Daniel Smith Email & Phone Number

Tatura

• As the Infrastructure Manager, I directed a team of 6 and managed the upkeep of highly available WAN, LAN, and WLAN networks across 28 sites, encompassing critical infrastructure and operational technology networks..
• Efficiently managed data centre hardware refresh, minimising downtime and ensuring seamless implementation.
• Implemented immutable storage repositories, significantly enhancing data resilience within the Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) solution.
• Successfully optimised WAN connectivity solutions, integrating SDWAN and Satellite Internet for improved routing and failover capabilities.
• Led the network hardware refresh, contributing to the continuous enhancement and resilience of our network infrastructure.

Belgrave

Puffing Billy is Australia's premier preserved steam railway, as well as being one of Victoria's largest tourist attractions seeing over 500,000 passengers in the 2017 2018 financial year. The journey aboard Puffing Billy takes you through the magnificent Dandenong Ranges, located only one hour east of Melbourne.My role at Puffing Billy holds me.

Maryborough

Highview is an Ecumenical College, offering a low cost, co-educational secondary education in central Victoria.Whilst at Highview I was responsible for the continuing development of the school's ICT infrastructure, including upgrades to power conditioning, telephony, network, and internet connectivity.On commencement at Highview, I undertook a risk.

Ballarat Secondary College is a multi-campus college, formed in 1994 through the amalgamation of three existing secondary Colleges: Ballarat East Secondary College, Wendouree Secondary College and Midlands Secondary College.Whilst at Ballarat Secondary College, I successfully budgeted, planned and implemented the College virtualization project.

Ballarat

As Contracted by Ballarat Secondary College, my role was to maintain and support the learning centres server, network and desktop infrastructure.

Wendouree

As a part of my role at Ballarat Secondary College the college held a contract from the Department of Education and Training Victoria (DEECD) to provide specialist ICT support to Forest Street Primary School. My role here included but was not limited to support of all ICT systems with some of the key areas being:Administrative network.

Ballarat, Australia

At IBM I provided telephone and remote support of over 70 different clients in both corporate and government sectors.A part of the role included training new staff and the timely management of mission critical incidents.