Michael Clothier Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Falls Church, Va, Us

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Led the IT department, developing strategies and managing a $22M IT operating budget. Built strong IT teams from the ground-up, aligning department strengths with short- and long-term business goals. Developed and implemented IT programs, performing analysis, information gathering, business case preparation, and presentations to senior leaders. Executed programs through to completion on time and within budget. Negotiated vendor contracts to ensure competitive pricing. Managed the technical integration of company merges and acquisitions, as well as cybersecurity, application upgrades and implementations. Robust hands-on management capabilities across the cybersecurity / Infrastructure spectrum.Key Achievements:● Led an IT landscape transformation project encompassing core business system upgrades, Infrastructure virtualization, cybersecurity focused network and firewall redesign, Microsoft Windows Server, Desktop hardware and OS refresh, O365 and Azure / AWS migrations. Decommissioning old platforms and Data Centers● Reduced costs by $2M in SQL licensing by implementing DB/server rationalization.● Improved ICT processes, risk, governance, and procedures by implementing ITIL risk management frameworks. ● Recognized for executing superior operational and service-level performance.

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Group Infrastructure Director (Acting CIO) reporting to LAIO CFO and Leighton Holdings Group CIO reporting to the Leighton CFO.Managed an 84 employee in-house ICT and application development team, managing a $30M+ IT budget and presenting monthly updates and forecasts to key stakeholders. Created and implemented the overall department strategy and roadmap to fully support the corporate business applications and infrastructure strategies. Oversaw the maintenance of existing IT operations, provided ICT services to 70+ global project sites, and supported 6000 end-users in 14 countries. Resolved incidents and performed problem and configuration management and change control processes.Key Achievements:● Developed and presented LHL Group CIO quarterly workshops with the regional IT leadership team.● Created and implemented ICT policies and ITIL processes and standards, resulting in streamlined workflows and increased efficiencies.● Achieved significant costs savings by negotiating group-wide procurement deals.● Enhanced network and Internet security● Led an $11M process improvement program resulting in increased productivity, efficiency, risk mitigation, security, and compliance.● Oversaw 6 projects at 55 sites worldwide – Data Centre refresh, Wintel virtualization, Video Conferencing, Desktop and Laptop Hardware and OS Refresh, Global Wireless, and Unified Communications—delivering the program on time and 15% under budget.

North Sydney, Nsw, Au

Managed the design, architecture, and implementation for multiple international cloud infrastructure projects. Executed project management, designing and deploying infrastructure for Singapore and Hong Kong data centers. Key Achievements:● Chosen as project lead for one-year Leighton International project impacting 2,000 users across 30 cities in five countries.─ Project adapted by Microsoft as a case study with a subsequent presentation at Tech-Ed in 2009.● Completed a comprehensive design and architecture for Leighton’s Data Center and virtualization environment. Decommissioning of old Wintel Infrastructure and Data Centers. ● Aligned technical requirements with client business drivers for inclusion in proposal preparations, resulting in the acquisition of multi-million dollar global deals.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

• Responsible for the Project Management and the design and build of the Data Centres in Sydney and Melbourne.• Design Rack and System layout for each facility. Consult with vendors for best practices.• Lead the team to rack and commission over 200 servers, network infrastructure and storage arrays• Establish DRP capability across Datacentres and perform rigorous testing and pre-production checks• Migration of critical applications• Migration of over 200 SQL databases to new infrastructure

Au

• Team Lead on several large projects for NSW, Australia government departments. Included analysis, design, testing, roll-out support, handover. Documentation created at every stage. Active Directory, Exchange, SQL, Citrix Storage and virtualisation technologies. • Pre-sales processes, assist SDM's and Account Executives in preparing proposals.• Travel nationally and internationally to perform consultation duties for clients.• Manage junior architects, engineers and project managers.

Position: Director.• Shareholder in a start-up business.• Grew company from 3 individuals at start-up to 15 Employee Company in two years.• Director meetings, Financial reviews, Strategic decision making processes• People Management - Hiring staff, refined interview processes. • Engaged through every step of acquisition and transition process.Position: Senior Systems Engineer• Consultant, responsible for architecture and design for small to medium size businesses.• Onsite installation and support of customer’s infrastructure and systems.• When required work after hours to perform maintenance and restore critical systems for clients.• Implementation of project works for Active Directory and Exchange migrations, Applications, Citrix and Networks.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

• Work in a team to provide support to critical bank systems. Required rostered on call duties. • Performed DR (Disaster Recovery) testing. Involved after hours work to test systems and revert back to production after the testing was complete.• Commissioning of new services, following design architecture and best practice install methods. • Deployed infrastructure to two Data Centres during multiple internal projects.• Strict adherence to ITIL processes of Change Control, Incident, Problem Management and Configuration Management

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Fixed term contract to work at the Olympics in Sydney. I was assigned to the Sydney Superdome at the Olympic Park as a Network Engineer. Responsibilities included; installation, cabling, configuration, and during the games provide support to the network infrastructure. Primary technologies - ATM, Ethernet and of course Token Ring.

Auckland based IT services provider. Provided design, build and migration services for Windows NT 3.51, 4.0 and Novell Netware implementations. Design and build of Citrix Winframe, Metaframe solutions. Provide ongoing support to these customer environments. I spent the year of 1998 based in Wellington for Data Group.

Dit, Doctor Of Information Technology

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology

Mba - Technology, Master Of Business Administration - Technology