Mark Matthews Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• As a Cloud Adoption Practice Manager (AWS) of the Mantel Group), my role is to drive the expansion of the AWS cloud practice within Mantel Group, elevating Mantel’s standing in the marketplace through the meticulous.
• Guide and direct a team of over 40 seasoned engineers and consultants within the practice, steering them toward the successful execution of enterprise-grade projects.Establish the direction in how the Cloud Adoption.
• Provide mentorship and facilitate the advancement of team members' professional aspirations and objectives.
• Grow the Cloud Adoption Practice (AWS) team and IP capabilities to support the go to market offerings
• Develop a training capability that can scale and help the team with clients and projects
• Establish myself as the leading industry expert in areas of Cloud Adoption (AWS), internally and externally

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As a Principal Consultant of CMD Solutions (part of the Mantel Group), my role is to develop and grow trusted relationships with clients, which complement the company’s commercial and strategic relationships, whilst mentoring other team members. One of my key focus areas is building a team and go-to-market strategies around a specific technical capability.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As a Lead Consultant of CMD Solutions (part of the Mantel Group), my role was to develop and grow trusted relationships with clients, which complement the company’s commercial and strategic relationships, whilst mentoring other team members. At the same time contributing to the development of the company's core platform and patterns to meet current and.

Sydney, Australia

As a Senior Consultant of CMD Solutions (part of the Mantel Group), I was responsible for designing and deploying client environments through code, developing build pipelines, embedding security in everything you do and implementing best practices on AWS.- Provide consulting services that combine architectural vision with hands-on technical experience.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

• Recruit, lead and mentor a DevOps Team (team size of 7, including one in South Africa office).
• Rebuild the DevOps team from the ground up.
• Provide technical direction to teams, including the orchestration/automation of system configuration, application deployment, application configuration, performance engineering, secure code testing, and cloud.
• Work very closely with all technology teams and leads to better build bridges and relationships between teams
• Create and lead on patterns for automation of common, repeatable, manual tasks in the end-to-end value stream.
• Ensure security and vulnerability management policies are adhered to - including patching of internal code, external third party libraries, and any runtime container - and provide support to testing related to.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for supporting, maintaining, and optimising web based infrastructure.
• Working closely with the development team to increase productivity.
• Follow a source control culture within the configuration of Servers and Applications whereby environments are configured via code for a fully automated process.
• Receive Deployment Plans, validate them and carry them out in an efficient manner via deployment tools.
• Monitor server resources within your portfolio to proactively identify bottlenecks, and advise on remediation steps to improve software design.
• Maintain knowledge of all applications within your relative portfolio, ensuring that all system dependencies are documented.

Croydon, United Kingdom

• Key Role Profile:
• Manage Infrastructure team which includes two network administrators.
• Manage all the IT infrastructure and users in the London
• Managing AWS servers, VMWare environment, mail and active directory.
• Maintain a SLA on all tickets logged to the Infrastructure Helpdesk
• Plan and execute IT projects including customer environments withou Intuitives iVector solution. This is a SaaS solution that we implement with a Web/Database (IIS and SQL) environment.

London, United Kingdom

• Key Role Profile:
• To manage all the IT infrastructure and users in the London and EU offices
• To managing all EU local and AWS servers, mail and active directory.
• To maintain a SLA on all tickets logged to the helpdesk
• Plan and execute IT projects including virtual internal and external server environments, office relocations, software rollouts, system upgrades.Key Duties:
• Server management, including Windows Server 2008 and 2012, Windows Active Directory system, DNS

London, United Kingdom

• Key Role Profile:
• To manage all the IT infrastructure and users in the London and EU offices (France, Germany, Poland)
• To assist with managing all global servers, mail and active directory.
• To maintain a SLA on all tickets logged to the helpdesk
• Plan and execute IT projects including virtual internal server environments, office relocations, software rollouts, system upgrades.Key Duties:
• Server management, including Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012, Windows Active Directory system, DNS, Hyper-V Server

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• To manage the IT infrastructure, including remote management and on-site branch visits
• To develop, implement and manage an IT helpdesk system (SysAid)
• To develop and implement a full disaster recovery for all servers
• Server management, including Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Windows Active Directory system, MS Exchange 2010 Server, SQL Server 2008, Hyper-V Server, BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server)
• Attend to end-user problems, including support on copiers, printers, back-ups and restoring of data
• Test and implement new technologies

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• To re-design, implement and manage the updated network and system
• To design and set-up client infrastructure at the MTN Business data centre
• To create a full disaster recovery for all servers, including client servers
• Server management, including all Microsoft Server 2003 and 2008 machines, the Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange 2003, BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server), SQL Server 2005 and 2008, Hyer-V Server, Microsoft.
• Provided support to users running Windows Vista and XP
• Created a complete documentation of all infrastructure and systems

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• To form part of a second-tier desk team for an international bank located in the Netherlands (ABN AMRO)
• Provided support to all users, including maintenance of user accounts on the Active Directory
• Provided support and maintained all Terminal, ISA, Proxy and Microsoft Active Directory servers
• Analysed server logs, including maintenance and fault-finding
• Provided daily support and maintenance on various applications, including DNS, network printing, backups and restoring of data

Durban Area, South Africa

• Managed all Exchange servers, including Windows Server 2003- and 2000-based, all Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers
• Managed IT security, including Cisco Pix Firewall and McAfee EPO antivirus software
• Provided support to helpdesk, as well as desktop and laptop users, all running on Windows XP Professional
• Provided general support, including hardware and software upgrades and installations
• Implemented infrastructure changes
• Analysed server logs, including maintenance and fault-finding, and provided reports to management

Durban Area, South Africa

• To maintain and support VPN, WAN, LAN, Backup Exec, anti-viruses, databases, firewall and Linux
• To support and maintain all desktop computers running Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and Office 97, 2000, XP and 2003
• Implemented all hardware and software installations
• Managed software licences and updates
• Supported all accounting and payroll systems and software
• Maintained network and data security through up-to-date anti-virus software and firewall system

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