This document is Edward Odonkor's curriculum vitae applying for a UNIX/Linux Engineer position. It details his education and qualifications which include a BSc in Physics and various IT certifications. It also outlines his work experience spanning over 20 years in roles such as Senior UNIX Engineer, UNIX Engineer, Office Automation Engineer, and Network Systems Engineer for companies in Ghana, South Africa, Israel, and the USA. It provides references and contact information.
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CV current edward odonkor
1. Curriculum Vitae of Edward Odonkor
Position Applying for: UNIX /LINUX Engineer
Personal Details:
Name: Edward Amartey
Surname: Odonkor
Residential Area: Accra, Ghana
Languages: English
Nationality: Ghanaian
Gender: Male
Mode of Transport: Own transport
Notice Period: Anytime
Area of Potential Placement: Any
Cell: 0555913915 / 0505695227
Email: edward.odonkor@gmail.com
Education and Qualifications
Qualification Institution Year Duration
Matric National
Certificate
Tema Secondary
School
Sept 1983- July
1988
5 years
BSc. (Hon) Physics University of
Science and
Technology,
Kumasi Ghana
Oct 1991- Feb 1996 5 years
Diploma in
Electronics
ICS International
USA
March 1997- Feb
1998
1 year
Diploma in Switch
operation,
Administration and
Maintenance -Unix
BSD
Telrad
Telecommunication
s Industries Ltd,
Israel
March 1998 - May
1998
3 months
Certificate in
Payphone network
platforms
Intellical Inc. USA June 1998 – July
1998
2 months
A+ and N+ Comptia Nov 2003 - April
2004
6 months
2. Assessor and
Moderator in IT
courses
Assessors College June 2004 2 weeks
Linux/Unix System
Administration
Oreilly School of
Technology
November 2007 -
July 2008
9 months
PHP/MySQL
Administration
Oreilly School of
Technology
May 2009 – June
2010
14 months
Computer Skills
MS Word, MS Excel , MS Power Point, Microsoft Outlook
Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / NT, XP/7/8 Windows 10
A+ and N+, Active Directory, Exchange 2003/2007/2013, Terminal Services
Microsoft FrontPage, Publisher, Dreamweaver
Red Hat Linux, FreeBSD, Fedora Core CentOS, Debian, Mac OS X
System and server administration, Mac OS technician
MySQL 5.6, MySQL replication, DNS Servers, Web Server Applications
(Apache), DHCP
Mail servers (including sendmail, postfix, EXIM, ClamAV, Spam assassin)
In-House Training
Qualification Institution Year Duration
Innowave WLL
systems Technician
Course
Westel Telesystems 1999 1 month
Satellite Earth Station
Technician course
Westel Teleystems 2000 1 month
Work experience
I have taught in Physics, mathematics and general science for 3 years, with the
ministry of education of Ghana.
I had my Switch Operation training in Israel and work on DMS 300 /100/10
switches, including data filing and operations management.
I have also worked on the Tadiran / Innowave WLL system, intelligent network
platform from Intellical of Dallas USA. I have experience on International Earth
Station / VSAT NMS for 9 months
I have experience in electronic repairs on amplifiers, electronic musical keyboard,
laptops, computer accessories and power suppliers.
I do studio and stage sound arrangements, i.e. audio hook-ups for sound and video
recordings.
I have experience in power system and generators; I have experience in training
and installation of PC’s, Networking, Microsoft Access database of which I have
written two good databases for my previous company Westel.
I have practically installed a UNIX server, NT 4.0 and application server in Server
/ client environment in Mongu, Zambia for UNHCR
3. I have practically installed four times Windows 2000 DHCP server with Active
Directory at various small companies in Lusaka, Zambia.
I have experience in the Installation of Access Control Systems e.g. Viper TNA
Time and Attendance Access control system at BP Head Office in Zambia. –
System is from South Africa.
I have experience on installation of digital monitoring and recording system in
City Bank, BP Zambia, and Makishi Engen service station all in Lusaka, Zambia.
– System from South Africa.
Setup Navision Solution Centre for DCS Holdings.
I have assembled over 1400 PC’s of Different Brands, and repaired 1000 PC’s
with various problems.
Technology, maths and Natural Science Tutor – Hoedsprit Independent Schools,
Hoedsprit, Northern Province.
Deputy Principal and Students Assessor – Information Technology Training
Academy, Ormonde Campus.
Red Hat Linux, FreeBSD, Fedora, Debian, with system and server administration,
MySQL 5.0, Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / NT, XP
Local Area networking; Rack-Cabling and Design
A+, N+, MCSE 2000 Server. MCSE 2003 AD, Exchange 2003, Terminal Services
Microsoft Office 2003 packages, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access.
Website Designing using Microsoft FrontPage, Publisher, Dreamweaver 8
professional.
I have done installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of operating systems,
Web Server Applications (Apache), DNS Servers, mail servers (including
sendmail, postfix, EXIM, ClamAV, Spam assassin) as well as imap/pop3
software such as courier-IMAP, dovecot.
I have solid working experience, with standard system and Internet services and
protocols such as: FTP, DNS, RPC, NFS, POP/SMTP, DHCP, NIS, NFS, SSL,
IMAP, HTTP/S and Squid Proxy servers.
Virtualization, Citrix Xen, VMware ESXi/ESX, Proxmox.
Work History
Position: Senior UNIX Engineer
Duration: Sept 2009 to Mar 2017
Company: Striata Communications
Key Performance Areas:
Recompile FreeBSD UNIX kernels
Keep UNIX/LINUX OS and applications up to date
Maintain MySQL database servers including MySQL backups and replication
Install and maintain Apache web-servers
General Backup of all Systems and platforms
Install and maintain network infrastructure
Install and maintain firewall servers
Install and maintain sFTP and FTPs Servers
Install and maintain local Virus database servers, local FTP mirrors
Install and maintain VoIP PBX systems (Asterisk)
Setting up of Mail servers (send mail, postfix, Exim),
DNS, DHCP, Apache with PHP 5, FTP
Scripting in the shell, bash, SED, AWK and Perl
4. Install and maintain Active Directory and general Windows servers
Reason for wanting to leave: Need higher challenges.
Position: UNIX Engineer
Duration: Nov 2008 to August 2009
Company: MWEB Business
Key Performance Areas:
Setting up of Mail servers (send mail, postfix, Exam),
DNS, DHCP, Apache with PHP 5, FTP
Scripting in the shell, bash, SED, AWK and Perl
Reason for wanting to leave: Need higher challenges.
Position: Office Automation Eng
Duration: August 2007 to October 2008
Company: MWEB Business
Key Performance Areas:
Maintaining print servers, file servers, Networking support
Supporting Desktop Users, Video conference support
Install and maintain Active Directory and general Windows servers
Reason for wanting to leave: Need higher challenges.
Position: Technical Assistance Center
Duration: June 2005 to July 2007
Company: MWEB – TAC
Key Performance Areas:
Taking calls and assisting them in resolving technical problems related to internet
and related services like, website and domain hosting, e-commerce, ADSL and
leased lines, FTP
Help walk-in customers with any internet connectivity issues.
Reason for Leaving: Promoted to Technology department in Mweb
Position: School Moderator / N+ Tutor
Duration: October 2004 to May 2005
Company: Information Technology Training Academy
Key Performance Areas:
Aligning school syllabus to SAQA requirements
Preparing learners for the International CompTIA Exams
Helping learners to submit their final portfolios
Reason for Leaving: working on contract, Government did not award any more
contracts to the institution and this made me to leave.
5. Position: N+ and Electronics Tutor
Duration: Sept 2003 to Sept 2004
Company: Information Technology Training Academy, Ormonde,
Johannesburg
Key Performance Areas:
Aligning school syllabus to SAQA requirements
Preparing learners for the International CompTIA Exams.
Preparing students for on-job training
Reason for leaving: N/A
Position: Maths / Physics and Technology Tutor
Duration: July 2003 – August 2003
Company: Hoedspruit Independent Schools, Northern Province.
Key Performance Areas:
Preparing final year students for matric
Reason for Leaving: Got a more fulfilling job.
Position: Systems Engineer, Hardware & Software
Duration: March 2002 to June 2003
Company: Self -employed
Key Performance areas:
Building of servers and desktop PC for sales.
Installing Networks for small businesses.
Reason for leaving: Got more fulfilling job
Company Position Duration
Striata Communications Senior UNIX Engineer Sept 2009 – April 2017
Mweb Business UNIX Engineer Nov 2008 to August 2009
Mweb Business Office Automation Eng August 2007 to October
2008
Mweb Business TAC Support Engineer June 2005 – July 2007
ITTA IT lecturer Sept 2003 – May 2005
Hoedspruit School Science Tutor July 2003 – August 2003
Self-employed System Engineer April 2002 – June 2003
Systems Engineer
(Network)
DCS Technology Systems,
Lusaka, Zambia
Dec 2001 – March 2002
Communications Support
Eng
DCS Technology Systems,
Lusaka, Zambia
May 2001 – November
2001
GSM rollout Project
coordinator
Westel, Accra, Ghana Jan 2001 - March 2001
GSM NOC Engineer Westel (Western
Telesystems Ghana Ltd),
Accra, Ghana
Jan 2000 – Dec 2000
6. Satellite Earth Station
Engineer
Westel (Western
Telesystems Ghana Ltd)
March 1999- Dec 1999
Switch Engineer (BSD
UNIX)
Westel (Western
Telesystems Ghana Ltd)
Feb 1998 – Feb 1999
Referees
Mr. Lovemore Chirombe
Operations Manager (OPS), AWS Premium Support
Tel: +27 71 002 1634
South Africa
Mr. Francis Adom-Malm
Tel: +233 244 256 397
Ghana
7. Satellite Earth Station
Engineer
Westel (Western
Telesystems Ghana Ltd)
March 1999- Dec 1999
Switch Engineer (BSD
UNIX)
Westel (Western
Telesystems Ghana Ltd)
Feb 1998 – Feb 1999
Referees
Mr. Lovemore Chirombe
Operations Manager (OPS), AWS Premium Support
Tel: +27 71 002 1634
South Africa
Mr. Francis Adom-Malm
Tel: +233 244 256 397
Ghana