Mick Pell Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of the company's infrastructure systems. I exhibit strong technical expertise with leadership skills ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of infrastructure while guiding a team of cloud and infrastructure engineers. The team plays a pivotal role in shaping the infrastructure strategy, driving automation, and adopting modern technologies to meet the needs of the business.

Adelaide, Australia

Adelaide

ITIL Availability and Capacity Management

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing the transition of IT services from the regional data centres to the primary and DR datacentres in LondonAchievements:Technical lead of VMWare projectDevelopment of VMWare Infrastructure Creation of VMWare scripted buildsDevelopment of DR strategy utilising virtualisationRelocation of 100+ Wintel Servers and associated services100% uptime throughout VMWare project

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading a team of 7 technical engineers and providing Windows/ VMWare support for the International Financial Services division of Alexander Forbes following ITIL principles. I was also responsible for consolidating the number of servers used throughout Alexander Forbes.Achievements:Development of IT and consolidation strategiesImplemented VMWare virtualisation technologies Project managed the build out of 2 new data centresManagement and technical lead on consolidation projectProduced and managed an IT budget of £3 millionManaged 3rd party contracts and SLA'sImplemented ITIL standards and practices

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading a team of 5 technical engineers and providing Windows administration for the back office systems that supported the on line Pensions Administration function.Achievements:Development of virtualisation technolgies used within DC Link.Implementation of web server farm using HP Blades and VMWare99.9% uptime of all Windows systemsDevelopment of a Service Desk function following ITIL principles.Development of IT Strategy Managed 3rd party contracts and SLA'sAnnual successful full DR testsBudget management

Peterborough, United Kingdom And London, United Kingdom

Responsible for administration of 40+ Windows servers including email, workflow, web servers and domain servers. Also provided secondary support for Cisco networking devices and Checkpoint FirewallsAchievements:Build out of data centreMigration from NT to Windows 2000Management of AWD workflow systemImplementation of web enabled pension system

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing Scottish region IT systems including 22 SCO Unix servers and 15 NT servers and associated network.