Projects

Makro Czech Republic and Metro Slovakia network

2001

I help manage and develop the network infrastructure for Makro wholesale stores in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

I look after the network infrastructure for Makro Cash & Carry — covering head offices in Prague and Bratislava, wholesale stores, logistics platforms and drive-in collection points across the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This includes managing Cisco switches, routers and access points, troubleshooting operational issues, and designing and implementing changes.

WAN network redesign for the Czech Republic and Slovakia (2006): analysis, topology mapping, inventory, and support for migrating branch offices to new connectivity providers,
new core network for the Prague head office using Cisco Catalyst 6509 (2007–2008), migration from CatOS to IOS, redesigned DMZ,
administrator authentication via TACACS+ and Wi-Fi user authentication via 802.1X/PEAP with Cisco Secure ACS,
backup ISDN lines, HSRP, OSPF, VTP, GRE tunnels between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, QoS, and rolling out new VLANs across the network,
aligning configurations with the standards of the parent Metro group,
network preparation for an IP telephony pilot,
management tooling: configuration archiving in RANCID, CiscoWorks LMS, NeDi, Cacti, custom software for monitoring switch port occupancy and utilisation, automated file transfers to the group’s SFTP server (mgi-xfer), and an internal wiki.