Emmanuel Okojesu
Apt 2306 1317 27th Street, South East
Summary
A dedicated Analyst with over Nine (9) years of experience and a solid background in enterprise level solutions specifically infrastructure design, virtualization, backup and recovery, and Cloud and DevOps Technologies. Executed over 14 projects across 5 business industries in three countries. Proficient in Microsoft Azure -IAAS, Hyper-V, VMware, Linux, Monitoring, IT Disaster Recovery, Service Management Reporting and Documentation.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification
Work History
System Administrator (Associate)
iQx (Subsidiary of FMDQ Group)
Lagos
03.2024 - Current
- Developed seven (7) strategic initiatives that will streamline and optimise current practices/processes to meet the groups objectives in line with business requirements.
- Developed monthly and quarterly management reports and presentations senior management detailing information on the teams operations, projects and status.
- Created two (2) additional standard operating procedures for Access control and Asset decommissioning.
- Coordinated with over twenty (20) vendors in fulfilment of service request such as asset procurement and maintenance in line with service level agreements
- Responsible for managing & monitoring over three hundred (300) virtual machines (Windows & Linux operating systems) and four (4) storage device across an hybrid environment (Azure Cloud and Onpremise environments) using tools such as Hyper V, VMware, Solarwinds, Veritas, Kaseya, Powershell, Ansible etc
- Ensure recoverability of business-critical systems by automating daily scheduled backups, monthly test restore activities and biannual failover exercises with proper documentation and approval of key stakeholders
- Monitored and reduced public cloud spend by 15% by monitoring utilisation trend over a period.
- Coordinated cross-functional teams in completing two (2) major projects on time and within budget while providing direction and guidance to junior analyst on complex tasks
System Administrator (Analyst 3)
iQx (Subsidiary of FMDQ Group)
Lagos
03.2022 - 03.2024
- Responsible for the successful upgrade/refresh of the organizations physical server farm from ten (10) Generation 9 servers, two (2) storage devices to sixteen (16) Gen 10 servers and four (4) storage devices across the production and disaster recovery sites
- Maintained both on cloud and on-premise environment by applying appropriate patches and monitoring hardware health usings tools Kaseya and SolarWinds
- Developed a migration plan that ensured the successful migration/conversion of about 300 servers form Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware vSphere
- Monitored system performance on a daily basis to ensure optimal functioning of all servers, storage and services leveraging on SolarWinds
- Managed services such as DHCP, DNS, Active Directory and Group Policy Objects for user and device access control
- Initiated discussions on DevOps pratices that led to the constitution of a pilot team and implemented containerization and automation solutions such a Docker, Ansible,
- Maintained inventory of hardware assets including servers, network devices, laptops, desktops, printers, IP Desk Phones, etc.
- Managed security of endpoint devices such as laptops using Symantec Manager to configure policies that detect and quarantine viruses and malware attacks
- Obtained a 95% resolution status of incident and services request in line with defined SLA via the helpdesk
Infrastructure Analyst
NTS AFRICA
Lagos
11.2013 - 07.2019
- Deployment and administration of servers, storages at enterprise level (Linux, Windows)
- Deployment, administration, and support of Infrastructure|virtualization|SAN|LAN solutions such as VMware, HyperV, Fiber Channel, Zonning technologies etc
- Providing support to customers and sales team by applying technical expertise across multiple disciplines to understand clients’ technical drivers and consult on the best approach to achieve them with their data center deployment.
- Solving major technical challenges and provide thought leadership for technical innovations.
- Providing design documentations and as-is documents for projects.
- Maintaining relationship with solution partners and Original Equipment Manufacturers for technical support and maintaining partnership status.
- Managing projects, acting as technical advisor to clients and OEMs.
Education
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc Computer Science
University of Ilorin
Kwara State, Nigeria05-2010
West African Examination Council (WEAC) -
Leso-Rond High School
Lagos, Nigeria05-2004
Skills
- Server Administration - WindowsLinuxClustering
- Virtualization & Containerisation - VMware ESXiHyper-VDockerKubernetesSANLAN
- Cloud - AzureVPNIAASPAASvNET
- Active DirectoryDNSDHCP
- Security - Vulnerability managementIntrusion detectionPatch management
- Disaster RecoveryBackup & RestoreTapeFailover
- Monitoring & Performance tuning
- Automation and Scripting - PowershellBashAnsiblePlaybook
- Service Management - HelpdeskIncident, Change, Problem, Vendor Management
- Technical DesignReport Documentation
Affiliations
- A versatile pianist & Music lover
Accomplishments
- CEO Awards
Certification
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP 6.0)
- Microsoft Azure Administrator (Associate)
- Microsoft Certified Systems Expert
- RedHat Systems Administrator (RHCSA in view)
- Dell Compellent Advanced Administration
- Nutanix Certified Professional
Projects
FMDQ GROUP
Role: Team Lead
Description: Domain Migration from fmdqotc.com to fmdqgroup.com
Setup and configuration of Active Directory, DNS
Setup of Veritas backup solution, Solarwind Monitoring solution
Pilot provisioning of containerised app docker, and automating server deployment using Ansible
ECOWAS Abuja
Role: Team Lead
Description: Migration to Azure Cloud Services
Analysis of ECOWAS infrastructure for cloud readiness.
SAP module (BI/BW) migration to Microsoft Azure cloud.
IAAS provisioning for cloud workloads.
S2S VPN connectivity between ECOWAS Nigeria and all other annexes.
Configuration of VPN setup between Azure and Ecowas on premise network.
STERLING bank Headquarters
Role: Team Lead
Description: Hyper-V Stretch cluster configuration between production and DR sites.
Geo distributed CSV leveraging Dell VPLEX metro
BCP Morocco
Role: Team Lead
Description
Setup and configuration of Dell XC730xd, configuration and installation of
Setup and configuration of VMware ESXi and vCenter with vSphere operations manager, installation and configuration of Nutanix hyper converged infrastructure.
Volta River Authority Ghana
Role: Team Member
Description: Server Upgrade and Patching
Dell Compellent memory upgrade, Dell FS8600 installation and configuration using enterprise manager solution.
First Bank of Nigeria
Role: Team Member
Memory Upgrade of First Bank's Virtual Server Environment running on about 20 servers
Skye Bank Nigeria
Role: Team Member
Description: Infrastructure Refresh
Configuration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Failover Cluster Roles on Active directory
Compellent SC8000 Controllers with 2 SC200 Enclosures and 1 SC220 add-on Enclosure
2 Brocade 6510 FC Switches setup
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
System Administrator (Associate)
iQx (Subsidiary of FMDQ Group)
03.2024 - Current
System Administrator (Analyst 3)
iQx (Subsidiary of FMDQ Group)
03.2022 - 03.2024
Infrastructure Analyst
NTS AFRICA
11.2013 - 07.2019
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc Computer Science
University of Ilorin
West African Examination Council (WEAC) -
Leso-Rond High School
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP 6.0)
- Microsoft Azure Administrator (Associate)
- Microsoft Certified Systems Expert
- RedHat Systems Administrator (RHCSA in view)
- Dell Compellent Advanced Administration
- Nutanix Certified Professional
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