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CURRICULUM VITAE Emiliano Bottaioli

ADDRESS: FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23

PHONE: + 44 ( 0 ) 7846870843

E-MAIL: EMILIANO@BOTTAIOLI.IT

NATIONALITY: ITALIAN

Microsoft Technology Expert Certified with 15 years’ experience in computing, data information systems and technologies. Highly skilled in aligning

Information Technology with business requirements and demands by creating solutions through the establishment of full I.T. projects and complex network

infrastructures which include private and public cloud, Amazon AWS and virtualization, web hosting, high availability servers, clustering and

complex database solutions.

KEY IT COMPETENCIES

  § Windows 2012/ 2008 / 2003

  § System Center 2012

  § Exchange 2012 / 2010 / 2007

  § MSSQL 2012 / 2008 / 2005

  § MySQL

  § Sharepoint 2010

  § Dynamcs CRM

  § Amazon AWS

  § Content Delivery Network CDN

  § IIS 8 / 7.5 / 6 Webservers

  § IIS Proxy caching server

  § Application Rewrite Routing

  § Network Load Balance

  § Geografic Load Balance

  § Forefront / SonicWall App.Firewall

  § VMMC Hyper-V / VMware

  § Distribuited files system (DFS)

  § Akamai / DynDNS

  § 3CX VOIP Phone system

  § EFS / TrueCrypt / BitLocker

  § VPN / DMZ

  § DELL / HP Hardware

Cloud and Blade servers

  § LAN / WAN / WIFI / TCP-IP

  § FTP / FTPS / SFTP

  § DNS / DHCP

  § POP3 / SMTP protocols

QUALIFICATIONS

MCTIP Microsoft Database Administrator 2008 ( 70-450 )

MCSA Microsoft Windows Server 2008

MCTS Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance ( 70-432 )

MCTS Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuring ( 70-643 )

MCTS Microsoft Windows Server Virtualization configuration ( 70-652 )

MCITP Microsoft Windows Server Administrator ( 70-646 )

MCTS Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Network Infrastructure configuration ( 70-642 )

MCTS Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Active Directory configuration ( 83 -640)

MCTS Microsoft Windows Vista configuration ( 70 -620 )

Photoshop Advanced Università degli Studi di Tor Vergata – Roma (Italy) - 50 hours Photoshop course

EDUCATION

Completing Computer Science

Degree

Electronics

and telecommunications

WORK EXPERIENCE

IT Hosting Administrator Addison Corporate Marketing Limited a WPP company – London (UK) - www.addison-group.net

The Group Limited has been acquired by WPP and subsequently merge with Addison forming

Addison Corporate Marketing Limited. The role has remained the same it was in The Group but

for a larger number of clients, more offices and people.

IT Hosting Administrator The Group – London (UK) – www.the-group.net

May 2010 – August 2013

The Group is an online corporate communications agency that designs, builds, hosts and manages web sites and reports for over 1

in 10 FTSE100 companies. As IT Hosting Administrator I focus on the support and management of all hosting operations including

researching, planning and testing new systems in order to meet The Group's business needs. The current hosting architecture is

split between 2 data centres and a few server instances on Amazon AWS. The main areas that I am responsible for are:

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September 2013 – present

Università degli Studi di Tor Vergata – Roma (Italy) Completing Computer Science Degree

26 exams taken – 4 exams to complete

English Course Intermediate English Course - Princes College, New Oxford Street, London (UK)

Final Exam Grade A+

Electronics and telecommunications - Industrial and Technical Institute, Ferentino (Italy)

Final grade 85 / 100

From Oct 2003 to Nov 2006

Form Dec 2006 to Jan 2007

Form Dec 1994 to Jan 1999

  § Sensitive email encryption

  § Active Directory / Group Policy

  § Terminal Services

  § Roaming profile

  § SVN File server

  § Server hardware repair

  § Netwrix Auditing

  § Software Auditing

May 2012

April 2012

May 2011

March 2011

March 2010

Feb 2010

Jan 2010

Oct 2009

March 2009

July 2005

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  § Data Centre management – Managing the day to day hosting system between physical, virtualized and cloud services.

  § Hosting: As Hosting Administrator my primary role is to set up and maintain the complex hosting environment using technologies

such as IIS7, DFS, Cache servers, MSSQL, MYSQL, and ColdFusion to name a few.

  § Hardware - Interaction with hardware like Dell Cloud Servers (C6145), Dell R900 series, HP Proliant DL series, Netgear routers

and switches, SonicWall NSA E5500 Application Firewalls, Dell Equal Logic SAN, Drobo archiving systems and many more.

  § Design and maintenance of high availability servers – Maintaining and improving the hosting system, implementing a new

IIS7 webserver farm distributed between 2 data centres using shared configuration, URL rewriting, webserver proxy and failover

cluster database servers based on MSSQL 2000/2012 and MYSQL. A partner company of The-Group is Gaia which provides

web-analytic services for corporate websites. During my time here at The-Group I have also been involved in redesigning and

maintaining the Gaia architecture. At present Gaia uses 6 Mysql servers distributed over 3 different sites and 4 crunching

machines to process all the data collected.

  § Researching and testing: Researching and testing is an important part of my job. Troubleshooting complicated issues can

sometimes require a lot of research. An architecture change often requires a series of tests before the change reaches the

production environment.

  § Monitoring: Implementing monitoring solutions across the whole Hosting architecture. Some of my implemented solutions include

Microsoft System Centre 2012, Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager, PcMonitor, custom vbs scripts, Akamai and Scrutinizer.

  § Private cloud and Amazon Web Services: Managing The-Group private cloud between 2 data centres with redundant ISPs and

multiple VPNs between each site.

  § Hyper-V: On joining The-Group I took over the process of migration from physical to virtual and since completing this task I have

continued to maintain and upgrade the 170+ virtual servers using Hyper-V and Microsoft System Centre.

  § Exchange 2012: Migrated the existing mail server based on exchange 2007 to the latest version. Since then I have been

successfully managing and maintaining the server.

  § 3CX: Setup and maintaining of the 3CX VOIP telephone system.

IT Network Administrator Company Health Group PLC - London (UK) – www.companyhealthgroup.com

April 2007 – April 2010

Employed as IT Technician in 2007I left the company after went in administration as IT network administrator. I was responsible

for the day-to-day running of the entire Company Health Group (CHG) IT system’s functionality spread over five different offices

in the UK. Considered a key figure in the maintenance and development of new systems for supporting and expanding the

business, I have worked on the following projects and areas:

  § Active directory administration and migration – Successful migration of desktop, servers and associated infrastructure from

workgroup to a multi-site, multi-domain forest.

  § 1st

line support – 98% of the support was carried out remotely or over the phone troubleshooting any software or

hardware issue for over 100 employees and nearly 200 Associates (Doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, 3rd party company

employees). When necessary I support the users in person.

, 2nd

and 3rd

  § Terminal services – Set up and maintenance of secure remote accesses for employees and associates of the CHG group.

  § Firewalls (VPN, Content Filtering, Network Security) – Created sharing network between the five offices implementing

DrayTek VPN solutions. Created VPN sharing trough Microsoft ISA server in Active Directory environment. Contributed to the

configuration of a SNORT IDS system. Carried NESSUS network penetration tests. Implemented content filtering rules trough

DrayTek equipment, ISA server and Open DNS.

  § Networking – Secured WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g/n. VLAN setup and administration using DrayTek equipment. Created a shared

broadband network improving fault tolerance and load balance traffic of the network. Security and vulnerability assessment

performed using ISS Security Scanner and GFI Languard Network Security Scanner.

  § Telephony System – Maintaining a pre-existing MITEL telephone system.

  § Data Centre management – Dell PowerEdge rack-mount servers. HP Proliant DL series. Netgear routers and switches.

  § Hardware knowledge – With an “A level equivalent” in electronic and a previous employment where I use to build desktop PCs

and Servers I am able to quickly identify and fix hardware problems. To stay in the budget of the CHG I often select, buy and

assemble the hardware for building a PC.

  § Virus Protection – installed and configured enterprise antivirus solutions including Kaspersky, McAfee and Symantec Antivirus.

  § Patch management – installed and configured Microsoft Windows Server Update Servers.

  § Backup & Recovery – Set up Ahsay delta backup and a replication solution for all offices and the main remote users.

  § DNS, Hosting and Webservers - Manage the DNS of all CHG Group domains, dealing with hosting and internal/external

webservers (IIS, Apache).

  § Web development - Developed a consistent number of web applications (using PHP4 / PHP5, CSS, JavaScript, MYSQL,

ACCESS) to facilitate the day to day work of the employees and to provide new service to customers (health check booking

system for Kent County Council and Calor gas, Elearning system for employee and associate, etc).

  § Database design and maintenance – Mysql4, Mysql5 and Access.

  § Policies and procedures - Had a key role in writing CHG group’s IT policy and procedures.

  § Virtualization – Started process of virtualization of all the old physical servers using Hyper-V, VMware and Microsoft Virtual

Server 2005 software.

  § Disaster recovery IT system plan - Redesigned the IT system of one CHG office to implement disaster recovery plan.

  § Security and sensitive data - Secured all sensitive data of the CHG Group implementing full drive encryption, PKI certificate

system, secure email, locking down workstation, providing courses to the users and secured backing up. All of the above

complying with the DATA security ACT.

  § Tender - Provided appropriate contributions to tender with technical documentations, analyzing customer requirements and

recommending the appropriate solutions.

  § Building security systems management – Maintaining and monitoring CCTV, Alarm, and access control system.

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EXTERNAL WEB DEVELOPER SAEDI Srl, Infarma Group – Anagni (Italy)

This company develops management software for small chemists and pharmaceutical

companies in Italy.

Sep 2006 – March 2007

  § Developed software for the management of stock and accounts using UML, object-oriented, HTML, CSS, PHP 5, MySQL 5,

Javascript, Apache 2.2, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, phpmyadmin and wrote technical specification documents.

  § Set up intranet and developed software for the management of costs on site (equipment, staff, and materials) using UML, objectoriented,

HTML, CSS, PHP 5, MySQL 4, Javascript, Apache 2, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and phpmyadmin.

  § Extended the functionality of SAEDI CMS web-sites.

1ST / 2ND DESKTOP SUPPORT EOS Srl - Anagni (Italy)

Sales of professional office equipment.

  § Bought and chose hardware and software

  § Assembled and upgraded PCs and servers

  § Installed and managed windows 2000/2003 server

  § Installed and troubleshooted Active Directory

  § Installed and troubleshooted Printer Server

  § Installed, upgraded and managed windows 98/ME/2000/XP

  § Created and managed users email

  § Installed and troubleshooted client emails

  § Supported local and remote users in person and over phone

LANGUAGES

English VERY GOOD

Italian MOTHER TONGUE

OTHER

References Provided upon request.

Driver’s licence Full clean UK licence.

Leisure Interests Interested in art, films, running, bowling with friends and pool.

Jun 2003 – May 2006

  § Set up ADSL/Dial-Up internet connection

  § Backup/Restored dates, user account, email account and

reinstall peripheral

  § Hardware and software installation and upgrades

  § Built and Set-up LAN and WAN

  § Ensured that all procedures and infrastructures were fully

documented

  § Provided out of hours desktop support to the company by taking

part in the callout roster for desktop support

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