Michael Baxter Email & Phone Number

Nsw

Sydney, Australia

• Managing and directing the IT strategy of the company• IT team management and Project Management (Agile using SCRUM)• Salesforce Administration and Development• Salesforce integration (Mostly Boomi)• Linux System administration (Ubuntu and Centos)• System and Network monitoring (Cacti and Nagios)• Puppet configuration and development• Administrating and developing AWS servers• Python, php , mysql scripting for web development • IIS 7 and Apache web… Show more • Managing and directing the IT strategy of the company• IT team management and Project Management (Agile using SCRUM)• Salesforce Administration and Development• Salesforce integration (Mostly Boomi)• Linux System administration (Ubuntu and Centos)• System and Network monitoring (Cacti and Nagios)• Puppet configuration and development• Administrating and developing AWS servers• Python, php , mysql scripting for web development • IIS 7 and Apache web administration• DNS Administration• Network Administration• VOIP phone administration• Security auditing• RTO systems administration (Jobready)• Windows 2012 R2 administration• Helpdesk support mostly Windows• Software Development• AD administrator• Google apps for work (now G-suite for business) administration• Automation (Puppet and WinAutomation) Show less

Sydney, Australia

• Administrate and create AWS servers (Amazon EC2 and RDS)• SQL Query and php scripting• Manage CMS (Drupal and Wordpress) web servers• Invoicing and Sales API development (Zuora and Sales Force)• Network Administration• Linux System administration (CentOS and Ubuntu)• System and Network monitoring (Cacti and Nagios)• Puppet configuration and development• Security auditing• LAMP stack administration for approximately 150 sites• MySQL database development… Show more • Administrate and create AWS servers (Amazon EC2 and RDS)• SQL Query and php scripting• Manage CMS (Drupal and Wordpress) web servers• Invoicing and Sales API development (Zuora and Sales Force)• Network Administration• Linux System administration (CentOS and Ubuntu)• System and Network monitoring (Cacti and Nagios)• Puppet configuration and development• Security auditing• LAMP stack administration for approximately 150 sites• MySQL database development and administration• Migrating VMWare and physical Servers into the AWS cloud• Managing Juniper network routers• Salesforce Administration and Development• Samba Administration• Helpdesk/Service Support• Server Migrations• Windows (2008 R2) administration• AD administrator• DNS Administration• VOIP phone administration• Google apps for work (now G-suite for business) administration• Software Development• Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (Bamboo) • Project Management (Agile using SCRUM)• Jira and Confluence configuration and administration• Automation (Puppet) Show less

• PC disconnects and reconnects• PC relocations• Data centre and server relocations• PC troubleshooting• IT and people auditing• Asset tracking

Sydney, Australia

• Managing the Virtualization infrastructure (VMware vSphere 5, approximately 80+ servers) • Server configuration and maintenance control using Puppet for the RedHat and CentOS Linux systems• Manage and resource all Linux initiatives company wide• Design and production of detailed architectural and system design documentation• Present business cases to technology teams• Implement and manage all Linux implementation projects through the whole lifecycle• Performance… Show more • Managing the Virtualization infrastructure (VMware vSphere 5, approximately 80+ servers) • Server configuration and maintenance control using Puppet for the RedHat and CentOS Linux systems• Manage and resource all Linux initiatives company wide• Design and production of detailed architectural and system design documentation• Present business cases to technology teams• Implement and manage all Linux implementation projects through the whole lifecycle• Performance analysis and capacity planning• Mentoring team members and relevant parties on implementation and Linux best practices• Server and application monitoring (Zenoss and cacti)• Clustering design and maintenance• SAN administration• Samba administration• MySQL database administration• Jboss administration• Migrating and upgrading Linux servers/applications• Managing Juniper network routers• Automation (Puppet) Show less

Sydney Area, Australia

• System design of new HPC cluster (96 CPU node)• Porting of old cluster applications to the new system• Porting Windows modelling code to Linux base• General IT support for Research groups• Software Development for Risk modelling• Developing Hadoop system for Volcanic model system• Documentation and policy writing • Migrating Windows servers to Linux systems• Purchasing of IT systems and infrastructure redesign and build

Sydney, Australia

* Managed the Research IT group ( 20-30 different groups ) in the Faculty of Science, administrating 60-90 systems dealing with approximately 120+ clients also acted as the HPC Clustering expert for the group* Acting IT Systems manager for the Faculty of Science for 2 months, managing 12 staff with approximately 2000 clients ( 4 sets of 2 month periods)* 11+ years experience in migrating Solaris and Mac OSX servers to Linux (typically CentOS,RHEL and Ubuntu, approximately 10+ servers… Show more * Managed the Research IT group ( 20-30 different groups ) in the Faculty of Science, administrating 60-90 systems dealing with approximately 120+ clients also acted as the HPC Clustering expert for the group* Acting IT Systems manager for the Faculty of Science for 2 months, managing 12 staff with approximately 2000 clients ( 4 sets of 2 month periods)* 11+ years experience in migrating Solaris and Mac OSX servers to Linux (typically CentOS,RHEL and Ubuntu, approximately 10+ servers per year)* Data Centre and Server room moves, multiple server relocations to Co-Lo and other server rooms* Migrating DBservers* Acting Helpdesk Manager for the Faculty of Science for 1 month a year (from 2000 onwards)* Primarily Linux administrator (focusing on Red Hat and derivatives system ) but also included Solaris, HP-UX, Windows and Mac OS systems* Web Server setup and administrating with Web software development (both front and backend) using Apache, php, MySQL, Postgres and javascripting* High level scripting * Software installation, development and optimization* Licensing maintenance* Administrating DHCP, LDAP, Web, Sendmail/Postfix, File, and Print servers* Networking + Server room maintenance * Clustering systems design* HPC Clustering administration for 7 separate clusters of sizes between 48-864 CPU nodes* Hardware and Software Purchasing ( $100,000-300,000 per year)* Linux OS installation and rebuilds, both on physical and virtual systems* Virtualization systems creation * Security maintenance, implementation, and policy writing* Project Management of 30+ projects involving between 1-6 people.* Systems monitoring ( Nagios, MRTG, Cacti)* Storage Administration ( Dell MD series)* Policy and Documentation writing * Troubleshooting servers, code, and client developed applications* Windows Server administration* Windows Desktop support * Helpdesk/Service Desk Support via f2f, email, phone and Remote Desktop Show less

Sydney Area, Australia

• Contracting for the university on a variety of projects in plastic and metal producing companies • Report writing, quality control procedures, product testing and investigation

Sydney, Australia

• Supervisor for teaching physics/material science in a lab environment • Lecturer/tutor for 1st to 3rd year physics students.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physics, Not Completed

not completed

Bachelor Of Science - Honours, Physics, Grade 1 - 96%

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Theoretical And Mathematical Physics, Distinction Average