Ron Soodun Email & Phone Number

Casuarina, Nt, Au

Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

As an ICT Infrastructure Engineer at Halikos Group, my primary role is to secure our ICT infrastructure and ensure its availability.My tasks include: • Migrating environment to Azure and AVD.• Updating our Golden Images on our Citrix DaaS environment.• Updating our Windows and Linux servers.• Troubleshooting, maintaining, and updating our virtualized infrastructure for both cloud-based and on-premises VMware vCenter environments.• Troubleshooting, maintaining, and updating our backups with Veeam• Configuring and updating our firewalls and security fabric. This is achieved through a combination of various Fortinet and Trend products for Infrastructure and Endpoint security.• Troubleshooting, maintaining, and updating our thin client management with Dell WMS.• Keeping our assets updated in the Autotask PSA and keeping our documentation updated in ITGlue.

Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

I was a Senior Technical Analyst with the Environments management team (DevOps) and had the privilege to work on the Northern Territory Government's largest-ever IT project (Acacia). My regular activities included:• Setup and patching of IRIS data platform, and TrakCare on RedHat Linux servers for various development environments (Staging, Base, SIT, UAT, and Production servers).• Create build specifications for various servers including Linux Based TrakCare servers, Windows based legacy system servers, application or database specific servers.• Write various Python, Bash scripts to identify and mitigate issues.• Develop and implement Nagios plugins to monitor TrakCare servers and services.• Design and implement Acacia's printing support documentation for managing CUPS, Python, and YAML scripts.• Identify various technical project limitations and propose / implement solutions.• Provide technical analysis support to various teams such as the Device Enablement Programme (DEP) team, including conducting technical feasibility studies for medical devices and printers to ensure compatibility with RedHat Linux and TrakCare.• Assist the Reporting and Testing teams with detailed troubleshooting and analysis of technologies such as JReport.• Document project and project work instructions /run sheets on confluence.

Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Provided technical support across all IT environments at the school including:. DELL EMC / VMWare HCIA Cluster (PROD / DR Datacentres). Veeam backup and replication. RecoverPoint (Assisted with setting, administration and performed recovery in a disaster scenario). Endpoint Manager / SCCM (M365). Managed apple devices via JAMF. Supported Enpoint security via Palo Alto Cortex.. Assisted with the administration of the learning platform (Seqta). Monitoring : PRTG

Darwin, Australia

As an IT engineer in a Managed Services Provider (MSP) environment, I performed an array of sysadmin tasks in various environments, (legal, accounting, health, education, transport and a lot more). Given my previous IT experience in the Medical sector, I also supported various Medical practices with systems such as Medical Director (PracSoft/Clinical/BlueChip) and BestPractice I have the opportunity to provide support for an ever-growing list of technologies as we onboarded new clients with various pre-existing technologies including:Cloud (Azure/ Office 365; Exchange & SharePoint Migrations, Teams, Intune)Backups (Datto / ShadowProtect etc.)Virtualization ( VMWare ESXi/ RedHat KVM)VOIP (3CX); Setup various Azure based instances.Security (Trend WFBS, ATP)Various Networking technologies. (Edge, ShoreWall, OpenVPN, Fortinet, Unifi)Connectwise Manage.Monitoring : NagiosIn addition to common sysadmin tasks (AD /DC managment etc.), I perform multiple end-to-end Office 365 /SharePoint migrations from various platforms (GSuite/ On-Prem exchange, etc.) on a weekly basis. I also provided O365/SharePoint/Teams training.

Darwin Nt Australia

As a PACS administrator (Picture Archiving and Communications Systems) I provided (IntelePACS) support for the Radiology Information Systems (RIS) support (Comrad). I have been able to manage and deliver a major re-structure project at the Darwin Private Hospital. The project included a complete clinic tear-down and rebuild/upgrade at the Darwin Private Hopital. I maintained full access to the core I-MED PACS infrastructure (communications and server racks) for Royal Darwin, Katherine and Alice Springs hospital throughout the project.. Administer AD (RBAC based user account management). Administer RedHat Linux servers for IntelePACS systems.. Provide RIS / PACS (ComRAD, IntelePACS) support.. Liaise with third party contractrors to setup and troubleshoot various Medical Imaging modalities (Fuji, Philips, Shimadzu)

London, England, United Kingdom

I founded Computabs (ISO 9001, 27001, CMMI)initially to provide IT support services to home and SMEs. At the time, Compulabs provided a unique remote support model that was able to operate across the UK. The business eventually expanded and operated as a MSP. Compulabs had a storefront and head office, on London Road in Norbury, London, UK. as well as various collection points / Service centres. (trading as Go PC services). Services provided:1. General IT Support (Onsite and Remote) including PC /Laptop / Server build and repairs.2. Web development and hosting (Weblabs services).3. Data Recovery Services.4. VOIP / Telephony services.5. Networking.6. Penetration Testing services.

London, England, United Kingdom

I worked on a remote cloning system (BPBatch then Rembo Toolkit). The system includes a PXE server, file server, and allows full operating system and application software to be transmitted online to client computers as a disc image and was deployed at numerous locations in the UK. The system also included a remote support component that allowed each client computer to be controlled remotely from any location worldwide for support purposes. In addition to the above, I also developed a database application that provided real-time financial data for all transactions at the client locations. (VB6 and eventually ported to .net).I worked very closely with the Director who mentored and supported me to start and expand my own venture (Compulabs).

Mauritius

As an IT systems administrator at the MFA (Mauritius Freeport Authority, now known as BOI; Board of Investment), I was responsible to carry out several maintenance activities including software updates and hardware/network repairs and provide IT assistance to staff. The MFA helped a lot with professional development. I thus had my first opportunity to undertake ITIL, MCSE (Windows 2000) and CCNA (640-407) in year 2000 while working with the MFA.I had my first opportunity to be part of my first network security exercise here prior to the terms "penetration testing / ethical hacking or cyber security" were common. At the time we used tools such as Etherreal, nmap, Cain and Abel and nessus to conduct tests.

Master'S Degree, It Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Computing

The BSc in Computing's unique "Technology at work" programme was a rather unique experience where I had the opportunity to hone my skills.

Btec/Edexcel (Uk) Higher National Diploma, Information Technology, Distinction

Postgraduate Program, Cloud Computing