Administered 100 Bare Bone servers
Administered 100 Bare Bone servers, physical networks, and IP telephony systems, ensuring robust infrastructure for company growth.
Work carried out: 2003 – 2014

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100 bare‑metal servers, networks and telephony run
Situation. Underneath everything the company did was the physical stuff — servers, the actual networks, the IP‑telephony — and it all had to just run. That layer is invisible when it works and extremely visible the moment it doesn’t, and the company’s growth was resting on it staying dependable.
Task. Administering that infrastructure and keeping it stable as the company grew was the job.
Action. A hundred bare‑bone servers, along with the physical networks and the IP‑telephony systems, were looked after — the setup, the maintenance, the troubleshooting when something went wrong. Bare‑bone servers mean dealing with the hardware directly, so there’s a hands‑on, physical side to it: the cabling, the boxes, the phone system that everyone notices the second a call drops. The job was to keep all of it boring, in the good sense.
Result. The servers, the networks and the telephony ran reliably, and that dependable physical foundation is what let the company keep growing without the ground shifting underneath it.
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