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New Zealand

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Providing solutions architecture, guidance and coaching for the delivery of secure, scalable products within the cloud. Enhancing the connections between product and technology with a sprinkle of dad jokes.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Designing and implementing multi-region platform services predominately within AWS (and a sprinkle of On-Premise), with an emphasis on Security, Compliance and Automation:Major Achievements:Lead the migration of a data analytics platform to AWS from datacentre. Provided solutions architecture, CI/CD and IaC (Terraform) for infrastructure deployments to multi regional AWS accounts. Implemented a compliance and security framework for Infrastructure testing as part of CI/CD. Lead numerous WAR sessions, lead training workshops for working in the cloud and empowered the development team to be self reliant. Primary Responsibilities:* Designing and implementing Infrastructure solutions for federated platform services* Cloud Infrastructure cost optimization* Application Management and Tooling* CI / CD pipeline configuration and automation* Cloud Infrastructure configuration and automation* Application performance monitoring and analytics* Migrating from legacy On-Premise environments into Cloud (AWS)* Disaster Recovery and Capacity managementPrimary Technologies:* Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, AWS* CI/CD: Github, Docker, Artifactory, Buildkite* Monitoring: Datadog, CloudWatch, Cloudability* Automation Frameworks: Bash, Python

Melbourne, Australia

Passionate DevOps Engineer and Swiss Army Knife supporting a number of teams at Carsales. Encouraging Continuous Delivery, Communication and Agile methodologies. A strong focus in migration from legacy Datacentre to AWS and the automation of Build and Deployment pipelines for predominately .NET microservices and a number of Java applications. Primary Responsibilities:* Application Management* Build and Deployment pipelines* AWS environments* Application performance monitoring and analytics* Planning, creation and management of Cloud infrastructures* Migrating from legacy Datacentre environments into AWS* Disaster Recovery and Capacity managementPrimary Technologies:* AWS: EC2, ECS, VPC, S3, R53, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation* CI/CD: Bitbucket/Stash, Gitub, Bamboo, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, Docker* Monitoring: NewRelic, SumoLogic, Xymon, PRTG, ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana/Graphana), Cloudability, CloudWatch* Application Management: HAProxy, RabbitMQ, Citrix Netscaler, IIS, Apache/Tomcat, Slack, JIRA, Confluence, MSSQL, Akamai, Azure* Server Management: Windows 2003-2016, Linux CentOS, VMWare, AWS EC2/ECSKey Achievements:* Assisting with the migration of carsales.com.au to AWS: goo.gl/npFZ3S* Pioneered in "making JIRA great again". This included upgrading the corporate JIRA system thru multiple version iterations. Requiring methodical step-by-step planning and testing (being run on a legacy Linux OS) due to migrating to a newer Linux OS. User Experience and performance increased dramatically. Key paper forms were decommissioned in favour of JIRA and training/education on modifying JIRA for each teams' specific needs.* Multiple Hackathon Projects such as "Shout", a tool used to easily send thanks/shout-outs to other colleagues in the business that gets fed onto live screens around the office for other staff members to recognize.

Melbourne, Australia

SysAdmin role at Carsales.com.auPredominately with the following technologies:* Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012R2, DNS, IIS, SQL2008, SQL2012* CentOS 6x, Apache* VMWare* AWS* JIRA, Confluence, Grasshopper, Bamboo, Jenkins* Juniper / Trapeze Networks (Wifi)* Hobbit/Xymon

* Windows AD administration* Backup and restoration of data. Involves backup-to- disk and backup-to-tape. * Monitoring of company hosted websites and databases.* Windows and Apple desktop support* Domain and SSL certificate renewals, software and hardware solutions.* Website administration (Predominately Microsoft environments)* Windows migrations and automated desktop deployments* Switch, Port and Cabling administration* PABX configuration and administrationHardware and Software Experience:Microsoft: Windows XP, Windows Vista/7, Windows 8.1, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008R2, Server 2012, WDS, WSUS, DNS, DHCP, IIS 6.0/7, Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, Power Shell, Hyper-V.HP: LTO Tape Library, Storageworks, Symantec: Endpoint Protection, Backup Executive, PHD Virtual Backup, VMWare/VCenter, OpManager, IPHost, Atlassian: JIRA, Confluence, Grasshopper, Agile, Crowd (Single Sign-On), Wireshark, Cisco Packet Tracer, Pegasus Systems, PABX, OmniPCX Management.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Japanese Studies

Diploma, Network And System Administration/Administrator

CompTIA A+ MCITP - Windows Server 2008/R2 Network Infrastructure, Configuring MCITP - Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator MCITP.