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Environment Team – Systems engineer – providing Azure ,VCloud Director, Powershell, virtual machine migration. Working with DevOps team to provide Powershell scripts for remote access management within Citrix, certificate management, WINRM access and VM management.Developed and perfected an automated Windows SQL Cluster build process including professional documentation. Handled the complexities and requirements for implementing multi-node Windows clusters, SQL server installation and Availability group configuration all nodes allowing for five node cluster installation within a couple of hours, typically a process that takes weeks to successfully implement.Responsible for building and maintaining the development and test environments for new Air Traffic control services platform, delivering and supporting over over 600 VMs for development teams as the project progressed.Developed Powershell scripts using REST api to automate build, deletion and power management processes. Supporting developers for Windows 2016 to 2022, Redhat and Centos servers, providing networking assistance including guidance on static routes, Active Directory integration and virtual compute management.Providing assistance for automated update patching for Linux and Windows builds as well as creating solutions for Security and Monitoring teams. Handling ad-hoc requests for ongoing Powershell development from dev teams.

Brisbane

Windows Design Consultant– Member of the Standards and Support team for Unisys, handling the TAFE Queensland infrastructure project for 580 servers and 23,000 desktops. Acted as technical lead for several migration and tech refresh projects, migrating thousands of computers from XP to Win7, within a mixed Win2008/2012 environment and provided Tier 3 support.Developed solutions for the Architecture team to deploy critical application fixes, responsible for managing major incidents and work orders requiring change requests, liaising directly with institute contract managers.Consolidated existing VBS scripts and developed a structured, A.D. aware suite, with full error checking and logging to create a reliable, high performance and maintainable environment, allowing site customisation.Provided analysis for multiple projects; developed standards, S.O.E. images and software packages, installed and supported Citrix, Exchange, Veeam, McAfee AntiVirus, WSUS. Virtualised numerous servers using VMWare ESX and supported many Citrix Xenapp environments, with experience of EMC and Equalogic SANs. Provided technical support to fix corporate Antivirus issues and handle massive restore operations, large data moves. Re-wrote the quota management scripts and handled group policy investigations, minor and major script development including and automated data synchronisation solution, automated licence resets and status reporting.Designed and developed management utility to automatically collect and analyse thousands of logs for reliable daily monitoring and generating alerts. Redesigned disk quota management scripts for servers based upon user groups and wrote substantial technical documentation.Created administrative utilities for user moves, permission and ownership repair. Developed automated Application deployment via template saving hundreds of hours. Solved Active Directory corruption, group policy troubleshooting issues.