Consulting and developing solutions to connect the vision of client management with the capabilities of technology departments, vendors and partners

Providing a smattering of automative tech related stories.

Automotive tech articles. https://www.motoring.com.au/editors/mike-bantick/

Reporting on Interactive Entertainment and other technology news for iTWire.Com - Freelance

As Director of Technology Services, I supervise an team of 29 technologists spread across Melbourne, Sydney, and Manila with responsibilities also into Thailand and integration and relationships with international FIS Technology teams. Provide SME in corporation level network, desktop, mid-range and mainframe environments. Coordinated operations of the global enterprise and maintain secure processes. Approve budgetary spend on technology infrastructure. Execute numerous projects, small and… Show more As Director of Technology Services, I supervise an team of 29 technologists spread across Melbourne, Sydney, and Manila with responsibilities also into Thailand and integration and relationships with international FIS Technology teams. Provide SME in corporation level network, desktop, mid-range and mainframe environments. Coordinated operations of the global enterprise and maintain secure processes. Approve budgetary spend on technology infrastructure. Execute numerous projects, small and large, requiring enhancements to infrastructure and system functionality up to large-scale implementations such as Data Centre consolidation. Key Contributions and Achievements: • Work with senior international CIO management to establish programs and spearhead development direction for the infrastructure platforms globally.• Oversaw the design and implementation of the technology portion of a data centre migration of a mainframe, ensuring minimal issues and downtime for significant Australian Financial Clients. The result is improved processing efficiency for FIS by approx. 15% • Established a team of system administrators in low-cost geography (Philippines) to augment local team, saving the company approx. 66% of recruitment costs.• Championed for an improved design of critical Australian infrastructure as a replacement for existing poor performing telco managed network.• Successfully executed numerous high-level projects such as;• Migration of data centres with zero downtime to clients.• Implementation of the financial switch hub (Australian Critical infrastructure).• Complete overhaul of customer network designs.• Wholesale migration to active/active application availability for clients and to virtualised platforms.• Sensible, practical, compliant security designs with locked down processes.• Ensured the technical team restructures remained relevant, ahead of the demand curve and give ownership to the correct groups. Show less

Lead a small team of technologists covering network, mid-range, LAN, desktop and Mainframe responsibilities

Providing content to the site. This consists primarily in the form of Game Reviews as well as interviews within the scope of the video-game industry

Predominantly co-presenting on 3RRR 102.7FM's Byte Into It. This is the, sometimes, irreverent technology based show giving news, reviews and opinion on the shifting tides of modern technology.I have also hosted and filled in for many other shows on 3RRRFM, and presented at other community radio stations in Melbourne, including.4 years of Here Be Dragons show about games at 88.3 Southern FM

Primarily working with IBM's CICS systems including numerous changes and checking as part of Y2K remediation. Also spent a lot of time working on automation for the bank using Tivoli and Sterling products