Mat Wraith Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia

• Tenacious, dedicated professional with over 20 years of diverse experience in IT management. Responsible for all aspects of the club’s IT environment; IT systems, services, processes, data and skills. Solutions-driven.
• Conceived, designed, and implemented new IT infrastructure and VOIP telephony infrastructure during relocation to two new facilities.
• Successfully implemented a cloud-first strategy starting with migrating the company’s data from traditional infrastructure to a cloud-based automated infrastructure.
• Launched a new collaboration strategy introducing Microsoft Office 365 services over three years for all departments, resulting in better communication and overall improved effectiveness.
• Planned and executed company intranet project, including training for content contributors, which included developing a SharePoint based contract management system, company document libraries and photo gallery.
• Identified, formulated and reviewed technical guidelines and best practices for IT service desk team.

• Management of IT infrastructure for nine subsidiaries: two direct reports. Transformed the club’s IT to suit the level of the organisation. Hands-on third line support. Assisted multimedia team: designed, implemented.
• Introduced world first IT and Sporting technologies that have achieved two Grand Finals and six Finals series for the Football team, sustaining Collingwood’s position as the premier Australian sporting organisation.
• Successfully implemented new membership database, streamlining membership processing and improving customer relationships helped to increase membership by 68%.
• Suggested, designed and implemented server consolidation project reducing number of physical servers from 20 to five utilising virtualisation technologies. Reduction of operational costs by $100k over five years.
• Designed and implemented new IT infrastructure and VOIP telephony infrastructure during relocation to new premises.
• Suggested, designed and implemented new IT equipment procurement procedure.

• Provision, installation, configuration, operation and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. Desktop, server and network support. Supported software development environment..
• Successfully ensured all IT network, hardware and software continued to perform post Y2K.
• Implemented testing lab to test software on multiple types of hardware. Drastically reduced testing timeof software.
• Implemented a domain level update project, upgrading from NT server to Windows 2000 domain, thus increasing domain-wide functionality.
• Suggested, designed, implemented and maintained IT equipment database. Reduced number and resolution time of incidents.
• Designed and implemented migration of desktop operating system from Windows 2000 to Windows XP, thus increasing functionality.