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Lismore, New South Wales, Australia

Focussing on Project Management, Project Delivery, and Information Systems.

Lismore, New South Wales, Australia

Lismore, Ballina, Byron Bay

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Network engineering and consulting for a small network integrator and Internet Service Provider. Varied role, working with multiple customers and delivering multiple projects. Pre-sales component involved proposal writing, project scoping and solution design. Fortinet firewall specialty.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Short term contract, designing migration plans to relocate CBA’s primary data centre in Sydney, with a refresh of hardware and WAN services during the process. Primarily focused on CBA’s Third Party Networks.

Melbourne, Australia

Network Operations Leader for Telstra's AGL account. Overseeing the operation of AGL's domestic and international corporate offices, generation facilities, and contact centres.

Melbourne, Australia

Short Term Contract. Building and operating network infrastructure at St John of God’s medical hospitals, mental health hospitals, community outreach services, and corporate offices.

Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

Sonic Healthcare generously offered me my old position back, based in Melbourne. I specialised in campus network design and construction, pathology and radiology networks, WAN design, and project management.

British Columbia, Canada

It was a long-held goal of mine to do a working holiday. I recently achieved this goal and spent a season at Silver Star mountain (BC, Canada), in addition to other travels before and after the season. This was a magical experience and one I'll never forget.The role was physically demanding but very rewarding. Exemplary customer service was demanded and expected of all of us, which we provided and as a result Silver Star was voted the Okanagan area's favourite family resort for the second year in a row.Major Achievements+ Completion of a long-held life goal+ Retail / Rental runner up crew member for December + Utilising previous IT experience to assist Rentals with migrating to their new computer system which had significant operational problems, and was able to smooth out several operational headaches as a result.

Brisbane, Australia

Building and maintaining a high quality voice & data network for Sonic Healthcare’s Pathology & Radiology business units. Sonic Healthcare is one of Australia's largest Healthcare companies. With nearly 1000 small branch offices and 200 Laboratories / Radiology practices, we had a very large network to manage. During my time there our team presided over a huge growth in the network, connecting all the small branches to a single national network, a major migration of the Laboratory / Radiology WAN services from Frame Relay to MPLS, and data centre upgrades (including Nexus 7000 equipment). I participated in several major projects, including the WAN refresh, DSL rollout projects, switch upgrades, large site redesigns; in addition to BAU work, Level 3 Escalation, and fault management.My time at Sonic Healthcare give me great experience in managing and maintaining large networks, implementation skills, project management, solution design for internal business needs, and building relationships with other stakeholders (both internal and external). Major Achievements:+ Completed CCNP Certification+ Participation in several major & successful projects+ Designed a solution for 3G mobile data connectivity that integrated within our existing network schema

Brisbane, Australia

Assisting Telstra Business customers with integrating their Telstra services & Cisco routers with their existing IT systems. Telstra would sell various solutions to Telstra Business customers which often included Cisco equipment, and we would help customers with integrating these new services, migrating to the new services, troubleshooting existing problems and maximising the use of their new products. This included building new Cisco networks, modifying existing Cisco networks and general IT solution design including desktops, servers, networks etc. This role also required us to build relationships with our clients, analyse business needs, then propose and sell a practical solution for their business requirements.Major Achievements+ Promotion to the Telstra Plus Leadership Team (comprising of CEO, Ops manager, Business Dev Manager, and 2 other Lead Engineers)+ Passing the CCNA exam+ Being a contributing member of a brand new Telstra department + Designing and proposing a number of complex business solutions, including an Internal Business Systems solution, Large Multi-site VPN networks, DSL rollout projects and others.

Brisbane, Australia

Sole responsibility for all IT matters throughout this retail business, including the head office and 40 stores. This included server administration, desktop support, construction of an ADSL private network, Point of Sale / Application support, and significant IT upgrades to the head office & store systems.Major Achievements: + Construction of company's first private network+ Oversaw major server and desktop upgrades+ Worked with Point of Sale specialists to upgrade and streamline the Point of Sale system to enhance reporting & ease of use by sales staff+ Completed my Diploma of Network Engineering

Graduate Certificate Of Computer Science, Computer Science, 83

Diploma Of Network Engineering, Information Technology

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