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Wellington, Nz

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Working with software developers, QA, cloud/infrastructure architects and outsourced technology partners to improve delivery and cloud governance in a multi-cloud environment. Providing advice and expertise on new projects across agile teams with a focus on cloud optimisation and automation.

Auckland, New Zealand

I founded a software startup focusing on developing a SaaS application for managing Major IT Incidents. All aspects of the fully functional application were implemented by myself from design, development, to deployment in AWS. I also carried out product demonstrations to groups, as well as sales and marketing activities.Highlights: - Became proficient with modern web development technologies (Typescript, NodeJS, MongoDB, Express, React) - Deployed highly resilient web applications to AWS using a mixture of IaaS and PaaS - Configured and tested advanced networking for HA, and regional AWS outages - Designed infrastructure for fast load times, while also protecting from unauthorised access - Automated infrastructure deployment and testing using modern Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools (Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Jest, Supertest, Puppeteer)

Auckland, New Zealand

In this role, I oversaw the daily running of Beca’s ICT resources and services supporting 3300 staff across eight countries. Other key responsibilities included: - Provided guidance and advice on technology trends and strategic direction for senior stakeholders - Responsible for capacity management, planning and forecasting across the Group - Managed the operational ICT budgets for hardware assets, cloud spend, maintenance and support contracts - Led and mentored a team of 13 technical staff responsible for a broad range of ICT technologies: On premise & cloud infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Application support - Change manager for the ICT environment - Escalation point for major incidents / Major incident manager - Liaised with internal business sections on ICT matters, and managed relationships with external business partners / vendors

Palmerston North

Led a team of 10 technical staff in a large and highly complex IT environment spanning across three campuses. Key responsibilities: - Managed a range of projects including storage, virtualization, DR and SQL cluster replacement - Managed major incidents and communication to stakeholders - Mentored and led staff through technology and business change - Developed and contributed to technology roadmaps - Managed effective relationships with internal business stakeholders and external vendors

Palmerston North, Wanganui-Manawatu, New Zealand

As an infrastructure focus Systems Engineer, I designed and maintained effective IT systems in a complex Enterprise-level environment. I contributed to IT projects that had wide reaching effects on the university, and acted as an escalation point for incidents / service requests for the Infrastructure team.Technical areas of focus: - Lead Digital Certificates / PKI engineer - Lead Netscaler engineer - Web / Proxy servers - Layer 4+ networking - Monitoring systems - Commvault backup - Virtualisation - Operating Systems (Windows Server, RHEL) - RDS

Palmerston North

In this role I provided level 1-3 systems engineering support to Enable New Zealand with key responsibilities including: - Monitored and maintained the IT infrastructure to ensure downtime of services was kept to a minimum - Collaborated with the IT team to see through projects and manage tight deadlines - Resolved a range of technical issues as they arise - Managed and prioritised high workloads while delivering timely and effective user support - Planed for, procured and installed IT equipment

Palmerston North, Wanganui-Manawatu, New Zealand

Worked as part of the BICT Degree team designing, developing and maintaining technical papers. Key responsibilities: - Lectured and assessed student’s work on technical papers: Computer Fundamentals, Network Fundamentals, Cisco CCNA 1-4, Network Services - 3rd year - Industry project - Supervised and mentored third year students undergoing their industry projects - Mentored students from a range of cultural backgrounds and academic levels

Bachelor, Information And Communication Technology

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