Position: IT Manager, Senior System Administrator
Category: Sysadmin
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 10


As Head of IT Department at current employer:

•	Manage technical infrastructure for a group of companies located across several locations in Russia and Vienna, Austria for 200 users
•	Lead IT department: set strategy and direction, implement new initiatives, meet all regulatory, legal, internal and external standards, hire new staff, develop team skills and professional aptitude
•	Manage all aspects of relations with IT service suppliers, providers and partners in multiple countries
•	Consistently improve IT infrastructure of company’s oil terminal (complex facility situated on ~100 acres): local network with high security requirements, industrial monitoring and control terminals
•	Maintain video surveillance, perimeter security and PACS systems at oil terminal and ensure that they comply with Russian regulation standards for transportation security 
•	Review IT architecture to ensure optimal performance and regularly communicate with executive management on information technology issues
•	Improved and maintained backup and archiving policies in accordance with best practices, planned disaster recovery scenarios
•	Continuously reduce yearly expenditure of IT and related services by optimizing IT infrastructure across several legal entities, implementing new technologies, adopting open source software where possible without hurting convenience or reliability, negotiating better deals with suppliers and service providers
•	Implemented Asterisk based IP Telephony across all offices
•	Planned and directed the building of communications, electricity and IT infrastructure for new offices
•	Developed and supported BYOD policy with 2-factor authentication
•	Planned and implemented Private Cloud based on VMWare vSphere and Citrix XenApp products
•	Support infrastructure with centralized management for both Windows-based and Mac OS systems
•	Implemented workstations deployment systems
•	Implemented ITAM and monitoring software across the company