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Office Administrator

Location:
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted:
September 08, 2014

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Resume:

Jim Gluftsis

*** **** *****, ***** ****, Toronto, Ontario M1P 5A9

416-***-**** • ***.********@*****.***

For several years, my involvement in the Macintosh community has allowed me pursue the strategic distribution of

easy and powerful computing tools to all users, maximizing their efficiency and minimizing downtime.

Employment History

Jan

2012

present

George

Brown

College

(contract)

Position:

Technologist

Duties:

Maintenance

of

Mac

and

Windows

hardware

and

software

Ad-

hoc

assistance

with

facilities

at

new

campus

Jan

2005

Oct

2005

Watt

International

(full-

time)

Position:

Technical

Support

Administrator

Duties:

Support

Macintosh

and

Windows

users

and

applications

March

2007

present

Maintain

Windows

and

Mac

OS

X

Server

back-

end

(contract)

Achievements:

Migration

of

Xinet

server

from

SGI

to

OS

X

Server

Standardized

Mac

OS

X

and

Windows

XP

image

for

all

Macs

Supported

and

setup

twenty-

man

Dubai

office

remotely

Installed

hardware

for

network

and

server

virtualization

Jan

2009

present

H&R

Block

(part-

time

seasonal)

Position:

Tax

Professional

Duties:

Prepare

tax

returns

for

clients

Receive

payments

and

issue

CashBack

debit

refund

Sept

2005

present

Summerhill

Group

(formerly

Clean

Air

Foundation)

(part-

time)

Positions:

Program

Representative;

Team

Lead;

Area

Coordinator

Duties:

Promote

environmental

solutions

Mentor

and

train

new

program

representatives

Liaise

with

management

of

retail

stores

Achievements:

Evolved

from

Program

Rep

to

Area

Coordinator

Provided

improved

logistics

ideas

during

various

campaigns

June

2002

Dec

2004

Iovate

Health

Sciences

(formerly

MuscleTech

Research

and

Development)

(full-

time)

Position:

Network

Administrator,

Macintosh

Systems

Duties:

Nov

2005

Feb

2007

Provide

local

end-

user

support

to

graphic

artists

(contract)

Install

and

maintain

computers,

peripherals

and

software

Manage

NEC

PBX

phone

system

and

voicemail

system

Achievements:

Upgraded

to

Macs

to

OS

X

v10.3;

integrated

into

Active

Directory

Developed

disk-

image

archiving

procedures

Documented

all

Mac

procedures

in

internal

Knowledge

Base

2

Jan

1996

Mar

2002

TD

Bank

Financial

Group

(full-

time)

Position:

Macintosh

Systems

Administrator,

Legal

Division

Duties:

Provide

local

and

remote

end-

user

support

Install

computers,

peripherals,

software

Liaise

with

all

other

I.T.

areas

in

Bank

Achievements:

Cut

costs

on

maintenance

and

computer

acquisitions

Setup

independent

intranet/email

services

for

Division

Ad-

hoc

bank-

wide

Macintosh

contact

Apr

1990

Oct

1995

Fasken

Martineau

(formerly

Fasken

Campbell

Godfrey)

(full-

time)

Positions:

Support

Specialist;

Network

Administrator;

Macintosh

Programmer

Duties:

Provide

end-

user

support

to

over

500

Macintosh

users

Nov

1995

Oct

2001

Installation

of

computers,

software

and

networking

hardware

(contract)

Programming

of

HyperCard

XCMDs

in

MPW

'C'

Achievements:

Evolved

to

Network

Administrator

and

Macintosh

Programmer

Migrated

network

hardware

to

switched

Ethernet

and

fiber

Created

data

conversion

routines

for

in-

house

docket

system

Education

Midland

Avenue

Collegiate

Institute:

Ontario

Secondary

School

Honour

Graduation

Diploma

Ryerson

University:

Computer

Science

Degree

program

Computer-

related

Skills

Microsoft

Certified

Professional

(MCP)

Apple

Certified

Help

Desk

Specialist

(ACHDS)

Mac

OS

X

and

OS

X

Server

Apple

Remote

Desktop

Microsoft

Office

Microsoft

Exchange/Outlook/Entourage

Lotus

Notes

BackupExec

Blackberry

Enterprise

Server

Parallels

/

Fusion

/

VMWare

/

VirtualBox

Extensis

Suitcase/Fusion

&

Server

Adobe

Creative

Suite

Mac

OS

9

Classic

Quark

Xpress

AppleShare

Windows

Server

Active

Directory

Open

Directory

4th

Dimension

FileMaker

AppleTalk

TCP/IP

Dell

Ethernet

switches

Nortel

BIX

systems

NEC

PBX

Phone

System

Avaya

IP

Office

References

Available

on

request

Jim Gluftsis



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