Erdinç AKKILIÇ

• Hybrid Infrastructure Management: Administered environments across 5 sites,Nutanix AHV, VMware, and Hyper-V. • Server and Tools Oversight: Managed 300+ physical servers using vSphere, Aria, Prism, and Hyper-V Manager.• Team Leadership: Led and coached team members, ensuring continuous improvement and effectivecollaboration. • Backup & DR Solutions: Maintained Zerto and Veeam for data protection and recovery. Technologies: • VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V, OpenStack, PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python, Zerto, Veeam

- Creating, optimizing and managing the VMware environment. - Developing automation solutions with Ansible to analyze the collected data. - Writing PowerShell scripts to process the collected data and create the environment reports. - Troubleshooting the VMware environment. - Planning the upgrade projects.

• Environment Upgrading (Physical and Virtual): Planning, implementing, and leading the environment upgrade project. Collaborating with internal customers to ensure the project is completed smoothly. • Automation Scripting (PowerCLI): Development of automation scenarios using PowerCLI to automate workflows. Automating the operations to reduce the time spent on daily tasks. • Disaster Project Planning and Implementation: Planning and implementing strategies to ensure business continuity in case of disasters.

Managing over 3000 physical and 10000 virtual Vodafone Turkey NFV Telco Over Cloud (TOC) systems. • Working with vCenter, ESXi, vCloud Director, vRealize Products, NSX to manage the environment. • Preparing documentation and procedures to ensure business continuity and facilitate automation. • Preparing PowerCLI scripts to automate the daily tasks and generate environment reports. • Network Component Knowledge (HSS/HLR, IMS, A-SBC, I-SBC, VGGSN, VSGSN, VMSP, etc.)

Responsible for managing VMware Turkey customer tickets (L2) and delivering optimal solutions for VMwarerelated products to ensure customer satisfaction. • Working in a solution-focused manner to provide permanent solutions for upgrade, update, and configuration issues, ensuring the longevity of implemented fixes. • Contribute to the enhancement of internal knowledge base portal articles by creating or suggesting solutions for various technical problems.

- Responsible for monitoring and managing Linux OS (RHEL), Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2012 across datacenters in seven factories and 37 warehouses in various cities throughout Turkey. - Manage a multi-domain environment (AD) to facilitate seamless communication and collaboration across the organization. - Manage local VMs hosted on VMware ESXi hosts to optimize resource allocation and performance.

- Managing virtual and physical Windows Server 2008 & 2012 systems. - Provided system consultancy services to a semi-government company (SPL) from November 2015 to October 2016. - Provided system consultancy services to Turkey’s largest media company (Dogus Yayin Grubu – DYG - or Dogus Media Group) from February 2015 to October 2016. - VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter management. - Working with Microsoft System Center, MS Exchange and AD products to manage the environment.