Hisham Athas

Hisham Athas currently serves as Team Lead in Technology Support for OLBB at BMO since January 2020, following extensive experience at BlackBerry from May 2007 to December 2019 in various technical roles, including DevOps Engineer and IT-Desktop Support Specialist. Key responsibilities at BlackBerry included supporting large-scale enterprise server infrastructure, managing server stability, scripting with BASH and PowerShell, overseeing Windows/Linux server management, and executing infrastructure planning and improvement projects. Hisham demonstrated expertise in enterprise storage management with NetApp, Active Directory/LDAP, centralized antivirus management, and cloud computing using OpenNebula, AWS, and Azure. Proficiencies also included daily management of Apache and JBOSS servers, and automation of applications in the cloud using Chef. Hisham's technical toolkit encompasses VMware ESXi, monitoring technologies like Nagios and Zabbix, and a solid foundation in SAP Hybris E-Commerce software.