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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Working with technology owners, architecture and engineering teams (Cloud, CyberSecurity, Network, Automation, Risk and Compliance) to deliver fit for purpose solutionsAdvising and assisting teams with migrations of applications & service from on-prem data centres to cloud (AWS, GCP and AZURE) ensuring alignment with desired architecture and strategic outcomesConsulting with technology and business aligned stakeholders to understand their solution requirements, ensuring cross-team collaboration translating requirements into functional business outcome, if need be drive and deliver outcomesMaintain roadmaps and core documentation that articulate our integrated systems and platform architecture, how it will change over time, and the sequencing of initiativesGuiding and mentoring technical engineering, development, and operations teams*** Position was made redundant due to organizational restructure ***

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Responsibility for understanding the needs of your aligned business or service areas and translate these into service outcomesWorking with the business and service areas to consume standardised network services that make up an overall solutionProviding input into architecture and service roadmapsWorking with project teams to ensure solution designs are formulated in alignment with service architecture standards and meet business requirementsAnalyzing current service usage within your business or service domains to determine deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvementTechnical point of escalation and contact for aligned technical teamsProject and pre-project consulting and development of high level options, conceptual approaches, recommendations and estimatesInterface with vendors to provide High Level Design inputProject triage, classification and risk assessmentDevelopment of network scope and project request documentationMaintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholdersPerform root cause analysis and solve complex problems

Cape Town Area, South Africa

ICT consulting, design and outsourcing services e.g. Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Managed Services and Systems IntegrationNetwork Infrastructure Vendor Management for Western CapePre-sales resource promotion & selling of Gijima strategic partners technology and servicesNetwork Architecture, design, and integrationPlanning, designing, and developing LAN, WAN, Security and UC infrastructureWorking closely with the Account Managers in respective account verticals, identifying our clients specific needsClient consultation to facilitate creation of solutions that enable business goalsStrategic technical resource – Advisory and escalation point for Gijima clients e.g. WCG, Petro SA, SanlamSolution presentation to customer’s Technical and Business ManagementFormulation of company response to RFP, RFI etc...Provide expert pre sales service to customers

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Global Network Service Design, Development and ImplementationNetwork Service Design & Transition Documentation based on ITIL models and principlesNetwork Capacity planningConsultation with Business and Clients to ensure that business requirements are translated into appropriate resilient, scalable and cost effective network designWeekly Reporting to business management on network health and capacity planning of existing projectsChange management and review

London, United Kingdom

Network Design, Implementation and Support of various Data, Security and Voice infrastructuresLiaising with business and third party providers to determine best resilient, scalable and cost effective network designsNetwork Roles & Projects:* Telkom – Fourth Line support for duration of South African Football Confederations Cup* State Street - Migration of Existing Market Data and Extranet infrastructure to new office location* Lloyds - Migration of network services and users from existing Cabletron network onto a new Cisco network, conversion of BCP 6509 Core, Trusted and Server Farm switches from Hybrid to Native mode and office migrations* NHS - Network Implementation and Support of Data Voice and Security infrastructures for Connecting for Health * ATOC - National Reservation System Project – Consultation with 26 UK train operating companies to ensure efficient, cost effective delivery of NRS delivery to over 20000 train stations and various call centres* Morgan Stanley - Global NOC level 2 support role, support of entire global Data, Voice and security network infrastructure

London, United Kingdom

Migration and separation of Kleinwort Benson Private Bank network infrastructure from the Dresdner groupImplementation and support of netcomms as well as server infrastructure on 24 hour callout basisProject management and implementation of network infrastructure upgrades as well as the addition of new business services Proactively monitored LAN/WAN infrastructure using HP Network Node ManagerImplementation and support of all Routers 800 to 7200 seriesConfiguration and troubleshooting of ISDN and leased linesMaintenance, testing and support of disaster recovery infrastructureInstallation and maintenance of high-end Cisco Catalyst 5500 switchesCompilation of monthly/incident reportsCompaq Server support (DL range G1 to G3)Exchange 5.5 Server supportVeritas Netbackup management and support

London, United Kingdom

Support and implementation of UK and European network infrastructureImplementation and support of all routers 800 to 7500 seriesInstallation and maintenance of high-end Cisco catalyst switchesLiaison with suppliers regarding purchasing, testing and replacement of equipmentRaising of Cisco TAC cases and ensuring effective implementation of recommended solutionsLiaison with various carriers for resolution of WAN connectivity issuesTroubleshooting various LAN/WAN network issuesPart of team responsible for ongoing network upgrades throughout the UK/European core node infrastructureDocumentation of infrastructure changes to the data networksSupport and maintenance of Newbridge infrastructure

Ad Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Ensured that day-to-day projects were implemented smoothly and that all issues were resolved efficientlyServer Builds/Upgrade existing NT ServersMicrosoft Exchange AdministrationNT4 Server/Workstation AdministrationNovell GroupWise/CC to MS Exchange migrationPre/Post installation supportApplication support

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Leadership role in response to and management of emergencies involving fire, rescue, motor vehicle accidents and other medical emergenciesTraining of fire crews at station levelDay to day management of fire station crews

South Africa

Bombardier / Instructor2 years National service in South African Artillery

Ccie R&S 24237

National Diploma, National Diploma In Fire Service Technology, Chemistry, Physics, Hydraulics, Building Construction Etc..

National Diploma Fire Service Technology Chemistry (1,2 and 3), Maths Physics (1,2 and 3), Hydraulics (1,2 and 3), Building Construction.

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