Alex Kaloust, Systems Engineer

Alex Kaloust

Systems Engineer

Tetracom

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information and Communication Technologies
Experience
11 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 8 Months

Systems Engineer at Tetracom
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since March 2019

-Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability and
stability.
- Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
- Implement cloud and virtualization solutions, high availability, and business
continuity.
- Participate in client meetings for technical discussions, presentations and
negotiations with C-level executives.
- Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
- Provide 2nd and 3rd level support by resolving client issues through intervention
onsite or remotely.
- Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify
possible solutions.
- Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
- Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the
human intervention time on any tasks.
- Planning and implementing various systems that employ:
* Hyperconverged, virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure solutions (Huawei, Microsoft, Vmware, Citrix)
* Back up & disaster recovery solutions (Veeam, Veritas, Huawei)
* Endpoint security solutions (Sophos, Kaspersky)
* Enterprise storage solutions (HP, Huawei, Qnap, Synology).
* Microsoft solutions on premise & cloud (Exchange, Skype for Business, Active Directory, Failover Clustering, Office365, Azure AD)

Senior IT Specialist - Network & Systems at Techsupport
  • Lebanon
  • November 2018 to February 2019

-Assist IT Manager with new and ongoing projects including research and
architecture design and implementation of new platforms and systems.
- Review diagnostics and assess the functionality and efficiency of organization’s
system.
- Deploy and configure firewalls, networking and wireless equipment (Cisco,
Sophos, Clavister, HP, Fortinet).
- Install servers and infrastructure equipment (HP, Dell, IBM, Lenovo).
- Set up virtualization environments and mailing solutions (Vmware, Hyper-v,
Citrix, Exchange, Mdaemon).
- Manage O365 and endpoint protection solutions (Kaspersky, Sophos, Eset).
- Co-ordinate repairs and preventive maintenance of hardware and software.
- Plan full scale deployments and upgrades of hardware and software.

IT Coordinator at Netalive
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • October 2012 to November 2018

-Organize schedules to complete various tasks to support clients.
- Perform troubleshooting, repairs and data restoration.
- Maintain licenses and upgrade schedules.
- Survey potential client IT infrastructure and plan improvements.
- Optimize local networks and maintain virtual private networks.
- Procurement of IT hardware, software, maintenance products & services.
- Maintain records and documentations.
- Design and organize active directory and policies.
- Deploy and configure firewalls, L2/3 switches, wireless controllers and access
points.
- Deploy and maintain virtualization, backup & DR, endpoint security and mailing
solutions.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information and Communication Technologies
  • at Arab Open University
  • September 2014

Second Class Honors (1st Division), GPA 3.47

Specialties & Skills

ICT Consulting
Deployment Planning
Plan Design
Technical Documentation
Research and Development
Disaster Recovery
Backup and Replication Solutions
Cybersecurity
Mailing Solutions
Virtualization
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Unified Communications
Network Security
Wireless Solutions

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

CCNA - Routing and Switching (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2013
Valid Until:
February 2016

Hobbies

  • Basketball