David Lowes

A solution to your IT issues

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

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077-9970273

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ABOUT

I'm an expert sysadmin and DevOps with over 20 years of experience in Linux, AIX, MySQL, VMware, and Asterisk. If you have an IT issue, I can dig in, pinpoint the root cause, and offer a solution. I can also help you plan and manage major IT projects.

LANGUAGES

English

Native or bilingual proficiency

Spanish (Latin America)

Native or bilingual proficiency

Hebrew

Native or bilingual proficiency

SKILL DETAILS

Technology

250 ₪ / hr

Network Design & Management

I'm an experienced sysadmin with over 20 years of experience in Linux, Microsoft, VMWare. Over ten years of experience in AIX and IBM Power Systems. I can help you pinpoint issues and also automate processes using puppet or shell scripting.

Information Systems Management

PC Technician, Hardware Support

I have over 20 years of supporting a wide range of users. From highly technical IT professionals to non-technical users.

Technical Support - Software

I have over 20 years of supporting a wide range of users. From highly technical IT professionals to non-technical users.

Tech General, Other

UNIX, Linux

I'm an experienced sysadmin with over 20 years of experience in Linux. I can help you pinpoint issues and also automate processes using puppet or shell scripting.

Amazon EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud

I'm an experienced sysadmin with years of experience with AWS including EC2, EFS, RDS, S3 and ROUTE53

Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service

I'm an experienced sysadmin with years of experience with AWS including EC2, EFS, RDS, S3 and ROUTE53

Apache, Tomcat, JBoss

In the last 15 years, I gained experience in building, maintaining LAMP stack servers (Apache/PHP/MySQL), maintaining rewrite rules and solving performance issues.

System Admin

VMware

I have over 10 years of experience in designing and maintaining VMware based infrastructure for an international company. I can help you design and pin-point issues with your infrastructure.

Docker

Highly skilled in docker. Adapted and maintained official docker images for Zend Server. If you wish to "dockerize" your project, create your own images or design - I can help you.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

I'm an experienced sysadmin with years of experience with AWS including EC2, EFS, RDS, S3 and ROUTE53

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Today

Sr. Storage Support Eng.

Infinidat , Herzelia, Israel

August 2007 - August 2019

Sr. Cloud integration Engineer

Zend Technologies

Maintaining the company's official marketplace images.
Total responsibility for IT infrastructure including Linux, VMware, and VSphere servers.

January 2005 - May 2007

IT Manager

Diamond CCS/Paragon ICC

I had total responsibility for IT and telephony infrastructure. During my work, I built the companies' infrastructure from scratch and also recruited and managed IT personnel. I also designed and maintained the call center's telephony infrastructure.

December 2003 - September 2006

IT Manager

The Nation Traffic

Built and maintained the company's IT department. I had full responsibility for both infrastructure and personnel. In this company, I managed an opensource web, mail, DNS, and telephony infrastructure. In addition to that, I was in charge of hiring and managing IT personnel

November 1998 - December 2003

Computation officer (NCO)

Israeli Air Force

I was responsible for managing my department's infrastructure and software. I managed the inventory and procurement of hardware and software. I Wrote "Operational Requirement" ("BADHAT"/"DAMATZ") documents for departmental software. Maintain internal IT infrastructure and liaise with other IT units.

July 1994 - November 1998

Freelancer

IT freelancer

I solved software and hardware issues for private clients. I have provided a general computer and music software training for my customers.

COURSES & CERTIFICATIONS

2000

Departmental Computation officer

Israeli Defense Force

I learned IT Management of computer systems in an airforce unit.

VOLUNTEER WORK

December 2003 - Today

Volunteer patrol and community police officer

Israeli Police

Assist patrol and traffic police officers. Provide an initial response to 100("911") events and enforce traffic regulations.

ARMED FORCES

November 1998 - December 2003

Sergeant first class (RASAL)

Israeli Air Force

Division computation officer. I was responsible for maintaining my units' IT infrastructure and enforcing information security. In addition to that, I also wrote operational procedures and operational requirement documents. I commanded several soldiers and professionally supervised branch computation officers.