MICHAEL BANFIELD
Address: Via Alessandro Cruto 32, 00146 Rome, Italy.
E-mail: *******.********@*****.***
Telephone: +39-06-929***** - +39-347-*******
Nationality: British
PROFILE
I have matured in-depth experience in the IT sector, within a technical,
managerial and Project Management environment, holding position with
constantly increasing responsibilities, ranging from a CED operator to a
systems analyst, right up to my current position as Project Manager with
the direct management of projects carried out upon key clients' premises.
Throughout the course of my career, I have acquired the following skills:
. Project management and coordination.
. Turnaround of non-productive projects.
. Management of the planning and the critical aspects of the project.
. Analysis and design of complex IT infrastructures.
. Development, management and consolidation of relations with key
accounts.
. Management of job orders during the technical and pre-sale stages.
. Summary of the clients' requirements and proposal of effective
solutions.
. Risk analysis.
. Budget definition and management.
I have a strong inclination for working towards objectives; I have
excellent negotiation, relational, empathic and communication skills with
different interlocutors together with entrepreneurial, project management,
problem solving, global view of business, multi-disciplinary and resource
management abilities.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Since February 2012 APS, Rome
ICT Engineer .
. Administration Active Directory
. Migration and administration Exchange 2003 to 2010
. Vpsphere 4.1 consolidation on IBM V7000 Storwize Storage
. Migration Backup Iinfrastructure based on Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3
. Disaster recovery Vsphere 4.1 environment.
. Implementation System and Network monitoring based on Manageengine
(Opmanger) products
. End user support
Since January 2008 Eurotecnoimpianti, Rome
- December 2011 Project Manager .
I have been responsible for the following projects:
Telecom Italia Spa:
. Management of the Vmware ESX 3.5 Infrastructure and Microsoft
Systems.(Technical Support)
Grandi Stazioni Spa:
. SQL2000 & Analysis server Cluster migration of IBM servers on IBM
DS4400 storage system.
. Backup of architecture consolidation carried out using SYMANTEC Backup
Exec 12.5.
Abbott Italia:
. Installation and configuration of ESX 3.5 Infrastructure on HP Eva
8000 storage system and the creation of two test environments based on
ESXi.
. SQL 2005 Enterprise migration on cluster x64 bit on HP Eva 8000
storage system.
. Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 migration on Symantec Backup Exec 12.5d.
. Symantec Recovery Server 8.0 configuration for the Disaster Recovery
of the main servers present in the Datacenter.
. File Share cluster migration on SAN HP Eva 8000 environment.
. Installation and configuration of secondary File Share Cluster and
Oracle10g Failsave on IBM DS4800.
. SQL2000 Ent. Ed Cluster migration on SAN IBM DS4800
November 2003 Alfa System, Rome
- December 2007 Project Leader and Senior Systems Analyst
. Co-ordination of the system activity relating to the pre-sales stage
on the Storage Area Network and NAS projects
. Configuration of Clustering, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity,
Server Consolidation solutions as well as the creation of virtual
infrastructures (VMWARE) and centralised back-ups.
I was responsible for the following projects:
Ministry of the Interior (Railway Police):
. As regards the branch offices in Palermo, Bari, Reggio, Cagliari and
Naples, I carried out updates of 15 SAN and 20 cluster file share
levels. Symantec Backup Exec migration from version 9.1 to 12.5,
installation of 5 IBM TS3200 libraries.
Abbott Italia:
. Installation and configuration of 3 Microsoft W2k clusters (File
Server, SQL cluster and Oracle) on IBM X Series 440 and 445 on highly-
reliable Totalstorage FastT200 server. Installation of ESX 2.0 server
and the subsequent migration to 2.1 (Vmware) on the same SAN as
regards the production environment. Creation of a test environment
with Vmware ESX.2.1 for 11 virtual servers.
. Configuration of centralised Backup with Veritas Backup Exec 9.0 for
the entire ABBOTT Server Farm (110 servers) with Agent SQL, Notes and
IDR (Disaster Recovery) on two Media Servers linked to a IBM 3584 LTO1
library.
. Creation of a Cluster Nodes with two IBM X Series 346 on IBM SAN
DS4300 Turbo.
. Implementation of Monitoring and Alert activities both for the SANs
and for the 440 and 445 servers in real time.
. Migration of the W2K Clusters to Windows 2003 Ent. Ed. on SAN DS4300
Turbo.
TAV (High Speed Train) and RFI (Italian National Railway Company)
. Installation and creation of two highly-reliable FastT700 of 4
terabyte each Remote mirroring. Configuration of a Cluster with W2k
File Share on mirrored arrays with the creation of script for a
Flashcopy of the same partitions.
. Centralised backup for 60 servers with two media servers that pilot a
Storagetech L40 library.
. Cluster installation of two ESX 2.5.2 servers on a FastT600 with the
virtualisation of certain servers by means of Vmware tools as a
Virtual Center (with Vmotion and P2V).
. Creation of a test environment for the repetition of data by means of
Veritas Volume Replicator.
. Installation and configuration of monitoring system via E-mail and Sms
(IBM Director 5.10) for the entire IT infrastructure including Trap.
. Creation of Disaster Recovery with Live State Advanced Server 6.0 by
Symantec for all servers.
Grandi Stazioni Spa:
. Configuration of a DS4400 of two Microsoft Clusters with two X series
445 (SQL and File Share clusters).
November 1998 Insirio Spa, Rome
October 2003 Project Leader and Senior Systems Analyst
. Management and co-ordination of the team of systems analysts in
Technip Italy
. I was responsible for the Insirio Group company network. Migration
from Nt 4.0 to Windows 2000 AD.
. Co-ordination of the systems activities relating to the pre-sales
stage.
I was responsible for the following projects:
Technip/KNPC (Kuwait National Petrol Company):
. Installation and configuration of the IBM server with EXP200 Storage
system in Raid linked to ATM at the operations centre in refinery for
the control of the external media of the system (valves, distillation
columns
Holiday Inn:
. Installation of two IBM Netfinity 5600 systems in a Cluster with a
clustered Oracle DB (Oracle Failsave). Migration project from Domino
NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 AD.
Eldo Group:
. Creation of a Cluster with two Netfinity 7100 systems linked to an IBM
Storage server (Shark), an IBM 3581 library for SAP on SQL 7.0 DB in
fault tolerance.
CTS Viaggi:
. Installation of three Application servers (IBM Netfinity 8500), linked
to an Oracle DB with Internet Information Server 4.0 in WLBS (Load
balancing). Migration of the servers from Windows 2000 with Oracle
Application Server 9 IAS and Apache in NLB (Network Load Balancing).
ICSC Central Institute for the Sustenance of Clergy):
. Installation and configuration of two Windows 2000 clusters linked in
a double fibre network to a Fast T500 via a pair of EXP500s.
Espresso Publishing Group:
. Installation and configuration of an IBM FastT700 Storage system with
two EXP500s linked to a pair of FC switch 3534s.
February 1986 Intema Spa, Rome
October 1998 Systems analyst and C.E.D. operator
. Client configuration for the connection to a Novell server, Windows
NT, VAX, Unisys using the TCP/IP, PCI, FTP 4.x, ONNET 32, Pathworks
(4.x, 5.x,1.0a 32bit), Novell (3.x, 4.x and 32bit), InfoConnect,
Rumba protocols and software
. Configuration of hardware and software of personal computers and
servers, the configuration of SCSI external media (Controller Raid,
Fibre Channel).
. Co-ordination, management and training of a team of Insirio
technicians.
. Installation and configuration of process programs (Aspen Tech,
Implant, Zyqad) both for the client and for the server.
. Drafting of the company procedures as well as the technical manuals
for the various SW products adopted.
. Installation of HW and SW of the Microsoft Cluster Server.
. Design and creation of the internal Intema network on a Windows
platform for Workgroup 3.11.
. CED operator for the Enel Headquarters on IBM 3090/9021 mainframe
systems.
. CED operator and shift supervisor in Intema in a Unisys 1100/72
environment.
CERTIFICATIONS
1999 MCP Microsoft "Certified Professional (Implementing and
supporting Microsoft NT
Server 4.0) ".
2002 MCP 70-210 "Configuring and Administering Windows 2000
Professional".
2002 MCP 70-215 "Configuring and Administering Windows 2000 Server".
1999 IBM "Selling IBM e-Business Solutions".
2004 IBM "High-End Disk Solution".
2007 FUJITSU Siemens Primergy System Engineer
2009 VMWARE Vi3 VCP 310
2009 VMWARE VSP4
2009 VMWARE VTSP4
2009 VMWARE vSphere VCP 410
201*-***-*** "Administration of Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows
Server".
2010 IBM "Midrange Storage Technical Support Specialist"
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2002 Microsoft, Rome
Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange 2000.
2002 Microsoft, Rome
Implementing and Managing Windows 2000 Directory Services
2004 IBM, Computer Gros, Empoli
@series Exact & Totalstorage achieving Technical Specialist
qualification.
2003 IBM, Rome
Clustering Solutions.
2004 IBM, Rome
Totalstorage IBM DS4000
2006 IBM, Milan
BladeCenter Workshop
2007 IBM, Computer Gros, Empoli
Virtualisation Experience.
1983 Secondary school diploma specialising in Languages
"Magnum" secondary school specialising in languages, Rome.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS
Italian: Excellent knowledge of written and oral skills.
English: Excellent knowledge of written and oral skills
German: Mother tongue
I do hereby authorise the treatment of the data that I personally
transmitted according to Art. 13 of the Leg. Decree n.196/2003.
Michael
Banfield