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Kenneth, Kwok Hung  Pau

Kenneth, Kwok Hung Pau

Greenwich,LONDON

Summary

Experienced IT Support familiar with managing end-user experience and infrastructure support in both on-premises and cloud environments, cybersecurity management and root cause analysis. Advanced knowledge of financial service operations and dedication to see issues through to the end. Works well in remote and desk-side environments.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

System Engineer

Redington
City of London
09.2024 - 03.2025
  • 6 months FTC
  • 2nd and 3rd Support
  • Staff On-boarding and Off-Boarding control
  • Hybrid infrastructure administration(On-premises and Azure)
  • IT security control (Conditional Access Policy, Azure RBAC, Intune MDM and Endpoint Security)
  • Network and email security (CheckPoint, Cisco Meraki and Darktrace)
  • Conferencing system administration and support(Teams Room & Zoom)
  • End-user experience management with 3rd party service providers and internal product team
  • IT Infrastructure project(migration of hybrid AD to Entra-ID only)
  • 3rd party service providers management(SLA and digital solution)
  • Tasks and project: Perform full security review on RBAC and network control; established Intune MDM on macOS Devices

Azure Support Engineer

Microsoft
London
11.2023 - 06.2024
  • 18 months FTC
  • EMEA region customer support in Azure Networking specialising in Azure Load Balancer, Virtual Network, Private Link, Private Endpoint and DNS Service
  • Collaborate with other team to provide support and escalation with other product/ service in network perspective
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Provide technical advice to customer in set up and implementation
  • Improved customer satisfaction by promptly addressing support tickets and providing accurate solutions.

Support Engineer

Stewardship
City Of London
09.2023 - 11.2023
  • Daily system monitoring by using Paessler PRTG Monitoring Tools and Azure Sentinel on cyber security sector
  • Maintain system and site reliability and validity
  • System upgrade and patch management
  • Technical document review and management
  • Ensured compliance with industry best practices and company policies throughout all support activities undertaken by team.
  • Established system migration project from on-perm services to SaaS and Azure Cloud

IT Project Specialist

Seaspan Ship Management Ltd.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
08.2022 - 05.2023
  • Contract IT Project based role
  • IT Project: Network revamp on vessel fleet - redesign network flow and upgrade network firewall on vessels operating on the sea; Privilege control - Deploy BeyondTrust Privilege Management on vessels operating on the sea - New maritime system deployment - Assemble and install new server and system on existing vessel
  • Workflow improvement for IT projects
  • Prepare and review technical documents
  • Collaborate with different IT Team and end user to bug fixing on IT projects
  • Performed IT support to vessel fleet by remote tools and telephone support

IT Support Specialist (APAC Support)

Zeal Capital Market (UK) Limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
10.2020 - 06.2022
  • Leading APAC support team of 3 members to provide 1st to 2nd IT support in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia office; Manage helpdesk ticket in Jira Service Desk
  • Staff onboarding and offboarding control
  • End-user experience management: Review and implement end-user experience with both internal product team and 3rd party service providers
  • Infrastructure support: Windows Server 2012 - 2019, Active Directory, vSphere ESXi 6.5 - 6.7, Hyper-V, Alibaba Cloud Virtual Desktop, Kaspersky Endpoint Security
  • Network support: Fortigate NGFW, Dell siwtch, UniFi WiFi; vLan, network policy and access control; Site to Site, Point to site VPN management
  • Data Center management: Maintain data center and DR Site in Hong Kong and Singapore
  • IT security control and compliance: Design and set up network and user privilege control; Collaborate with compliance department review of IT policy and security to meet requirement and guideline by The Financial Conduct Authority
  • Microsoft 365 and Azure administration: MS Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, Intune, Azure Active Directory and Sentinel
  • Phone and conferencing: 3CX and MS Teams calling plan
  • IT Management: Assist CTO and IT Director to plan and execute IT planning and provide technical analyses on IT project planning; Manage APAC IT team, review the performance and help team members to archive the goal
  • IT budgeting: Assist IT Director to review IT cost in APAC region
  • IT vendor management: Relation management, review and improving of IT servicing and SLA.
  • IT asset control: Manage IT asset, review life cycle on IT equipment, maintain all IT asset in good status
  • IT Incident management and Root Cause Analysis
  • IT projects: Migrate On-prem Active Directory to Azure Active Directory, Firewall and VPN service gateway upgrade to provide larger capacity and secure P2S VPN connection to users

Senior IT Officer (Assistant Manager)

Amber Hill Capital Limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
01.2020 - 04.2020
  • 1st to 3rd IT Support
  • Leading 3 of members perform 1st to 2nd IT Support to Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore office
  • Staff onboarding and offboarding control
  • End-user experience management: Managing end-user experience with 3rd party service providers
  • IT infrastructure and network support: Windows server 2012 - 2019, Active Directory, Dell SAN storage, Huawei firewall, Veeam Backup, Hyper-V and vSphere ESXi
  • Microsoft 365 administration: MS Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive and Teams
  • Trading application support: Bloomberg, Ayers and ETNet
  • IT security control: Mobile Device Management - MobileIron Device Management, Network access control and user privilege control
  • IT security control and compliance: Design and set up network and user privilege control; Collaborate with compliance department review of the IT policy and security to meet the requirement and guideline by Hong Kong Monetary Authority(HKMA) and Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission(HKSFC) and Monetary Authority of Singapore(MAS)
  • Root Cause Analysis and incident management
  • IT Management: Assist COO to redesign Business Contingency Plan, Manage helpdesk team and assist team members to archive SLA
  • IT Project: Infrastructure upgrade - Replacing old model of server to updated model; Network upgrade - Replace Huawei firewall to Fortigate NGFW to enhance network security; Virtual Desktop Platform - Setup new VMware Horizon to provide virtual desktop for remote users
  • Video and Audio conferencing: Cisco, Zoom and MS Teams video conferencing solution, Cisco IP Phone system
  • IT vendor management: Relation management, review IT servicing and SLA
  • IT asset control: Manage IT asset, review life cycle on IT equipment, maintain all IT asset in good status

System Administrator

Wünsche (Hong Kong) Limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
06.2019 - 09.2019
  • 1st to 2nd IT support to Hong Kong and China office
  • Infrastructure and network support: Windows server 2003 - 2016, Synology NAS, WatchGuard firewall, Symantec Backup Exec, Hyper-V and VM ESXi)
  • Daily system monitoring
  • IPPBX, Door access control system and CCTV maintenance

Associate of IT

AMTD Group Company Limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
10.2014 - 04.2019
  • 1st to 3rd onsite/ remote IT Support: Windows XP/ 7/ 10, MacOS X, Android and iOS)
  • VIP Support: Provide 24 x 7 VIP support with below SLA:

In office: less than 10 minutes After office hour: less than 60 minutes.

Provide support in business trip

  • Staff onboarding and offboarding control
  • Root Cause Analysis and incident management
  • System monitoring and patch management: Monitoring and patching control on all physical server by monitoring tool develop by internal team
  • Mobile Device Management: MS Intune
  • End-user experience management: Review and implement end-user experience with 3rd party service providers in rapidly growing environment
  • Infrastructure support and administration: Windows Server 2000 - 2016, Active Directory, MS Exchange 2003, MS Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Linux SendMail, MS SQL 2003 - 2014, VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0 - 6.5; IBM, HP, Dell, NEC Server, IBM and NEC SAN Storage, QNAP NAS management; Sophos Cloud Endpoint Security
  • Network administration: Fortigate NGFW, CheckPoint NGFW, Cisco WiFi; vLAN, VPN, network access control
  • Backup and replication: Symantec Backup Exec, Veeam Backup and Replication, LTO tape maintenance; DR site setup and maintenance
  • IT security control and compliance: Design and set up network and user privilege control; Collaborate with compliance department review of IT policy and security to meet requirement and guideline by Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission
  • Microsoft Office 365 Administration: Exchange Online, Cisco Umbrella Cloud Cybersecurity email gateway, SharePoint, Teams
  • Video and Audio conferencing: Cisco, Polycom and MS Teams video conferencing solution, Crestron Digital Workspace support and maintenance, Zoom and Cisco WebEx
  • Trading application support: Bloomberg, Ayers and ETNet
  • IT vendor management: Relation management, review IT servicing and SLA
  • IT asset control: Manage IT asset, review life cycle on IT equipment, maintain all IT asset in good status
  • IT projects: SaaS - Perform internal CRM and data filing system to AWS Cloud; MS Exchange upgrade - Perform upgrade and migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange Online; P2V upgrade - Perform physical server upgrade or rebuild to new vSphere perform, upgrade and replacing new SAN storage, new network equipment and resign entire backup solution.

Assistant System Engineer

Yunta Securities (Hong Kong) Limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
02.2014 - 06.2014
  • 1st to 2nd IT support to Hong Kong office and branches
  • System administration: Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange Server
  • IT inventory control
  • Trading platform support: Hong Kong and Taiwan stocks trading platform

Senior Supervisor

Taiwan Concord Capital Securities (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
10.2013 - 12.2013
  • 1st to 3rd IT Support to users in Hong Kong Office
  • Staff onboarding and offboarding control
  • Infrastructure and network support: Windows Server, Active Directory, FortiGate firewall
  • User privilege control
  • Trading application support and administration
  • IT vendor management
  • Root Cause Analysis and incident management

IT Officer

Bright Smart Securities (Hong Kong) Limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
06.2011 - 10.2013
  • 1st to 3rd IT support
  • Staff onboarding and offboarding control
  • Infrastructure support: Windows Server, Active Directory, VMWare ESXi, vSphere
  • 2nd helpdesk support to trading account customers
  • On-Site support to VIP customers
  • Trading platform support: Local stocks market applications support (Ayers, Sharppoint, CCASS and DCASS)
  • Support marketing event in IT perspective
  • Branch systems and network design and implement

System Administrator

Primetech Technology Ltd.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
12.2009 - 03.2010
  • Daily end user support
  • Lotus Notes support
  • Server support
  • PABX support and cabling

Service Engineer(Contract)

Long Data Technology Ltd.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
09.2009 - 12.2009
  • Secondment to DBS Hong Kong
  • 1st to 2nd IT support on-site and remote to users
  • Windows Platform, Lotus Notes, MS Office and internal banking applications support
  • Relocation and any planned restructuring project

Customer Service Engineer

Unisys China/ Hong Kong Limited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
05.2007 - 05.2009
  • Secondment contract to HSBC Hong Kong
  • 1st and 2nd IT support including Windows XP/ 7, MS Office, internal applications troubleshooting, network and user access control
  • Branch and Cash Depot support: On-site support to branch banking system and close circus systems in cash depot
  • Office relocation support
  • Server support on physical hardware maintenance

Field Engineer

Jardine One Solutions
Hong Kong, Hong kong
07.2006 - 04.2007
  • Field technical Support Service: PC, Laptop, Printer and Server on hardware maintenance
  • On-site Support Service: Provide on-site helpdesk support in client's office
  • Data Center Support: Help client's to install, replace and upgrade server equipments including server and UPS in client's data center


Education

High school graduate - Computer

Lingnan Dr. Chung Wing Kwong Memorial Sec. School
Hong Kong

Skills

  • IT procurement and budgeting
  • Systems deployment and implementation
  • Virtualization(VMWare, Hyper-V, Azure VM, Amazon EC2)
  • Backup management(Veeam Backup & Replication, Symantec Backup Exec)
  • Azure Cloud Infrastructure and Networking
  • On-premises networking(FortiGate NGFW, Checkpoint NGFW, Cisco, UniFi, Aruba)
  • Mail Server management(Linux SendMail, Microsoft Exchange 2003 - 2019, Exchange Online, Cisco Secure Email Gateway)
  • Endpoint Security deployment and management(Symantec Endpoint Protection, Sophos Endpoint Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon, Kaspersky Endpoint Security, Bitdenfender, Beyond Trust Privilege Management, Darktrace, Cisco Umbrella)
  • Mobile Device Management(Microsoft Intune, Cisco Umbrella, MobileIron)
  • Deskside support(Windows 7, 10, 11, MacOS, iOS, Android)
  • Audio & Video Conferencing Solution (Polycom, Cisco, MS Teams, Zoom, Crestron Video Conferencing and Digit Workspace Solution)
  • IT Project Management
  • Business Contingency Planning and disaster recovery
  • VIP support

Certification

AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals

Azure Networking - Foundational

Azure Networking - Peering Service Specialist

Azure Networking - Azure Architecture

Azure Linux Academy

Fundamentals of AWS

Cisco CyberSecurity Fundamental

Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals

Languages

English
Fluent
Chinese (Cantonese)
Native
Chinese (Mandarin)
Advanced

Timeline

System Engineer

Redington
09.2024 - 03.2025

Azure Support Engineer

Microsoft
11.2023 - 06.2024

Support Engineer

Stewardship
09.2023 - 11.2023

IT Project Specialist

Seaspan Ship Management Ltd.
08.2022 - 05.2023

IT Support Specialist (APAC Support)

Zeal Capital Market (UK) Limited
10.2020 - 06.2022

Senior IT Officer (Assistant Manager)

Amber Hill Capital Limited
01.2020 - 04.2020

System Administrator

Wünsche (Hong Kong) Limited
06.2019 - 09.2019

Associate of IT

AMTD Group Company Limited
10.2014 - 04.2019

Assistant System Engineer

Yunta Securities (Hong Kong) Limited
02.2014 - 06.2014

Senior Supervisor

Taiwan Concord Capital Securities (Hong Kong) Ltd.
10.2013 - 12.2013

IT Officer

Bright Smart Securities (Hong Kong) Limited
06.2011 - 10.2013

System Administrator

Primetech Technology Ltd.
12.2009 - 03.2010

Service Engineer(Contract)

Long Data Technology Ltd.
09.2009 - 12.2009

Customer Service Engineer

Unisys China/ Hong Kong Limited
05.2007 - 05.2009

Field Engineer

Jardine One Solutions
07.2006 - 04.2007

High school graduate - Computer

Lingnan Dr. Chung Wing Kwong Memorial Sec. School
Kenneth, Kwok Hung Pau