Providing technical oversight within an Architecture team for the Banking Services business unit. Working closely with 3rd party providers to deploy an Azure cloud solution by providing network security guidance and in-depth knowledge of on-premise connectivity /services. Gained valuable new experience in deploying various network technologies within Azure such as Express Route, VPN Gateways , NSG's , ASG's and 3rd party NVA platforms.

Senior team member responsible for the pattern ownership, standards governance and strategic development of network devices across the entire estate. Quorum member within various technology forums providing guidance for new and existing network related projects.Technical RFP / RFI evaluator of various Network NextGen technologies.Regularly conducts Ad-hoc engagement with various business analysts to resolve long standing problems that fall into the grey area between the network, platform and application teams.Key Responsibilities :-- Run the Network Governance Forum which reviews and approves submissions of design / deployment patterns and new hardware/software certifications. Receive and process submissions from various Managed Service Providers, vendors and internal staff.- Evaluate Nextgen Technologies to determine their fitness for the 2020 strategy and suitability for deployment into the ANZ estate.- Provide technical input and oversight for all Network and Configuration Operational Standards which are applied against existing devices in the estate. Ensure these standards are aligned to the Security Office, prudential regulator guidelines and industry best practices.- Collaborate with various Managed Service Providers to deep dive and offer enhancements for their managed estate to boost application, endpoint and user experience.- Produce Service Designs , Deployment Patterns and Testing / Certification Documentation.Recent Certifications :-- ITIL v3 Foundation Certificate (April 2011)- Checkpoint R77 Course (2012)- HPE Aruba WiFi Bootcamp (Nov 2016)Achievements:-- Tested/ Certified and Deployed Radware DDOS platform across the Enterprise.- Contributed to the design of a reference architecture for Network Data Capture and Encryption Inspection.- Contributed to the deployment of Wireless NAC in the ANZ Enterprise.- RFI / RFP / Testing , Certification and Deployment of HPE Aruba Wireless Suite in 2 Campuses.- SDWAN Testing / Certification

Delivery and Operations Team Member required to deploy various network devices for projects and lifecycle purposes. Initally contracted by ANZ for 9 months to assist in the construction of a new network perimeter to Host the E*TRADE application. Contract Extended for a further 6 months to help relocate an entire DataCentre Floor and build a new Test Lab Network.Key Responsibilities :-- Test / Certify/ Document and Service Transition any type of Network Device. - Translate Solution and Stakeholder Requirements from architects and the business into high quality as-built network designs.- Conduct Lifecycle activities across the estate including hardware / software upgrades.Achievements:-- Helped designed and build a new perimeter and lab development environment for the performance and volume testing of applications.- Assisted in the datacentre relocation of thousands of server workloads and hundreds of network devices to new premises including the consolidation of several Firewall Perimeters.- Deployed many Load Balancers, Firewalls, switches and routers as part of business projects and lifecycle activities.

Incident Resolution and Change Execution for a wide variety of Cisco / HP / Checkpoint / Nokia / Xylan Network Products outsourced to Fujitsu Australia for Management.* Familiar with Cisco IOS 11, 12 in routing and switching, PIX and ASA Firewalls* Familiar with HP embedded blade switches and standalone devices.* Familiar with Checkpoint 3 , 4 , NG and NGX versions.Consultation on the installation and configuration for various Server Systems including HP Standalone / Blade / IBM Midrange.Network Configuration and deployment of new HP BL25 and 35 Server Systems using VMWARE 4Familiar with Virtualised Server Workload Design and Deployment Methodologies.Network Configuration and Management of Cisco 9500 SAN Switching Systems.Incident Resolution and Change Execution of a wide variety of Application Load Balancers including Radware / Alteon and F5.Incident Resolution and Change Execution on Tipping Point IDS systems.Full Adoption of ITIL Change Management Principles in line with retirement of Remedy and installation of CA Unicentre.Incident and Change Management on the full range of Radware products including LinkProof / Fireproof / CertainT and Appdirector.Certification of Nokia IPSO v3.6 / 4.2 across IP120 , 330 , 530 and 1210 Systems.Certification of Checkpoint NG R54 and NGX R55 Administration.Adoption of Capacity Reporting / Configuration and Asset Management for customer equipment and services.

Maintenance and Installation of new and existing Windows NT4 Servers including Exchange 5.5 and Proxy Server 2.Maintenance and Installation of Lotus Notes Server Systems.Creation and maintenance of Desktop Images for ZOE deployment.Installation and Configuration of new and existing network equipment including Cisco Routers with ISDN and Frame Relay/ G.703 / 3COM Switches and Hubs.Maintenance / Upgrade of Checkpoint 2 and 3 Unix Firewalls and further development of DMZ design.Adoption of basic Incident / Change Management/ Capacity Planning and Regular Reporting principles.Maintenance of ERP systems.

New Windows NT4 Server Deployment across various HP Proliant and Prosignia Systems.Maintenance of existing HP Server equipment at software and Hardware.Maintenance and Configuration of HP Server equipment with Novell 4.11Y2K certification / deployment and upgrade of hardware and software systems. Certification in Oracle SQL+ and DB2 to aid in Database Y2K migration strategy.Lotus Notes Server Deployment and Maintenance.Installation and Maintenance of Token Ring / FDDI and Ethernet Network Systems.Certification in Citrix Metaframe 4 XPE.

Helpdesk incident resolution involving various forms of software and hardware.New user equipment deployment / upgrade including NEC PABX phone programming and extension allocation/ relocation between Digital and Analogue lines via CAT interface. Large Printer / Photocopier / Fax Equipment repair.Maintenance of equities trader voice recording equipment.Novell Server software NDS and Bindery configuration and maintenance of hardware.Windows 3.11 / 95 / NT 3.51 / NT4 installation and configuration. Creation of ZOE images for mass deployment. Software Packaging of new and existing applications for Windows 95 and NT4.Maintenance of Reuters Triarch / Bloomberg and Telerate Systems in some software and hardware levels.Maintenance of equities and foreign exchange dealer phone systems.Maintenance of ASX provisioned market feed equipment over TTY.Certification in HP Server Installation and MaintenanceCertification in Microsoft MCSE in NT4.Certification in Reuters Trader WorkstationCertification in Novell NDS 4.11 Administrator.Cabling Management with AT&T 101 frame in IDF and MDF configurations.Repair and Maintenance of WYSE / Digital VT220 and IBM terminals.Migration of equipment from Token Ring to Ethernet Network Systems.

New P.C builds and repair of existing systems with Windows 3.0 and 3.11Hard Disk recovery at software and hardware level. Replacement of platens / motors and logic boards.Anti virus removal and Software Installation. Configuration of machines for 10BaseT networks.Printer / Scanner/ CDROM Drive Repair to component level.

Electronic Component Repair of motherboards, IO Cards, Monitors and other computer hardware to single chip level. Certification testing of new OEM products and repair of existing p.c's at software level.