Career Profile
I am a experienced IT specialist, living and working at Brno Metropolitan Area (Czech Republic).
I am primarily focused on Microsoft platform, with 15+ years of experience.
- End user support and administrator of simple networks 24+ years (2000).
- Documentation writing experience 17+ years (2002).
- IT System & LAN Administrator 17+ years (2007).
- IT Consultant 14+ years (2009).
- IT Project Manager 12+ years (2011).
List of my skills
- Implementing and managing:
- Windows Client 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 including PowerShell Scripting;
- Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019/2022/2025 (full gui/core/nano) including PowerShell Scripting;
- Hyper-V Hypervisor and Virtual Machines including PowerShell Scripting;
- Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010/2013 including PowerShell Scripting;
- SQL Server 2005/2008/2012/2014/2016/2019 including PowerShell Scripting;
- Microsoft Entra ID including PowerShell Scripting;
- Microsoft Exchange Online including PowerShell Scripting;
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint & Business;
- Microsoft 365 / Intune / Power Automate / SharePoint / Teams / OneDrive
- Azure Web App / Azure SQL / Azure VM;
- Atlassian Jira / Atlassian Jira Service Management / Atlassian Confluence;
- Wordpress / Nextcloud / GitHub / CloudFlare;
- Static web generators (Material for MkDocs / generic or custom Jekyll Templates);
- Automation of deployment of Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Automation of deployment of software with creating software packages (Windows Installer MSI packages, or PowerShell/PSADT) for SCCM & Intune.
- Software audit, consulting of software licensing for commercial and/or non-profit subjects.
- Security Standards:
- CIS for Windows
- CIS for Windows Server
- STIG for Windows
- STIG for Windows Server
- STIG for AppLocker / Windows Firewall / Internet Explorer / Edge / Office /
- STIG for Google Chrome / Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Baseline Security for Windows
- Baseline Security for Windows Server
- Baseline Security for Edge / Office / Microsoft 365 Apps
- Zero Trust
- Scripting/Programming
- CMD & WMI (advanced)
- PowerShell (advanced)
- HTML (advanced)
- CSS (advanced)
- SQL (basic)
- XML (basic)
- XSLT (basic)
- Jekyll (basic)
- Presentation and training experiences.
- Experience with creating of security documentation and standards.
- Writing experience with technical documentation in Czech/English.
- Writing experience with reviews in Czech.
You can download
- Curriculum vitae, and
- Cover letter.
Experiences
Member of CyberSecurity Team with task manage of the security solution StealthBit StealthAudit.
My tasks
- Daily tasks for apllication maintenance.
- Writing PowerShell scripts.
I was hired for migration project from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
My tasks
- Developing of native application packages in Windows Installer (MSI) format.
- Developing of application packages in PowerShell with PS AppDeploy Framework.
- Writing PowerShell scripts for application distribution, OS customization, automation.
- Creating of customized Windows 10 fat image for offline distribution (from USB stick) with applications (including Office 2016). Creating of updates for image.
- Implementing of the security recommendation from DoD STIG for OS/Application packages.
- Managing of code (PowerShell, XML, CMD) in Git repository (BitBucket).
- Writing of technical documentation for packages, scripts or images in Czech/English.
- Writing of end-user documentation like step-by-step guide in Czech.
- Collecting information for documentation, writing documentation in Czech/English.
- Communication and coordination with users, key users, application administrators.
- Definition and performing of application Analytic Tests, Functional Tests.
- Definition and performing of packages User Acceptance Tests (UAT).
- Communication and coordination with SCCM administrators.
- Member of Windows 10 Migration Team.
[My Scope] 25 applications/packages, 3 tools/scripts, 1 image (current state). [Customer Environment] more than 800 user’s devices.
Multi-language environment (Czech/English). Contract/Outsourced. Temporary contract only for project “Windows 10 Migration”.
I was hired as member of Mail/Exchange Server Team with task manage Exchange Server and other applications.
My tasks
- Manage of Exchange Server 2007 (high availability).
- Manage of Exchange Server 2013 (high availability).
- Manage of OpenText Archive for Exchange 2007 (cluster).
- Manage of OpenText Archive for SAP.
- Second level and Third level technical support.
- Second level user support level; solving specific problems on client side.
- Writing PowerShell scripts for monitoring, daily check and automation.
- Migration of users of Exchange 2007 and OpenText Archive to new Exchange 2013.
- Changes, change manager role, Teams cooperation during change process.
- OnCall Duty service.
- Knowledge Transfer of OpenText for Exchange to India Team.
- Knowledge Transfer of OpenText for SAP to SAP Košice Team.
[My Scope] 4 applications, 30 servers (with HA or clustered), 16000+ mailboxes.
Multi-language environment (Czech/English). Contract/Outsourced from TrustSoft, s.r.o.. Temporary contract to March 2018.
Projects
Here is my open-source or voluntary projects.
Get System Report PowerShell script (PowerShell)
- PowerShell script for automatic system reports sended by email.
PowerShell Script Library (PowerShell)
- Library of small PowerShell scripts.
Morrowind Czech (The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind)
- Czech translation for game The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind and datadisks.
DOSBox Czech
- Czech translation for DOSBox. Delivered as full product in Czech directly.
Free Software Licensing Guide
- (Czech) Guide for free software and details about possibility of use in commercial or academic environment.
Publications
Here is my publications.
Virtuální PC Blog (online)
from 2009, www.vitualnipc.cz
Voluntary Writer at Wikipedia (online)
from 2005, Wikipedista:MichalZobec
Michal Zobec Blog (online)
from 2002, www.michalzobec.cz
Editor at Softwarové Noviny (printed computer magazine)
from 2003 to 2009
Editor at Thomas Taylor Media (printed computer magazine)
from 2005 to 2007
Editor at Extra Publishing (printed computer magazine)
from 2007 to 2007