Stu Mckenzie Email & Phone Number

Auckland, Nz

Auckland, New Zealand

As a Principal Technologist at LAB3, my role encompasses presales, architecture, technical leadership and complex solution development across a wide range of solutions and capabilities, including Cloud, DevOps, Migration, Data IOT & AI, Network & Security, and Modern Workplace. Im a key facilitator for our project delivery teams, providing governance and support to our Principal Consultants, Engineers, and Project Managers. My focus is on resolving obstacles and continuously enhancing our delivery capabilities and propositions to ensure exceptional client outcomes across complex work programs.My role as part of the NZ leadership team, involves developing and implementing strategic initiatives to foster growth and market expansion in New Zealand. Key areas of focus include:- Strategic Planning: Strategy development and execution- Technology Roadmap: Adapting or developing new portfolio services, tools, frameworks, and practices- Strategic Partnerships: Exploring opportunities for strategic partnerships- Go-to-Market Updates: Developing and executing go-to-market strategies

Auckland, New Zealand

Powered by code, driven by innovation, LAB3 empowers ambitious enterprises to fear less and modernise through controlled, automated, and scalable cloud technology.Trusted by the biggest and most reputable brands in the region to accelerate digital transformation, LAB3 provides DevOps expertise and advanced solutions across financial services, healthcare, mining, utilities, and government.

Melbourne, Australia

Momentum Creative is an Australian based freelance Web Development and Graphic Design agency, providing website design, development, build, support and management services. Momentum produce high quality work that builds brand awareness, drives customer engagement and increases business momentum.

Auckland, New Zealand

As the Consulting Practice lead at Leaven, I have accountability across the Cloud Transformation Maturity (CTM), Cloud Business Office (CBO), Cloud Economics and Cloud Workshop portfolios while providing development and governance of craft practices, processes and associated collateral. My focus is to continually nurture an environment of strong collaboration and inspire growth through mentorship and enablement for our incredible team of Consultants and Business Analysts across the country. I also provide thought leadership, experience and insights to the wider business community through public speaking engagements and as a contributor to Leaven's Primer publication.

Auckland, New Zealand

As a Senior Cloud Consultant at Leaven I guide organisations as they undertake their digital transformation, ensuring they achieve their desired objectives and unlock business value quickly. I help customers define their business strategy and roadmap for Cloud, often after delivering a Cloud workshop, Cloud maturity or economics assessment to provide greater clarity.I'm adept at presales solution design across AWS, Azure and GCP from indicative effort estimation and project/programme (sprint) planning, through to architectural design, build and delivery.My focus is about building strong relationships with my customers. I do this by ensuring I fully understand their unique business drivers and challenges through a highly consultative process to help nurture the foundations of their Cloud strategy. I'm often an intermediary, translating complex technical concepts into clear business value, thus I tailor communication to the different stakeholders throughout an organisation. I'm absolutely passionate about working collaboratively, encouraging and nurturing the best from both mine and my customer's team's, delivering value quickly and consistently.

Auckland, New Zealand

As a trusted advisor to many organisations across New Zealand, I engaged with customers across numerous industry verticals, delivering solutions across Azure, AWS, GCP, VMWare Cloud on AWS, Azure Stack and Microsoft 365. I was active in the development of Revera's Public Cloud practice responsible for defining strategy and execution of initiatives as well as Product Owner for Revera's Cloud Managed Services team.My solution approach is holistic, encompassing best practice measures that enable successful cloud adoption.

Auckland, New Zealand

Melbourne, Australia

Positioned within the End-User Compute Practice of the Professional Services line of Business at Dimension Data, I engaged with numerous large enterprise and government organisations around Australia to consult, design and deliver effective solutions primarily within the Unified Communications and Public Cloud.Working within the capacity of a project lead / Consulting Engineer allowed me to use capitalise on both my technical and project management skills to achieve the desired outcomes, on time and to a budget. From a presales capacity, I provided everything from indicative estimates through to Statement of Work proposals and RFP responses.My proficiencies include Microsoft Identity Management, Microsoft Skype for Business (Teams) / Lync Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Office365, Hyper-V and Azure encompassing a broad foundation of supportive technologies including Windows Server and all Active Directory Roles and Features. My extensive knowledge in the Identity Management space gave me significant expertise in migration projects facilitating organisational movement to cloud based services such as Office 365, as well as on-premise migrations. These skills were also leveraged to support Dimension Data proprietary software that supported integration between identity systems and Cisco Call Manager in customers environments.

Melbourne, Australia

Positioned within the Microsoft Solutions practice of the Professional Services line of Business at Dimension Data, I engaged with numerous large enterprise and Government clients to design and deliver effective solutions primarily within the Unified Communications space.Day to day operations consisted of design, build and transition of large infrastructure projects with adherence to time and budget to maximise client satisfaction and build business relationships. My growth in this space allowed me to follow my planned career trajectory (with elevation to a Senior Engineering position) within Dimension Data.My proficiencies included Forefront Identity Management / ILM, Microsoft Lync Server, Microsoft Exchange Server and Hyper-V, encompassing a broad foundation of supportive technologies including Windows Server and all Active Directory Roles and Features.

Melbourne, Australia

Networking & Windows Administration and Project Coordination including Large scale infrastructure deployment and administration, Aruba and Cisco WLAN, LAN & Voice Networking, Firewall Security and Business critical systems administration.

Melbourne, Australia

Specialising in project and business system design and development including System Centre Operations/Configuration Management, Forefront Identity Management, Cisco Call Manager, Exchange, Domain administration and 2nd Level Support

Melbourne, Australia

1st Level Help-desk Support, Mobile Device fleet Management and Business System support

Implemented, managed and maintained business systems including Parts eCommerce System, Sales CRM, Financial Systems and Hardware Support

Bachelor Of Information Technology, Multimedia (Ecommerce & Communication Co-Minor)

Activities and Societies: Accepted in Industry Based Learning Programme - Completed a Year placement at Walt Disney Studio Home.

Certificate Ii - Interactive Multimedia (Tafe), Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia

Vce (High School Certficate)