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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Australia

Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Led a team of engineers to uplift the CI/CD maturity of the enterprise address management system at NBN. Over the course of the engagement, while continuing to fully support project delivery tasks, full deployment automation was introduced and maintained by the team through the use of Jenkins and Ansible technologies.The capability uplift enabled a later project which involved a full DC to AWS migration. Working with an NBN partner, the team was able to successfully migrate the platform to AWS in a traditional “lift and shift” project. The migration to the AWS platform enabled more complex automation features to be introduced into the environments which was not available in the previous traditional DC architecture.

Melbourne, Australia

Downer EDI - RailPerforming the role of Maximo DevOps Specialist responsible for analysing and uplifting DevOps capability of existing Maximo implementation to enable delivery using Agile Methodologies.Responsibilities:Initial DevOps assessmentUplift of DevOps capabilities for multiple Maximo environmentsTasWaterPerforming role of Technical Lead in a new Maximo Implementation. Responsibilities include but not limited to formation of integration and infrastructure strategies and stand up of initial Maximo 7.6 environments including Maximo Anywhere & Cognos components. Also involved in requirements and design workshops within the high performing team. Later responsibilities included stand up of repeatable build and deployment methodologies and maintenance of the development VM used by the onshore and offshore team.Responsibilities:Maintenance and construction of Development VMImplementation of centralised SCM repositoriesDesign and implementation of DevOps capabilities for TasWater Maximo environmentsMacro and Micro design documents and workshop executionNBN LimitedPerformed the role of a lead technical Maximo SME in the DevOps team from the initial project setup and continued support of the development teams through their iterations over multiple successful releases. Later focus dedicated to implementing Maximo using Continuous Delivery / Continuous Integration methods introducing deployment automation required to achieve this.Responsibilities:Implementation of multiple Continuous Integration environmentsDeployment AutomationQGCDelivered end user training to Maximo Users.Crown LimitedInvolved in the build and implementation of a new Maximo 7.5 Asset Management system including complex integration with PeopleSoft finance package and other various business feeds.South Australia WaterProvided BAU Support duties in the Maximo Space working with both Maximo 7 and Maximo 5 environments.

Performed a number of technical roles including development, support and consultation to the following clients:Dept of Treasury (Public Sector)Assisted in the development and maintenance of authentication software that was used to access the SBR (Standard Business Reporting) system being hosted by the Australian Tax Office. Was also involved in the development and maintenance of example applications developed to show the greater public how to leverage the facilities of SBR. The SBR system consists of a mass routing of web service calls to greatly speed and simplify Business to Government communications.Tabcorp (Wagering)Primarily assisted in the development team producing defect fixes and enhancements to the high volume wagering website. Also highly utilised in a consulting capacity due to previous wagering experience.

Performed a number of technical roles including development, support and consultation to the following clients:AGL (Utilities)Performed a number of support and development activities surrounding the consumption and processing of electricity meter readings. Produced a number of complex low level statistical reports for internal and external management highlighting the real time health of the system.Australia Post (Postal Industry)Was utilized for a relatively short time for some KSPI (Key System Performance Indicator) reporting regarding the health of the system over a high volume period. Was responsible to producing applications to analyse logs and in turn produce reports that could be interpreted by management and passed onto the client.Tabcorp (Wagering and Gaming)Worked primarily in the BAU team in a Analyst/Programmer capacity. Performed a number of roles developing defect fixes/enhancements as well as specialist support when required.

Supported a critical financial application utilized by corporate entities, role involved problem solving complicated issues of a user and environmental nature.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Network Computing, Network Technology

Diploma Of Information Technology, Network Engineering

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