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Brisbane, Qld, Au

Having fun helping enterprises from pre-sales to delivery, to architect, build, secure and govern Microsoft technologies across Azure, AI, Cybersecurity, Cloud, DevSecOps, Data, Modern Workplaces, Apps & Integrations and Cloud Networks.

Helping enterprises, governments, stock exchanges and banks with contemporary cloud architectures and cybersecurity, leading to better outcomes and success in the cloud. Provided cloud and cybersecurity consulting services, from pre-sales through to delivery, specialising in Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, Application and Network security and performance, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Security Service Edge (SSE), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Cloud Email Security, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest cybersecurity clouds, powering ~30% of Internet traffic with 250+ Tbps of network capacity spanning 270+ cities in 100+ countries blocking over 200+ billion cyber threats each day.

(Contract - Financial Services) Helping Westpac Bank architect, build, secure and govern the cloud, enabling application migration, data mesh modernisation and innovation at scale. Architect of design patterns and principles including Landing Zones, Resource Hierarchies and Tiering, Security Governance, Landing Zone Network Topology and Connectivity, Identity and Access Management, Environments, Compliance, Terraform Enterprise, DevOps CI/CD Pipelines and Code Branching, alongside Azure Policy. Aligning to APRA CPS 234, Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, Azure Well-Architected Framework, Azure Enterprise-Scale Architecture, Azure Landing Zone Designs, NIST Cybersecurity Framework and CIS Regulatory Compliance. Contracting through LAB3.

(Contract - Financial Services) Helping ANZ Bank with AWS and Google Cloud Governance-at-Scale, including Landing Zone Architectures, Multi-Account Strategies, Innovation Environments, Customer and Project Onboarding and Account Vending. Building with AWS Security and Governance-at-Scale architecture patterns, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, Google Cloud (GCP) CI/CD pipelines, Go, Python, Terraform Enterprise, GitHub Enterprise, Cloudability, Codefresh and ServiceNow.

(Contract - Renewable Energy) Lead Architect of Azure and AWS platforms, including cloud architecture, governance, security and financial management. Solutions Architect of AEMO Energy Trading Systems, SAP S/4 HANA based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Document Records Management Solutions (D/RMS).Building on Azure and AWS, HashiCorp Terraform, Citrix, Kubernetes, Node.js, Azure Container Instances, Azure Functions, Azure App Services, Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL Hyperscale, Azure DevOps with container-based CI/CD, Azure Sentinel, AWS Organisations, AWS Control Tower, AWS SSO, AWS Transit Gateways, SAP on AWS, including HA and DR architectures. Aligning to compliance and security frameworks including Australian Energy Sector Cyber Security Framework (AESCSF), Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL), ISO27001, NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF) and NIST Zero Trust Architecture (SP) 800-207.‘CleanCo’ is Queensland Government's new publicly owned renewable energy generator, a joint venture between Queensland Treasury and Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy. CleanCo is responding to the challenges of climate change by meeting a key Queensland Government policy objective of 80% renewable energy generation by 2035.

(Contract - Healthcare) Led the global AWS and Google Cloud strategy and teams, including design and build out of the cloud ecosystem. Working horizontally across the business to architect and build scalable and secure enterprise clouds, specialising in design, automation and orchestration. Thought leadership and hands-on engagement to develop, direct and implement a range of technology and business solutions, influencing the full spectrum of software engineering, deployment, infrastructure, architecture and financial management. Building on AWS, GCP, Azure DevOps, CloudFormation, AWS Serverless Application Model, AWS Systems Manager, HashiCorp Terraform, HashiCorp Packer, Python, Ansible, Citrix, SQL Server, Oracle, Aurora and Containers. Aligning to compliance and security frameworks including Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), ISO27001, NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF), Australian Privacy Act and Queensland Government Enterprise Architecture frameworks.

(Contracts - Healthcare, Public Sector and Education) Principal Architect building AWS, Azure and GCP clouds and bespoke Line of Business Applications to a portfolio of public and private sector clients including Queensland Government, Queensland Health, Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Services, Brisbane Airport Corporation, Department of Housing and Public Works, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland Museums, Verifact and Dell.Cloud Architect working across Compute, Network, Storage, Database and Security domains including DevOps, Big Data, Microservices, Containers, Serverless and Distributed Computing, specialising in Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code. Full-stack Software Architect of Event-Driven and Service-Oriented Architectures, Components and APIs, specialising in JavaScript and Node.js. Building on Node.js, Python, JavaScript, Vue.js, CloudFormation, Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, Kubernetes, Ansible, HashiCorp, Terraform, Packer, Kinesis, Heroku, DynamoDB, CosmosDB, SQL Server, Firebase, Aurora MySQL and Containers.

(Contract - Public Sector) Technology and Business Architect building the Queensland Government cloud, specialising in Virtualisation, Network, Encryption and Data Centre domains. Technology and business consultancy to all Queensland Government departments, including technical architecture, finance, benefits, service architecture, procurement and PMO teams in a Digital Transformation Program. Business and technical requirements management, architecture trade-offs, tender design, evaluation, negotiation and vendor management.

(Contract - Global System Integrator) Network, Application and Technical Architecture consultancy, providing design, integration, optimisation, application performance management, vendor selection and tender development services to a wide range of government and corporate clients, including Queensland Health, Education Queensland, Department of Transport, Department of Natural Resources and Water, Department of Public Works, Thiess, GHD, G James, OkTedi Mining Corporation, Commerce Queensland, Uniting Health, Port of Brisbane and CS Energy. Architecture trade-off and gap analysis, business and technical requirements management, pre-sales solutions architecture, specialising in enterprise network optimisation and application performance management.

(Contract - Public Sector) Optimising large-scale networks across Queensland Government, including Education Queensland and Queensland Health network architecture, routing, application performance management, reporting and policy management, capacity planning and content filtering. Implemented traffic security, classification, monitoring, QoS and CoS policies, including traffic shaping, bandwidth compression and protocol acceleration.

(Contract - SaaS) Building web (PHP, JavaScript), cross-platform desktop (Qt C++) and database (MySQL) software. Leading the engineering and product management functions, including Software Development Life Cycle management. Product commercialisation within Defence, Telecommunications, Automotive and Aviation markets.

London, England, United Kingdom

(Telco) Solutions Architecture and Consultative Sales of Tier-1 ISP and Telco services including Streaming, Messaging and Collaboration, Managed Hosting and Co-location, Virtual Private Networks, Private Leased Circuits and Optical Wavelengths for the Hospitality, Pharmaceuticals, Finance, Media and Transportation markets throughout the UK and Europe. Business development and solutions architecture of Tier-1 BGP MPLS VPN, QoS and CoS topologies on accounts including Sony, Lloyds of London, Lloyds Bank, Royal and Sun Alliance, Gains International, General Motors, Fiat Italy, Carlton, Nasdaq and Bloomberg.

Singapore

(Telco) Linux C/C++ and kernel software development of Visitor Based Network (VBN) platforms including traffic routing and inspection, network automation, billing and IP accounting engines. Consultative Sales and Technical Consulting throughout the US, Europe and Asia on enterprise Internet software and services, including B2C/B2B e-commerce ecosystems, VoIP, WAN and VPN architectures to the Hospitality, Airline and Convention Centre markets.