Damien Banda

About Damien Banda

In depth knowledge and experience in Information technology infrastructure planning, capacity analysis, and systems implementation. A Track record for diagnosing complex problems and consistently delivering effective solutions, results-driven professional with extensive experience in the engineering, administration and support of information systems. In-depth expertise in the implementation, analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN, Linux and Windows systems.AREAS OF PROFICIENCY AND EXPERTISE• Windows Server 2003, 2008R2, 2012 & 2012 R2: WSUS, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Network Access Protection, Network Policy Server, Certification Services, Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server 2012 R2• System Center 2012, Virtual Machine Manager, Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Forefront endpoint Protection, Data Protection Manager.• Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 & 2013, Database Availability Groups (High Availability and Resilience), Outlook Web Access, Public Folders • WAN Optimization & Traffic Shaping: Exinda appliances and Packetshaper (BlueCoat Packeteer), Squid• HP Proliant Servers, Symantec and Veritas Backup Exec, Data Protection Manager• Linux: RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora & CentOS: Samba, Winbind, Nagios, Cacti, Zenoss, Zabbix, Bind9, NAT, SNMP, RRD, SQUID• Cloud Computing - Amazon Web Services, Google and RackSpace• Routers & Routing Protocols: Cisco IOS, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, MicroTik, Juniper, Cisco Access Points, WireShark, MTR, SolarWinds• SysInternals ProcMon, ProcExp, ProcDump• SLA’s, Policy & Strategies• Firewalls, & Antivirus: SmoothWall Firewall, IPTables, Forefront TMG, Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, SonicWall, Juniper• AWS S3, EC2, WorkSpaces, WorkDocs, VMImport, VPC, IAM, CLi Tools, CloudFormation, CloudWatch

Experience

1. Sr Systems Engineer

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Jul 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• Torque IT, Rivonia, South Africa

  Certificate of Attendance, Exchange 2010

  2011 — 2011

• Polytechnic

  Advanced Diploma, Information Technology

  2001 — 2003

• Amity University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology

  2010 — 2013

• Foster-Melliar (Pty) Limited, South AFrica

  ITIL Foundation Certificte

  2010 — 2010

Skills

• Wireless Networking
• System Administration
• Servers
• Network Security
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Pix
• Squid
• Networking
• Tcp/Ip
• Dhcp
• Firewalls
• Dns
• Cisco Routers
• Isa
• Network Administration
• Linux
• Operating Systems
• Routing
• Microsoft Exchange
• Linux System Administration
• Wan
• Cisco Technologies