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Cloudland leads the way in the virtual Workspace market (Desktop as a Service and Browser Based Workspace) and companies across NZ choose us because we provide outstanding customer service, technology capability and have a commitment to deliver for our clients.Working closely with the Managing Director to drive and grow Cloudland, with a focus on strategy execution, customer engagement, service delivery, sales, and mentoring my outstanding team.

Managing Director of JMC Properties which specialises in residential property investment and development.

Codeblue Hamilton/BOP is a fast growing and successful ICT company specialising in managed support services, technology consultancy, project and programme management, and business consulting. As the business grew my role transformed into a dedicated leadership role which inclued financial management, and responsibility for all delivery functions. I led an extremely capable team of technology professionals who are passionate, knowledgeable and experienced, and know how to work with customers of all sizes to make best use of technology and keep them at a competitive advantage.I spent most of 2015 focusing on the due diligence, setup and leadership of a new and rapidly growing Bay of Plenty (BOP) branch of 7 staff.As a board member my focus was on financial performance and operational support of the newly appointed CEO and wider leadership team.

Co-Founded in 2007, Level10 focused on infrastructure consultancy and project delivery in the health sector, but widened its target market and joined the Codeblue group in 2009. CodeBlue provides a comprehensive range of enterprise-level IT managed infrastructure services to mid-sized companies and organisations across New Zealand. As Operations Manager, I lead, managed, and grew teams up to >25 technical and consultancy staff across all delivery functions. These included presales, managed services and support, projects, and onsite staff. I also provided project management, technical consultancy, and operational management consultancy for various large customers.As well as my day-to-day role, I was a company director with a focus on strategic, financial and governance activities for the company.

Service Delivery Manager for the implementation and ongoing support of an Australasia wide managed services client.

IT Services Manager which led and developed all the IT Service provisions in the Museum ensuring an efficient support practice and secure infrastructure environment for over 1500 staff. The role managed approximately 25 staff and a large opex and capex budget, and included project management of several large projects. I facilitated significant improvements to the organisation including implementation of a ITSM ITIL Service Management system and associated processes, desktop SOE and replacement program, new storage (SAN) and backup infrastructure, and an archive platform for digitisation of historically important documents.

3rd Level systems Engineer for HP Auckland, including being the lead Citrix consultant for the region.

IT was outsourced from Vodafone to HP where i was offered the support team leader position. My efforts initially concentrated on the ‘Xpress’ project, a complete national IT system refresh at Vodafone, where I lead and managed different technical teams and work packages within the project; reporting daily to the Project Director. Once the project was completed, I was the Support team leader (day-to-day management) for approximately 12 engineers supporting the entire end user environment at Vodafone NZ wide - including retail and dealer stores and management of support delivered projects.

Employed at Vodafone NZ through the Vodafone graduate recruitment program - initially providing IT support to ~1500 staff, but quickly moved to focus on designing, implementing, and supporting a completely new Citrix environment for Vodafone includes its dealer and retail stores. This work also included writing a university thesis on a real-world subject which completed my degree.