Cohos Evamy -Employment

Cohos Evamy is an architectural, engineering, interior design and planning firm. It operates as a single office shared between three established studios in Calgary and Edmonton, and Toronto.

Cohos Evamy was originally founded as an architecture and engineering studio in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1960, and quickly evolved into an interdisciplinary model under the leadership of Martin Cohos, FRAIC, Michael Evamy, FAIC and Paul Poffenroth, P.Eng.

The Cohos Evamy Partners opened the Edmonton office in the 1980s.

In 2003 Cohos Evamy opened a Toronto, Ontario studio. Together, the three studios in Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto serve Canada from the West coast to the East coast.

In 2010, Cohos Evamy merged with Vancouver based architectural firm HBBH.

In 2010, Coho Evamy renamed their firm to DIALOG

• Design and implement short-term and long-term strategic plans to ensure infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements.
• Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures and associated training plans for infrastructure administration and project management.
• Participate in the development of IT strategies in collaboration with the IT steering committee.
• Conduct research and make recommendations on products, services, protocols and standards in support of all infrastructure procurement and development efforts.
• Establish service level agreements with business units.
• Prepare RFPs, bid proposals, contracts, scope of work reports and other documentation for infrastructure projects and associated initiatives.
• Negotiate with vendors, service providers and contractors to secure infrastructure-specific products and services.
• Assist with the planning and deployment of infrastructure security measures.
• Coordinate with service providers to deliver the solutions that are beyond the scope of the organization's internal support capabilities.
• Manage and set priorities for the design, maintenance, development and evaluation of all infrastructure systems, including desktops, servers, LANs, WANs, Internet, intranet, security, wireless, radio and voice communications.
• Conduct feasibility studies for various upgrade projects, improvements and other initiatives.
• Define hardware and software standards in conjunction with owners and stakeholders.
• Test server performance and provide network performance statistics and reports; develop strategies for maintaining server infrastructure.
• Manage operational costs; conduct near-term and long-term financial forecasts based on predicted growth and technology upgrades.
• Establish and maintain regular written and in-person communications with the organization's executives, decision-makers, stakeholders, department heads, and end users regarding pertinent infrastructure activities.
• Manage IT assets, including maintenance of component inventory and related documentation.
• Coach and mentor team members.
• Provide the company users with Day-to Day support in all 3 offices
• Manage vendors, ISP providers & consultants, ISP providers & consultants

• AD2003 Redesign
• Exchange 2003/2007
• Cisco VoIP 5.0 configuration, implementation and Administration
• Cisco Switching configuration, implementation and Administration
• VLAN design and implementation
• SharePoint2003 configuration, implementation and Administration
• Design data center in Customs-house
• Design Customs-House Infrastructure
• Migrate office from old office to new Customs-house (36 hours job completion)
• MPLS connection between 3 offices
• Juniper Firewall configuration, implementation and Administration
• Juniper SSL switch implementation
• Barracuda SPAM firewall configuration, implementation and Administration
• Riverbed WAN Accelerator configuration, implementation and Administration
• SAN/NAS Implementation from HP
• Live backup using Data protector from HP
• Websense implementation
• Cisco router configuration, implementation and Administration
• Creating and maintaining full documentation using, Word, Excel & Visio
• Design IT Staging area & storage.