Michael Blankenberg Email & Phone Number

Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Providing Technical Leadership to a highly skilled team of MS professionals. Responsible for the technical oversight of the universities Office 365 and Azure environments as well as over 750 on premise Windows servers and a large Active Directory environment (over 600,000 user objects and 35,000 computer objects). I also have a strong focus on Information Security and process automation.

Brisbane, Australia

Focused on business process automation using System Centre Orchestrator 2012, SCCM and Group Polices. Also worked to implement SCOM 2012 to monitor over 1500 servers (both Windows and Unix).

Brisbane, Australia

Responsible for the planning, implementation and administration of SCCM across all sites in Queensland. Provided extensive SCCM service documentation and training to both the service desk and infrastructure teams covering topics such as remote assistance, application packaging and OS deployment. Also implemented System Center Orchestrator and automated complicated monthly server patching requirements.Also made substantial contributions to the consolidation and virtualization of IT… Show more Responsible for the planning, implementation and administration of SCCM across all sites in Queensland. Provided extensive SCCM service documentation and training to both the service desk and infrastructure teams covering topics such as remote assistance, application packaging and OS deployment. Also implemented System Center Orchestrator and automated complicated monthly server patching requirements.Also made substantial contributions to the consolidation and virtualization of IT infrastructure included Dell Blade enclosures, Hitachi Storage arrays (SANs), EMC Storage (NAS), Cisco fiber switches and VMware. Show less

Brisbane, Australia

This position comprised of several key IT projects to modernise the School of Dentistry at the University of Queensland. In this position I was responsible for the following projects: Purchased and implemented new virtual server infrastructure (VMware, Dell Blade servers, Hitachi SAN, Cisco fibre switches, Quantum Tape library). Evaluation and implementation of a new paperless patient management system including the integration of digital X-Ray systems. Email system… Show more This position comprised of several key IT projects to modernise the School of Dentistry at the University of Queensland. In this position I was responsible for the following projects: Purchased and implemented new virtual server infrastructure (VMware, Dell Blade servers, Hitachi SAN, Cisco fibre switches, Quantum Tape library). Evaluation and implementation of a new paperless patient management system including the integration of digital X-Ray systems. Email system migration to a centralized MS Exchange environment Integration of client computers into the wider University AD structure Implemented an appropriate backup solution Installed and demonstrated proof of concept implementations for new management options, namely SCCM and SCOM. Show less

Brisbane, Australia

Initially responsible for general helpdesk duties, but progressed to server support, project assistance and eventually responsibility for individual projects. Examples of such projects include domain migrations, server consolidation, and the implementations of high performance statistical servers.

Brisbane, Australia

Provided customized IT solutions which allowed the dental practice to expand into several remote locations and increase their market penetration. This required the establishment of a 2008 R2 AD domain, Terminal server (RDS), clinic PC replacements and a project which transitioned the business to a completely paperless environment