Gary Davidson Email & Phone Number

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, US

Paris, FR

Bad Homburg, Frankfurt, DE

• Leading IT Operations across South Asia Pacific. Providing core IT infrastructure and IT End User support services through in country and remote work force.
• Led the delivery of IT Infrastructure and Support services provided by the South AP IT team incorporating 7 countries with multiple sites in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand
• Managed 5 direct reports and a team of 11 IT personnel across multiple countries
• Led the IT due diligence and IT operations transition following an acquisition in Singapore
• Oversaw the establishment of all new clinic infrastructure, including hardware and IT services
• Responsible for all server maintenance and security across South AP and local datacentres

Bad Homburg, Frankfurt, DE

• Led the deployment of new VOIP phone system across the country, which required:
• Partnering with telco provider to move from single managed SIP site to a centralised SIP system
• Developed a detailed plan for the project to deliver uniform service levels across the 27 sites in ANZ
• Deployment of new handsets across the sites including new PABX hardware
• Managing telco and site cut overs
• Led the transition to a new telco provider for in-country WAN

Bad Homburg, Frankfurt, DE

Burwood, NSW, AU

Chicago, IL, US

• Technical lead within Australia for Local IT Infrastructure, Sydney and Melbourne. Responsibility for the design, implementation and maintenance of new and existing systems. LawTech Award in 2012 for Security And Risk.
• Led project for backup and replication of data for disaster recovery
• Designed and Installed SAN and Virtualization infrastructure in Melbourne office creating a new datacentre leading to improved capacity, performance and resiliency
• Led the implementation of BigHand Digital Dictation system across the business involving all hardware and software systems which streamlined transcribing of lawyer’s notes
• Partnered with 3rd party vendor to upgrade the Cisco Call Manager phone system with migration to Optus eVolve IP network, completing all testing and user acceptance testing
• Managed the Ringtail Legal 2005 upgrade of the major data repository for e-discovery

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Providing Network and System Administrator duties, covering Australia and Asia Pacific.
• Achieved system and application uptime of 99.79% within a locally managed data center
• IT Business partnering, working closely with the business to understand pain points and requirements
• Delivered successful P2V Migration and hardware implementation leading to the reduction of on-site physical hardware
• Managed the systems administration supporting Operational IT management and support throughout the APAC region
• Implemented Internal Wireless solution