Findlay

Professional Experience

Education

• Bsc Computer Science University of South Africa, 2009

  Specialized in Software Engineering"

• Diploma in Datametrics University of South Africa, 2006

Work Experience

• Company: Northern Cape Provincial Legislature Position: Data Technologist Duration: Nov 2007 - Apr 2023 Responsible for : ERP Administration (Sage X3), Database Administration MSSQL, Database backups and restores. Writing basic SQL queries, Excel data queries MSSQL, pivot tables. Microsoft Server Administration. Network infrastructure support, VMware Virtualization. Amazon Web Services network services. Microsoft 365 User and Mailbox administration
• Company: De Beers Position: IT Support Engineer Duration: 1997-2007 Responsible for : ICT technical support , Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, MSSQL Server Administration. Data Backup Administration
• PROJECTS In my role as data technologist I successfully completed the following solutions working mostly independently: • Using power shell, pdf encryption and excel with mail merge automated the implementation of password protection and emailing of monthly pay slips to employees. • Implemented various reports in excel using queries against MSSQL ERP database. • Extracted information from MSSQL database into Excel requested by audit for various employee and financial data. • Created ad-hoc queries for information requests from ERP system running MSSQL database. • Assisted risk department in designing risk register template in excel. • Migrated corporate email to Microsoft 365 and moved corporate domain to AWS. • Deployed and maintained vSphere and Hyper-V server environments and workloads. • Maintained corporate website using Wordpress. • Implemented backup strategies for physical and virtual server workloads using Veeam and Linux opensource backup.