Simon Thorne Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mentone, Victoria, Australia

29 Taras Avenue, Altona North, Victoria, 3025

Custodian of all company IT systems including: Dell and HP servers, VMware ESXi and vCentre, HP networking switches, Cisco firewalls, Cisco VoIP, SQL databases, Veeam backup and replication, Sophos anti-virus, Solarwinds Network Monitoring.Projects Completed: - VMWare upgrade from v4.0 to v5.0 and then recently to v5.5 - Microsoft Exchange migration from 2003 to 2010 - Windows 8 Tablet roll-out via image deployment - BYOD strategy or mobiles.

Level 1, 466 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Australia

Project Lead of a network upgrade project for Melbourne county court. This involved planning and implimenting a staged upgrade of the aging Cisco edge switches with new devices throughout the 9 floor building and interfacing with the redundant core switches through fibre cables.

ESCS employed me on a casual basis while I was studying at Box Hill TAFE to provide a range of IT support functions to small businesses.• Setup Windows server 2003 and 2008 and configure DNS and active directory.• Management of group policy and migration of active directory services.• Microsoft Exchange server 2003 setup, configuration and maintenance.• Cisco router setup for ADSL with site-to-site VPN.• Setup AVG central management and configure deployment of anti-virus updates.• Troubleshoot Windows XP and Vista errors.• Resolve PC hardware issues.• Apple MAC troubleshooting.

245 Sunshine Road, Tottenham, Victoria 3012, Australia

Originally a contract position to fill in for a staff member on leave, this developed into a role tomanage the upgrading and modernising of the IT infrastructure and implement a disasterredundancy solution.• Configure new HP server hardware and apply firmware updates.• Install VMWare ESXi 4 and vCenter Server.• Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversion of all the servers to the VMWare ESXi environment.• Migrate Active Directory and all other services from Windows Server 2003 to Server2008.• Plan network upgrade to improve performance for remote users in New South Wales,Western Australia and New Zealand.• Setup data centre as a disaster redundancy site with failover VMWare server.• Configure new Cisco ASA firewall to protect data centre servers and enable email webaccess and VPN connections through the use of security zones.• Implement a structured Active Directory using Global and domain local groups toimprove security of data on the fileserver and hide files from users with no access.

St James` Hospital, Locksway Road, Portsmouth, Southtsea, Hampshire, Po4 8Ld, Uk

I was employed in Portsmouth (UK) to create and implement an upgrade program of over 120 PCs in hospitalsand Health Centres in the Portsmouth area to computers below operating specifications.• Identifying the computers to be replaced and creating a schedule for thereplacement program• Controlling stock and setting up machines ready for installation on site.• Delivering PCs and monitors to site• Installing the new equipment, setting up printers, and restoring user data• Removing old equipment from site and storing ready for disposal• Updating the asset database

St James` Hospital, Locksway Road, Portsmouth, Southtsea, Hampshire, Po4 8Ld, Uk

I was employed to assist in the National Health Service extensive hardware upgrade roll-out project updating the computers in GP doctor’s surgeries all across the UK. I was then asked to assist the support team in providing support for their IT systems.• Project installing card readers with and software onto all GP surgery PCs.• Hardware upgrade roll-out project involving performing system audits, preparing new equipment, and then installing new PCs and printers into the GP surgeries while retaining user data.• Hardware support of PCs, printers, servers and network devices.• Site migrations from leased line communications to VPN tunneling.• Support of clinical and desktop software.

55 Vastern Road, Reading, Berkshire, Rg1 8Dj, Uk

Following a promotion, I provided 4th line support for the LAN and WAN network infrastructure and management of Microsoft servers. I also worked on individual projects for systems upgrades and migrations.• Support, maintenance and configuration of 3COM core and remote site routers.• Resolve any network faults over the BT leased lines.• Project implementation of 3Com routers for new remote site offices via X21 leased lines with an ISDN on-demand fail-over.• Support and daily troubleshooting of central and remote servers including Citrix Metaframe and Windows Terminal Servers.• Full build of Windows NT4 and 2003 core and application servers.• Daily scheduling and restoring data backups for remote and central site servers.• Project planning and execution for migration of intranet from Microsoft IIS4 NT4 server to IIS6 Windows 2003 server.• Development and implementation of Terminal Server migration project from Windows NT4 to Windows 2003 Server.

55 Vastern Road, Reading, Berkshire, Rg1 8Dj, Uk

After a promotion from Help Desk, I provided on-site 3rd line support for the company’sIT systems in the southern area of the UK.• On-site maintenance of existing PC hardware and installation of new equipment.• Windows XP migration, hardware upgrade and roll-out project implementation.• Microsoft and bespoke software installation and configurations.• Disinfection of PCs from any virus, spyware and malware.• Maintenance and repair of Kyocera and Hewlett Packard laser printers.• Diagnosing and replacing any faulty networking equipment on remote sites.• Testing of infrastructure and re-patching of the Ethernet cabling where necessary.• PC builds and repairs in workshop.• Job assessment and time management.

55 Vastern Road, Reading, Berkshire, Rg1 8Dj, Uk

I provided telephone 1st and 2nd line IT support for the company’s users.• Support of Microsoft Windows 95 and 2000 Operating Systems and Microsoft Officeapplications.• Support of financial software “Briter” and the company’s other bespoke software.• User account set-up.• Management of software and ensuring licensing compliance.