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Infrastructure and Networking Professional.

Washington Corporations

IT Infrastructure Manager 

The Washington Companies is the parent company of several independent entities. The company is privately held, and was founded by Dennis Washington. Current companies owned by The Washington Company include:
 - Seaspan Corporation (shipping and shipbuilding)
 - Montana Rail Link (rail transport in Montana)
 - Aviation Partners Inc. (airplane winglets)
 - Montana Resources LLP (copper and molybdenum mining)
 - Modern Machinery (heavy equipment sales and leasing)
 - SRY Rail Link (rail transport in British Columbia)
 - Envirocon (environmental remediation and civil construction)

The Washington Corporation provides a centralized IT support model for each of the individual companies. Reporting into the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure. My responsibilities include:
- Work with business leaders to provide IT solutions to operational problems.
- Collaborate in large renovation projects to ensure the IT requirements are executed on time.
- Research, design and configure new IT networking projects to improve security and stability of IT infrastructure.
- Working as part of the network team to assist the day to day IT requirements to support users and business needs of all the individual companies. 
- Assist with design and configuration of IT networking projects to ensure they are implemented on time.
 - Perform WAN and LAN troubleshooting to resolve network outages.

Network Engineer

The BC Wildlife Federation is British Columbia's largest and oldest conservation organization. The BCWF is a province-wide voluntary conservation organization representing all British Columbians. The BCWF mission is “To protect, enhance and promote the wise use of the environment for the benefit of present and future generations.”

Reporting into the Director of Operations. My responsibilities include:
- Analyzing existing IT systems and procedures and recommending new solutions for improved efficiency.
- Manage new IT projects to ensure they are implemented on time.
- Evaluate and suggest new IT systems and software that will solve business requirements.
- Extract and merge data sets from multiple data sources. Perform data cleansing, transformation, analysis and visualization for reporting purposes.
- Manage and assist with the day to day IT requirements to support users.

BC Wildlife Federation

Systems and Data Analyst

Kerzner International is a developer and operator of destination and luxury resorts, currently managing 11 properties under its three brand names; Atlantis, One&Only and Mazagan. (Approximately 9,000 employees worldwide)

Reported into Senior VP IT, Global Operations:
- Responsible for providing leadership, design and coordination of infrastructure systems for the organization and expected to work closely with senior executives and IT professionals in developing strategies, planning, and directing day-to-day operations.
- Leading and managing outsourced IT team to provide 24/7 monitoring, optimization and incident resolution for centralized corporate datacenter infrastructure.
-  Plan and manage all firewall policies and VPN connectivity between corporate and remote hotel resorts.
- Develop annual IT infrastructure budget for corporate datacenter, based on strategic business goals. Review and revised regional resort infrastructure budgets to align with corporate strategy and pricing.
- Assess all infrastructure capacity and ensure that server, storage, security and networking infrastructure is running optimally and according to best practices. 
- Create and update IT policy and procedures to ensures appropriate control objectives are met for system integrity, availability and reliability, confidentiality, accountability and assurance within the context of the company's risk tolerance.

Kerzner International

Vice President, Global Infrastructure

Atlantis the Palm Dubai is a $1.5-billion five-star ocean-themed resort hotel, located at the centre of the crescent of the man made Palm Jumeirah Island, off the coast of Dubai. The 46 hectare resort comprises 1,539 rooms, 23 restaurants, luxury boutiques, and a 17 hectare nautical-themed water park.

Reported into  SVP Information Technology:
- Responsible for the design, support and daily operations of the Atlantis the Palm network, telephony, IPTV, structured cabling, mobility and security infrastructure.
- Managed and mentored a team 5 support engineers (3x networking engineers and 2x Avaya telephony engineers).
- Evaluate new technologies and manage vendor support contracts.
- Plan, design and implement infrastructure projects to ensure business needs are met.
- Monitor daily support calls to insure problems are resolved within agreed SLA. This data is used to create summarized report for weekly update and strategy meeting with SVP of IT.
- Technical escalation point for all high priority infrastructure problems.
- In charge of daily operations and maintenance for corporate ip telephony and mobile management systems. 
- Responsible for optimizing guest high speed Internet access system and Wi-Fi experience.
- Setup, manage and remove network infrastructure and cabling for large scale music festivals. 
- Motivate, manage and mentor team by identifying missing skills and arranging or providing appropriate training.

Atlantis The Palm

Director of IT Networks and Infrustructure

Dimension Data Middle East LLC is a IT services and solution provider with 2 offices in the UAE that uses the power of technology to help organisations achieve great things. As a member of the NTT Group, they accelerate their clients’ ambitions through digital infrastructure, hybrid cloud, work-spaces for tomorrow, and cybersecurity.

Worked as part of a specialized team of IT engineers reporting into the support and operations manager.
- Responsible for delivering on project requirements, troubleshooting escalated problems and handling daily support calls.
- Perform wireless site surveys to design new wireless solutions or identify problems and gaps in the existing wireless environments. 
- Create configuration templates to allow rapid deployment of large scale network project.
- Perform network and security assessment and create summary report with findings and suggestions. 
- Create technical proposals and bill of quantities for tender response. 
- Inventory Document equipment and configuration to create as built documentation for projects.

Dimension Data Middle East and Africa

Technology Specialist

Dimension Data is a specialist IT services and solution provider that helps clients plan, build, support and manage their IT infrastructures. Our headquarters are in Johannesburg, Dimension Data was founded in 1983.Today They are positioned at the forefront of networking and communications in 51 countries across five regions – Middle East & Africa, Europe, Asia Pacific, Australia and the Americas.

Worked as part of the networking support team, reporting into the networking support and operations manager.
- Responsible for troubleshooting and resolving customers support calls.
- Provide networking expertise to complete project tasks.
- Monitor client network remotely and provide summarized report of network utilization and uptime.

Walter Wehner