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Whanganui

It was time to give back and help our not for profits and educational institutes leverage cloud based technology. So we created redsky 365 to be a "social enterprise" to do exactly that. Glad to say it is deeply rewarding and the best part of it all is the costs to the organisations are minimal. Technology should not cost the earth in this day and age.

Whanganui

• I joined the Whanganui District Health Board with the aim of revolutionizing and updating the ICT infrastructure. Here are some accomplishments during my tenure:
• Pioneered the migration of the First District Health Board to Microsoft Exchange Online. An immediate saving of $100k per year by eliminating the need for on-premises email infrastructure, reducing hardware.
• Spearheaded the inaugural production Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop environment in the Asia Pacific region saving the hospital a $250k capex spend as the existing Citrix hardware platform that was due for replacement.
• Successfully implemented Microsoft Teams calling across the Whanganui region in collaboration with Vodafone, replacing the old telephony system for the main campus, Taihape, Marton and Raetihi. A project that took just.
• Utilized Microsoft Teams in collaboration with DXC\Dedalus to deliver Telehealth services to the region, setting a precedent for other District Health Boards. This project took 8 months to deliver and came in under the.
• Supervised the adoption of Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection, making us the first District Health Board to enable this powerful security feature following the Waikato DHB ransomware cyber-attack.

New Zealand

Ensuring the FUN levels are dialled up to Maximum! It was time to spend quality time with friends and family and reconnect with my roots. Took some time out to do a Level 3 Horticulture course and get into growing food.

Wellington

• Joined Revera to manage the physical and digital migration of Government clients to the Revera Infrastructure as a service platform (IaaS) Successfully completed several major business change projects including:
• New Zealand Police – Police 2x Datacentre MigrationsThe multi-million-dollar project was delivered under budget and took just over a year.
• New Zealand Police - Desktop as a Service infrastructure (DaaS)In partnership with Spark Digital and NZ Police, led a team to establish the infrastructure to support the NZ Police Desktop as a Service rollout on Revera.
• Statistics New Zealand – 2013 Census OnlineLed a team to successfully implement the IaaS infrastructure to support New Zealand’s first Census online. Working with Datacom (who developed the Census website) our team.
• Ministry of Health – Health Identity Program Roll outRevera migrated the Ministry to the IaaS platform, another multi-million-dollar project responsible for ensuring the Disaster recovery setup and tests achieved the.
• Revera - Trentham Datacentre Fit outResponsible for the infrastructure fit out of the Revera Trentham Datacentre which went live in May 2012. A $20 million dollar project to ensure the Revera IaaS platform was in place.

Manage Technology implementations in the Palmerston North and New Plymouth venues for the Rugby World Cup 2011 games, Network fit out ensuring world media facilities were available during the tournament. Ensuring all staff and volunteer services were fully operational throughout the duration of venue use. Working closely and planning with the local Gen-i.

Palmerston North

A short stint before I started with the Rugby World Cup to deliver a couple of Commvault Back up projects to both Rangitikei and Whanganui District Councils. Both projects came in on time and under budget Thanks to the great team from Commvault Mick and Eric.

Lead a number IT infrastructure projects working closely with Datacom and the internal team to setup new hardware infrastructure. A new million dollar SAS Business Intelligence environment, A million dollar company hardware refresh, and a Ricoh printer roll out across the country, Also worked with the legal team to aide FMG become a Qualifying Financial.

Responsible for overseeing the implementation of Unisys service offerings to Unisys Asia Pacific clients. This included Unisys Converged Remote Infrastructure Management Offering a service which helps outsourcing clients reduce costs by automating management of IT infrastructures.

Identifying back office, non client facing functions across multiple service delivery lines and Unisys ANZ based clients and transitioning those functions to the Unisys Global Services Centre in India (UGSI).Established the relationships and support structures within Unisys India, NZ and Australia in order to sucessfully migrate back office functions from.

Led a team of five 3rd level Technical Specialists and twenty 2nd level Desktop support specialists. This team provided desktop and IT infrastructure support services to 8 Clients in both the public and private sector including ACC, MAF, Executive Government Services and IRD.I also spearheaded the merge of the Service Desk with the Desktop Team to provide.

Senior Technical Desktop Support Specialist at Unisys NZ Ltd providing 2nd and 3rd level desktop support for a number of Unisys IT operations outsourced clients.

Provide Technical Desktop Support to a number of Small to Medium sized Wellington based businesses

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