Kayode Fatoki

 Curriculum Vitae Kayode Fatoki L3 TS Implementation Engineer Contents 1.PERSONAL INFORMATION4 2.EDUCATION5 3.CERTIFICATIONS6 4.CAREER INTEREST7 5.ACTIVITIES8 6.EXPERIENCE9 7.REFEREES19 1. PERSONAL INFORMATION ID Number:-. Phone: 076 -. Language: English, Yoruba. Years of Experience: 24 Years. Location: South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg. Email:- 2. EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE, SOUTH AFRICA December 2002, B.Sc. Hons (Computer Science) Subjects: Advanced Java, Distributing and parallel processing, Web distributing, artificial intelligence. UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE, SOUTH AFRICA December 2001, B.Comm (Computer Science and Economics) Subjects: Economics, Computer science, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Introduction to Computer, Software engineering, Computer architecture, Econometrics, International Economics, Commercial law, Human relations. September 2003, Pastel Accounting Certificate May 2004, International Computer Driver’s License Certificate (ICDL) COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL HIGH SCHOOL June 1993, Senior School Certificate Examination (Matric)      METHODIST PRIMARY SCHOOL, 1978 – 1985 3. CERTIFICATIONS Implementing HP StorageWorks EVA Solutions Designing and Implementing HP SAN Solutions Implementing MSA Solutions Storage Data Protector 6.0 Fundamentals for Windows  Accredited Presale Consultant for HP Enterprise Storage Solution MCSE EMC Information and Storage Management. EMC VNX Platform Engineer. EMC Avamar Administration IBM Storage Top Gum IBM Enterprise Storage Technical Support V5 Big Data 101(Cognitive Class) – IBM Big Data Foundation Certification-Partner---TECHNICAL-Architect---8.4 Certification-Partner---TECHNICAL-Base---8.4 AWS Solution Foundation for Partner – Business AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials-Security AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials-Architecting VMware vSphere VCP 5.5 Certificate of Completion HPE Standard ProLiant and Blade Server Service and Solution Qualification HPE Modular Storage Arrays (MSA) Service and Solution Certificate. Dell PoweStore Certificate. 4. CAREER INTEREST Like to explore any career opportunities presented to me and learn innovative technologies. 5. ACTIVITIES Computer Science Student Society Chairperson (March 2001 – Nov. 2002) Third Year Computer Science Students Representative (Feb. 2001 – Nov. 2001) Second Year Computer Science Students Representative (Feb. 2000 – Nov. 2000) 6. EXPERIENCE Organization: NTT Data Department: TIS Technical Services Operations Position: TS Implementation Engineer (L3) Status: Full Time Date: Nov 2023 – Current Job Duties: Implementation, Maintenance and support of HPE, DELL, Pure, Cisco and Brocade products. Implementation, maintenance, support and configuration of HPE, Dell and Cisco servers. Administration, Storage allocation, monitoring and troubleshooting of HPE, Pure and Dell Storage arrays. Implementation, configuration and support of Cisco Director Switches and Brocade Switches. Zoning on Cisco Director Switches and Brocade Switches Code Upgrade on HPE and Dell products. Performance tuning, performance reporting and capacity forecasting on storage array. Managing VMware environments for various Clients. Performing health checks on HPE and Dell Products for clients. Break & Fix on all HPE and DELL products. Organization: Datacentrix Department: Hardware Department Position: Senior Support Engineer Status: Full Time Date: Feb 2023 – Oct 2023 Job Duties: Implementation, Maintenance and support of HPE 3PAR, Primera, MSA, StoreOnce and Synergy Frame. Implementation, maintenance, support and configuration of all HPE servers. Administration, Storage allocation, monitoring and troubleshooting of HPE Storages arrays. Implementation, configuration and support of Cisco Director Switches and Brocade Switches. Zoning on Cisco Director Switches and Brocade Switches Code Upgrade on all HPE products. Performance tuning, performance reporting and capacity forecasting on storage array. Performing health checks on HPE Products for clients. Break & Fix on all HPE products. Organization: EOH(IOCO) Department: Managed Services (Dedicated Resource for Western Cape Government) Position: Senior Azure Administrator Status: Full Time Date: September 2022 – Jan 2023. Job Duties: Microsoft Hyper-V implementation, administration and support. VMware vSphere implementation, administration and support. Deploying VMs into Virtual Networks. Configuring VM for Optimum Cost, Performance, and Security. Backing up VMs and potentially providing Fail-over Recovery. Securing Data against unauthorized access Backing Up Data and making it efficient to restore when needed. Configuring long-term archival storage to maintain corporate compliance. Use Log Analytics to write a simple query. Understand the schema of your data. Filter, sort, and group results Apply a time range. Create charts. Save and load queries. Export and share queries. Organization: Diopoint Department: IT Services (Dedicated Resource for Airports Company South Africa) Position: Team Lead/Senior Storage and Backup Engineer Status: Full Time Date: June 2021 – August 2022 Job Duties: Manages the growth and success of the team. Coordinates activities that affect operational decisions and business requirements Communicates with all relevant employees to ensure delivery times are met. Plans, schedules, and reviews workload and workforce to make sure targets are being met on a cost-effective basis. Monitors production standards Identifying and acting on opportunities to improve and update software and systems. Developing and implementing IT policy and best practice guides for the organization. Conducting regular system audits. Overseeing and determining time frames for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations, and outages. Managing and reporting on allocation of IT budget. Identifying opportunities for team training and skills advancement. Day to Day Administration, troubleshooting & Supporting of DELLEMC Unity, DELLEMC VNX, DELLEMC VNXe, VMware cluster and brocade switches. Software and hardware upgrade Implementation. New SAN Storage arrays implementation. Capacity forecasting and planning. Generate capacity, utilization and infrastructure health checks reports daily. Zoning configuration and storage provisioning. Change Control and Incidents Administration and Coordination via SNOW. Organization: EOH(IOCO) Department: Managed Services (Dedicated Resource for ABInBev (SAB)) Position: Senior Storage Administrator Status: Full Time Date: April 2019 – April 2020 Job Duties: Day to Day Administration, troubleshooting & supporting of VMAX, VNX, VNXe, Isilon, Elastic Cloud Storage arrays, HPE MSA, HPE 3Par, HPE StoreOnce, VMware cluster, Hyper-V cluster and brocade switches. Software and hardware upgrade Implementation. New Storage arrays implementation. Capacity forecasting and planning. Generate Capacity and utilization reports daily. Zoning and storage provisioning. Change Control and Incidents Administration and Coordination via SNOW. Prepare SLA for Client Performance Analysis. Organization: Armstronic PTY LTD Department: Operations and IT Position: Operations and IT Manager Status: Consultant Date: Nov 2017 – March 2019 Job Duties: Manages the growth and success of the team. Coordinates activities that affect operational decisions and business requirements Communicates with all relevant employees to ensure delivery times are met. Plans, schedules, and reviews workload and workforce to make sure targets are being met on a cost-effective basis. Monitors production standards Identifying and acting on opportunities to improve and update software and systems. Developing and implementing IT policy and best practice guides for the organization Conducting regular system audits Overseeing and determining timeframes for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations, and outages Managing and reporting on allocation of IT budget Identifying opportunities for team training and skills advancement Organization: M2TD Consulting Department: IT Position: SAN Storage, Backup and Cloud Solution Architect Status: Full Time Date: Feb 2017 – 10th Oct 2017 Job Duties: Solution Design Duties (summarised): Provide consultative selling, design the solution; integrate end-to-end solution and services that meet customer requirements especially for cloud infrastructure. Formulate infrastructure strategy and adoption strategy for customer. Produce detailed design specifications specifically for cloud infrastructure. Define orchestration requirements to provision infrastructure. Identify infrastructure components required to support product features and define configurable parameters for cloud infrastructure. Create technical solutions for outsourcing opportunities. Translate customer requirements, product features into technical requirements Research and development. Duties (summarised): Research and provide examples of infrastructure configuration to support product features. Identify tools and product customisation which could enable M2TD to better address its partners’ technology and business needs and work with sales team. Develop in-depth knowledge of M2TD’s offerings and how they integrate and interact with our customers. Infrastructure solution development for various technologies within the technical service area Design and execution Duties (summarised): Deliver business, technology and overall technical solution planning and execution of the design (Storage, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V etc), Cisco and Brocade Switches). Managing Change and Development Duties (summarised): Align customer requirements and M2TD’s service portfolio to win new business engagements by leading. Processes and solutions to enhance M2TD’s competitiveness; integrate existing service offerings into new deals. Manage product operations and technical issue resolution, advise customers and partners on optimal configuration, and operate as general tech-to-business translator where needed. Provide the vision and strategy to customer and M2TD internal teams to develop, scalable, repeatable. Identify customer impacting technical issues, escalate and manage to resolution. Employee Responsiveness Duties (summarised): Operating in a fast-paced environment where every detail counts and responsiveness is an absolute necessity. Teamwork Duties (summarised): Process to sales pursuit efforts Collaborate with the various internal and external teams in pursuit of new business contracts. Early engagement in the sales cycle to understand requirements and business divers. Assisting with RFP’s and RFI’s and other technical questionnaires Provide technical and subject matter support to the sales team. Work with prospective partners and clients to gather business requirements, goals, and insights. Process Operation Duties (summarised): Ensuring compliance with technical and contractual requirements of RFP’s Organization: EMC Department: Residency (for ABSA) Position: SAN Storage Operation Specialist Status: Full Time Date: August 2015 – Dec 2016 Job Duties: Day to Day Administration, Installation, troubleshooting & supporting of 26 Cisco switches. Software and hardware upgrade. Generate utilization and any other SAN issues report. Port allocation and Zoning. Planning and Implementing Migration process between new and legacy Cisco Switches. Monitoring and Reporting via DCNM. Change Control Administration and Coordination. Organization: EMC Department: Residency (for Anglo Gold Ashanti) Position: Storage Operation Specialist Status: Full Time Date: July 2014 – July 2015 Job Duties: Day to Day Administration, Installation, troubleshooting & Supporting of VNX Storage arrays, data domain, Cisco and brocade switches. Software and hardware upgrade. Capacity forecasting and planning. Generate Capacity and utilization reports. Zoning and storage provisioning. Installation, implementation and Administration EMC Control Centre. Installation, implementation and Administration EMC VNX monitoring and Reporting Tool. Organization: Business Connection Department: Backup and Recovery Position: Senior System Engineer Status: Full Time Date: October 2013 – June 2014 Job Duties: Day to Day Administration, Installation, troubleshooting & Supporting of Avamar Backup Server, data domain and Data Protection advisor. Resolve and closing calls through ITSM. Resolve Customers Escalation Issues. Organization: EMC Department: MSS Position: Customer Engineer Status: Full Time Date: Feb 2013 – Sept 2013 Job Duties: Administration and Maintenance of Backup System using EMC Networker Administration, Installation & Supporting of Avamar Ver. 5 – 7 Backup Server. Implementation and configuration of EMC Symmetric VMAX, VMAXe, DMX Clariion CX4, VNX series, VNXe, Data Domain, File Management Appliance and Centera, Storage Array. Administration, Storage allocation, monitoring and troubleshooting of Symmetris arrays via SMC, Unisphere, Unisphere 360 and Symmcli. Implementation and administration of EMC Elastic Cloud Storage. Implementation of EMC Connectrix with Cisco Director Switches (MDS 9000 series). Code Upgrade on all EMC products. Break & Fix on all EMC products. Organization: EMC Department: TSG Position: Implementation Delivery Engineer Status: Full Time Date: July 2010 – Jan 2013 Job Duties: Implementation and administration of EMC Elastic Cloud Storage. Administration and Maintenance of Backup System using EMC Networker. Administration, Installation & Supporting of Avamar Ver. 5.x – 8.x Backup Server. Implementation and configuration of EMC Symmetric VMAX, VMAXe, DMX Clariion CX4, VNX series, VNXe, Data Domain, File Management Appliance and Centera Storage Array. Administration, Storage allocation, monitoring and troubleshooting of Symmetris arrays via SMC, Unisphere, Unisphere 360 and Symmcli. Implementation of EMC Connectrix with Cisco Director Switches (MDS 9000 series). Code Upgrade on all EMC products. List of Projects Participated in: Client Task City Power Implementation and Configuration of Dell EMC Unity and RecoverPoint. Upgrade of Networker backup server. Implementation and Configuration of EMC Elastic Cloud Storage. Department of International Relations Implementation and Configuration of Dell EMC XtremeIO and Isilon. Implementation and Configuration of EMC Elastic Cloud Storage BAE System Avamar Installation and Configuration. Nedbank New Cisco MDS 9000 series installation and Upgrade. Initialization, configuration and upgrade (Cabling, Adding DAE’s and Disks) of Clarrion CX4. Telkom Symmentrix VMAX Upgrade (Adding DAE’s and Disk). Initialization, configuration and upgrade (Cabling, Adding DAE’s and Disks) of Clarrion CX4. Implementation and Configuration of EMC Elastic Cloud Storage Woolworth (Cape Town) Avamar Installation and Configuration. Vodacom Clarrion initialization, configuration and upgrade (Cabling, Adding DAE’s and Disks). New installation of Centera (initialization and configuration). ABSA New Cisco MDS 9000 series installation and Upgrade. New installation, configuration and upgrade (Cabling, Adding DAE’s and Disks) of Symmetrix VMAX. Decommission of DMX4. Business Connexion New installation, configuration and upgrade (Cabling, Adding DAE’s and Disks) of Symmentrix VMAX. Credit Suisse Cisco Switch licensing. City of Johannesburg Symmetrix VMAX Upgrade (Adding DAE’s, Disk and re-configuration). Scorpion Legal Protection Dis-assembling and re-assembling of VNX. T-System Configuration of SMNP Traps. First Distribution New installation, configuration and upgrade (Cabling, Adding DAE’s and Disks) of Symmetrix VMAX. Standard Bank Stack, rack and re-configuration of Symmetrix DMX. Implementation and Configuration of EMC Elastic Cloud Storage Gijima/Columbus Steel Initialization, configuration, stack and rack of VNX 5700 and VNXe 3300. Super Group Code Upgrade on VNX 5700 VOX Symmetrix VMAX Upgrade (Adding DAE’s, Disk and re-configuration). FNB Initialization, configuration of VNX 5700, Implementation of Isilon and Vplex PWC Initialization, configuration of VNXe 3300. Liberty Life Re-assembling of DMX 4 and Implementing VMAX. Organization: Vaal University of Technology Faculty: Faculty of Applied and Computer Sciences Department:   Information & Communication Technology        Position: Lecturer Status: Part Time Date: March 2010 – June 2010 Job Duties: Lecturing System Analysis and Design Lecturing Oracle SQL 10g Organization:  Alpha Wireless Department:IT Department                                                                                  Position:  Senior System Engineer Status:     Full Time                                                                               Date:      Feb. 2009 – Feb. 2010 Job Duties:      Implementation, Configuration and Administration of MS Window 2003 and 2008 Servers. Hardware and Software Support LAN/WAN Network Configuration Implementation, Configuration and Administration of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and 2007. Installation, Configuration and Administration of Switches, Router, wireless router & Network Cabling Administration and Supporting of Various Backup Software (e.g.: Symantec Veritas Backup Exec. from Ver. 9 – 12, NovaBackup etc.) Call logging and Escalation Organization: Bytes Technology Department: IT Department Position: IT SAN/Backup/DR Engineer Status: Full Time Date: July 2008 – Oct. 2008 Job Duties: Administration, Configuration and Maintenance of HP SAN Switches and EVA 8000 & 8100 Setting up and Supporting HP Servers (G1-G4, Blades) Administration and Maintenance of Backup System using Symantec Veritas Backup Exec. 9.1, 10 & 10d. Administration & Supporting HP MSL6000 Tape Library for Backup. Administration, Configuration and Maintenance of Window 2003 Servers. Hardware and Software Support CRM for Helpdesk support to log Calls. Organization: iThority Consulting Services Department: HP SAN Storage Education Position: Training Consultant Status: Full Time Date: Nov. 2007 – Feb. 2008 Job Duties: Training the HP SAN Storage System (HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array, Modular Storage Array, Data Protector). Implementing and Managing the Storage System. Setting up the SAN Equipment. Organization: University of Fort Hare Department: Science and Technology Foundation Programme Position: Lecturer/Facilitator Status: Full Time Date: Dec 2004 – Aug 2007 Job Duties: To lecture Computer Science Foundation Course (CSC 111F & 121F). PC Support (Hardware & Software) Development of Course manual & course schedule Organization: University of Fort Hare Department: Co-operative Education Position: Facilitator Status: Full Time Date: Sept 2003 – Nov 2004 Job Duties: To coordinate and facilitate computer literacy training program. (ICDL) and ICDL Database Administrator Supervising recruitment of other facilitators and tutors To coordinate the development of the course materials for the computer literacy training program Facilitating pastel accounting training and teaching A+ and N+. PC Support (Hardware & Software) Organization: University of Fort Hare Department: New Accounting Position: Tutor Status: Time on Task Date: May 2005 – Dec 2005 Job Duties: To lecture & Tutor Business Information System Level 2 Pastel Accounting Organization: University of Fort Hare Department: Technology and Support Centre Position: Computer Technician Status: Part Time Date: February 2000 – Dec 2002 Job Duties: Hardware and Software Support (Computer Repairs) Win Sever 2003 support. Ms Win 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP Professional, Linux & Unix network configuration. Application Installations LAN/WAN Configuration Microsoft Exchange Server Email Configuration Installation of Switches/ Hubs & Network Cabling Organization: University of Fort Hare Faculty: Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Position: Computer Lab Technician and Tutor Status: Part Time Date: Oct 2000 – Sept 2003 Job Duties: Hardware and Software Support (Computer Repairs). Ms Win 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP Professional, Linux & Unix network configuration. Application Installations LAN/WAN Configuration Microsoft Exchange Server Email Configuration. Installation of Switches/ Hubs & Network Cabling. Tutored Computer Literacy Tutored Visual Basic Programming Language and Computer Literacy at 100 levels. Maintenance of the Departmental Website 7. REFEREES Mr. King Armstrong Director, Armstronic PTY LTD. Cell: - E-mail:- Mr. Yinka Osunkunle, Senior Lecturer, University of Fort Hare Tell: - Cell: - E-mail:- Mr. Jaiyeola Osunrinade Customer Support Manager, DELL EMC. 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