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Johnny Niska

Johnny Niska

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Consultant Open to opportunities
System manager, it architect and project manager with long term experience from different areas of the industry. He is currently contracted as a consultant at IBM Denmark. In the current project he works with a large international financial customer migrating infrastructure systems to new virtual platform. Tasks focuses on analysis, system design and planning the cut over phase to new production systems.

Previously he was building up a hosting center and it's activities and services at a niche hosting company in the financial sector. Earlier, at the University of Copenhagen, he had several roles; for 6 years, building up and running an it-support facility with 20 part time supporters, developers and administrators and in the last role he participated in the different processes of planning, implementing and running a large scale redundant hosting facility at the Faculty of Health Sciences. Based on his 20 years experience he is also sharing knowledge in customer discussions regarding technology and strategic it questions.
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  • Financial sector / Banking
  • Projects
  • Transition project
  • Windows and server system analysis
  • Infrastructure and system design
  • Virtual infrastructure analysis
  • Documentation
  • Compliance
  • Training and training material
  • Process analysis and design
  • Process interfaces and optimization
  • Visualizing processes
  • Transition project
  • Project management
  • Knowledge transfer to IBM India
  • Analysis and identification of knowledge areas
  • Problem handling
  • Technologies; IBM, Microsoft, VmWare, OpenSource and more.

Owner

Satang.Me
Since September 2010
  • IT Consulting company.

Owner and partner

Ananas Wellness Frederiksberg
Since September 2009
  • Owner and partner,
  • responsible for marketing, financials and business development.
  • Products:
  • Massage and personal wellness.

IT Architect / System manager

Spoing.dk
May 2008 to December 2010
  • Financial sector / professional service firms
  • Projects
  • Planning and running an ever expanding infrastructure.
  • Working with and managing technologies from the leaders in the industry; IBM, VmWare, Veeam, Cisco, Symantec and Microsoft.
  • Managing daily operations, staff and part time supporter.
  • Server maintenance and provisioning.
  • Job interviews and hiring technical staff.
  • Business and concept development.
  • Planning and designing for expansion.
  • Process review.
  • Designing and implementing customer solutions.
  • Software and hardware evaluation.
  • Strategic planning; hosting platform/customer platform.
  • Project management.
  • Co-ordinating external consultants.
  • Planning and migrating customer physical infrastructure to virtual.
  • Projects
  • designing and implementing work processes and routines.
  • designing and rebuilding hosting infrastructure.
  • implementing enterprise backup structure.
  • customer IT infrastructure relocation.
  • planning and migrating customers to new IT platform.

IT Architect and Senior system administrator

University of Copenhagen
February 2007 to May 2008
  • Higher Education / Datacenter
  • Projects
  • Building a new virtual Microsoft Server infrastructure in VMWare 3 for 2.500 users based upon HP Blade Center
  • Maintenance of ESX, Blades, Windows servers and Apple OSX servers
  • Maintenance of VmWare Virtual Infrastructure, HP Dataprotector and backOffice
  • Migration planning for existing servers, 2.500 users, pc’s and mail boxes
  • Server maintenance and provisioning
  • Planning and deployment of virtual machines in the ESX environment
  • Integrate Apple OSX servers and clients to existing Active Directory structure
  • Process review and redesign
  • Infrastructure design
  • Co-ordination of internal and external teams and resources
  • Daily contact, coaching and training of the different institutes it staff during the migration process
  • Purchases and contact to suppliers and dealers
  • Projects:
  • Virtual server farm planning, implementation
  • Migration and integration into common infrastructure
  • Apple AD integration
  • BlackBerry integration
  • Beta testing:
  • Windows server 2008
  • Apple OSX Leopard
  • MacOffice 2008

System Administrator / System Manager

University of Copenhagen
November 2002 to December 2006
  • Higher Education / Datacenter
  • Projects
  • Main responsibilities:
  • Administrative and tech project lead on internal projects
  • System administration
  • "IT in the educational facilities" around the faculty campus
  • Helpdesk facility with 20 supporters, developers and administrators
  • In-house development projects
  • Job description + job interviews
  • Daily administrative routines for the employees and helpdesk
  • Daily maintenance of Windows 2003 R2 server farm
  • sw/hw purchase and contact to distributors
  • AD with 13.000 accounts
  • DFS on san with +8 mill files
  • Maintenance/Patch strategy with distributed Wsus
  • Backup strategy with Backup Exec for Win/Linux servers
  • RIS for 550 PC's
  • Microsoft Operations Manager
  • VMWare ESX/GSX servers; prod + test
  • Trend Antivirus and Sophos Enterprise Manager
  • Scripting, AD Group Policy maintenance and design
  • New secure network design
  • Visio documentation
  • Macro/Batch/VB
  • Projects:
  • Restructuring of serverfarm and support group's worktasks.
  • Planning, implementing and daily maintenance of IT facilities at CSS campus for 5000 students and employees.
  • Project manager on developement project "Digital exams in the University"

System Administrator

IFU
November 2000 to November 2002
  • Financial sector / Government
  • Projects
  • Administration and maintenance Windows domain and Exchange
  • Responsible for 17 NT/Windows 2000 servers in global network
  • Responsible for security and SecurID / RSA tokens
  • Daily maintenance FireWall-1 / VPN-1
  • File security and user rights
  • Maintenance of 4 Microsoft Cluster servers
  • Documentation of servers, services and redundant network using VISIO
  • Backup of SAN and Exchange with Backup Exec running on Microsoft Cluster server
  • Design + implementation of Trend AntiVirus structure
  • Building, testing multilanguage images for global distribution
  • Macro/Batch/VB
  • Project lead on internal IT projects
  • Responsible for sw/hw purchase world wide
  • End user/Office worker training
  • Daily contact to support organisation and 3.line support world wide
  • International work area (Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa)
  • Built server facilities in India, Russia, China, Poland and South Africa.
  • Training of IT staff on-site in the different countries.
  • Job interviews
  • Projects:
  • planning and implementation of global network
  • implementation of new it infrastructure in all regional offices
  • redesign of network infrastructure and serverfarm

IT Supporter

National Survey & Cadastre
January 1999 to November 2000
  • End user support and administration (Novell, Notes and Windows NT)
  • Member of hardware/software evaluation group
  • Y2K update project (700 workstations)
  • Involved in Office 2000 and Windows 2000 planning and rollout
  • Primary focus on NT, Windows 2000 Professional
  • Windows 2000 Server (SW installation point)
  • Building and testing images for distribution
  • Responsible for building and maintaining User Support Intranet
  • Projects:
  • Main responsible for securing 700 PC's from the "Year 2000"-flaw
  • Intranet

Technical Specialist

Berlitz Translation Services
January 1996 to January 1998
  • Technical specialist on software and Win-Help localization projects (ie Windows NT 4.0 and Office 97 Help system and software)
  • Internet localization projects
  • Responsible for planning, development of Intranet and new internet business concept
  • Training and education of employees
  • Technical sales support (translation projects)
  • International work area and customer contact

Tech Support

Olivetti Personal Computers
January 1995 to January 1996

Consultant

Olivetti Computer
January 1995 to January 1996
  • Technical support consultant for the Nordic distributors and end users
  • (covering Norway, Sweden and the swedish speaking part of Finland)

it-consultant

vip-consult
January 1991 to January 1995
  • Computer hardware
  • Windows, dos, database programming

Project Manager

The Disc Company
January 1989 to January 1990
  • Project Manager, translation, adaption and launch of business and leisure software for Commodore Amiga computer for the European marked (12 languages).
  • Products: Starter Kit, KindWords, Fusion Paint, InfoFile, Maxiplan and some games (Ports Of Call, F40 and FA18)

Technical Editor

Datormagazin
January 1988 to January 1989
  • Plan and startup of Datormagazin in Norway
  • Technical editor and journalist

Support Engineer

Kreativ Teknikk
January 1987 to January 1988
  • Technical support for end users, dealers
  • Adaption of Amiga Software and manuals to the norwegian marked

Support Engineer

Commodore Norway
January 1986 to January 1988
  • Support Engineer at Commodore Norway, Amiga computer hardware and software support.
  • Localization of Workbench, scripts and applications.