Steve Paterson Email & Phone Number

Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand

AIA Group Limited which has a presence in 18 markets in the Asia-Pacific region completed the acquisition of Sovereign Assurance from ASB Bank. Project Infinity was created to then migrate Sovereign from ASB with final cut over in April 2020. I was contracted in this role as a Senior Systems Engineer to cover the Infrastructure requirements which includes.

• In this role I am responsible for the successful delivery of multiple projects for Lexel Systems clients. These involve:RDS 2016
• Design and implementation Intune
• Design and implementationSystem Center Configuration Manager
• SCCM 2016 Current Branch Design and Implementation
• SCCM Health Checks, remediation and improvements
• SCCM 2012 R2 upgrades and migrations to Current Branch

Auckland, New Zealand

• Resourced to work closely with the Infrastructure Architect and Project Manager to merge Crombie Lockwood with its new global enterprise environment.
• This involved the implementation of new technologies, a full redesign/upgrade of the current infrastructure and the migration of 850 NZ business users and business systems into the new enterprise environment.
• Worked on an aggressive timeline, for a staggered migration and integration of the 28 Crombie Lockwood New Zealand branches into the global AJG environment.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Personally responsible for end-to-end delivery of multiple, small and large scale projects for a wide range of clients
• Managing resources as well as leading, coaching, and motivating project delivery team members on a proactive basis.
• Defined project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with project sponsors and stakeholders
• Responsible for managing the solutions integration and software implementation process through phases of requirements gathering, analysis, design, build/customisation, and system integration.
• Prepared documentation, including status reports on project milestones.
• Responsible for system installation and configuration, testing, troubleshooting and issue resolution, client training, and rollout support, as well as implementing and upgrading Microsoft Systems.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Worked with Microsoft Consulting Services to implement and configure the System Center 2012 tool set, focusing on Operations Manager.
• Implementation of RDS 2012 farm to deliver applications to cross-forest users in the Wellington branch.
• Analysed project requests for selection of packaged software and major system modifications, this included importing and tuning Management Packs.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Worked alongside Microsoft Consulting Services and HP on the Auckland Council Windows 7 deployment project, to migrate 100 users and machines to the new consolidated domain from the legacy cross-forest configuration.
• Contributed to the design, installation, testing, administration, and maintenance of information systems as well as scheduling of tasks and database administration.
• Successful Group Policy implementation and deployment of Win 7 to pilot users using SCCM.

Newmarket, Auckland

• Worked with Microsoft Consulting Services to deliver Microsoft Foundation Infrastructure and Windows 7 Optimised Desktop, including managing the consolidation and packaging of over 400 applications which were then.
• Successful implementation and configuration of several Microsoft technologies including, Active Directory 2008, Exchange 2010, SCCM 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services, Active Directory Rights.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Led and managed the Citrix XenApp 6 implementation project for Fletcher Steel, including installing, building, and managing farm servers for both x86 and x64 physical and virtual environments.
• Provided management and support of XenApp 5 x86 and XenApp 6 x64 farms, as well as performing building, cloning, and P2V of servers using the VMware Hypervisor.
• Responsible for Group Policy administration and implementation as well as prepared detailed documentation.
• Efficiently packaged and deployed applications using SCCM.
• Successfully installed, built, configured, and implemented Win 2003 servers for 32bit farm, and carried out Win 2008 R2 SP1 rollout through the 64bit farm as well as capturing images using the Microsoft Deployment.

Auckland, New Zealand

• A key member of the Exchange 2010 migration project team for the new Auckland Council, which included cross-forest migration of Exchange 2003/2007 Mailboxes to an Exchange 2010 environment using Linked mailboxes.
• Managed the Windows server 2008 R2 administration and Windows Server 2008 Group Policy implementation.
• Discovered and implemented necessary changes to legacy domains.
• Managed changes to 8 federated cross forest Exchange 2003/2007 environments.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Led the application packaging and delivery project for the new Auckland Council.
• Managing onshore and offshore packaging teams to package and implement over 200 applications.
• Deploying applications using Citrix XenApp 5.0 to users within the 8 cross forest domains

New Zealand

• As the Technical Lead, headed a deployment team on an SOE deployment using HP CAE for desktop delivery and consolidation of 68 managed sites for FairFax Media throughout New Zealand to a central data centre.
• Managed the Citrix XenApp 5.0 Administration as well as managing time and resources while successfully completing the project objectives within a very short and stringent timeline.

New Zealand

• Implemented and deployed Microsoft XP SP3 into the Air NZ IT infrastructure to increase security and to keep compliance with industry practice. Created and administered group policies as well as migrating print queues.
• Provided support for business-critical areas of the company, e.g. international/ domestic airports, engineering, and operations.
• Successful deployment of SP3 SOE via Altiris across all sites national and international.
• Effectively supported end users on-site and remotely (100+ users daily), prioritising critical issues and collaborating with in-house service desk with troubleshooting.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Responsible for effective installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software, as well as related infrastructure

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the operation and maintenance of the UK Sport, World Anti-Doping agency and Paralympic IT systems as well as day to day technical support.