David A. Email & Phone Number

Ashburton, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Managing the team that looks after the Windows/Vmware/O365 Infrastructure, the networking stack and a small cloud presence

Melbourne, Australia

Excited about my new challenge

Melbourne, Australia

• Working as a part of a great team looking after all the server infrastructure of PMP Limited. During this period there has been a focus on updating systems during a company merge phase. Work has been based on.
• Migration of VMWare infrastructure to version 6 Update 2 - 20 Hosts
• Cleanup of Commvault backup solution
• Design and installation of ADFS for Office 365
• Design and Installation… Show more Working as a part of a great team looking after all the server infrastructure of PMP Limited. During this period there has been a focus on updating systems during a company merge.
• Design and Installation of Office 365 Hybrid Solution for 1300 users

Melbourne, Australia

• As a Solution Advisor I have been heavily involved with customers of HuonIT, understanding their needs and delivering quality proposals. These proposals have covered from simple Office 365 migrations and small hardware.
• Discovery meetings with customers
• Proposal Design
• Project Plans
• Customer Relationship management
• Vendor Relationship management o PURE Storage o Fortinet o MimeCast

Melbourne, Australia

• My roles at this smaller IT firm has varied from support to design and project work. Being a smaller organization I have been involved in many aspects of all these roles. I am based at Davies Collison and Cave, an IP.
• Vmware 5.5
• Vmware SRM
• Zerto
• Citrix 6.5
• Microsoft Exchange 2010

Melbourne, Australia

• Wave lead designer for 15+ transformation solution designs from NAB network to the new NAB/IBM internal cloud. High involvement with customers, project managers, application SME's, security teams and high level.
• Creation of complete solution designs from SOW phase in a highly complex and secure banking environment.
• Writing design documentation taking in to consideration new Operating systems, IP, Network Flow, DNS, DR, HA, Load Balancing, GPO, AD, NAS/SAN storage and security configurations
• Reviewing of team members designs ensuring quality of all designs to IBM Framework and Pattern Guides
• Worked very closely with collegues to produce the best designs possible
• Highly engaged with the customer during all parts of the design.

• 3rd level support of 2000+ clients and 200+ servers across Australia and New Zealand covering many different technologies
• migrating servers to new private cloud infrastructure
• project design and implementation of many complex solutions
• mentoring of 1st and 2nd level support teams
• designed, implemented and maintained windows 7 SOE and applications for 2000+ desktop clients
• designed implemented and maintained Siemens designed windows xp rollout

3rd level support role which required me to look after a separate Novell network for the Business and Economics faculty away from the central Monash network. I was the sole person responsible for the reliability and uptime of these servers.Mentoring and helping 1st and 2nd level support staff with more complex issues. I was also sole person in charge of.

Member of a very successful desktop support team that were able to cut open incidents from an average of 80 incidents open to at the end of my time of about 15 incidents.

Started my work as a sole support technician that required me to support many customer Novell networks. I also was looking after all pc hardware repairs and software issues from customers.For a few years I managed extra support staff to handle the extra workload that had built up over time from us creating reliable solutions for our customers.I my time at.

Diploma Programming Technology, Computer Programming, 92% Ave

Completed diploma with a average of 92%

Education record

Activities and Societies: Basketball Captain Major contributor in to all sporting programs at the school