Derek Garrett Email & Phone Number

With more than 20 years experience in the resources sector, Derek Garrett has applied his extensive technical skills to design solutions, solve problems, deliver reliable systems, focus on improvements and manage teams across a global organisation. His experiences focused on supporting IT infrastructure in a variety of locations including on-premises facilities, remote sites like offshore rigs, shared co-location facilities and cloud environments.Managing a geographically disbursed team across the Asia-Pacific & Middle East regions brought many challenges. Derek has been able to drive a positive culture within the team while ensuring the customer results were delivered effectively. A key to managing the team efficiently was his understanding of the cultural diversity within his team, establishing a good personal rapport with each team member and tailoring his approach to be culturally appropriate for the individuals.Derek is driven to deliver excellent results that utilise common tools and processes. In a standard support setting, these tools and processes include configuration management, system monitoring, change management, task automation and audit & compliance reporting. In a project setting, these processes include accurately scoping a problem, developing a comprehensive plan, then ensuring the plan is executed and delivers the required outcomes for his customers. Derek’s results in these settings have allowed him to deliver services that are reliable, meet requirements and are on-budget.KEY CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Completed the ConocoPhillips ABU-West Sale & IT Systems Multi Tenancy environment design, build-out and system migration within the required six-month timeframe.• Delivering the IT components of the Malaysian Office Renovations in 2014 including a new data centre, integrated fit-out planning to minimize business interruption while refurbishing the office space and Audio-Visual systems design for 10 meeting rooms.TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIESHARDWARE: APC, Brocade, Cisco, Dell, EMC Data Domain, HPe, Liebert, NetApp, Nutanix, QuantumSOFTWARE: Amazon AWS, Brocade FOS, CheckPoint Firewall, Cisco (ACI/IOS/NX-OS,UCS), Citrix, CommVault, Data Domain (DDOS & DDMC), IBM AIX, Microsoft Suite (Database, Desktop & Server Operating Systems, Platform Management, Hyper-V), NetApp Data Fabric (Data OnTap, Unified Manager), Nutanix, Redhat Linux, ServiceNow, Splunk, Sun Solaris, Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, VMWare vSphere Suite, ZabbixSCRIPTING: Unix Shell Scripting, Perl, Web (HTML, CGI), Windows Scripting (Batch, PowerShell, VBScript)

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  Curtin University

  Bachelor Of Science - Bs