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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• IPv6 Advocacy: Pioneered the creation of an internal IPv6 RFC, presented core concepts and devised a transition strategy enabling significant cost savings by shifting traffic off AWS NAT gateways.
• CDN Expertise: Drove substantial SEO enhancements by identifying and resolving global suboptimal routing issues within SEEK's CDN provider networks reducing average response time by over 50%.
• End-to-End Cloud Development: Orchestrated comprehensive cloud solutions using code, emphasizing a robust, repeatable cloud architecture.
• Observability Team Collaboration: Collaborated with the observability team to tackle intricate visibility challenges across diverse teams and platforms.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Technology Roadmap: Authored and presented the network and connectivity technology roadmap to upper management, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Technology Decision Maker and Vendor Management: Led critical technology decisions and managed vendor relationships. Reviewed existing contracts and renegotiated pricing, resulting in up to a 50% reduction in some.
• Mentoring and Trend Presentation: Mentored colleagues, delivered training sessions, and shared insights on current and emerging trends, fostering innovation within the organization.

Melbourne, Australia

• Infrastructure Transformation: Led the overhaul of SEEK’s networking infrastructure, solely orchestrating the design and construction of data centers.
• Enhanced Visibility and Network Management: Pioneered higher-level visibility by introducing telemetry, custom metrics, and automation.
• Streamlined Workflow: Implemented Grafana, Ansible, GitOps, and other automation tools to manage an otherwise fragmented networking stack.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Coordinated and facilitated regular user group meetings, ensuring a productive and collaborative environment.
• Spearheaded community engagement initiatives, both in-person and through various social media channels, resulting in increased member participation and interaction.
• Delivered presentations on industry-relevant topics, providing valuable insights, and fostering knowledge sharing within the group.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Onsite Requirements Gathering and Custom Solution Design: Collaborated with clients to understand their unique needs and designed tailored solutions for their network requirements.
• Multi-Tenant WAN Connectivity and Security Designs: Developed robust and scalable WAN solutions, ensuring seamless connectivity for multiple tenants while maintaining security standards.
• Managed Customer Direct Connect (AWS) and ExpressRoute (Azure) Portfolio: Strategically designed and managed the product portfolio for customer connectivity to cloud services from the Cloud Plus network, optimizing.

Parkville Campus

• Complex Multi-Tenant Design: Orchestrated the design of a sophisticated multi-tenant network. This intricate system catered to diverse stakeholders, including students, hospitals, and research facilities.
• Quality of Service Design: Took the lead In crafting a robust QoS framework. This design aligned with the implementation of a new platform within the network.
• On-Site Consulting: Engaged directly with stakeholders across departments and campuses. Through on-site consultations, I delved into their specific needs, pain points, and growth projections.
• Network Optimization and Capacity Planning: Continuously assessed network performance, identified bottlenecks, and fine-tuned configurations.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Large scale secure data centre solutions design and implementation
• TD Cloud: - Underlay network design, management, and customer readiness, planning and migrations.
• Wireless Solutions: Proficient in deploying and troubleshooting wireless networks, covering corporate, guest, BYOD and 802.1x setups. Familiar with Aruba, Cisco, Meraki, Extreme, Mototrola, Ruckus. technologies.
• Firewall and VPN design, administrations and implementation: Experience managing firewalls (Cisco ASA, Watchguard, Palo Alto, Fortinet, pfSense) and implementing secure VPN connections to clients and public cloud.

Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

• Developed, budgeted, and validated standardized branch design models in alignment with organizational needs and financial constraints.
• Managed and operated all WAN components and infrastructure, including QoS, WAN optimization, and dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP.
• Installed and maintained equipment for branch and data center routing, switching, VPN, wireless, and firewall solutions.
• Planned and executed a reliable secure satellite and cell failover network for the fleet of vessels owned by Skilled.

Hallam, Victoria, Australia

• Comprehensive Network and Systems Administrator specializing in servers, networking, telephony, end-user support, and vendor relationship management.

Diploma Information Technology, Network Engineering

Diploma Information Technology, Computer Software Engineering