Matthew Wright Email & Phone Number

Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Strategic Directions is a consultant group offering IT Strategy, CIO and network management consultation to Councils and Government agencies, specialising in alignment of business and IT strategy, creating roadmaps and offering IT management and CIO services.The key functions of this role was to build relationships with suppliers and customers, to advise.

Southbank

Haynes group are a subsidiary of Sime Darby/Hastings Deering, with offices and facilities located in Brisbane, Mackay, Chinchilla, Moranbah and Singleton in NSW, employing over 800 staff nationally. In this contract I was directly responsible to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), as the sole IT resource I created and managed the Office 365 migration.

Brisbane, Australia

• I built and managed a team that supports 115 stores nationally across the two brands plus the head office and warehouse in Brisbane as well as the Shopify web platform. I worked directly with both vendors, end users.
• Creation of national support network for all stores and documented IT processes
• Purchased and implemented Cisco spark video conferencing technology
• Implemented O365 and Azure Active Directory for 85 users
• New store IT template Create/Test/Build including Meraki for retail analytics
• Update of firewalls and endpoints throughout the network

• In this contract position, I worked directly with both the Malaysian hub and the leadership team onsite in Brisbane. With an initial budget of $1.7Million and four staff in PNG, I was responsible for maintaining.
• Digital Sense – Data Centre, Kenmore, Queensland
• Telstra - Services to 10 Eagle Street, WAN, SAT phones and mobiles
• Speed Cast – VSat links via Adelaide hub to 9x PNG offices
• Telekom – PNG leased line and land lines
• Iron Mountain – Backup tape collection and offsite storage

Brisbane, Australia

Initially a six month contract with a six month extension, I was directly responsible to the IT managed services lead, with four staff to manage.I was tasked with overall responsibility for desktop refresh throughout the 16 public trustee offices across Queensland plus creation of documentation and process control and hardware refresh. This involved.

Brisbane, Australia

Starting as a three week contract, this became a senior position in the Laing O’Rourke IT team, leading a team of Eight including Perth based staff, opening logging and resolving approx. 1000 Incidents weekly across the team and Nationally (approx. 45 sites) including metro and remote regional areas. I took on additional projects such as Frontrange Saas.