Candidate brief
Gershon Adjei Otinkorang
IT Support Specialist
Eligibility and availability
- Available from
- August 2026
- Arriving in St. John's August 2026 for an MSc at Memorial University
- Work authorisation
- Canadian study permit (from Aug 2026)
- Off-campus work up to 24 hrs/week in term, full-time in scheduled breaks · PGWP-eligible on completion
- Notice period
- One month
- From current role at Greenhouse · available in Canada from August 2026
- Location
- St. John's, NL
- Open to hybrid and on-site; remote across Atlantic Canada
Compensation expectation
CAD 45,000–60,000
Open to discussing based on scope and level
In one paragraph
Five years running network and server infrastructure end to end — MikroTik RouterOS, dual-WAN failover with Starlink, ERPNext and Odoo administration, and the IT support function around all of it. Currently sole administrator for a multi-site network in Ghana. Arriving in St. John's in August 2026 for an MSc in Computer Science focused on network security and intrusion detection.
Core skills, ranked
Roles I'm a match for
Current role
IT Support Officer
Greenhouse International Development Group Ghana Ltd.
Sole IT support for a 1,200-acre industrial park and the retail sites of its subsidiary — end users, POS and PDA systems, servers, and the site-wide network that connects all of it.
Education and certification
Education
MSc Computer Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland · 2026
BSc Information Technology
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · 2024
HND Information & Communication Technology
Takoradi Technical University (NABPTEX) · 2020
Certifications
Foundations of Cybersecurity
Google (Coursera) · 2026
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services · 2024
LinkedIn Marketing Strategy
LinkedIn · 2022
LinkedIn Marketing Fundamentals
LinkedIn · 2022
Google Digital Skills
Google · 2020