Ian Thorp Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Responsible for owning and driving technology strategy to support 28 health, medical and employment brands with a highly distributed, diverse and mobile workforce that includes 400+ sites across all seven states and territories.

San Jose, California, US

• Part of the enterprise pre-sales architecture team working with some of our largest enterprise and government customers and prospects. My previous experience allowed me to bring a strong business centric.
• Worked with customers in multiple market segments including, education, health, finance, retail, and government.
• Delivered tender responses for several complex multi-million-dollar opportunities.
• Helped customers develop transformational strategies
• Maintained or developed relationships with customers and prospects
• Liaised with product management teams for new feature requests, bug fixes and documentation improvements.

San Jose, California, US

Experienced independent Enterprise Architect.

Docklands, Victoria, AU

• Providing architectural expertise and governance for the program of work to re-platform and migrate to cloud multiple data centre hosted services including Commerce, ERP and Supply Chain
• Improved performance and capability of eCommerce servicesLifecycle management program aimed at reducing technical debt, risk and reducing the TCO of IT services
• Identification and categorisation of systems and assets based on age and risk (business/tech/security)
• Removal of duplicate and redundant services
• Asset lifecycle and treatment plan for services hosted on aging platforms including AIX and AS400Reviewed recovery posture of application portfolio, infrastructure and services including retail, online, commerce and.
• Delivered a detailed current state analysis, recommendations, strategic roadmap and business cases

Victoria, 3800, AU

• Responsible for strategic direction of IT infrastructure for the university. SME input into IT and business strategies and architectural governance for multiple projects and initiatives.
• Advocate for the cloud adoption program, presenting regularly to senior stakeholders, operational and Faculty resources across the university to support our ‘Cloud First’ and ‘Cloud Only’ initiatives.
• Lead the design and deployment of AWS and Azure ‘Virtual Data Centres.’
• Adoption of hybrid backup and storage solution leveraging existing capabilities in NetApp and Commvault
• Developed multi petabyte storage and data management strategy for Monash eResearch group
• Championed and executed the move out of aged and unstable on-campus data centre to a state of the art managed data centre, retiring, refreshing and migrating services reducing from 108 racks to 41.

Victoria, 3800, AU

Created a strategy defining how eSolutions (Monash Universities’ IT Services) will consume and deliver IT services to the wider university, affiliates and research partners in the future. This strategy takes into consideration the use of cloud solutions including Software, Platform and Infrastructure as a Service, as well as consideration of the use of.

• Reviewed and appraised all of VicSuper’s IT systems and services including network, compute, storage, database, telephony, Contact Centre and data centre
• Documented risks, gaps, and issues and generated recommendations with prioritisations and developed multi-year technology and initiatives roadmap and associated business cases
• Successfully advocated strategy and business cases and developed high level design for migration to a hosted data centre and the refresh of WAN, LAN and Internet gateways.
• Provided consultation on core applications refresh program.

• Defined the global data centre and hosting strategy to move towards a service focused centralised IaaS model. My scope included servers and virtualisation, data and information lifecycle management, storage & backup.
• Developed content and assisted with review of a tender for enterprise wide hosting services.
• Project to integrate IT and OT (Operating Technology) services and deploy centralised control rooms
• Assisted with the architecture for a number of new mining control and exploration apps
• Migration, centralisation and consolidation of services into hosted data centre
• Defined the computer room specifications for a new facility at a mine site in PNG.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

• Responsible for future state design across Hosting and Storage domains for the Whole of Victorian Government providing servicing 15 Government departments in an environment running 3000+ servers and over 275 disparate.
• Storage, backup and archive
• Server hardware and virtualisation
• Server Operating Systems
• Active Directory
• File and Print Services

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Richardson, Texas, US

• Supported the Victorian Government’s Whole of Health ICT strategy. The program included an aggressive roll out of four applications to Victoria’s health agencies. I helped develop and deploy a highly available.
• Oracle 10G RAC infrastructure supporting multiple DBs and thousands of users
• Updated infrastructure architecture to improve availability using a number of technologies including Citrix, VMware and HPUX Service Guard;
• Developed architecture and process to make better use of DR infrastructure, including migration of non-production environments from primary to secondary data centres;
• The integration of two new HDS USP-V storage arrays into the environment;
• Led a process to improve the utilisation of storage infrastructure potentially saving the organisation many thousands of dollars.

Bryanston, Johannesburg, ZA

Working day-to-day with large high profile multi-national corporate clients, understand their technological aspirations, then define strategies and deliver solutions that help them met their goals.In conjunction with the sales and service delivery team I developed excellent working relationships with our clients and strove to fulfil a role as ‘trusted.

Global, US

• Developed a migration strategy for a global electronics company, which I presented to the client as part of a successful new business bid, which totalled US$1.6BN.
• Divestment and then integration into another organisation of an insurance division of a global financial organisation, this included separation or duplication of approximately 200 applications.
• Modelled and implemented a resilient end-to-end automated global anti-virus solution
• An onsite review of all infrastructure and procedures for a global resource company’s South American assets.
• The development of a global Internet gateway solution, that dramatically reduced the number of Internet Gateways from over thirty to six, migrating all systems and services to the new environment, including proxy.

Auburn Hills, MI, US

I was initially contracted to assist in the development and deployment of Mercedes-Benz Australia’s server and workstation S.O.E Upon completion of the SOE and server deployment I took a roll in which I;Made changes to the SOE, using System Management ServerResponsible for the proactive maintenance of all NT4 servers nationally I managed the remediation.

• Employed with the assistance of a team of eight to oversee and manage the company’s corporate LANs and LAN based systems I had direct responsibility for:
• Specification, configuration, purchase and installation of corporate fileservers
• Management of desktop system specification, installation and support
• Monitoring, maintaining of servers,
• Administration and support of CCMail
• Enforcing corporate policy standards in system usage, security, software legality, virus prevention, detection and removal

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