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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Yarra Trams Aug 2021 - July 2023 As Senior Project Manager, I managed and was responsible for an Infrastructure Refresh project for VxRail clusters from Project Nomination submission through tender and purchasing cycle to installing new VCF clusters and migrating TEST/DEV and Production to this new infrastructure.Managed the Project Nomination through the.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Project Manager working on Switch and router replacements, Web Browsing Security and Server Connectivity across Data Centres. Also working on decommissioning Windows 2003 & 2008 Servers and applying hotfixes and upgrades to 2012 & 2016 servers.

Collingwood

Project managerJetstar AirwaysAirline company part of the QANTAS Group Aug 2019 – May 2020 Project Manager working with Senior Project Manager on several projects within the overall Data centre Relocation program of works. Jetstar were moving from the Datacom Datacentre to Equinix and also changing their Cisco infrastructure to Juniper.

Melbourne, Australia

Senior Senior Project ManagerData#3IT services and solutions provider April 2017 - July 2019 Project Manage the delivery of projects into a variety of Customers commencing with Customer Kick-Off through to Completion Milestone Acceptance incorporating the budget, timelines, risks and issues register, escalations and resourcing.Full data centre relocations.

Medibank

Picked up the stalled rollout of Skype for Business into 85 Retail stores across Australia required to be completed before the end of the year to achieve financial benefits by removing PSTN services into the storesReview the budget, arrange PoC sites and work with vendors to meet these tight timeframes.

South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Infrastructure Project ManagerAsahi - SchweppesBeverage Company June – Nov 2016 Project Manage the upgrade of the AIX environment across Dev, QAS and Production environment aware that the outage would impact manufacturing sites. This was completed successfully within the tight timeframe we had allotted.Project Manage the Oracle Database upgrades of the SAP.

Dandenong South

Project Manage a range of Business site relocations, new sites and network and telephony upgrades.Provide Cloud services including servers and storage utilising Solution Architects and Wintel and Storage resourcesUpgrade superseded solutions with software and environmental solutions for such applications as NAB DirectLink and Toll payment system.

Dandenong South

Infrastructure Project ManagerNational Transport Company June 2014 -May 2015 Project Manage a range of Toll Business site relocations, new sites and network and telephony upgrades.Install new visitor tracking systems for Business Unit and setting up B2B VPN for vendor access to our DMZWork with 3rd party vendors to provide a new Wharf Management System.

Hawthorn \ Melbourne

• Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
• Project Manage IS responsibilities in relocating 5 sites and 3 separate Businesses of Bupa from the Hawthorn area into Exhibition St Melbourne within a 5 month timeframe
• Oversee and manage the design, build and implementation of new wireless technologies to Bupa
• Dotted line management of the rollout of 1000 new laptops and desktops with Windows 7 SOE
• Implementation of Follow-Me Printing into the new corporate office
• Managed IS component of AV installations throughout.

Melbourne, Australia

• Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
• Relocated the EB Services Service Desk and Infrastructure Services to Clayton to the Axxess Park site including setting up network connections to Jemena and SP-Ausnet, scoping and arranging VoIP phone system and.
• Managed the Internet Gateway upgrade for Jemena, including communications and testing with internal groups and external business partners
• Arranged all IT infrastructure for two new Zinfra sites at Dingley and Campbellfield and closure of the Mornington site
• Managing the installation of wireless controllers into the data centres and WAPs at various sites to enable WiFi connectivity.
• Deliver various SCADA infrastructure projects

Deliver planned, controlled, effective and efficient quality Business Case Costed Solutions and Enterprise Infrastructure projects. Projects include online applications, VMware builds, Active/Active configuration. Assume overall responsibility for the implementation of Infrastructure projectsPrepare and monitor formal project proposals, schedules and.

• Project manage the update of Tivoli Access Manager and Novell eDir throughout Coles internal and external accesses. This project was running behind time when I took it over and was able to successfully deliver it on.
• Manage the ongoing upgrade of VMS OS from 7.3.2 to 8.3 together with the implementation of Control-M and DTCS/Omnibus. Organise workshops with stakeholders to implement processes for new systems and act as a conduit.
• Kick-off and commence planning for a new Supplier Portal utilising 14 internal and external skill groups.
• Managing the implemention of performance improvements to Coles Online.

• Project Delivery Manager on National Foods account.Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for managing the implementation of a portfolio of projects at any one time for National Foods Limited.
• Devise and follow a plan for communicating with different stakeholders in different ways and at different times. This requires close working relationships with project sponsors.
• Through strong communication and delivery, build upon and improve the outsourced relationship between the two companies.
• Manage the 5 streams (Servers, Networks, Database, Exchange/Gateway & Desktop Support) for the Dairy Farmers transition into National Foods.
• Identify technical and resource dependencies between tasks.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:Manage the IT & Telephony requirements in relocating the Jemena Service Desk and Infrastructure Services to Level 1 at existing Clayton site.Manage the consolidation and decommissioning of leased premises at Virginia, Stapylton, West Eagle Farm and Brisbane Tech Park into a Greenfield site at Yatala, Qld for over 100.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:Hired to bring the Australian Air Express (AaE) projects under proper project management and to ensure projects achieved agreed delivery dares and milestones.Within two months had improved status of 55 outstanding projects and the projects space was able to move from Red to Green in the IT Governance Review meeting.

Consult with stakeholders and advise on requirements for new sites, site relocations, closures and changes.Manage new data & voice projects from submission through to completion whilst liaising with external companies, Toll Property, Operations, Change Management and Field Service Engineers.Consult on and Manage PABX and QMaster upgrades and.

Primary conduit between 3rd Party Vendors and Toll Corporate IT, ensuring correct engagement of all partiesReview new and updated technologies with Vendors to assess their merits and if they could be incorporated into the Toll WAN frameworkProject managed the transition of Voice, Mobile and Data services at 310 Toll sites Australia wide from TCNZA and.

Initially joined Telstra as a contractor and later converted to a permanent member of staff.Accountabilities and Responsibilities:Project management of the deployment of web-based activation application across Australia both within the company and to external partnersDeveloped and managed projects and budgets of up to $1.25 million p.a. for hardware.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:Project manage the deployment of over 2500 SOE PCs to offices across Australia migrating from Netware 3.x to Windows NTManage 2-3 teams of deployment technicians (team of 24)Effectively communicate with stakeholders to ensure timeframes were met and expectations fulfilledResolve issues associated with logistics, team.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:Principle Systems Engineer for new Windows Server SOETeam Leader responsible for assigning work to systems engineersProvide technical input and advice at peer review meetingsSystems Engineer for ad-hoc workstation builds/repairs in different environmentsResponsible for progressing fault resolution and enhancements for.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:Managed a team responsible for the 1st and 2nd Level Support of 6 Novell 3.12 servers, over 500 PC, notebook and Mac users whilst being the escalation point for any hardware or software issues outside their expertiseResponsible for the Melbourne office infrastructureCompleted a pilot study, report and trials on a.

Graduate Diploma In Business Technology, It

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