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A Cloud Solutions Architect.My core strength is with developing Microsoft Strategic Business Applications. I bring to the table over 25 years experience in Project Management of large Microsoft ERP systems and upgrades using Active Directory services with Citrix, VMware, MS Terminal Services and integration of these hosted applications with VMWare, Azure and MS Office 365 platforms.My team are developing SQL BI solutions and transforming our key business applications, primarily in Australia, utilising NBN technologies now to be hosted as Private Cloud solutions. We support and develop key Applications such as MS Dynamics AX , MS Dynamics CRM, MS Office 365 and corporate SQL based HR and payroll systems such as Chris 21 and or ADP payroll. We are extending the portfolio with hosted ERP systems for Mining, Automotive, Health, Not for Profit and People management type industries.Specialties:* Transformation of businesses via new hosted Cloud solutions technologies.* Developing SQL Business Intelligence and Key Business Applications which will generate business income and opportunities* Aligning IT strategic planning to your Corporate Strategy, * Sound Budgetary management and experience.* Hands on experience leading all stages of Project Management and support from my PMO team* Development of key Strategic Business Applications including requirements definition, design, architecture, testing, and support.
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Manchester, Mo, Us
I have shutdown the CRM Development program as the testing confirmed that this CRM Development Program was not suitable for the Australian NFP'sIt is time to settle down now and accept retirement. Happy days .
From Little things Big things Grow !Cloudnet Solutions) can offer services as an Independent Administrative Services provider providing options for Cloud CRM support from the original NFP;s on board to progress the development of Australia’s first and greatest secure NFP Cloud supported solution - initially for Australia’s Cloud supported LGBT community with enormous potential to expand nationally and then potentially internationally.This is an enormous opportunity for collaboration and improve support.I have created a Monster. This potential development program is really NOT suitable for the NFP industry many Partners are scared. I have taken the Captains Call today and shutdown this program.
Development of Cloud based hosted ERP and BI systems within an affordable architecture and environment for private customers using new Microsoft Cloud technologies and solutions.Our IT solutions are generally industry disruptive and we don't publicize them until they are ready for launch with our customers
Brisbane, Queensland, Au
UnitingCare Queensland is the Health and Community service provider of the Uniting Church. We support more than 14 000 people throughout Queensland. With over 15 000 staff in more than 400 geographic locations across Queensland, UnitingCare Queensland is one of Australia’s largest non-profit health and community service providers offering Lifeline services, child and family care, counseling, disability support and social inclusions. Programs throughout Queensland with an annual operating budget in excess of One Billion Dollars.We also run and operate the Wesley Hospital Group and Blue Care Aged Care support and retirement living facilitiesMy role as the Enterprise Solutions Architect for UnitingCare Queensland is to design & develop information systems solutions that meet identified business and functional requirements.I am working with the Systems Solutions team and we are moving the entire UCC Estate into the Cloud.As part of our Cloud capability 4 distinct key business units of UCQ, UCH, UCC and BC are merging our distributed datacenters onto one shared Private Cloud solution mirrored across 2 geographically separated datacentres in Queensland.UCC are the group's first division to move from July 2015.
Brisbane, Queensland, Au
Moultrie Group is an industry leading provider of professional and technical services to the international and Australian exploration, mining and infrastructure sectors.* With over 400 professional staff, we provide a comprehensive range of specialist services to help our customers achieve their strategic and operational objectives. As ICT Manager I was responsible for the operational and strategic deliverable s of the ICT team.Providing a Microsoft strategic direction, the Moultrie Group of Companies are Cloud enabling our entire Microsoft technology systems fleet of Servers, Systems and Key Strategic Business Applications to be elastic from datacenters in Brisbane, Mackay and Singapore and benefit our Australian and International customers.
Milton, Queensland, Au
IC&T management for business of 200 Surveyors and Civil Engineers who provide planning & environmental services to government departments and private clients across Australia. Key customers are in the oil and gas industry in Queensland. Offices in Brisbane, Springfield, Sydney & Roma.* Developed Cloud based IT solutions for a growing business of 200 staff to enable remote access to backoffice SQL databases and CAD systems worldwide.* Provided Brisbane backoffice IT support for a remote fleet of 80 plus Fly-In-Fly-Out workers building significant new infrastructure which will contribute to the development of the new LPG oil & gas industry throughout Queensland, NSW & PNG.* Managed and maintained Deltek Vision ERP 3 tier system based on SQL database.* Implemented and managed an ITIL Service desk for all staff using Manage Engine software.* Trialed Cloud based back office services using MS Office 365 and Google Docs.* Upgraded CAD Workstations and Servers across the group to 64 bit technology.* Reviewed the WAN requirements and implemented larger pipelines and better WAN security for the organization.* Development of an 18 month Cloud Services transition plan to enable the group to dramatically scale up.
Brisbane, Queensland, Au
* Designed and built a new SQL 2008R2 Cluster at a new Robina datacentre on the Gold Coast. This will house all the Microsoft mission critical SQL databases for Queensland Health for Australia's newest and largest public hospital facility at Griffith University in Southport. * Implemented a successful SQL migration from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 for 40 separate mission critical databases and VMware servers.* Transfered 40 separate Health Services SQL applications from the incumbent Southport hospital to new Robina/Griffith hospitals.* Configured secure SQL backups and maintenance plans* Installed and configured SQL Reporting Services for BI.* This system will successfully come on line in September 2013.
Gold Coast, Au
* Designed & implemented all IT project for the Group.* Developed IT Strategic Plan for the business to transition from 30 legacy distributed servers to a centralised colocation model.* Developed CAPEX process with CFO to upgrade all IT infrastructure to Cloud computing model using Microsoft Terminal Services and VMWare.* Development and testing of virtualised ERA and ERA Net applications specific to automotive industry.* Transferred all business applications from distributed Fat Client systems with 30 distributed servers to centralized platform in managed Colo site ( Cloud Based solution) using Windows 2008 R2 (SP1) Remote Desktop Services. .* Upgraded ERA and ERA Net systems from Unix to Linux technology and virtualised all automotive systems required by large player in automotive industry.* This IT platform has allowed this organisation to dramatically scale up and out and they have since become the largest privately owned car dealership in Australia with 5 separate sites running from their new datacentre.
• Project managed the upgrade of Chris 21 payroll and MS Dynamics MIS systems in the Rockhampton data centre to VMWare technology using SAN back end infrastructure and virtualised key application servers for payroll and MIS across Primary and DR sites.• Upgraded all SQL databases across the organisation from distributed legacy systems to a centralised SQL 2008 cluster mirrored across the Primary and DR site. This included the Chris 21 payroll, MS Dynamics MIS and other key applications such as Servidesk, Remote Desktop Support Manager, and web based applications used by the schools.• Designed and Project managed an upgrade of the Curriculum Servers ( distributed AD servers) for 29 primary school sites. The project was quite complicated and involved the rollout of a VMWare ESX host server at each primary school and virtualising their existing Curriculum server to replace the ageing 4 year old legacy hardware. This provides an ongoing environment to remotely roll out additional VMWare servers to each school from the DCEO headoffice in the future to allow a remote upgrade across the WAN to Windows 2008.
Belrose, Nsw, Au
• Project managed the development of a new 64 bit Colocation site at Global Switch Ultimo to deploy SAN & VMWare technology and virtualised key application servers such as MS Dynamics MIS, Chris 21 Payroll, MS Exchange, test MS Sharepoint / MOSS 2007 intranet and MS Systems Centre Operations Manager Server.• Designed DR capability within VMWare 3.5 and SAN environment to a failover CoLo at Exuinox Alexandria Sydney.• Project managed an upgrade of the Citrix environment to Presentation Server 4.5 on blade servers to deploy MS Dynamics Great Plains and all other business applications (over 120 applications) published to 750 users across 120 distributed sites. Developed a remote Citrix rebuild DR process.• Project managed successful MS Dynamics Great Plains MIS, Chris 21 Payroll & MS Exchange system upgrades. Due to careful DR planning there has been no downtime of any key applications for the organisation in over 8 years.• Restructured data communications & telecommunications costs across the organisation and moved the organisation to Unified Messaging & IP telephony solution for all Telemarketing Call Centres (50 seats) and business services users (600 seats).• Managed an Outsourced IT Helpdesk staff of 3 handling approximately 600 servicedesk IT calls per month. Upgraded the Servicedesk application to an ITIL based solution that was hosted in house.• Designed managed fleet printing systems standardised on HP printers to integrate with citrix environment to drive down costs of printing across the organisation.• Developed corporate IP telephony strategy based on Microsoft technology which integrates natively with MS CRM 4.0 for fundraising supporters, MS Dynamics Great Plains MIS application, MS Sharepoint Server 2007 intranet and MS Exchange 2007 email applications.• Upgraded 4 distributed Call centres to state of the art IP telephony platform to form a virtual single call centre using a centralised Microsoft based technology predictive dialer phone system.
Belrose, Nsw, Au
• Project managed & deployed a centralised Citrix Metaframe XP environment to deploy payroll & MIS systems to branch desktops.• Project managed an upgrade of all users across all sites to centralised Windows 2003 AD environment using citrix technology to centralise all applications ( approximately 120) across all sites at a Sydney Colocation.• Project managed & deployed MS Exchange servers and MS Outlook communication to 750 users.• Relocated all servers from distributed branch environments to a centralised CoLocation in Pitt St, Sydney for better server management.• Developed a hardware & software SOE model based on 1 Dell desktop unit and 1 Dell laptop unit for standardisation & ease of network management and deployed this to the 750 users across 150 distributed sites.• Project managed a payroll systems upgrade from distributed SCO Unix technology to a centralised SQL database based on Chris 21. Developed a DR failover system to a 2nd standby swap over server• Project managed the MIS systems upgrade from a distributed SCO Unix system to a centralised SQL database based on MS Dynamics Great Plains. Developed a DR failover system to a 2nd standby swap over server
Balmain East, New South Wales, Au
An administration service provider for 6 independent wine marketing organisations. The group has exclusive marketing & distribution in NSW, Qld & Vic for over 300 Australian wineries.My role started as Financial Controller and developed more into IT management for the business as the business grew. I designed and implemented IT processes & procedures and maintained the Financial & CRM systems.Key contributions :• The Headoffice located in Epsom Rd, Roseberry NSW was devastated from a large Sydney hailstorm in May 1999. I organised a relocation of the IT network to a DR site at the Managing Director’s house, and then later to new interim 2 year business premises. Routed all phone calls for 10 Customer Services Agents to mobile technology for business continuity. This was a real wake up call to the importance of DR planning.• Managed phone system hardware & software for medium sized call centre (10 Agents) and voicemail systems• Upgraded accounting system from Arrow (FlexQL) to Platinum (SQL) database platform and organised & implemented staff training on new systems• Implemented first email system for NSW sites based on MS Exchange 5.0 and MS Outlook clients• Migrated network & users from Novel Netware 5.0 to Microsoft NT.
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Brett Thomas works for Retired.
Brett Thomas is listed as An Enterprise Solutions Architect at Retired.
Brett Thomas is based in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia while working with Retired.
Brett Thomas has worked for Retired, Cloudnet Solutions, Cloudnet Solutions Pty Ltd, Unitingcare Community, and The Moultrie Group.
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Brett Thomas holds Mcts, Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft Professional Development Programme.
Brett Thomas is listed with skills including Architecture, Testing, Active Directory, Citrix, Voip, Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence Tools, and Microsoft Technologies.
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