Darren Geddes Email & Phone Number

Ninderry, Qld, Au

Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Identity and Integration Architecture for two Government Departments for a Contractor Management System

Brisbane, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Managing the uplift of Enterprise Architecture with a small team of contractors and temporary staff.

Brisbane, Australia

Maroochydore Qld

Provide direction and support for all hardware software and peripherals across the organisation.Test and recommend new information computing and technology equipment for the organisation. Vehicle fleet management for 25 vehicles based around Queensland.Formed the recommendation and worked towards the transition of IFYS computing infrastructure to infrastructure as a service. This included developing user testing for the transition. This process involved coordination of two other IT support companies through the development of a runsheet.Formed the recommendation for the purchase of 5 new diesel Kia Grand Carnivals to save fuel costs ($10,000 per year across the fleet) for residential transports.Performed day to day administration for prepaid phones, account creation, assessment of share requests and data fixes in the Client management system.Arranged the initial development of an app to measure the outcomes of services over time.

Penrith

Recently worked on incorporating Directory Services into IT Security with the introduction of FIM and ADFS into the University environment. Transitioning from consultant implementation to operational team.lobbied for and led the introduction of ADFS for federating a number of third parties to ease the transition to cloud servicesIntroduced Internet Content Filtering to the University and lobbied the Director IT to establish the information Security Steering Committee.Lobbied and supported for the introduction of a formal IT change management program.Introduced Perimeter protection to the University and the introduction of Intrusion protection systemsLobbied for and introduced centralised antivirus, antispam gateways, coached staff in it's ongoing administration.Introduced Centrally managed protection to the endpoint, personal firewalls and intrusion protection to the endpointled the preparations for a formal Disaster Recovery test.

Penrith

Administered Computer labs and Novell servers offering file and print.Introduced NT to labs running against Novell Servers.Led the integration of unix in using LDAP authentication against NDS including coordination with Unix team members.Led the integration of 3 member lab environments involving selection of a preferred platform, and transitioning services to the new platform.

Introduced a supportable endpoint framework on the PC platform in a Macintosh dominated environment.

Education record

Bachelor Applied Science, Health Information Management