benard thiongo, system administrator

benard thiongo

system administrator

atlas printing press llc

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
Éducation
Baccalauréat,
Expérience
16 years, 10 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :16 years, 10 Mois

system administrator à atlas printing press llc
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • Je travaille ici depuis octobre 2011

1. Engineering of SA-related solutions for various project and operational needs.

2. Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.

3. Install and configure systems such as supports GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications.

4. Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.

5. Contribute to and maintain system standards.

6. Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.

Operations and Support

7. Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

8. Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.

9. Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.

10. Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary.

11. Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.

12. Provide Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.

13. Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.

Maintenance

14. Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.

15. Upgrade and configure system software that supports GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.

16. Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures.

17. Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.

18. Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

19. Maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

1. Bachelor (4-year) degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science.

2. Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Unix and Microsoft.

3. Four to six years system administration experience.

COMPLEXITY/PROBLEM SOLVING:

1. Position deals with a variety of problems and sometime has to decide which answer is best. The question/issues are typically clear and requires determination of which answer (from a few choices) is the best.

DISCRETION/LATITUDE/DECISION-MAKING:

1. Decisions normally have a noticeable effect department-wide and company-wide, and judgment errors can typically require one to two weeks to correct or reverse.

RESPONSIBILITY/OVERSIGHT -FINANCIAL & SUPERVISORY:

1. Functions as a lead worker doing the work similar to those in the work unit; responsibility for training, instruction, setting the work pace, and possibly evaluating performance.

2. No budget responsibility.

COMMUNICATIONS/INTERPERSONAL CONTACTS:

1. Interpret and/or discuss information with others, which involves terminology or concepts not familiar to many people; regularly provide advice and recommend actions involving rather complex issues. May resolve problems within established practices.

2. Provides occasional guidance, some of which is technical.

System Administrator à Sols Inclinations Ltd
  • Kenya
  • juillet 2010 à août 2011

1. Engineering of SA-related solutions for various project and operational needs.

2. Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.

3. Install and configure systems such as supports GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications.

4. Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.

5. Contribute to and maintain system standards.

6. Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.

Operations and Support

7. Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

8. Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.

9. Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.

10. Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary.

11. Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.

12. Provide Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.

13. Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.

Maintenance

14. Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.

15. Upgrade and configure system software that supports GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.

16. Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures.

17. Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.

18. Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

19. Maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

1. Bachelor (4-year) degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science.

2. Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Unix and Microsoft.

3. Four to six years system administration experience.

COMPLEXITY/PROBLEM SOLVING:

1. Position deals with a variety of problems and sometime has to decide which answer is best. The question/issues are typically clear and requires determination of which answer (from a few choices) is the best.

DISCRETION/LATITUDE/DECISION-MAKING:

1. Decisions normally have a noticeable effect department-wide and company-wide, and judgment errors can typically require one to two weeks to correct or reverse.

RESPONSIBILITY/OVERSIGHT -FINANCIAL & SUPERVISORY:

1. Functions as a lead worker doing the work similar to those in the work unit; responsibility for training, instruction, setting the work pace, and possibly evaluating performance.

2. No budget responsibility.

COMMUNICATIONS/INTERPERSONAL CONTACTS:

1. Interpret and/or discuss information with others, which involves terminology or concepts not familiar to many people; regularly provide advice and recommend actions involving rather complex issues. May resolve problems within established practices.

2. Provides occasional guidance, some of which is technical.

E - Marketing Executive à Exhibition & Events Organizers Ltd
  • Kenya
  • janvier 2009 à décembre 2010

• SAP management and user support in my current position.

• A database design for stock control at a printing company: relating new functional requirements, existing file stores into a new conceptual design and using of Management Information System (Technique MIS).

• Defining the limits of executive information systems at a computer company: evaluating the experience of a sample of act and reneging users to the prior assessed benefits.

• Designing a security mechanism for object oriented database: relating multi-level security strategies to alternative security models.

• Practical evaluation of UNIX security: the vulnerability of the Company system to password capture and decryption.

• Problems of implementing web access to an operational database: a study of critical failure points in providing full transactional access.

• Office automation security at a petroleum company: how to implement critical services in an environment of available technology.

• Relating financial policy and management reporting at a computer company: solving IT problems of accounting periods by improving management understanding of their own information requirements.
• Survey of the use of optical storage in customer service departments at a major bank: the real benefits of massive on-line storage associating organizational change and competitiveness.

• C.A.S.E. Tool integration practice: where C.A.S.E. tools hinder rapid development and what can be done about it.

Sales / Marketing Agent à Outdoor spurs Group Ltd
  • Kenya
  • novembre 2005 à mai 2007

Sales / Marketing Agent- Outdoor spurs Group Ltd - Nov 2005 - May 2007

Éducation

Baccalauréat,
  • à Makerere University Kampala
  • mai 2009

Bachelor of Information Technology - Makerere University Kampala, Uganda, East Africa.

Baccalauréat, bachelor of science information technology
  • à makerere university kampala
  • mai 2009

graduated with a bachelors degree second class honord

Baccalauréat, second class honors
  • à makerere university
  • mai 2009

bachelors degree- informations technology

Baccalauréat,
  • à makerere university
  • mai 2009
Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, Tororo, Uganda, East
  • à Tororo Progressive Academy
  • novembre 2006

Certificate in A-LEVEL - Tororo Progressive Academy, Tororo, Uganda, East Africa.

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent,
  • à topa
  • mai 2005
Diplôme, Computer Applications
  • à Kings College
  • février 2003

Certificate in Computer Applications - Kings College, Kenya, East Africa.

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, LEVEL
  • à Kitale Boys High School
  • novembre 2002

Certificate in O - LEVEL - Kitale Boys High School, Kenya, East Africa.

Specialties & Skills

Marketing Mix
Web Development
MAINTENANCE
MARKETING
OPTIMIZATION
ORGANIZATION SKILLS
QUALITY ASSURANCE
SEARCH ENGINE
WEB DESIGN

Langues

Anglais
Expert

Adhésions

ihub tech
  • information system
  • May 2009

Formation et Diplômes

CCNP (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
April 2006
Valide jusqu'à:
June 2008