Dean Ravenscroft Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Providing expert consulting services to a variety of customers including financial, utilities and retail clients in the capacity of both managed service provider and enterprise environment support. This role has required expensive technical experience with architecture and design, deploying, integrating, upgrading and managing IT infrastructure from a wide variety of vendors. As a Cloud Architect, I am responsible for providing advanced technical and/or business consultative services for high profile clients, remote management, administration, support and ongoing maintenance of vRO/vRA platform within a customer’s CI/HCI environments.Some of my key responsibilities are to provide an over-arching & holistic view of the managed services provided from a technical perspective, process maturation, development, technical standards creation and drive operational excellence through consistent delivery, designs, expansions, configuration and best practices.

Sydney, Australia

Providing expert consulting services to VMware customers in the Enterprise, Banking and Government sectors with a focus on Automation and Operations Management.Managed multiple major projects from end to end covering Architecture Design, Implementation and Configuration to Operations Management and Transformation as well as mentoring and guidance to both customers and colleagues.

Healthshare Infrastructure Office - Hiaas Team

Architect of Health Infrastructure as a Service (HIaaS) Platform.HIaaS is a VMware vSphere 5 multi-site Infrastructure as a Service platform with over 200 hosts and 2000 VM Guests.The HIaaS Project Team were awarded the HSS Staff Excellence Award.- vSphere Design- Virtual Center Operations Manager- Virtual Center Configuration Manager- HP FlexFabric with Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager- NetApp FAS, IBM XIV- P2V, V2V migrations.- Application Discovery and Dependency mapping- Standards Development

Previously Chorus Communications and NTL Ireland.Senior Network Administrator resposible for designing and maintaining Active Directory Infrastructure. Messaging using Exchange (managed upgrade from 5.5 to 2003 and following to 2007 and 2010)I managed a large multi cluster VMWare vSphere Environment handling approx 80% of company server workload.Started with VMWare GSX and migrated through the versions of ESX until the current vSphere release.Have configured a VMWare View environment with multiple virtual desktops.Planned and Implemented Major merger of NTL and Chorus IT domain and messaging systems.I also work very closely with Citrix XenApp, McAfee ePO and AntiVirus solutions and Endpoint Encryption.I was the primary engineer responsible for our Commvault Backup systems. I have wide experience in Commvault systems ranging from version 3.X in 2002 up to the current release.

Network Administrator role to maintain, upgrade and manage Enware server and client systems.Exchange 5, NT4, Win98.Automation of Monthly System and Sales reports.Recommendations of Legacy system upgrades.

Roaming contract position with IT Outsourcing company providing additional Level 2 and Level 3 skills to company clients when required.Including New South Wales ParliamentNokia TelecommunicationsWestfield Australia

Image management and testing for J and H Marsh McLennan for systems countrywide.Rollout of completed Image to all UK offices.

Onsite field repairs of Compaq Hardware and systems.Multiple systems install projects across the Sydney area.

Sub Contracting to Wintel Environments at client sites including Nestlé Australia, Worksafe, Arnotts Biscuits, Sydney Water Corporation, State Rail, Benevolent Society and Attaché.Onsite Field and Inhouse Technical Repairs.