Peter Focas Email & Phone Number

Wellington, Nz

Wellington

My current role is Principal Consultant with the Professional Services team at Spark. A Principal Consultant is a Professional Services senior role that takes ownership of an engagement and ensures architectural and design deliverables are of the highest quality and meet the business and technical goals required.Recent programs of work at Spark include • Secure Services Edge (SSE) deployment for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Deployed Netskope services migrating and… Show more My current role is Principal Consultant with the Professional Services team at Spark. A Principal Consultant is a Professional Services senior role that takes ownership of an engagement and ensures architectural and design deliverables are of the highest quality and meet the business and technical goals required.Recent programs of work at Spark include • Secure Services Edge (SSE) deployment for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Deployed Netskope services migrating and enhancing functionality from on-premises security appliances. • Provide advice and present remediation options for an existing zScaler (ZIA) deployment at MSD to ensure optimum protection profiles.• For Ministry of Social Development (MSD), develop a future state Branch and WAN Network Reference Architecture. This involved leading workshops with business and technical Stakeholders to gather requirements and guide development of the new architecture. This was followed by an options analysis paper where vendor offerings were compared to requirements and presented to management.• For Department of Correctionso I was the Lead Network Architect for Corrections Data Centre’s as well as Technical Lead providing designs and implementation plans for their Data Centre migration from on-premises to Private Cloud IaaS architecture.o I was Technical Lead for a multi-disciplinary team on the design and deployment of Cellular blocking/whitelisting/recording solutions within the Auckland maximum security prison.• Department of Statistics adoption of IaaS compute, Azure and TaaS service offerings (Unified Communications, Meeting Room Services, Application Consumption & publishing etc) Show less

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Engagements for Voco clients. Mainly-For ANZ: Write technical design and integration plans for new telephony and Contact Centre infrastructure as well as PSTN access changes to use SIP trunks. Apart from the technical side of this engagement I was involved with preparation of thorough business case/cost analyses of options presented to management as well as vendor licensing negotiations to get to the right solution resulting in increases in performance and capacity as well as large… Show more Engagements for Voco clients. Mainly-For ANZ: Write technical design and integration plans for new telephony and Contact Centre infrastructure as well as PSTN access changes to use SIP trunks. Apart from the technical side of this engagement I was involved with preparation of thorough business case/cost analyses of options presented to management as well as vendor licensing negotiations to get to the right solution resulting in increases in performance and capacity as well as large cost reductions.I developed an AWS cloud-based solution using Twilio API to load-test the contact center telephony platforms that successfully delivered over 1,700 concurrent calls.For Vodafone (now 'One NZ'): For government Telecommunications as a Service (TaaS) products (Connectivity, Unified Communications, Contact Centre) help document technical designs, define Service Catalogues and document security considerations for DIA audit of the TaaS suite of products. Show less

Wellington

Last role was Network Architect for Cloud Offerings, both public and private. For public cloud this involves designing the access and core networks to adhere to and enforce NZISM security standards and to virtualize the network to allow for VM and security policy mobility. Previous role was Lead Network Architect providing designs and implementation plans to integrate third Data Centre into Westpac existing Data Centre's using a 'Virtual Data Centre' concept.The new Data Centre… Show more Last role was Network Architect for Cloud Offerings, both public and private. For public cloud this involves designing the access and core networks to adhere to and enforce NZISM security standards and to virtualize the network to allow for VM and security policy mobility. Previous role was Lead Network Architect providing designs and implementation plans to integrate third Data Centre into Westpac existing Data Centre's using a 'Virtual Data Centre' concept.The new Data Centre has all Cisco Nexus technology connected via DWDMs as well as Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Designed management systems integration including DWDM management, Tivoli products (ITNM, ITM6), Nexus management (DCNM) etc. Show less

Wellington

Network architect working on Voco client engagements. Network architect on the Government Shared Network (Service Provider MPLS) designing new products, formulating technical roadmap, working with vendors and standards bodies and suggesting design changes. Produced design for Ministry of Health (Connected Health network) 'Points of presence' for Telco interconnect including IPv6 design. Produced a complete Global Network Reference Architecture for Fonterra followed by High Level… Show more Network architect working on Voco client engagements. Network architect on the Government Shared Network (Service Provider MPLS) designing new products, formulating technical roadmap, working with vendors and standards bodies and suggesting design changes. Produced design for Ministry of Health (Connected Health network) 'Points of presence' for Telco interconnect including IPv6 design. Produced a complete Global Network Reference Architecture for Fonterra followed by High Level Design for the Data Centres to implement segregated, secure services using network virtualisation.Provided architectural advice on NZ Racing Boards options on Telecommunications refresh including WAN, Contact Centre, mobile and fixed line. Assisted with subsequent RFP creation and evaluation Show less

Contracted to TelstraClear, worked on various accounts (BNZ, IRD)Network Designs:Cisco IP SLA (synthetic traffic generation/monitoring)Wireless/VoIP (802.11n, Cisco Wireless Controllers and handsets)Wireless WAN Cash Machines (DMVPN, CPE with 3G cards)

Lead IBM Architect for NZ Police, co-produce five-year Network Roadmap detailing new technologies and architecture for Police National Network.Produce five-year Network strategy document for National Library of NZ to cater for Governments Digital Strategy, detailing new WAN, LAN, Firewall, DMZ, Wireless, Internet and VPN infrastructure and design.Assist wireless network design for Parliamentary Services (Parliament debating chamber, select committee rooms and Bowen House)… Show more Lead IBM Architect for NZ Police, co-produce five-year Network Roadmap detailing new technologies and architecture for Police National Network.Produce five-year Network strategy document for National Library of NZ to cater for Governments Digital Strategy, detailing new WAN, LAN, Firewall, DMZ, Wireless, Internet and VPN infrastructure and design.Assist wireless network design for Parliamentary Services (Parliament debating chamber, select committee rooms and Bowen House) primarily in the Access Point and Wireless management (Cisco WLSE) detail.Design Data Center/WAN IP network, VPN and Internet connectivity with over 400 branches for NZ Racing Board, replacing legacy Leased-line infrastructure Show less