Private School Network Upgrade

After working with the school for many years, I was in a great position to design and implement a full network upgrade. The first item was to get a cabling company in to assess the existing fibre and copper, after which we decided that existing legacy cabling would be replaced....

In 2018 I was tasked with the awesome project of going to Lesotho and setting up a underground Bitcoin Ant miner Farm. At the time I had never even seen a Bitcoin miner in real life, only on YouTube. But I love a good challenge, so I went online, did...

Novell to Office 365 Migration

Migrated over 800 staff and students from Novell onto Office 365. Provided all users educational emails leading up to migration with links to videos and training for the apps to come Exported 800+ Mailboxes to PST Uploaded 1.2TB of PST to Azure Blog Storage Imported PSTs into Mailboxes & Online...

Multi-Server VMWare Environment

Utilizing a range of Dell PowerEdge servers in conjunction with QNAP storage solutions, I established a VMware infrastructure managed through vCenter. This enabled us to accommodate virtual servers for more than 50 distinct clients. For data protection, we implemented daily backups using Veeam Backup & Replication, and also maintained offsite...

Hosted Plesk Server Integrated with WHMCS

In my role as a Solutions Architect, I orchestrated the setup of a virtual machine on Vultr, deploying Plesk as the hosting control panel and integrating an automatic Lets Encrypt SSL configuration. Additionally, I established a separate virtual machine running WHMCS, a customer-oriented front end. To enhance efficiency, I seamlessly...

Zabbix Enterprise Monitoring

In my capacity as a Solutions Architect, I meticulously established an Ubuntu 22.04 server hosted within Hetzner's Finland data center. This encompassed the proficient installation of Zabbix Server 6.4, fortified with an automated, self-renewing Lets Encrypt SSL Certificate. The Zabbix ecosystem was meticulously structured, with a focus on robust security...

Unifi Hosted Controller

In my role as a Solutions Architect, I set up a virtual machine running Ubuntu 22.04 within Hetzner's Finland data center. I then proceeded to install and configure the Unifi Network Application, enhancing its security with an auto-renewing Lets Encrypt SSL Certificate. To ensure optimal performance, I fine-tuned the application...