Eric Kavyu

Eric Kavyu Cellphone:- Email-Sex: Male Marital Status: Married Nationality: Kenyan Profile I am currently consulting for a government agency administering Hitachi blade server architecture and private cloud infrastructure in two data centers running VMware. Previously I was employed by Mahindra Comviva Ltd as a senior systems engineer to offer Infrastructure support (servers/storage/backup) to Airtel Money platform for Airtel Africa. I have worked as a systems Infrastructure engineer at Kenya airways where I was in charge of Unix/Linux/ VMware and Hyper-V environments in the Data center. I was also tasked with support for all Cargo Systems and applications. I have also worked as a systems administrator at Stanbic Bank. My roles included Server Administration on HPUX/Unix/AIX Platforms.T24/Model Bank Core Banking Application Administration. System Resources Administration on SAN Storage. My Career started at Standard Chartered Bank Offering first Level User ICT support to clients. I have over 10 years of broad knowledge of server technologies and architectures with the following OEMs :-Microsoft,Oracle,IBM,Cisco,HPE,DellEMC,Hitachi,Redhat and Netapp. On Job Training/ Professional Qualification 2013 DCUCS (Configuring Cisco Data Center Unified Computing System) 2012 NETAPP DOTA (DATA ONTAP 7 MODE ADMINISTRATION) 2012 VMware Vsphere 5.0 Install,Configure and Manage 2011 Oracle 11g Administration 2011 Prince 11 Foundation 2007 LINUX ADMINISTRATION 2008 HPUX/AIX Administration 2008 T24MB Core Banking System 2008 JBASE Administration 2008 CCNP Composite (PASS) 2008 CCNA (PASS) Education Graduate in BSC. Computer Science and Engineering Maseno University (Second Class Honors Upper Division). Work Experience May 2016-Present ICT Infrastructure Consultant. Currently consulting for a Kenyan government agency offering Enterprise systems support for infrastructure running over 50 Centers Performance monitoring, administration and capacity management for Hitachi storage solution Systems Administration in a vast Hitachi blade server architecture and cloud infrastructure in two data centers May 2013 – May 2016 Senior Systems Engineer at Mahindra Comviva Duties Performing Health checks and capacity management for Netapp Storage Solution. Server administration in a mixed environment of rack mountable and Blade servers. Implementation of Bharti security policy on Airtel Money Infrastructure. Live/Test Environment setup, Configuration, commissioning and Maintenance. Installation, Configuration and commissioning of Servers and application Monitoring tools. Component Capacity Management. Installation and Configuration of server based operating systems and applications. Security Audit mitigation tasks. Implementation of Bharti backup policy on Airtel Money servers. Infrastructure support for Airtel Money Projects. Maintaining Server Inventory. Performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as and when required. Generation of Change requests and Method of procedures for all Infrastructure related Changes in all Countries and User Administration. Achievements  Antivirus installation, configuration and maintenance in all Airtel Operating Countries in Africa  Installation of new / rebuild existing servers and hardware configurations  Audit mitigation tasks (Unnecessary share removal/administrator password changes/Server hardening/Password and account lockout policy implementation)  Airtel Money server syncing with NTP Servers in all countries.  Implementation of Bharti security policy by Implementation of operating system patching in all countries  Implementation of Bharti backup policy on AM servers and scheduling all countries/supporting infrastructure for daily Database backup on all countries  Infrastructure support for Database Migration Projects.  Installation, configuration and commissioning of Nagios Monitoring tool in all countries.  Installation, configuration and commissioning of Database Reporting Server  Scripting and deployment of UID management script October 2011 - May 2013 System Administrator Infrastructure at Kenya Airways Duties In charge of Linux/Unix Infrastructure Server Administration in a mixed environment of rack mountable and blade servers VMware/Windows HyperV Administration Administration of Applications on Unix/Linux/Oracle DB Environments Achievements  Administered Windows and Unix Based Operating Systems on Over 150 servers  Application Upgrade (cargo spot and Rapid Applications) running on Linux OS and Oracle databases.  RHN satellite installation, configuration and commissioning.  Implementation of Windows and Linux based operating system and patching.  Continuously maintained Server Inventory for all Countries.  Initiated and Led VMware Virtualization Project.  Actively involved in DR Infrastructure Setup and testing.  Actively involved in Datacenter Revamp.  Actively involved in the Relocating, Installing and Configuration of NetApp FAS2020 to a new DR site June 2007 - September 2011 Systems Administrator at CfC Bank and CfCStanbic Bank Duties Monitoring and administration of production environments and interfaces Monitoring and administration of all development/DR and test environment and interfaces Analyzing and troubleshooting systems and interfaces Acts as the point of contact between the bank and Temenos for COB related issues. Supporting and offering guidance to business users, on review and tests. Responsible for implementation and monitoring of automation tools and scripts. Support in Close of Business (CoB) processes. Responsible for patches and fixes in T24. Supporting T24 application developments. Server Administration on HPUX/Unix Platforms MIS files extraction from T24/Model Bank. Daily System health/integrity Checks on servers running Core Banking app and Database. System Resources Administration on SAN Storage Monitor system/Network status and data storage capacity. Managing offsite and online daily tape movement complete daily/weekly/monthly checklists for all routine operation processes Ensuring optimum system performance. Daily DR restorations and checks Extraction of daily and Consolidated statements Extraction of Reports for the Business as and when required Application Log Backups. Documentation of processes and procedures. Data Archiving. Carrying out restores and Backups on T24 environments Purging Data on T24 Environments Achievements  Was actively involved in T24 and Bank Master Merger Project  Was actively involved in Upgrade to Model Bank  Participation in Business Projects  Training of new System Administrators  Carrying out End of Months COBS  Supervising Data Center team  Housekeeping policy design and implementation Aug 2006 – May 2007 Systems Engineer at OpenView Business Systems Contracted at Standard Chartered Bank Duties Deploying software applications to client computers, Maintenance and updating system patches and antivirus. Offering remote assistance through a helpdesk system .Testing of software products before they are implemented. User PC support. Doing periodical system and file backups and restores. Server Administration Trouble-shooting and solving network related problems and system failures. Mail Client Configurations and AD Migration tasks. Achievements  AD Migration of Clients from Lotus Notes to MS Exchange.  Server Building and OS installation/Configuration EBBS Project. Referees: Godfrey Wakachunga,Infrastructure Specialist Stanbic Bank (Kenya) ltd Cell: - Email-Patrick Muema Kiilu,Technical Support Systems (T.S.S) Standard chartered Bank Cell: - Email- Richard Maina Wanjiru,Switch Support Analyst Kenya Bankers Association Cell: - Email-