IT Solutions Consultant

Windows 2003-2012 RemediationFailover DHCP Server Upgrades• Rolling Upgrade of File Cluster Nodes• AD Domain Controller Upgrades• RDS Management Server Upgrades• SMTP Relay Upgrades• File and Print Server migrations

Windows Remediation Project Resource

* Commvault Data Protection SME- Implementation of Commvault Intellisnap for SAP on SQL, and SAP HANA. - Implementation and migration of Hyperscale X appliances- Implementation and migration of a new tape library- Retirement of traditional Windows Media Agents- Regular upgrades of Feature and Maintenance releases- Backup and Recovery testing of SAP HANA, SAP on SQL and ASE Sybase, and 1-Touch- Support case management- Day to day feeding and watering* Remediation Engineer for 100's of legacy Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012 Server platforms. Consolidation, Migration, Upgrade and Decommissioning activities. Various application and infrastructure stacks.* Design and implementation for the re-platforming of on-premise MYoB PayGlobal infrastructure* Off-boarding and On-boarding of 3rd party SQL Support vendors for 100+ SQL instances including monitoring toolsets* Re-platforming of Trustwave WebMarshal proxy infrastructure including proxy.pac load balancing* Implementation of PURE SAN. Storage provisioning - FC & ISCSI* Retirement of IBM XIV and IBM V7000 SAN's* Re-platform Microsoft Key Management Service (KMS) for license activation* VMware vCenter and ESXi upgrades from 5.5 to 6.5 and migration from legacy IBM farm to new HP farm.* Retirement of legacy Active Directory Domains* Lifecycle refresh of Brocade (FC) switches* Powershell scripting* Project deliverable documentation; Technical Designs, As-builts, and Operational Support processes* Change Management Process

Disaster Recovery Runbooks for a leading Insurance company

Technical consultant and engineer assisting Spark to transition KiwiRail outsource all ICT infrastructure to Revera's AoG offerings including IaaS, BaaS and PaaS etc. Activities including but not limited to;- Build of VMware ESXi 6- Build of Microsoft SQL Clusters- Commvault migration to Backup as a Service (BaaS)- Infrastructure decommissioning

Formerly Toll NZ.* Infrastructure Projects and 3rd Level Support- Deployment of Windows 2008 infrastructure, with Citrix XenApp 5.0- Hardware and OS Lifecycle refresh- Commvault Enterprise Data Protection (v8-10) including e-mail archiving, compliance, VADP and SnapProtect. Covering protection of Windows, *NIX, SQL, Exchange, SAP on Oracle, DB2, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc- Implementation of HP C-Class blade chassis for support of vSphere, Citrix XenApp, Altiris , etc- Upgrade of VMware ESX 3.5 farm- VBScript and Powershell scripting- Small business design and implementation of ESX 5.x- Various Infrastructure, Application & Web Server upgrades and migrations etc- Assist with standing up new Data Centre presence in Wellington- Data Centre migration- Migration and Support of Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Exposure to Exchange 2013 and Office 365- Upgrade and migration of printing environment. Implementation of FollowYou printing- Datacentre maintenance- HP and IBM Blade and Blade enclosure installation, maintenance and support- Change Management Approvals for Operations team

Projects and 3rd Level Operational Support role

Fonterra Transformation project - SOE Utility Server SMEWorld wide migration of infrastructure from various business units to a centralised data centre modelDeployment of Cisco Wide Area File Services (WAFS) worldwide for Fonterra

Facilities management role placed at Air New Zealand supporting their distributed infrastructure worldwide.

Senior role providing professional services and support to clients such as BMW New Zealand, Tower Health, Genesis Power, Carter Holt Harvey, DB Liquor, and many more

BAU Support EngineerJoined SkyCity when it totalled just 37 employees approximately 6 months before its' grand opening.