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Auckland, New Zealand

This role involves long term engagements with large NZ organisations including in the banking and retail environments primarily focused on security and operational transformation.Key activities include:- working with stakeholders within the organisation to establish and agree requirements, scope and priorities of initiatives- defining architecture plans.

Auckland, New Zealand

I established Network Management Consultants Ltd (NMC) as a registered company in New Zealand to enable me to have the freedom to work as an Independent Contractor in the IT sector. I work a variety of projects with organisations in New Zealand and Australia, typically involving major change such as merging, consolidating or even de-merging IT environments.

Melbourne, Australia

AHPRA are the registration agency for the Health sector in Australia. This engagement is a combination of on-site and remote work with the AHPRA team on some interesting infrastructure projects including carrying out a Security Risk Assessment and advising on infrastructure changes to improve resilience and service delivery.

Auckland, New Zealand

This engagement was under the Controls Remediation Program, focused on the uplifting the existing Privilege Access Management (PAM) solution and defining security controls across production systems. Following this initial work, the focus shifted to working with the Risk team to identify solutions to capture and manage security events into management systems.

Auckland, New Zealand

My role was Solution Architect for the programme of work to relocate the IT infrastructure and services from the current locations around Auckland into the new Head Office in Victoria St. This includes consolidation of the current Radio/Broadcast, Publishing and online environments into a single IT infrastructure platform in a new custom built data centre.

Auckland

Contract role in Spark Connect to review the SDP management systems and integration with the ITSM solution.

Takapuna

Working as part of the Windows 7 Programme to migrate all of the Northern DHBs (~18,000 systems) to Windows 7.

Auckland

My role is to develop an overall architecture for the management and service management systems within Westpac and outsource partners. As part of this projects will be created to deliver new systems to achieve the desired business outcomes.

Auckland

As part of the recent restructure, I have moved into Technology and Shared Services within Telecom. My focus is still the same, just the scope is now far bigger across Telecom and Gen-i.

Auckland

Architect responsible for network, security and management systems for Gen-i, primarily working in Cloud and security services space. I am heavily involved in developing cloud services in Gen-i. As part of the Telecom group, Gen-i is significantly expanding cloud offerings for customers across Australasia. We have been delivering “network delivered.

Specialising in design and delivery of network management systems and security infrastructure systems. Projects include architecture and detailed design of Service Delivery Platform systems for Telecom NZ, AAPT Australia, CBA (Commonweath Bank of Australia) and EMS-Global/BT Ignite.

Anite provided network solutions, consulting and services to NZ customers. I had worked extensively with Anite in my previous role at Cabletron. My role at Anite was to provide consultancy services to Anite customers around network management systems including the design and implementation of systems including Spectrum, HP Openview, Cisco Works, Tivoli and.

Cabletron was a major vendor in LAN infrastructure and management systems, including products such as Spectrum (now owned by CA). As the sole representative for Cabletron in New Zealand, I provided a wide range of skills to customers and resellers including training, consulting, design and support.My area of focus was in the management systems, at the time.

This role involved designing network solutions for New Zealand Corporates and Unisys global customers with operations in NZ. My role was primarily to work with the customer to understand their requirements, identify vendor solutions and design end-to-end network solutions to meet them. This was in the early days of distributed networking and included.

I was responsible for pre-sales support for a number of software products including Microsoft LAN Manager, Microsoft OS/2 (yep there was such a thing although most folk at Redmond would like to forget it...), DCA Comms Server (SNA Gateway), Protools, and CA-Unicentre.

Nzce, Telecommunications

Nzce, Computer Technology & Telecommunications