CCRRAAIIGG GGRRAANNTT

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Phone: +27-82-852-**** – Email: actc24@r.postjobfree.com - D.O.B: 20 January 1977 EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Last School Attended Carleton Jones High (1990 – 1994) Highest Standard Matric – Subjects: English, Afrikaans, Mathematics, Science, Biology, Accountancy (All on Higher Grade)

HIGHER EDUCATION

Oxford College 2 Year Advanced Computer Science Diploma 1995-1996 Subjects: Visual Basic, Unix, C++, Perl Scripting, Turbo Pascal, Delphi, General Networking and PC Support

Achievements: Best Computer Science Student 1996, 94% Average. Certifications

Microsoft MCSE NT 4.0 1997

MCSE 2000 2004

MCSE 2003 2006

CISCO CCNA 2006

CCNP 2007

CCIP

CCIE R&S #49170

2008

2015

Currently working towards CCIE DataCenter

Certificates

Dimension Data Training Solutions Windows 2000 Upgrade Course 2001 Dimension Data Training Solutions Exchange 2000 2001 Torque IT McAfee Antivirus 2002

Duxbury Networking Enterasys Switch Routing 2002

Duxbury Networking Wireless Networking 2002

Torque IT Microsoft Operations Manager 2006

IBM Netcool OMNIbus 2009

Juniper Juniper switching and Routing 2009

IPanema IPanema 2010

Computerlinks UK Checkpoint Firewall R70 2010

Torque IT

Cisco Systems

ITIL Foundation

Nexus 9000 Test Drive

2011

2015

CCRRAAIIGG GGRRAANNTT

43 High Trees, Eversdal, Durbanville, Cape Town, 7550, South Africa Phone: +27-82-852-**** – Email: actc24@r.postjobfree.com - D.O.B: 20 January 1977 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Employer Dimension Data

Address Black River Park, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925 Date Of Employment 8 December 2013 – Present

Title Senior Network Engineer

Outsource Engineer

Customers 8 December 2013 – Present

Woolworths: Senior Network Engineer.

Enterprise Network Architecture and Management.

Data Center design and Configuration. This

includes Nexus 7K, Nexus 5K and Nexus 2K running

Fabric Path and FCoE across fully redundant

secondary Datacenter.

3rd Line Support for over 400 Retail Stores and 6 Regional Distribution Centers connecting via MPLS

totaling over 2500 devices.

Local and wide area network installations

EIGRP, MPLS, BGP, HSRP, Etherchannel and vPC

Wireless. Configuration of wireless infrastructure. Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers. Models 5500 and

7500 Flexconnect controllers. Technical lead on the conversion of 1500 Access Points from Autonomous

to Lightweight on Flexconnect.

Configuration of Bridgewave Wireless links for

Major Distribution Centers using redundant

triangulation and UDLD.

Cisco IOS upgrades and standardization.

Perl and PHP Scripting using SNMP and MySQL for

automation tools. (Switch config generators and

management portal)

CCRRAAIIGG GGRRAANNTT

43 High Trees, Eversdal, Durbanville, Cape Town, 7550, South Africa Phone: +27-82-852-**** – Email: actc24@r.postjobfree.com - D.O.B: 20 January 1977 Employer Tullow Oil Cape Town

Address 11th Floor, Convention Towers, Foreshore, Cape Town Date Of Employment 1 Oct 2010 – 30 June 2013

Title Infrastructure Analyst

Responsibilities

Support, monitoring and maintenance of the current infrastructure in Cape Town.

Provide high level advice and recommendations in all aspects of infrastructure.

Form part of the Global infrastructure team assisting with projects and infrastructure maintenance.

Extensive work with all CISCO routers and Switches, Windows servers, Solarwinds, Prognosis, Checkpoint Firewalls and IPanema.

Documentation including Visio Diagrams.

Developing tools to simplify tasks relating to standardization and configuration management.

Compilation of documents for standardizing the global network

Reviewing Logs, data analysis and trends for ongoing capacity management.

Member of the Technical review Board for Microsoft and CISCO.

Manage and maintain the storage system (NetApp & Brocade FC).

Responsible for the backup and restore strategy.

Producing weekly reports on outages and monthly reports on capacity and system availability.

Bandwidth management and prioritization using IPanema and Riverbed. Key Strengths

TCP/IP – All Aspects of IP addressing, subnetting and TCP/IP as a protocol

Perl Scripting

CISCO switching and Routing

Solarwinds administration and reporting

SNMP scripting, monitoring and analysis

Storage. In-depth knowledge of NetApp and general storage technologies. CCRRAAIIGG GGRRAANNTT

43 High Trees, Eversdal, Durbanville, Cape Town, 7550, South Africa Phone: +27-82-852-**** – Email: actc24@r.postjobfree.com - D.O.B: 20 January 1977

Thorough understanding and practice of ITIL

Visio and detailed documentation

SQL and MySQL database design and queries.

Functional web design using PHP and SQL scripts

Strong written and verbal communication

Employer Verizon Business SA/MTN Business (ISP)

Address 2nd Floor, Heron Place, Century City, Cape Town Date Of Employment 1 December 2006 – 30 September 2010 Title Network Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

Design and implement customer network solutions.

Worked extensively with CISCO routers, switches and PIX firewalls.

Worked very closely with Pre-Sales in assisting them with complex network designs.

Close working relationship with Telkom (Local Telecoms) and am very familiar with Diginet circuits using both Channelized E1 and STM1.

Configuration of BGP, MPLS, QOS, VLANS and HSRP on a daily basis.

IP Administrator for all public IP allocations for Verizon Business/MTN Business SA.

Scripting and developing IT management and revision control utilities for infrastructure ensuring accurate revision and change management.

Automated deployment of customer equipment and standardization of the core network using CVS (Concurrent Version System) on Unix. Key Strengths

Completed many multiple site MPLS implementations.

The largest being 35 sites with internet breakout and a private MPLS APN to Vodacom. Pam Golding in total is +- 60 sites connecting via static IP ADSL into their MPLS infrastructure. All the above sites deployed with scripting and versioning.

Perl Scripting

Tools and utility development for change management CCRRAAIIGG GGRRAANNTT

43 High Trees, Eversdal, Durbanville, Cape Town, 7550, South Africa Phone: +27-82-852-**** – Email: actc24@r.postjobfree.com - D.O.B: 20 January 1977 Employer SAB Miller Africa and Asia

Address 2 Jan Smuts Ave, Braamfontein, Johannesburg Date Of Employment 1 February 2006 – 31 November 2006 Title Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities

Design and implement a Global network for all the SAB regions in Africa.

Allocation of the TCP/IP address scheme for all regions +-30 offices around Africa.

Configuration and implementation of all CISCO routers and switches Globally

Active Directory migration for all African Regions

Maintain and Support local IT Infrastructure

Provide advice and recommendations to all offices

Monitor and analyze infrastructure using Solarwinds and packeteer

Integrated Solarwinds, Microsoft Operations manager and Unicenter Service desk for automatic ticket logging of events

Key Strengths

Active Directory

Backup Exec

Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft SQL

Cisco routing and switching

Solarwinds

TCP/IP

Packeteer (Quality of service and bandwidth management)

Microsoft Operations Manager

CCRRAAIIGG GGRRAANNTT

43 High Trees, Eversdal, Durbanville, Cape Town, 7550, South Africa Phone: +27-82-852-**** – Email: actc24@r.postjobfree.com - D.O.B: 20 January 1977 Employer MB Worksoft

Address Cnr 3rd and Rivonia Rd, Rivonia, Sandton

Date Of Employment 2 January 2002 – 31 January 2006 Title Network/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities

Management and maintenance of the IT department and infrastructure.

Maintained approximately 20 servers and 100 users in our building.

Small ISP for all the group companies and various clients (+- 12 WAN links).

Developed MRTG graphing and used Sitara Appliance for Quality of service and bandwidth management.

Configured CISCO routers and switches using channelized E1. Key Strengths

CISCO routers and Switches

3COM superstack III switches on the core network

Windows NT4, 2000, 2003

Exchange 2000

Sitara bandwidth management and Quality of service Employer Dimension Data Enterprise Systems

Address Cnr Sloane & Medowbrook, Epson Downs, Johannesburg Date Of Employment 1 February 1999 – 31 December 2002 Title Network/Systems Engineer

Outsource Engineer

Customers 12 June 2000 - 31 Dec 2002

CCRRAAIIGG GGRRAANNTT

43 High Trees, Eversdal, Durbanville, Cape Town, 7550, South Africa Phone: +27-82-852-**** – Email: actc24@r.postjobfree.com - D.O.B: 20 January 1977 NBC Holdings: Systems Administrator.

26 Servers, 4 Exchange servers.

Designed and Implemented MS Exchange 5.5 for

all regions (DBN, PE, CPT, JHB).

Local and wide area network installations

CISCO router management and Implementation.

SQL 7.0 Installation and administration

Installation of a Compaq SAN

Installation of Windows 2000 Advanced Servers

5 April 2000 – 9 June 2000

Dimension Data Oval: Microsoft Exchange

Administrator for the Group.

Approximately 20,000 mailboxes

1 February 1999 – 31 March 2000

Sentrachem: Systems Administrator.

70 NT4.0 Servers, 14 Exchange Servers

General Server maintenance. (DHCP, DNS, WINS,

backup, security, Exchange 5.5).

Employer Stream and CableCom

Address Johannesburg

Date Of Employment 2 February 1998 – 29 January 1999 Title Support Engineer

Outsource Engineer

Customers 24 March 1998 – 29 January 1999

Afrox Health Care: Support Engineer.

LAN and WAN Installations.

Configuration of CISCO Routers and Microsoft

Servers

CCRRAAIIGG GGRRAANNTT

43 High Trees, Eversdal, Durbanville, Cape Town, 7550, South Africa Phone: +27-82-852-**** – Email: actc24@r.postjobfree.com - D.O.B: 20 January 1977 2 February 1998 – 23 March 1998

Investec Bank: Desktop Support

Workstation Software installations.

Desktop Support

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