Work Experience

27/07/2015 – Present
Working on a 6-month project in Bratislava, Slovakia for First Data Slovakia A.s.

24/07/2006–24/07/2015
System Administrator
RaiffeisenBank Bulgaria, Sofia (Bulgaria)

I have started as Windows System Administrator. My main responsibilities: installing new Windows 2000 and 2003 servers; configuring Active Directory domain controllers; setting up new roles for the servers like DHCP, DNS, File and Print services; preparing all equipment for new branches openings; backup of system and user data; to participate in new projects; maintain data center equipment.

Additional responsibilities: firewalls(CheckPoint) administration, middle range storages administration, datacenter servers(HP and IBM), VMware virtualization implementation and planning new equipment.

Then I have worked as VMware/Windows Administrator.

Projects:

– Planning, installation and configuration of virtualized test environment

– Planning, installation and configuration of virtualized production and backup environments

– Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – migration of all users from physical PCs to virtual once

– Windows 2003 Server migration to new versions

– Storage migrations

I work with enterprise versions of products of VMware, Microsoft, HP, EMC and IBM.

Other  responsibilities:

– Provide third line user support

– Applying enterprise security policies

– SLA Incident and Problem Management

– Deputize my supervisor when it is necessary

07/02/2004–23/07/2006
System engineer
Ministry of Interior, Sofia (Bulgaria)

Administration Windows NT domain / Active Directory 2003.

Servers and Workstations installation and configuration.

Maintenance and monitoring of local and regional computer networks

Peripheral equipment

Establishment of access control systems and systems for video-monitoring terminals, thin clients, switches and modems setup and management

Troubleshooting system hardware.

Client Information systems installation

All levels user support

01/12/2001–31/12/2003
Co-owner
Riacom, Sofia (Bulgaria)

Subscription support of networks, computer systems and application software

Trade with computer systems, printers, software and networking equipment

Education & Training

13/01/2014-16/01/2014
VMware Horizon View: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.2]
NDB Ltd., Bulgaria

25/11/2013–29/11/2013
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.1]
NDB Ltd., Sofia (Bulgaria)

07/2011
MDOP
Microdoft, Sofia (Bulgaria)
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack

18/09/2009
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4]
NDB Ltd., Sofia (Bulgaria)

08/10/2007–11/10/2007
Check Point Firewall-1 on NOKIA platform
Schoeller Austria, Vienna (Austria)

2007–2007
LogLogic log collector system
LogLogic, Inc., Sofia (Bulgaria)

2007–2007
Polyserve Matrix Server for Windows
Prosper Intelligence, Sofia (Bulgaria)

2007–2007
Designing and Managing a Windows Public Key Infrastructure(PKI)
ITCE Ltd., Sofia (Bulgaria)

09/09/2005–13/09/2005
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Administration
NDB Ltd., Sofia (Bulgaria)

2005–2005
Administration and Maintenance Microsoft Windows 2003 Server – 2273
ITCE Ltd., Sofia (Bulgaria)

15/09/1992–30/06/1997
Computer systems engineer Master
Technical University – Sofia, Sofia (Bulgaria)

15/09/1979–30/06/1990
High-school education
33-th High-school, Sofia (Bulgaria)

Personal Skills

Mother tongue(s) Bulgarian

Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING
Listening/Reading/Spoken/interaction/Spoken productionWriting

English B2 B2 B2 B2 B2

Levels: A1/A2: Basic user – B1/B2: Independent user – C1/C2: Proficient user

Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Job Related Skills

VMware Certified Professional 5 – Datacenter Virtualization (on vSphere 5)

VMware Certified Professional 4 – Datacenter Virtualization (on vSphere 4)

VMware Certified Professional 4 – Desktop (VCP4-DT)

Computer skills – VMware(5 years):

Planing, deployment and maintenance of vSphere 4/5: vCenter, ESX/ESXi, HA/DRS clusters, FT, SRM, Update Manager, Host Profiles, Standart and distributed vSwitches, PowerCli, Licenses management and vShieldEndpoint.

Virtual Desktop Infrastrucure with VMware View 4.5 / 4.6 / 5.x environment including: vCenter, View Connection Broker, View Composer, Pools, linked clones, applicationprovisioning, desktop optimization and tunning, Persona Management, ThinApp – application virtualization and ThinPrint. Thin/Zero/Fat clients – configuartionand firmware deployment, Teradici PCoIP devices, Wyse device manager.

SSL and Two factor authentication;

– Basic knowledge of Hyper-V;

– Microsoft(11 years):

Installing, maintaning and monitoring Microsoft server and desktop operatingsystems (Server 2008/2003, 2000 Advanced Server, NT4 Server, Windows NT/XP/7).
Active Directory, GPO’s, DNS, DHCP, Printing and Sharing; NT domain

– Storage administration: EMC VNX 5300; IBM DS5020; HP SV 4330; EMC XtremeIO; Pure storage; TinTri T540

– Server security:

VMWare SSL server communication

CheckPoint VPN tunnelling

Microsoft and VMWare operating systems and network security

– Backup:

Microsoft Windows backup using tape devices and file shares.

IBM Tivoli client backup and restore.

EMC Avamar virtual appliance knowledge.

– Data centre infrastructure mainternance and administration

– CheckPoint firewall administration

– Incident Management

– PassLogic(Oracle) Single Sign-On