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MUSENGE KAZHILA

MUSENGE KAZHILA

Summary

My aim is to use my leadership experience and exposure within the IT industry to grow further in my profession and help improve business processes Interested to network with more people within my profession to expand my knowledge as well as share ideas on achieving a common goal. I enjoy establishing working relationships with clientele to get a better understanding of what solutions they require.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Network administrator

The National Prosecuting Authority
Pretoria
02.2023 - Current
  • Core responsibilities is to monitor and
    maintain the network infrastructure to support computer systems in business.
  • Responsibilities included advising the client on how to improve IT systems as part of modernization according to
    IT standard best practices.
  • Maintaining LAN infrastructure aswell as collaborating with 3rd party vendors in maintaining WAN infrastructure
  • Providing network support to business Users for the client's multiple branches nationwide.

Systems Engineer

Global Micro Solutions
Rosebank
05.2016 - 11.2022
  • Responsible for deploying, maintaining and supporting physical infrastructure as well as virtual infrastructure on Hyper-V and VMWare environment.
  • Deploying, maintaining and monitoring Network security for onsite and virtual hosted environments using Fortinet technologies.
  • Defining and creating security policies specific to each clientele.
  • Architecting and implementing cloud backup strategies for clients.
  • Providing managed backup services and restore drills.
  • Project lead for onprem-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud data migrations to SharePoint/OneDrive.
  • Define the project plan and implementation strategy to perform data migrations.
  • Delegated Technical Account Manager (TAM) for certain clientele where I was responsible for supporting and maintaining their environment and adhering to their queries.
  • Work closely with Account Manager (AM) to find ways to improve service offering.

Freelance Worker

Freelance
06.2015 - 06.2016
  • Worked on freelance projects part time via online portals to use my knowledge within IT to assist companies that require my expertise.

MCSE Private Cloud Internship

Hallmark Technologies
Johannesburg
03.2015 - 06.2015
  • Practical Hands-on training for the MCSA & MCSE: Private Cloud Certification.

Project Leader/Business Analyst

Testkraft bookstore
Johannesburg
03.2014 - 10.2014
  • Conducted a requirements analysis to discover the systems within the bookstore that were reducing its productivity.
  • Formed a Project Team and together we developed a solution to increase productivity for bookstore.

IT Support

Pluto Entertainment
Johannesburg
01.2012 - 01.2013
  • Helped to devise a new business model through digital marketing, and steps to support the client database.
  • Created and maintained the website with updated catalogue.

Education

National Diploma - Business IT, Information Systems, Software Development, Business Analysis, Project Management

University of Johannesburg
01.2010 - 12.2014

High School -

Edenglen High School
South Africa
01.2005 - 12.2009

Skills

  • AWS
  • Aruba CX Switches
  • Backup Systems Specialist
  • Business Analysis
  • Cloud Computing Specialist
  • Computer Networking
  • Cyber Security
  • IT Project Management
  • IT Support
  • Microsoft Office
  • Linux Administration
  • Programming
  • Server Specialist
  • VMware Specialist
  • Microsoft Security Specialist
  • Workspace One Specialist
  • LAN and WAN knowledge

Certification

  • Acronis Cloud Tech Professional
  • Asigra Certified Professional
  • Aruba AOS CX Switching
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Fortinet Network Security Expert
  • Linux Administrator
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Azure
  • MCSA: Windows Server 2016
  • VMWare Certified Professional

Timeline

Network administrator

The National Prosecuting Authority
02.2023 - Current

Systems Engineer

Global Micro Solutions
05.2016 - 11.2022

Freelance Worker

Freelance
06.2015 - 06.2016

MCSE Private Cloud Internship

Hallmark Technologies
03.2015 - 06.2015

Project Leader/Business Analyst

Testkraft bookstore
03.2014 - 10.2014

IT Support

Pluto Entertainment
01.2012 - 01.2013

National Diploma - Business IT, Information Systems, Software Development, Business Analysis, Project Management

University of Johannesburg
01.2010 - 12.2014

High School -

Edenglen High School
01.2005 - 12.2009
MUSENGE KAZHILA