ELIAS SARKIS
Nationality: Greek
Date of birth: *9.11.1986
Mobile: +961-*-******
Email: adanbq@r.postjobfree.com
Skype ID: Greekou
LANGUAGES (Speaking, writing, and reading)
English, arabic and french
WORK EXPERIENCE
FRANSABANK - Beirut - Lebanon March 2014 – present
IT- System Administrator (IBMi platform)
AS400 and SAB administrator, IBMi solution.
In charge of production, backup, testing, DR environments, and upgrading environments.
Working on technical issues, configuration, installation, update, migration and maintenance regarding IBMi system’s hardware and software, devices and related infrastructure.
Familiar with the below methods:
Virtualization on iPlatform, LUNs, storage, Flash, VIOS, tiers, RPT, Datastage, EMU, Crypto, IBTrace, replication through Mimix and clustering.
DICTALIVE – Jounieh- Lebanon February 2018 – September 2018
Project Manager (freelancer)
Relocation of the company – architecting the infrastructure
(network, redundancy, connections, server-room, strategic design, etc).
TMI – JWT Co. – Beirut - Lebanon December 2010 – February 2014
IT Assistant
MAC & Windows Environment
Backup systems, EMC storage, NAS, Cisco routers
Servers Administrator
Networking
Pizza Hut /Call Center – Jounieh -Lebanon January 2006 – September 2010
Supervisor, Trainer, Traffic manager
EDUCATION AND TRAININGS
IBMi System administrator 2015
IBM-Arrows center - London – England
MCITP Administrator Enterprise 2012
New Horizon – Beirut – Lebanon
CCNA 1 & CCNA 2 2011
American Center – Jounieh – Lebanon
Bachelor of Science-Major: Information Technology 2005-2010
Universite Saint Esprit de Kaslik (USEK) – Lebanon
SKILLS
SW related knowledge and skills: UNIX admin, C++, C, Xhtml, Xml, VB.net, Database, Microsoft office, Java, Oracle admin, web designer, networking, OpenGL, SQL, and PL/SQL.
Computer related skills: HW and SW operation and maintenance
Networking skills: implementation, and maintenance under both UNIX and Microsoft environments, including IP planning and routers configuration.
O B J E C T I V E
Employment with challenge and growth potential based on team efforts and achievements.
A position requiring a high spirit of innovation, creativity and utilizing my experience and skills.
Qualification Summary
For more than 8 years of Information Technology experience, among which, over 5 years at FransaBank, Data Center responsible of a scope related to the Core Banking Application environment running on an IBMi high end systems part of a highly qualified team, I gained a multi ways experience, a mix of communication, technical and teaming spirit.
I have been repeatedly recognized for handling the IBMi platform existing in the bank and became responsible for a lot of tasks related to the OS400 in a short period of time, which required from my side a lot of efforts, researches and time dedication in order to prove myself as this environment is considered as one of the hardest.
Known for excellence client-facing skills, I have participated in presentations and proposals that improved my using to the database and its structure. My i-Platform experience has been complemented and enhanced with few education courses to become more specialized in information strategic planning. A training in London- England made raised my level and improved my knowledge in the “IBMi AS400 System administration”.
Moving to the technical expertise, it includes replication proficiency on i-Platform (clustering and mimix) between different sites, fluency in scripting CL programs and SQL, and advanced knowledge of the newest IBM solution architecture (flash, SSD, Quorum, tiers).
I have solid experience in managing and marketing support of an assigned task and large projects, initiates and direct programs and scopes to a successful conclusion.
My experience is enriched throughout the past years, by continuous technical and marketing oriented projects, in communication, technical and marketing.