Alan Scouller Email & Phone Number

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland

As a key member of the Russell McVeagh IS Management Team, the IT Infrastructure Manager is a hands-on technical manager who supports the CIO and contributes substantially to areas such as IS/IT strategy, innovation, customer service, and project delivery.The IT Infrastructure Manager is responsible for managing and supervising the IT Infrastructure Team.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Focused on delivering key business goals through innovation, security, and continuous improvement in technology. I provide cost-effective recommendations for technology standards, processes, policies, procedures, and.
• Moved the Change Management system from an Access db to ServiceNow. Redesigned process to align with ITIL and stakeholder requirements. Implemented automated workflows to improve efficiency and accuracy of this.
• Upgrade Citrix environment to XenApp 6.5 including a Published Desktop. Using MS AppLocker, Print Clustering, Streaming Profiler, StoreFront, Netscaler, and SSL Relay.
• Receiving the monthly IT “Here to help” award in 2 months of starting back at Skycity.

Newmarket, Auckland

• WorldNZ is a one stop technology company providing professional IT services to help enable and grow small to medium sized business. I served as both IT Consultant and Operations Manager due to the very small team.
• Implementation of a variety of standards, reports, procedures, and policies allowing the business to recover 95% of unbilled costs through lost productivity and incorrect billing.
• Developed security, storage, backup, and service products that provided enterprise class services for a small business budget.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Complete assigned projects according to the schedule of work as required. Provide appropriate and cost-effective recommendations for technology standards, process improvements, policies, procedures, and architectural.
• Moved in to the Project Team full time from the BAU team in May 2011 to complete detailed designs and implementation of a variety of projects including the Bally Gaming System refresh, Tier 2 SAN storage.
• Completed the upgrade of the Citrix environment, redeploying over 50 applications, to XenApp 5 in 3 months.
• Receiving the monthly IT “Here to help” award in just 3 months of starting at Skycity.

Manukau, New Zealand

• The Infrastructure Manager is responsible for the operational management and improvement of all NZ and AU (and UK) IT infrastructure to meet the firm's business requirements through design, installation, operation.
• Gave the main direction for the majority of the infrastructure architecture and significantly influenced the general IT architecture roadmap at Frucor for over 10 years.

Manukau, New Zealand

• The role included:
• Management of all Australia and New Zealand windows based IT infrastructure including servers, PC, laptops, printers, and all approved applications. Communicate to business on cause and actions to resolve issues as.
• Provide recommendations on appropriate, cost effective technologies to improve efficiency and to meet the needs of Frucor. Implement those recommendations on time and within budget.
• Carry out Security and Audit requirements of our parent company as Security Officer. This included physical and logical security, security audits, organise/review penetration tests, infrastructure security reviews, and.
• Facilitated the integration of Frucor systems with our parent company, Groupe Danone. This included migrating from MS Exchange to Lotus Domino and migrating our AD in to theirs.
• Designed, implemented, and managed the Frucor intranet project, which used the Microsoft ASP.NET framework. Created the code for the base web portal structure and for most of the modules.

Manukau, New Zealand

• Contracted full time to Frucor Beverages Ltd to manage all Australia, New Zealand, and UK windows based IT infrastructure including servers, PC, laptops, printers, and all approved applications. Communicate to business.
• Provide recommendations on appropriate, cost effective technologies to improve operations and to meet the needs of Frucor. Implement those recommendations on time and within budget.Achievements
• Designed, deployed, and managed a Windows 2000 infrastructure with Active Directory across New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Included research on network and server hardware configuration, sub-netting, DNS, DHCP.

Provided desktop support for Auckland City Council's 2500 users and PCs running Win 3.1/95/NT

Provided desktop support for clients with operating systems including Win 95/98/NT3.51/NT4.0, DOS, and Novell 3.12/4.Install and configure PC hardware, software, and networks (both peer-to-peer and client-server

Provided desktop support for customers with operating systems such as Win 95/98/NT3.51/NT4.0, DOS, and Sco UNIX. Writing reports as well as procedures and checklists for building PC's.

Troubleshooting and assembling circuit boards for the fertiliser spreader truck computers.

Diploma, Science And Technology

Extramural

Certificate, Art And Creativity

Activities and Societies: Extramural Introduction to art