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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Australia

Designing innovative technical solutions for Professional Services to deliver for VMware’s top financial services, commercial, state government and corporate customers in ANZ.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Technical architect and owner of innovative and complex solutions for VMware's largest customer projects in ANZ. Assessed customer business and technical requirements and translated into high-level and low-level architecture designs.Technically led a team of Professional Services consultants through a 9000+ workload datacenter migration to VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services for a big four financial in Australia.Duties included managing and resolving ongoing technical project issues, escalations and stakeholder messaging. Regular interfacing with VMware internal and external vendor (e.g. AWS) product owners and engineering to address issues and critical feature requests to resolve project challenges.

Sydney, Australia

Technical lead consultant on many enterprise scale automation, cloud migration and operations management projects. I led one of VMware's largest automation and CI/CD projects for a big four bank's Hybrid Platform as a Service solution. Designed and implemented the automation infrastructure, orchestration framework, and content release framework. Coded the core set of bespoke catalog services and the self-service catalog structure for Westpac's business units.vBrown Bag Presentation on one of the Services:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE9M3ZtxXsE

Tokyo, Japan

Sabbatical learning Japanese in Tokyo and Fukuoka to Intermediate level JPLT N3

Tokyo, Japan

Sabbatical learning Japanese in Tokyo to Intermediate level JPLT N4

Sydney, Australia

Senior solutions consultant, technically leading projects which assess, architect, design, deploy, and validate end-to-end Software Defined Datacenter, Storage and Networking solutions for enterprise customers in Australia and New Zealand.Subject matter expert on private and hybrid cloud design and implementation, with specialist expertise in Service Catalog design and service Automation and Orchestration solutions. Technical lead on numerous innovative projects covering the suite of VMware's virtualisation and hyperscaler technologies, Operations management, business management, disaster recovery solutions and so on.- Large scale datacenter consolidation, and datacenter evacuation / hybridity to cloud- Private cloud automation solutions providing a suite of self-service offerings to customer business units.

Sydney, Australia

Provided pre and post sales technical consulting and system integration for VMtech’s accounts in Australia. Customer base worked with were PLCs, government institutions, and councils.The technical lead on a range of integration and datacenter projects through all project phases of tender submission, statements of work, project kickoff, low level design, design presentation, implementation, migration, UAT. Technical projects I led were based on NetApp, VMware, CISCO and Microsoft’s solution portfolio, in many cases integrating multi-vendor solutions e.g. when deploying NetApp FlexPod for VMware virtualization infrastructure solutions.

Singapore / Asean

Technically leading the consulting, planning, design workshops, documentation and delivery of large projects for NetApp’s top level multinational accounts and global System Integrators in Singapore and throughout ASEAN. Technical lead on projects covering entire range of NetApp storage solutions in the SAN and NAS space and associated technologies, many projects incorporating a combination of the following: - Converged, resilient, highly available SAN and NAS storage network solutions based on FCoE, iSCSI, FCP and 1GbE / 10GbE- Backup and DR solutions covering online local backup, application and VM consistent SnapShots, SnapShot archive, synchronous and asynchronous data replication and low / zero RPO Disaster Recovery using SnapShot, SMSP, SMSQL, SME, VSC, SnapMirror, SnapVault, MetroCluster and VMware SRM.- Virtualizing 3rd party storage systems using NetApp's vSeries platform- ITaaS / SaaS, and Secure Multi Tenant solutions for Enterprise NAS and virtualized environments using OnCommand Unified Manager, Protection and Provisioning Manager, MultiStore and FlexPod for VMware.- NAS solutions for Windows File Services, virtualizing and converging Windows File servers to vFilers, planning and implementing data migration whilst maintaining CIFS shares, ACLs, ACEs and data integrity, managing Active Directory integration, and integrating with DNS and DFS name services.The ASEAN subject matter expert in NetApp storage solutions integration with virtualization technologies such as those provided by VMware, and integration with Microsoft technologies such as SQL server, Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint.Provide consulting services for customers with existing NetApp storage solutions, for example data migration services, storage infrastructure consulting services, performance consulting services and virtualization consulting services, and IT GAP analysis based on the ITIL framework.

London, United Kingdom

Provided technical consulting services for NetApp’s multinational top tier accounts in the UK. Worked with global Systems Integrators as the technical lead designing and delivering complex storage solutions.Detailed project scope was similar to consulting provided in Singapore / ASEAN as above, with the addition of several large Security Cleared UK government and military classified projects.The storage technical lead for projects delivering large server virtualization deployments using VMware vSphere, NAS solutions providing Windows File Services and SMB1.x - 2.x / CIFS, and Microsoft application integration with NetApp storage solutions such as Microsoft Exchange server , Microsoft SharePoint, and SQL server.

London, United Kingdom

Member of a small team of highly skilled systems services specialists responsible for architecting and managing the firm’s entire infrastructure estate; including servers, storage systems, perimeter security, with datacenters spanning multiple UK sites and across Asia, including Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore.The technical lead in IT projects involving complex upgrades, migrations and application of new technologies, involving excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, and project coordination. Projects covered server virtualization with VMware vSphere, design, deployment and migration to new centralized BigHand server infrastructure, Microsoft Exchange and SQL server estate migration to SAN, Legal Document Management System consolidation and migration to NAS shared infrastructure, and Windows File Services migration and virtualization as NetApp vFilers.NetApp NAS and SAN management, ongoing new storage solution design and implementation projects, researching,planning and designing new IT system initiatives, and WINTEL server estate management.

London, United Kingdom

The technical project lead for many deployments of a standardised platform environment, involving customer site surveys, planning, designing, building, and maintaining a full set of standardized infrastructure services including Active Directory, Exchange, Windows Server and Windows Desktop computer environments for customers throughout the UK and Europe. Deployed standardized server and workstation builds using Windows Remote Installation Services combined with a custom built installation process. Implemented an automatic application deployment solution using Windows Group Policy and bespoke application scripting.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc

International Baccalaureate