amos olweny, ICT Infrastructure Consultant

amos olweny

ICT Infrastructure Consultant

Xabit Dimensions Limited

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computers/Maths
Experience
15 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 11 Months

ICT Infrastructure Consultant at Xabit Dimensions Limited
  • Kenya
  • January 2013 to July 2016

*Install, manage Type1 (bare-metal) Hyper visors e.g. Microsoft's Hyper V, VMware's Esxi & KVM, Linux's Elastic Cloud and Type 2 (Hosted)Hyper visors like Oracle's VirtualBox, VMware Workstation.
*Install, Configure & Manage the local VOIP platform.
*Plan and optimise available resources to automate processes.
* Prepare periodic documentation on ICT devices and services.
* SDN( software defined Networking)

Consultant- Design & Management of IT Projects at MasterBill Integrated Project (K) Ltd.
  • Kenya
  • January 2008 to January 2013

Design, Planning & commissioning of ICT networks in any construction Projects undertaken ( both Physical & Logical).

Consultant - Data Analysis at UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
  • Kenya
  • October 2007 to October 2008

Presentation of data on different media i.e. PDF, HTML, XML/XSL
Partial maintenance of Website structural consistency
Worked with team handling data, databases and statistical analysis. Coordinated with other departments to ingest, interpret and integrate data generated. This information was used to generate content feeds for use on the official website, reports published and selectively presented to other agencies using various filtering techniques.

Skills Applied

LAMP
Microsoft Office
Statistical Methods

Experience

General Principles of how to conduct a survey
Optimizing OpenSourced Services and applications

Support Specialist at Southern Binary Solutions Ltd
  • Kenya
  • January 2000 to January 2007

Pre- and Post Sales support of critical issues involving client IT network support, consultancy and planning. I fully participated in IT Integration Designs, costing structure, processes and business policy for the various services offered by the company.
Work achievements through communication, collaboration, teamwork and daily execution included:

Practical data security, backup and recovery plans customized for organizations, SMEs and SOHO environments.
Training of clients on standby, failover administration and recovery techniques.
Keeping inventory and comprehensive documentation of client IT assets that are bound by contracts, licenses (e.g. MS Clients, Server Licenses & EULA) and other agreements.
Delivered and fully participated in the design and development several software and hardware solution projects undertaken by the company.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computers/Maths
  • at Egerton University
  • December 1998

Specialties & Skills

Data Network
Video over IP
IP Networking
Installing & Managing VOIP and Video Over IP
Installation & Management of ICT Network Security Devices (Both Front & Backend)
ICT Training and Demonstration
VOIP Networking
ICT Training and Demonstration

Languages

English
Expert
Swahili
Native Speaker

Memberships

Association of Computing (ACM)
  • Contributor
  • January 2008

Training and Certifications

CentOS Linux and RedHat (Training)
Training Institute:
ACM Online
Date Attended:
December 2010
Duration:
200 hours
Statistics (Training)
Training Institute:
Egerton University
Cisco Certified Network Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
March 2018
Cisco Certified Network Proffesional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2012
Valid Until:
May 2018

Hobbies

  • Teaching,Team Building, Photography, Playing and watching Field Hockey, Soccer, Rugby