Robert Thomson Email & Phone Number

Perth, Wa, Au

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Provide IT security operations management in the BGC IT environment. The role is focused on maintaining the BGC IT security posture through recommendation, implementation, and operation of IT security infrastructure.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Platform support and project implementation for Protect +, Kinetic IT’s services division.-Design and manage Implementation of a Security Operations Center(SOC), supporting a Federal client to Protected level.-Technical Security lead for SOC, Infosec Registered Assessors Program(IRAP) assessment.-Technical support of Protect + SOC infrastructure.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Supporting the Water Corporation of Western Australia to meet their key ICT project objectives.Key Achievements • Implementation of project design for company-wide dynamic “all in one” endpoint security solution to provide unified threat management and secure connectivity to endpoints on or off network. • Primary edge security appliance infrastructure topology change.

Perth, Australia

• Design, document and deliver Government agency integrations onto the GovNext Internet Gateway services that provide: - standard Internet connections. - firewall, proxy, remote access and threat intrusion management. - internal and external security zones. - a range of additional Internet services commonly used by government agencies.• Maintenance and incident management of physical and virtual appliances.• Planning of future changes to further align the IT infrastructure with the direction of the business.• Primarily focused on project-based deliverables and provide operational assistance when required as an escalation point.Key Achievements• Design infrastructure to meet contractual agreements and transition government agencies who on-boarded to GovNext-ICT internet gateway services.• Discovered multiple bugs in production appliances and worked with vendor to negate impact to the user base.

Perth, Australia

• Evaluated, plan and implemented network security measures on various platforms.• Monitor and upgrade critical network infrastructure security systems.• Provide support with vendor maintenance agreements requiring channel partner contact for issue resolution.• Implement and tune new internal network rule base.Key Achievements• Planned, built and implemented the introduction of two factor authentication for remote access of Water corporation personnel to selected internal networks.• Provide vendor liaison and troubleshooting of edge facing new generation security services. Worked through and provided solutions for issues introduced during major device upgrades.• Implementation of new policy base for provider’s network security internal appliance. • Upgrade critical network infrastructure while minimising down time to provide added functionality and increased vulnerability protection.

• Designed, evaluated and implemented network Infrastructure security.• Conducted evaluations on client network security technologies and services.• Prepared and maintained necessary documentation relating to client data security systems.• Solved technical problems relating to installed security solutions.Key Achievements• Planned, built and implemented the redesign of a Commonwealth Statutory Agency that regulates offshore petroleum facilities, network security infrastructure. This provided unified security services and task automation with greater traffic visibility and security effectiveness.• Provide vendor liaison and troubleshooting of client-side security issues for a national insurer. Discovered and provided solutions for existing issues.• Conversion and implementation of EOL equipment policy base to new provider’s network security appliances. Enabling vendor support and greater functionality.• Upgrade and implement the new generation firewalls for a regional power supplier, and a mining joint venture operation.

Perth, Australia

• Planned, evaluated and implemented network security measures.• Conducted evaluations on client network security technologies and services onsite and remotely. • Monitored and updated security systems for clients.• Prepared and maintained necessary documentation relating to client data security systems.• Solved technical problems relating to installed security solutions.• Assisted in development of security policies including policy enforcement, auditing.• Actively maintained relationships with vendors and suppliers to keep abreast of latest technology offerings• Ensured risk reduction through information security policy development.Key Achievements• Planned, built and implemented the redesign of a local independent Bank’s network security infrastructure. This enabled visibility of network traffic content and provided integrated, multi-layer defence with a lower cost of ownership. A remote site was found to be piggy backing on the network for peer to peer traffic use within minutes of the initial implementation.• Collaborated with a local University’s internal teams for the migration to a new services layer infrastructure for improved efficiencies in delivering services to end users. This resulted in greater redundancy and security by spreading risk and increased performance due to a broader network traffic spread.• Performed design assurance against threat and vulnerability security assessment for Western Australia's largest disability service provider. Enabling security audits to be successfully passed for accreditation.• Built, configured and implemented Victoria’s independent economic regulator of essential services, security cloud infrastructure gateways. The new environment was VMWare based for high-availability and cost effectiveness.

Perth, Australia

• Provided technical support for the Alphawest security team and customers throughout solution integration projects and ad-hoc operational engagements.• Worked on multiple solution integration projects involving enterprise grade products from Check Point, Nokia, CISCO, Microsoft & Juniper.• Worked on technically complex projects for Alphawest customer's either autonomously or in teams mindful of resourcing and time constraints requiring ongoing customer, vendor and project manager liaison.• Regularly involved in scoping, design, implementation, acceptance testing and documentation of infrastructure projects for Alphawest customers.• Provided second and third level support to customers with vendor maintenance agreements requiring channel partner contact for issue resolution.• Provided a high standard of technical documentation for customer deliverables including design, build, implementation and operational processes and procedures.• Promoted long-term customer engagement and satisfaction through excellent work ethic.• Engaged Alphawest staff across sales and technical services to inform them of latest security technologies and threats.Key Achievements• Implementation of new Websense email appliances for a Western Australian, leading health insurer. This provided greater levels of security and auditing of one of the businesses primary business tools.• Primary Security Administrator for an Australian national car producer’s dealer network infrastructure. Met and exceeded service levels, that had prior to my engagement had failed contractual SSL levels.

Perth, Australia

• Management and maintenance of Checkpoint firewalls (Nokia, SPLAT), Juniper SSG, SRX & SSL VPN devices & Cisco ASA's• Management of Symantec endpoint protection Service.• Build up and maintain Altiris based database of system configurations.• Remote management of Windows, Linux and HP Unix servers for multiple national clients.• Sole Netbackup resource for Major telecommunications client.• Assist with Network trouble shooting and development• Utilising ILO network for 24-hour coverage on an on-call basis.• Responsible for support of the Western Australian government's ISP.• Management of Windows, Linux and Solaris Unix servers.• Supporting Mail (Sendmail), DNS and McAfee Virus cluster.• Principle IIS resource.• Sole Brightstor backup resource for Western Australian governments ISP.Key Achievements• Completed a recovery of the Western Australian Police traffic departments IIS web site hosted system with minimal documentation and nil recent backups. • Recovery of catastrophic external firewall outage for major semi-government provider. Provided a bare metal rebuild of primary firewall gateway within a 24-hour period. • Implemented a new backup software and regime responsible for Western Australian government service provider’s backup requirements.

Perth, Australia

• On-site support of education departments (TAFE central student database) Solaris servers.• Assist with Sybase database administration.• Responsible for backups of student databases.• Assist with implementation of Citrix farm (Windows 2000).

Limerick

User base of 300 on UNIX workstations with Solaris 2.6, Sun OS and Citrix software interfaced to NT4 terminal server systems.UNIX server support and maintenance at enterprise level.Solely responsible for NT4 terminal servers and other windows OS systems.Supporting and maintaining Cisco based network.Supporting and maintaining and installing UNIX based silicon wafer and component test systems (connected to mail/network servers).Controlling and distributing production and test programs worldwide.

Limerick

Server management of both NT4 and UNIX based systems.User support of approximately 800 users on various platforms between two plants.Supporting and maintaining Cabletron Ethernet/Token ring based networks.Assisting in instillation and support of Ms Exchange based e-mail systems.On-Call site cover for 24-hour production environment.On going support and maintenance of Lucas/Ringmaster based phone systems.