Grande Cache Coal - Employment

Grande Cache Coal (GCC) is an Alberta based metallurgical coal mining company whose experienced team of coal professionals is managing mining operations that produce metallurgical coal for the steel industry. GCC holds coal leases covering over 29,000 hectares containing over 300 million tonnes of coal resources in the Smoky River Coalfield located in west-central Alberta.

GCC has been producing coal on the property since 2004 and utilizes both surface and underground mining techniques that produce a premium, low volatile, metallurgical coal.

For more details visit www.gccoal.com

• 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.

Acquisition & Deployment

• 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.

Service Provider Management

• Coordinate with service providers to deliver the solutions that are beyond the scope of the organization's internal support capabilities.

Operational Management

• 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.

• Redesigned Active Directory network based on AD2008
• Redesigned Local Area Network based on Enterasys Networks
• Redesign Network from 2 flat network into 25 virtual network on OSPF
• Introduced and administrated SharePoint 2007
• Introduced and administrated Exchange2007
• Introduced Virtual Machine based on EMC Vmware -VCenter
• Introduced and administrated AVAMAR live backup in Calgary and Grande Cache with site replication
• Introduced and administrated EMC Storage CX120(NX4) with 16TB in Calgary & Grande Cache
• Planed, designed site offices cabling in Calgary and Grande Cache
• Introduced and administrated Barracuda SPAM firewall
• Introduced and administrated ShorTel VoIP for all corporate offices
• Designed and supervised building Calgary & Grande Cache Data Centers
• Worked with IT Team in creating PLC private network/system
• Introduced & administrated Websense
• Introduced and administrated Juniper Firewalls
• Introduced and administrated Riverbed WAN accelerators
• Introduced MPLS services to inner connect both sites based on dedicated/bonded T1 circuits
• Introduced, designed and administrated Wireless Network based on Motorola PTP100 & PTP600
• Introduced and administrated secured Wireless Access Point based on Enterasys Wireless Network
• Introduced and administrated IBM HS22 Blades and Blade Center.
• Designed Fiber backbone to the mines (42KM)
• Designed Fiber Backbone for the site offices
• Introduced and administrated Terminal Services
• Introduced and administrated Juniper SSL Switch
• Designed and administrated DMZ corporate zone
• Administrated Blackberry Server
• Introduced and administrated TrendMicro Office Scan Anti-virus console
• Created Policies, process & procedures
• Created and maintained full infrastructure documentation (word, Excel & Visio)
• Introduced and administrated UpTime monitoring system
• Introduced and administrated Enterasys Netsight
• Introduced and administrated PaloAlto Firewall

• Windows 2003, 2003R2, 2008, 2008R2
• AD2003, AD2008
• Office 2007 & 2010 including Visio and Project
• Enterasys Networks Switching/routing
• Enterasys Network Wireless including Wireless Controller
• Enterasys Network Policy Manager, Netsight, NAC Manager
• MS Terminal 2003 & 2008, SharePoint2007, Exchange 2007 & SQL2008
• Cisco Network Switching
• Motorola Wireless Radios Point-to-Point
• ShorTel VoIP system
• Juniper Firewalls (SSG140)
• Juniper SSL Switches
• EMC AVAMAR
• EMC Celerra CX4-120
• Symantec Backup Exec
• Symantec Endpoint
• TrendMicro Office Scan
• EMC VCenter
• VMware 4.1
• BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server)
• IBM Blades
• HP Servers
• Dell Notebooks, workstations & Tape Libraries
• UpTime Monitoring software
• Solarwinds Monitoring software
• Websense (TRITON)
• Barracuda SPAM Firewalls
• Riverbed WAN Accelerators
• PaloAlto Firewall