Stuart Thornton Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for leading the Technical Delivery of project initiatives and operational enhancements with a focus on Infrastructure.I use my vast organisational knowledge to get the best outcomes in the most efficient manner, communicating at all levels of the business.Working in the Global Networks Team, I have directly led the following, successfully, with a hands on approach.DataCentre Consolidation - 2 Datacentre sites with 100 racks in each reduced by half. Directly led and executed each of the 100+changes to relocate equipment, including network, storage and compute hardware inform technical requirements to stakeholders and colleagues.Enterprise Storage Migration - From NetApp to HPE 3PAR, including secondary tier data protection. Over 2PB of front end data

Melbourne, Australia

Providing relevant and common sense technical consultancy to developing business initiatives working in partnership with Architects, Program Managers and Business Analysts. Transforming infrastructure to align with our ICT strategic goals while ensuring operational capability is not compromised.Datacentre, Compute, Storage, Virtualisation

Melbourne, Australia

Iteration Manager utilising the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise. I work with a highly skilled team to deliver ongoing support and technology enhancements to the University Student Administration System running on the Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Platform.The System Team is diverse with capabilities in PeopleSoft, Oracle Database, Linux (RedHat) / Solaris, VMWare, AWS, NetApp and Hitachi Storage and other Infrastructure Technologies

Melbourne, Australia

University Based with a focus on Infrastructure Design, Datacentre, Virtualisation, Enterprise Storage, Hardware Server Platforms.Achievements include consolidating 6 separate storage environments from a multitude of vendors including EMC Clariion and Celera, Sun StorageTek, HP EVA and many Direct Attached FileServers to a Dual Vendor solution in NetApp and Hitachi.Consolidation and governance of an enterprise wide dual fabric FibreChannel solution utilising Brocade SwitchesMigration from EMC Networker to Commvault SimpanaDevelopment of an Enterprise Storage Data Protection Practice.

Melbourne, Australia

Faculty Based Solutions Architect / Designer building proof of concept systems for Academic requirements.Achievements include designing an on campus multi node Render Farm for students so that lab computers were not occupied with long running jobs.Demonstrating the first proof of concept NetWare 6.5 multi node cluster, which would then become the standard for services running on NetWare 6.5

Brunswick Campus

Operations Manager for the Brunswick Campus, including Fashion and Textiles, Printing and Design. Leading a team of three I was responsible for a mixed environment with over 300 Macintosh and Windows lab computers connecting to Novell File and Print Servers. Many specialty devices catering to the digital print workflows of large format, CMYK printing presses.Achievements include transitioning the Mac fleet to OSX and implementing new lab deployment techniques. Regular fleet uplift and budgeting for lifecycle activities.

Melbourne, Australia

Novell Netware Administrator for Faculty of Art and Design. Responsible for the operation of a number of Novell 6.5 file and print servers that supported over 15,000 students and staff.Successful in acquiring government grant to uplift systems for Y2K compliance.

Melbourne, Australia

Desktop support covering Windows 3.1 for Staff and Student computing requirements

Computer Engineering

Vce