Consulting for a handful of Auckland based companies providing design, implementation and support services for Hybrid local/cloud infrastructure solutions utilising Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Azure and Office365 Business product suites.

As an Infrastructure Engineer I was part of a team of 3 responsible for the design, implementation, support, maintenance and management of 500 physical blade and rack mount servers running 1000+ virtual servers, 4 enterprise class storage arrays and 15 ISCSI storage arrays housed across 2 NZ geo-located Data Centers and 62 client sites.I was heavily involved in the architecture, implementation and configuration of technologies and platforms supporting a complex corporate data and voice… Show more As an Infrastructure Engineer I was part of a team of 3 responsible for the design, implementation, support, maintenance and management of 500 physical blade and rack mount servers running 1000+ virtual servers, 4 enterprise class storage arrays and 15 ISCSI storage arrays housed across 2 NZ geo-located Data Centers and 62 client sites.I was heavily involved in the architecture, implementation and configuration of technologies and platforms supporting a complex corporate data and voice infrastructure that primarily used Hewlett Packard’s C Class Blade Server, Virtual Connect software defined Networking with HP’s EVA and MSA fibre and ISCSI based storage systems in a highly available and geographically diverse data center solution based on Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and XenApp operating systems.Other key responsibilities: Data Center hardware installation, support and management Enterprise storage design, installation and management (Fibre based SAN) Enterprise data retention, replication and backup solutions Management and rationalization of $1.4m hardware support contract Designed and implemented 150TB data retention and replication solution Show less

Pendulum Consulting was born out of necessity to provide reliable simple and to the point IT services for companies primarily owned by friends and family.Over time and as my knowledge of IT has expanded I have been able to offer more services to my clients such as:  First, second and third level support across all platforms Desktop builds and deployments on large scales Server builds, maintenance and automated deployments Multi-site environment management.… Show more Pendulum Consulting was born out of necessity to provide reliable simple and to the point IT services for companies primarily owned by friends and family.Over time and as my knowledge of IT has expanded I have been able to offer more services to my clients such as:  First, second and third level support across all platforms Desktop builds and deployments on large scales Server builds, maintenance and automated deployments Multi-site environment management. Enterprise network architecture SAN design, implementation and management Storage analysis services Show less

Primarily responsible for the day to day running and management of the Information Services and Information Technology for a total of 13 different networks in 9 different cities around New Zealand covering the Financial Services, Hospitality and Publishing industries resulting in complete ownership and responsibility for the successful running of an environment that experienced less than 1% downtime in the three and a half year I was with Dorchester.Other key responsibilities: IT… Show more Primarily responsible for the day to day running and management of the Information Services and Information Technology for a total of 13 different networks in 9 different cities around New Zealand covering the Financial Services, Hospitality and Publishing industries resulting in complete ownership and responsibility for the successful running of an environment that experienced less than 1% downtime in the three and a half year I was with Dorchester.Other key responsibilities: IT team staff management Network administration & management\​software and hardware management IT operation management IT budgets (Opex & Capex) management Key supplier & ITC vendor relationship management Disaster recovery planning and preparation Reporting and documentation for senior management and board members. Show less

As a consultant at Oncall I was responsible for a wide variety of activities including mobile information, server implementation and support and desktop support and rebuilds. I was responsible for: Planning of hardware purchases Sales and sales support Implementation and support of any equipment that the specific customer required. Platforms covered included Windows Server 2003 / 2000 (SBS) including ISA 2000, Exchange 2000 / 2003, Backup Exec v7.0 thru 9.1 and… Show more As a consultant at Oncall I was responsible for a wide variety of activities including mobile information, server implementation and support and desktop support and rebuilds. I was responsible for: Planning of hardware purchases Sales and sales support Implementation and support of any equipment that the specific customer required. Platforms covered included Windows Server 2003 / 2000 (SBS) including ISA 2000, Exchange 2000 / 2003, Backup Exec v7.0 thru 9.1 and Activate Directory. Responsible for up to 100 clients from home users through to medium size businesses across the greater metropolitan Auckland area. Show less

I was involved in a variety of tasks and projects, the largest of which was a complete infrastructure upgrade to provide Northplan with a new network over their five offices in the upper North Island.Other tasks that I performed in my role as Systems Administrator for Northplan are: Phone Problem Solving and Support Rebuilding, installing and configuration PC’s Servers Working on a PABX Phone system Mobile Information Services Reports for the Board e.g… Show more I was involved in a variety of tasks and projects, the largest of which was a complete infrastructure upgrade to provide Northplan with a new network over their five offices in the upper North Island.Other tasks that I performed in my role as Systems Administrator for Northplan are: Phone Problem Solving and Support Rebuilding, installing and configuration PC’s Servers Working on a PABX Phone system Mobile Information Services Reports for the Board e.g. infrastructure upgrades. Property Maintenance Show less

This employment started as work experience for a paper at AUT and I was asked back on a part time basis to participate in a 1.3 million dollar complete infrastructure upgrade. I was involved in he preparation and deployment of over 500 desktop images to personal computers, laptops, and over 100 servers. My tasks included: Manning an internal support centre and solving problems over the phone On site problem solving from logged support calls Installing software and… Show more This employment started as work experience for a paper at AUT and I was asked back on a part time basis to participate in a 1.3 million dollar complete infrastructure upgrade. I was involved in he preparation and deployment of over 500 desktop images to personal computers, laptops, and over 100 servers. My tasks included: Manning an internal support centre and solving problems over the phone On site problem solving from logged support calls Installing software and hardware Cabling for new PC's Show less