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North Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Australia

• As Director Network Engineering I lead a team of network engineers and architects in APAC to deliver network projects for Mastercard in the region.Responsibilities include:
• Leading initiatives to enhance existing networks and design new networks
• Ensure all designs are reviewed by the design review board and participate in the reviews
• Working with architecture to ensure architecture guidelines are followed or seek approval to deviate where appropriate
• Working with security to ensure security requirements are met
• Working with various teams to implement networks and working with them to resolve issues

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• As Principal Architect I am responsible for working with nbn operational teams, vendors and other industry partners to find solutions that can make nbn’s network operations more efficient. Technologies included HFC.
• Analysing data with the relevant teams to understand problems in the network
• Leading initiatives/projects and engaging teams across the business to investigate and recommend solutions
• Working with teams and external partners to conduct field trials, POCs and investigations on nbn’s broadband network
• Working with the technology office, engineering and operations to agree and recommend solutions
• Engaging with nbn’s C-level team to ensure they are aligned on the issues and recommendations

Sydney, Australia

• As Director of Operations I was responsible for keeping a major bank's global network of over ten thousand users, at over one hundred sites in a number of countries up and running 24x7. I led a global service.
• Incident management – including major incident management
• Problem management
• Release management
• Capacity and performance management
• Risk and compliance management

Sydney, Australia

• I worked with the AT&T transition team to transition 300+ staff from IBM to AT&T and setting up leadership teams in various countries to manage the day-to-day services AT&T provided to IBM, including some of IBM’s.
• Day-to-day operations of network.
• Management of service assurance and service delivery.
• Transition of 300+ staff from IBM to AT&T
• Recruitment of managers and team leads.
• Acted as escalation point for all service issues.

Sydney, Australia

• I was responsible for a team of about 50 architects and engineers working on various outsource accounts to scope and design and implement network and security solutions. This included responding to.
• Day-to-day management of issues in solutions and projects.
• Performing formal QA of solutions.
• Working with delivery teams on projects issues.
• Assisting account teams with delivery issues on large accounts by working with the customer and delivery teams.
• Development and maintenance of cost models

Sydney, Australia

I helped design, build and manage the IT network used during the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. The network was designed with high availability in mind and during the test events and Games we had no outages.

Portsmouth

Designed and deployed LAN solutions for IBM's internal networks in the UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.