Maoz Kaufmann
Senior System Administrator @Houle
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WORK HISTORY
Senior System Administrator @Houle
Burnaby, BC, CA
Advise the Director on the IT roadmap, budget, and strategy, providing detailed timelinesand cost-saving recommendations for presentation to the Board of Directors and keystakeholders Led, Designed and implemented the entire security suite from MS Defender (E5 licenses) onover devices/users - Email security, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud Apps,Defender for Identity, MS Authenticator, Conditional Access - saving $150K in the first year. Responsible for the company’s security posture - worked together with professionalpentesters and addressed report findings - Developed Incident Response Plan, SSOimplementations, AD Hardening, Certificate Authorities, Disabling legacy protocols.Managing training and guidance to over 10 team members (Security incidents, variousO365 processes, firewall management) Oversee the company’s virtualization and storage infrastructure - VMWare clusters across12 locations (over 16 hosts), vCenter upgrades, security patching and host upgrades.Manage multiple Nimble storage appliances across multiple sites. Launched a new documentation system(Confluence) and developed change managementprocedures that have been fully adopted by the business apps and infrastructure teams. Migrated the entire company from LastPass to 1Password (following LastPass’ securitybreaches) Manage the company’s various backup solutions - Office365 backups, Veeam, NimbleEnsuring multiple DR plans are available and in good working condition. Oversaw Exchange Migration Project to Office365 - timelines, communications, teamtraining, collaboration with consulting services.
EDUCATION
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in IT, Specializing in System Administration and Security
SKILLS
ABOUT MAOZ KAUFMANN
Designed and led various full IT infrastructure projects/migrations (on-premise and Cloud), Increasing businesses resiliency to minimize potential downtimes and reducing unnecessary costs- Managed and maintained numerous executive-client relationships to ensure client satisfaction as well as increasing inside-sales with existing accounts generating significant recurring revenue- Oversaw a team of up 10 people responsible for various organizational tasks such as accounting / billing, logistics, operations and logistics- Responsible for many IT environments for over +7 years - Developed disaster recovery plans, Heavy focus on security, Designed infrastructures, Proactive monitoring and task, IT System administration, Helpdesk support- Formed important relationships with vendors to save on hardware, software and services costs for clients and for internal purposes to increasing profit margins for the sales department- Ensured clients are compliant with regulation in their field of operations – HIPAA, PIPEDA, GDPRAccount Management – Proven and Experienced Team Leader – IT Systems Administrator - Budget / Resource Management - Business Development - Strategical Planner and a Visionary - Excellent Communicator - Project Management - Extremely adaptive - Fast Learner
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