Scott Nolan Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

35 Tumbalong Boulevard Haymarket Nsw 2000

In April 2019, I was approached by the General Manager of End User Experience (EUX), who was the Platform Owner for Active Directory, to come to CBA with the view to uplift CBA’s Active Directory and to drive world-class, strategic Active Directory design and practices.The primary focus of this – and my subsequent move to CBA, was to provide strategic direction, thought leadership, and technical expertise and oversight. I was tasked with elevating CBA’s Active Directory to a world’s-best standard, in a similar manner to what I had delivered to UNSW.For the previous 23 years, CBA’s Active Directory had been outsourced to numerous external vendors (for the past 8 years, DXC), and I was brought in as the Executive Manager for Active Directory, with the view to modernise and provide strategy, oversight, and thought leadership to the Active Directory environments. Up until that point, CBA’s Active Directory had been run purely as a transactional Active Directory, with no thought leadership, or long-term strategic vision, direction or ownership. It had never been run as a strategic Identity, authentication, and authorisation tool.In February 2020, a decision was made by the CBA Board, to fully re-insource the Active Directory from DXC and for my team to take complete ownership and management of the entire CBA Active Directory landscape. For the next 10 months I managed this process, which involved hiring a global team of 16 Engineers and putting in place the procedures to enable the seamless transition of the Active Directory from DXC, to CBA.I then set about completely redesigning, modernising, and uplifting the Active Directories, with a long term, large-enterprise, strategic vision, built around security, optimisation, availability, and resiliency and set about implementing a 1, 5, and 10 year Identity and Active Directory strategy, to deliver CBA a truly world-class Active Directory/Directory Services platform.

Sydney, Australia

Lead Enterprise Active Directory Engineer and Enterprise Directory Services & Security Architect

Kensington Nsw

In September 2015, I was made the Lead Identity and Active Directory Engineer at UNSW. As part of this, I undertook a program of redesigning and rearchitecting the Directory Services model at UNSW, that included many new administrative models, initiatives, and technologies.A primary aspect of my role was to drive new technologies and processes improvement, while always maintaining ‘Operational Excellence’. I pride myself on finding gaps in processes, technologies, and management of an environment and filling those gaps with innovative new technologies. My goal is to always improve productivity for end-users and administrators alike, while at the same time reducing capital expenditure.A major component of this new Active Directory architecture was designed and built around Active Directory security, with an emphasis on Privilege Access Management (PAM) and JiTA and included a new, highly advanced Domain Admin credential security model that I designed, built and implemented. This incorporated world’s-best practices and all but eliminated the potential of Domain Admin credential theft.I also designed, built and implemented a new environment that facilitated an ‘Agile' development model for developers, while at the same time significantly increased the security and stability of the primary Active Directory identity store. This involved building a dedicated ‘Server Resource Domain’ that separated applications and servers from the user identities.As part of my role, I was made the lead technical contributor and member of the IAM Technical Advisory Group (TAG) and selection committee that was tasked with the selection of a new IAM tool for UNSW. I am also a lead technical contributor and member of the UNSW Enterprise Security Architecture board, as well as a lead contributor and member of the CASB selection committee. I am also a regular technical contributor to the UNSW Architecture and Advisory Group (AAG) board.

Mane Hair & Makeup required a corporate eCommerce solution to successfully bring to market, their range of professional hair care, skin care and cosmetics products. Mane Hair & Makeup was an established and highly successful hair and makeup business servicing the celebrity market. They required an automated eCommerce solution to move them from simply a physical hair and makeup artist 'shop', to a successful online retailer of high-end hair care, skin care and cosmetics.While outside my usual area of expertise, I took on the role of designing, creating, implementing and administering the corporate eCommerce solution in June 2012. A primary aspect of this role was not just the design, build and implementation of the eCommerce solution; but also to develop Mane Hair & Makeup's online presence through aggressive Search Engine Optimisation (SEO); list management; product development; as well as online marketing campaigns, all designed to further Mane Hair & Makeup's penetration and presence in the (already populous) online beauty space.

Sydney, Australia

ROLE SUMMARY:I was initially employed as a contract Level 3 Enterprise Systems Engineer responsible for maintaining, optimising, securing and managing the APAC Server infrastructure at Lend Lease. After approximately 10 months as a contractor at Lend Lease, I was offered a permanent position as the Senior APAC Enterprise Systems Engineer.In July of 2007, I was offered the APAC Server, Active Directory & Virtualisation Team Leader role. This was a new role for APAC and was 95% technical and 5% managerial; with managerial responsibility centred on the day-to-day resource allocation of the team as well as mentoring and training of new engineers.While the role was primarily APAC focused, I was also responsible for the management and administration of the global Lend Lease environment through a ‘follow-the-sun’ model. This involved administration of the entire Lend Lease global server fleet; the Lend Lease Active Directory forest; as well as management of the global virtualisation infrastructure.A primary aspect of my role was to drive new technologies and processes improvement, while always maintaining ‘Operational Excellence’. I pride myself on finding gaps in processes, technologies, and management of an environment and filling those gaps with innovative new technologies. My goal is to always improve productivity for end-users and administrators alike, while at the same time reducing capital expenditure.

Carlingford

ROLE SUMMARY:My role was primarily the day-to-day management of the server and Active Directory environments as well as the complex redundant environments. I was also actively involved in many projects within NEMMCO.MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:~Personally designed, implemented and maintained a fully-automated server build procedure utilising SysPrep and scripted post-build steps~Personally designed, implemented and maintained a high-security model for all servers within NEMMCO. This involved an automated process utilising the Security Configuration and Analysis tool, complex scripting and ACL management~Personally designed, implemented and maintained a security model for the NEMMCO Active Directory domain~Upgraded NEMMCO from an NT4.0 domain to a W2K Active Directory domain

Ampbanking - Sydney

ROLE SUMMARY:In January 1999 I was offered the role of Senior Server Technician for AMP Banking. My role was primarily to bring the AMP Banking site up to CSC standards.At the beginning of June 1999, I was offered the role of Server Team Leader for the AMP Banking site. I was in charge of a team of 7 server technicians including the bank’s D.B.A. My role as Server Team Leader required me to work closely with the various different technical and business units within the bank. I was also tasked with managing and implementing various infrastructure projects. In August 2000 I was offered a role in the Technical Architecture Group for AMP Banking. This role only lasted until October as this group was disbanded due to structural and cost-saving changes within AMP Banking.At this time, I was immediately offered a role of Senior Technical Consultant, as the Team Leader role had already been filled. The role of Senior Technical Consultant involved managing and implementing all Server and Infrastructure ICT Projects.MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS:~Personally designed and implemented a complete rebuild of the entire AMP Banking server fleet to CSC standards~Personally designed, implemented and managed numerous high-level infrastructure projects~Mentored and trained all new server technicians~A complete redesign of the AMP Banking print queue management system~Personally designed, implemented and managed a new SAN infrastructure for AMP Banking utilising HP’s FC60 SANs.~Implemented and managed the Bank’s eCommerce banking platform.

Chatswood

ROLE SUMMARY:As part of the Enterprise Server Support Team at CSC, I was responsible for the enterprise administration of the AMP server and domain environments. The Server Support Team is a remote administration team, which comprised of 15 server engineers. As part of this team I was responsible for many varied tasks. One of my primary responsibilities was to design, implement and maintain a backup procedure for all the remote site file and print servers (approximately 100).