Information Technology Years Experience

Stephen Odanga

Email: ********@*************.***

Address:

City: Winnetka

State: CA

Zip: 91306

Country: USA

Phone: 818-***-****

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Primary Skills/Experience:

Professional, detail-oriented Sr. Network administrator with 10 years experience. Motivated to drive projects from start to finish, independently and with a team.

Educational Background:

High School Dipolma from Cal State NorthRidge, Northridge CA 1/2001 to 8/2002 (Information Technology)

Job History / Details:

Career Overview

Professional, detail-oriented Sr. Network administrator with 10 years experience. Motivated to drive projects from start to finish, independently and with a team.

Qualifications

Excellent problem-solving abilities

Strong analytical skills

Comfortable with change

Fostering teamwork

Enterprise-Wide solutions

Vendor/Client relations

Excellent communication skills

On-call experience

Capacity/scalability planning

Team building/leadership

Strong problem solving/troubleshooting skills

Hands-on and proactive

Resource/capacity planning

System backups

Various operating systems

Remote access technology

Windows and Linux

Computer applications

Database servers

Network/server maintenance

System upgrades

Patch management

System backups

Enterprise-Wide solutions

Data backup/retrieval

Network improvements/repairs/upgrades

Troubleshooting XP, Outlook and VPN

Enterprise technologies

HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server

Microsoft MSCA/MCSE Certified

Excellent diagnostic skills

Technical Skills

Skills Experience Total Years Last Used

Windows, XenApp, xendesktop, Exch2010, VMWare Citrix, Vmware,Netapp,Exch 10

Accomplishments

Network Support

Acted as first point of contact for all major technical issues, including power outages, system failures and disaster recovery.

Oversaw infrastructure of twenty offices and acted as support for help-desk technicians and IT Department.

System Integration

Aligned office departments and increased inter-department communication and data sharing.

Problem Resolution

Responsible for support and development of company disaster recovery plan.

Served as advocate for end-users, performing tests and problem analysis for server, desktop and IT infrastructure work.

Network Security

Planned, installed, maintained and optimized documentation of all LAN/WAN/VPN network hardware and software, security systems and communication links.

Managed all clients network LAN/WAN hardware including routers, switches, load balancers and wireless networking equipment.

Installation

Installed appropriate security patches to dissolve security vulnerabilities.

System Upgrade

Created and drove infrastructure migration strategy to begin transformation of SSIT from a legacy client-server workshop to a modern business-aligned operation built upon enterprise architecture best practices.

Network Security

Updated network systems to support confidential company operations and eliminate hacking ability.

Leadership

Served as leader of the Network design team.

Work Experience

November 2001 to Current

First California Bank Westlake Village, CA

Sr. Network Administrator / VP. Technology Officer

Provided daily support to ensure company staff had necessary tools to perform tasks efficiently.

Ensured network, system and data availability and integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades.

Administered in-house and telecommuters phone system, network, Internet, e-mail and web site connectivity.

Designed Sharepoint masterpage and page layouts, serving as company's main Sharepoint support for all technical complications.

Created test environments by installing VMWare virtual machine, Window XP, and Citrix XenApp and Xendesktop.

Recommended network security standards to management.

Monitored network performance and provided network performance statistical reports for both real-time and historical measurements.

Installed and supported over 300 Microsoft Windows Servers in an Active Directory Cluster.

Designed and developed SharePoint Portal Architecture, including creating SharePoint Site Templates, WSS Sites and Portal Sites.

Education and Training

Cal State NorthRidge NorthRidge, CA

Information Technology

Coursework in Information Technology and Computer Applications

Continued education classes in Distributed Computing, Networks and Databases

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