Linux Administrator & Windows Administrator

Experienced infrastructure specialist with approximately 10 years of experience in the global automotive industry. Currently specializing in VMware, Windows Server and Warehouse management. He and his colleagues are responsible for supporting local IT and rolling out global projects in the Europe and Africa region. He mainly helps with Windows servers and VMware, but also does network support (mainly Cisco), WAN, and Linux. He also works with Linux as part of his own projects. He also has one of the servers in the Oracle cloud. Before that, he handled data center migrations from the US and Amsterdam to Prague. He would like to work more with Cloud technologies. Regarding Cloud, in a previous company they migrated things to Azure and half a year ago he did a trial in a hybrid Azure and on-premise infrastructure. Communicating in English is not a problem for him.

Infrastructure Specialist - IT Operations EMEA (10/2018 – present)

• Outline As a member of an international L2 team, provided IT infrastructure support to local IT members in EMEA region with 130 sites and 30,000 users. Conducted rollouts of new global projects and provided guidelines and training to local IT members. Managed AD and vSphere infrastructure + storages and related networks, centralized and consolidated projects, reporting & KPIs, continuous improvement and upgrades, transformed to cloud, supported plant acquisitions and spinoffs.
• Main Tech: VMware vSphere (ESXi+vCenter, esxcli, PowerCLI), Windows Server (AD, DNS, GPO, DHCP, PowerShell), Cisco (command line), IVANTI software packaging tool, Carbonite (disaster and recovery tool).
• Interesting projects & success: Successfully led the global IT infra consolidation and upgrades under central vCenter, supported SAP global upgrade, managed IT infra handover from application teams to local IT members, including required documentation and online training for up to 150 users.

Senior Corporate Windows and Messaging Administrator (11/2013 – 9/2018)

• Outline: As a member of a central IT team, was responsible for central IT infrastructure - mainly AD, VMware, Exchange, and MDM for about 40 production and R&D sites with 5,000 users.
• Main Tech: VMware vSphere (ESXi, esxcli, PowerCLI), Windows Server (AD, DNS, GPO, PowerShell), Exchange (PowerShell), Barracuda systems (Spam Filter, Message Archiver, Backup), MobileIron (MDM).
• Interesting projects & success: Successfully centralized IT infra, standardized network, implemented video conferencing for 2,000 users, provided physical and remote support of datacenter migration.

Education and Qualifications:

• Highest Education: Master’s degree in informatics.
• IT Certifications: VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization, MCSA: Windows Server 2012, MikroTik Certified Network Associate.
• Languages: English (B2/C1), German (A2), Czech (native).
• Others: Driving license B