Malcolm Allison Email & Phone Number

Wellington, NZ

Build, configuration and maintenance of a high availability web-stack serving several Treasury and government web sites. I work closely with the Architecture Team to tune and implement their designs in real world scenarios. The technologies employed include KeepaliveD, HAProxy, modsec, Apache, Varnish, MySQL, GlusterFS, Puppet and Foreman. I am also.

Administering and maintaing various systems management tools to provide alerting and reporting on desktop, server and network devices as an outsourced solution to a number of customers. Duties have included installation, configuration and administration. Including capacity management, planning, upgrading and maintaining systems for high availibility and.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Outsourced development resource for Gen-i at ANZ. I was initially brought in to automate an administration task that had been taking one of their senior engineers several hours a day. I was able to fully automate this to the point where it would alert us if it failed, but otherwise took no regular time at all. I was kept on for 4 years streamlining and.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

General field support work with direct user contact. I was part of a team of outsourced engineers performing general desktop and user support. This would often involve travelling to customer sites and performing first level support on the spot. I was also charged with basic hardware diagnostics and repair. Replacing faulty RAM modules or other internal.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

General administration and development duties maintaining ANZ's nationwide network. I joined this team as they were migrating the main network from OS/2 to Windows NT4. I was involved in general administration duties around this task and also physically travelling to sites to replace the servers and workstations and provide basic user training to the.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

I moved to Wellington to take up a position as a Help Desk Operator. At the time ANZ were consolidating all their various small support groups and wanted a consistent primary contact for all of their systems. This meant that we were dealing with a very broad range of technologies and users, from staff members having trouble with their new PCs, to customers.