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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Passionate and inventive, Chris combines his strong cloud architecture skills with his commercial acumen to deliver fit for purpose solutions. As a focused cloud engineer working with the Legal Technology Solutions team, Chris delivers full stack, end to end solutions and expertise as well as maintenance of infrastructure on Amazon Web Systems for Corrs, and a range of other SaaS providers.Chris consistently delivers cutting edge, efficient, secure and performing cloud solutions for his clients, recently the range of projects include large scale eDiscovery end to end solutions, large processing cluster design with focus of scale and efficiency and performance as well as many business to business single sign on and multifactor migrations and new implementation projects. Chris holds valuable knowledge of performance base storage systems, as well as database and DR technologies and process.Chris is a certified AWS solutions architect and an expert in his field.Amazon Certified Architect E-DiscoveryBig DataOktaDuo MFANetdocumentsHighQAWS cliAWS bill analysisAWS Infrastructure Performance AnalysisScaling concepts, manipulation and strategy*nixDesign & ImplementationExplanation & CommunicationEncryption GemaltoAWS KMSSafenetSplunkSoftNasWAF - AWS,Palo Alto, Kemp, f5, Cloudflare

Legal eDiscovery Cloud Architect & Builder.

My role was to effectively plan, install, configure and optimise the IT infrastructure to consistently achieve high availability and performance.Migration project team. Interface between business and BTS for migration of client.Coordinate migration of business messaging from Exchange and Novell Groupwise to Google Mail.Design and implement cross network system services routing Groupwise and Google Mail.Design and coordinate the migration of 35 regionally located Novell file servers to one pre-staged, centrally managed, Microsoft HP SAN based transitional file server. Transition from Novell access technology to Microsoft NTFS for over 2,000,000 folders, 46TB in preparation for AWS.Design , scope, cost, test AWS/ Microsoft file serving POC, utilising Virtual AWS ec2 + AWS Storage Gateway technology.Design & test proof of concept and implement Amazon Web Service’s based systems, utilising Vmware ESX, Microsoft Server & AWS Storage Gateway Technology.System analysis and technical documentation. Vendor management.ITIL v3 exposure. Maintain administrative tasks of old environment from NSW Office of Water. See below.

Parramatta, New South Wales, Au

My role was to consult with stakeholders to provide web-based and network solutions along withstrategic planning and project leadership over systems migration, configuration, administration, upgrades and troubleshooting initiatives.Responsible for all procurement of client and server, networking hardware including upgrades.Responsible for third-level support for all server and hosting connectivity and client related issues.Responsible for all McAfee intrusion, detection and maintenance, at proxy and client server agent level.Responsible for backup and DR, and monitoring of entire server infrastructure.Responsible for MDM solution, design, implementation and procurement.Complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management.Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.Sourcing of hardware and vendor account managementDesign and deployment of SOE using Microsoft WDS and presite imaging.Application packaging and deployment.AD disaster recovery experience.AD specialistProxy security specialist.Administration ExperienceVMware ESXi & VsphereVmware Infrastructure ServerMicrosoft Active Directory ServicesMicrosoft IISMicrosoft Exchange 2003Microsoft SQL Server 2005- 2008McAfee Web GatewayMcAfee EnterpriseHDS Commvault v7,8,9CentOSDebianUbuntuSplunkSquidNovell Groupwise Exchange GatewayNovell GroupwiseGoogle MailGoogle AppsCisco IOSHP Procurve

Auckland, Auckland, Nz

HP/ IBM/ ACER / DELL Manufacture Server Support, involved 24/7 on call aspect for all customers.● Maintain level 2, 3 site support roles Coca-Cola Amatil, Colgate, Fletcher Building, Village Roadshow. ● HP Proliant Server range, technical escalation point.● Technical lead and escalation point for national support of all New Zealand Lotteries kiosks.● HP laptop technical escalation point.● Amadeus Travel Consultancy software level 2 national technical support lead.