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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Summer Hill Nsw

• Delivering large and complex IT projects with budgets between $2M - $5M.• Working on complex software development projects• Liaising with key senior business and technical stakeholders• Ensuring projects deliver on time, on scope and on budget• Exceptional reporting abilities• Clearly articulating issues to senior stakeholders• Project managing in an Agile software development environment

Sydney, Auckland, Singapore

• Post an initial 12 month contract I was retained as a "virtual IT Manager"DMG World Media operates as a producer of consumer shows and trade exhibitions. It produces exhibitions, publications, and online media internationallyResponsibilities:• Realign the IT Infrastructure for DMG across New Zealand, Singapore and Australia• Implement a simple robust IT model with complete cost transparency, aligned with time critical business deadlinesAchievements:• Clean separation of the New Zealand business from DMG IT Infrastructure• Substantial rationalization of the IT environment to provide a robust baseline for Desktop, Server and Network Infrastructure• Leased and fit out suitable new office premises for the remaining Australian business• Delivered cost savings of over $0.5 million per annum in network costs• Provided a cost effective IT management and support solution for the Australian business to move forward with

Sydney Cbd

Opal Aged Care is one of the leading, privately owned aged care providers in Australia.Responsibilities:• Engagement in the development and documentation of required standards for delivery of a suite of Infrastructure across over 60 facilities Australia wide.• Develop and deliver a framework for Project Management of IT initiative implementations across the organization• Deliver Infrastructure upgrades and new site implementations comprising base facility Infrastructure, cabling and services plus Cisco Wireless and Mitel phone systems across multiple facilities aligned to budget, schedule and priority• Project manage the delivery of a software based Care Package across the organization, taking care management from paper based to computer• Drive the development and adoption of ITIL based processes and procedures to support the transition of both IT and the business to new platforms and levels of availabilityAchievements:• Delivered the rollout of “Autumn Care” to 70 sites (12 more than initial scope) on time and within budget• Implemented the defined standard Infrastructure across 35 homes (both existing and new builds) and rationalize incoming services where possible, delivering substantial cost savings. Project budget of approximately $3 million• Mentored BAU staff to a level where they could competently take over the ongoing delivery following established project methodology

Sydney, Australia

Deliver a number of IT initiatives around both Process and Infrastructure Upgrades to support business growth, including:• End to end automated “Transition to Production” process for all projects• Data Centre capacity and facilities design and upgrade• Major project remediation post-delivery/handover• Monitoring solution review and major upgrade, delivery of process to streamline support and ongoing implementations• Internal network redesign and implementation• Citrix solution redesign and Implementation

Sydney, Australia

Structure and Manage Project to on board the largest managed services client within the organisation to date including:• Provisioning Dual Site Infrastructure from Data Centre facilities upwards to support a mix of Wintel and Unix VM’s and large scale SAP databases• Development of processes and procedures to support the migration and ongoing management• Migration and Testing of approx. 400 VM’s• Transition of Support into BAU processes and finalise handover

North Sydney/Melbourne

Note: Post an Initial 12 month contract I was retained as a "virtual IT Manager"Responsibilities:• Rectify business critical IT failures for Web Infrastructure and internal Active Directory services• Audit the IT capability, recommendations on and implementation of an IT infrastructure to enable stability and growth• Stabilize the existing environment and develop a short term plan to standardize and deliver redundancyAchievements:• Consolidated data center and network services improving performance and productivity and delivering cost savings• Provided support and education to user base to ensure that the improved environment delivered required benefits

Randwick

Responsibilities: Delivered enterprise grade, unique identities for authoritative source of data and authentication – set up the most successful messaging project in the history of UNSW – 160 mail domains consolidated – all onto Exchange 2007, now migrating to Office 365 – none of which would have been possible without the below:• Program Manage a range of infrastructure projects moving UNSW infrastructure forward a step change in systems and processes • Integrate and utilize existing resources transitioning to new technologies, processes and roles • Participate as a key member of the UNSW Enterprise Infrastructure team providing an integrated view across all Infrastructure projects• The program budget of $10 million included the following streams:o New Data Centre build – specific responsibility for initiationo New Storage Platform introduction - SANo New Server platform introductiono Management Tools – storage management, virtualization and Wintelo Network Upgrade – to include virtualization and service provisioningo Organization structure – new teamso Consolidation of the distributed and disparate platforms into the newly developed standard environmentAchievements:• Achieved business case sign off for a new “Tier 3” Data Centre facility for the University andinitiated the project to progress with the build. Budget of $8 million• Constructed a Program Management framework for the body of work to be undertaken following Prince 2 methodology Completed on schedule and within budget of $10 million• Delivered enterprise grade, unique identities for authoritative source of data and authentication – set up the most successful messaging project in the history of UNSW – 160 mail domains consolidated – all onto Exchange 2007, (now migrating to Office 365)

Sydney, Australia

The Seven Network is a leading Australian commercial free-to-air television network,Responsibilities:• Management and mentoring of technical staff, 6 direct and 6 indirect reports• Project management of a range of infrastructure initiatives including system upgrades and new platform implementations• Management of the administration of the Groups’ Active Directory network, Exchange 2003 messaging systems, SQL Database servers, Solaris Unix platform, mail filtering and core business system operations• Ensure system and network security meet audit requirementsAchievements:• Recovered core business systems from a major hardware failure involving re architecting the server environment to distribute risk and provide a stable infrastructure. The failure also initiated funding and a $2 million project to design and implement a “warm” disaster recovery site for core services including File & Print, Email, SQL databases and core business applications• Managed the migration from a disperse and largely unmanaged AV infrastructure to a new consolidated and centrally managed platform allowing full visibility of status and therefore reducing vulnerabilities• Initiated and then managed the move from a hierarchical Internet proxy solution to a single “Bluecoat” Appliance at the gateway with associated logging and reporting • Lead the deployment of Microsoft patch management methodology for the Wintel server and desktop fleet• Built a cohesive and customer focused team providing improved system uptime and proactive incident resolution

Sydney, Australia

Boral is Australia's largest building and construction materials supplier Responsibilities:• Strategic planning and implementation of Application and Infrastructure projects• Management of a team of 9 technical staff• Third level call resolution for all Wintel based server solutions and vendor escalations as appropriate• Support of the Windows 2003 server, Active Directory, Exchange and Citrix platforms• Site server implementations, migration from the NT 4.0 platform to Microsoft Server and Exchange2003 and active directoryAchievements:• Deployment of the Wintel Infrastructure and applications for a fully centralized order and dispatch system for the Concrete business, automating the process of delivery of concrete from order through to site delivery. A large farm of Citrix application servers was utilized to deliver the application to users across a wide range of network connections.• Early adopter partner with Microsoft on deployment of the R2 release for Windows server 2003 focusing on the Distributed File System – Replication• A key member of the project team responsible for driving the take up of an ITIL based approach to all aspects of service delivery within IT• Participation in TAP program with Microsoft to implement best practice patch management of all Microsoft platforms using Microsoft Operations Manager

Sydney, Australia

Boral is Australia's largest building and construction materials supplier Responsibilities:• Management of a team of up to 14 second and third level technical staff• Work in close liaison with Service Desk management and all other teams within the IT group to ensure effective and responsive proactive support of the environment• Manage support call load to ensure that SLA targets are consistently met or exceededAchievements:• Key member of the management team driving a move to customer focused and SLA driven outcomes. This lifted call closure rates to measured industry best practice levels and delivered a quantum leap in customer satisfaction• In the absence of formal change management started the process of introducing same within the operational team. Ran incident PIR’s and established appropriate team structure• Led the uptake and use of existing standard support processes and procedures following the in place SOE model, this contributed strongly to the improved service levels

Adelaide/Sydney

September 2000 to March 2002, Distributed Environment Support EngineerJuly 1999 to September 2000, National NT Administrator, transferred to SydneyJune 1998 to July 1999, NT Administrator SA/NT Adelaide Based1991 to 1998, various roles responsible for the provision of Financial Accounting and Office Management for the SA Transport Business