect Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive users data.
-System Center Configuration Manager & Intune Setup and administration standalone or hybrid approach.
-expert of servers and storage High availability and redundancy protocols.
-Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure Resource Management templates, Virtual Networks, Storage, Virtual Machines, and Azure Active Directory.
-Storage Array installation, configuration and administration for Dell EMC Data Domain, HP 3par and Dell PowerVault MD series.
-Configure Enterprise Mobility + Security (Advanced Threat Protection, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Intune, Azure Information Protection, self-service password reset, Multi-Factor Authentication, Advanced Threat Analytics).
-Experience working with Dell EMC hyper converged technologies and supporting components (VxRail and VxRack).
-Experience with VMware value-add products such as vRealize Operations, vSAN, and vRealize Automation.
-Experience working in large data center deployments.
-Design, manage, monitor and maintain Storage such as Dell EMC Powerstore, VNX, EMC Unity and VSAN in a timely manner for optimization and capacity provisioning and related initial configurations (zoning, lUNs creation) Handle escalated Virtual / Hardware server related incidents.
-Monitors and fine-tune the performance of storage infrastructure (including trouble shooting); assist in the daily, weekly and monthly health checks of the Reviews storage design and monitor size and space availability, informing accordingly his supervisor, so as to facilitate that sufficient capacity exists to meet business requirements Experience and hands on managing Cisco UCS blade servers and MDS switches.
-Troubleshooting and resolution of Data Center infrastructure problems.
-Participate in problem management and root cause analysis Update and maintain Data Center processes, change management, daily operations, outage and emergency processes.