Experience

12d Synergy

• Australia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Azure Cloud Platform \ Team Lead

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  12d Synergy is the streamlined common data environment and project collaboration solution for your AEC Office. Over 8,500 civil designers, drafters, surveyors, project managers and office managers are experiencing the smarter, faster, better way to work. 12d Synergy is flexible and scalable, it’s perfectly suited for multi-national enterprises and small and medium businesses. 12d Synergy is the streamlined common data environment and project collaboration solution for your AEC Office. Over 8,500 civil designers, drafters, surveyors, project managers and office managers are experiencing the smarter, faster, better way to work. 12d Synergy is flexible and scalable, it’s perfectly suited for multi-national enterprises and small and medium businesses.



NSW Department of Planning and Environment

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Azure & VM Cloud Specialist/Infrastructure Solution Architect

  • May 2018 - Aug 2020

  Reported to ICT Director of operations, in providing a comprehensive strategy that identified workloads suitable and cost effective for cloud IaaS and reducing the overall on premise footprint. Daily Reporting to the Compute & Security Manager across a variety of projects and BAU activities: - Setting up Azure Site Recovery and Azure Migrate to migrate on premise VM’s to Azure IAAS. This relieved pressure on the on premise infrastructure, as I continued to review the applications and business systems that could consolidate and move to a PAAS/SAAS solution. - Project Tech lead in AWS in establishing DX from Equinix Data Centre and creating AWS Hub and Spoke design to establish a Landing Zone and peering some of their Core Business Apps, Pega, AQS and NPWS over to direct connect. - Project Tech lead in moving to Splunk Cloud as they’re on premise VM solution wasn’t working as compute and memory constraints hindered operation, this also led in reducing on premise footprint. - Moving the virtualized environment from NetApp FAS with NFS data stores to NetApp SolidFire All-flash array via iscsi. - Review toolsets to aid and identify the current Virtual Infrastructure environment and assist in sizing out to new hardware platform. This assisted in showing where the bottlenecks were. Then collating the information and providing a solution showing current VMware infrastructure and moving aging hardware. - Consolidating the VMware vCentre environment from 6 vCenters and external PSC down to 2 vCenters with embedded PSC and future proofing the solution. - Project Tech lead in Cisco POC in setting up Cisco CMS a VC solution for 13 boardrooms. Worked with Cisco Tech team to deliver a solution as a Candidate replacement for PEXIP. - Implemented MS Clustering solution in Azure for SQL Always ON. - Providing Azure costing for various projects. - Migrated on premise servers to Azure tenancy.



Scentre Group (Owner of Westfield destinations in Aus and NZ)

• Australia
• Real Estate
• 700 & Above Employee

• Enterprise Systems Specialist - Information Technology

  • Mar 2011 - Dec 2017

  Successful Enterprise Systems Specialist with diverse and significant experience focusing on Cloud Technologies, Solution Design and Architecture, VMware Virtualisation and design, Storage Area Networks Disaster Recovery. Proven achievements in project deliveries providing hands-on guidance with server/client-based systems. Team oriented with excellent interpersonal communication skills. Responsibilities\ Achievements * Azure Cloud Tenancy * Virtualisation – VMware * Solution Design and Architecture. * Data Centre Manager * Disaster Recovery Manager * Tech Lead Web Proxies * Tech Lead EMC Stack * Tech Lead Citrix * Tech Lead reporting \ SolarWinds * Security, Authentication ADFS,ADC * Backup & Recovery, San Replication DR * File / Print / Fax Access * Manage licensing software and hardware procurement * Cloud and Managed Services * Vendor Management * Operating System Deployment and Management



Westfield

• Real Estate
• 700 & Above Employee

• Wintel Systems Engineer

  • 2008 - 2011

  This position involved maintaining systems and ensuring availability across the systems and making sure the business was always online with minimal disruptions, Security Management, Server and Storage Performance across Australia and New Zealand. Led and supported Storage Area Network and Fibre Network, Data Centre Management, Citrix Application Delivery, Proxy, Virtualisation, Reporting and Project Delivery and was the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in these areas. This position involved maintaining systems and ensuring availability across the systems and making sure the business was always online with minimal disruptions, Security Management, Server and Storage Performance across Australia and New Zealand. Led and supported Storage Area Network and Fibre Network, Data Centre Management, Citrix Application Delivery, Proxy, Virtualisation, Reporting and Project Delivery and was the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in these areas.



Westfield

• Real Estate
• 700 & Above Employee

• Information Technology Infrastructure Manager

  • 2003 - 2007

  Management of all strategic and operational interactions between business units and IT infrastructure functions. Deliver an effective, efficient IT service. Strong emphasis on people, process and technology methodologies while maintaining projects, customer engagement, cost reduction, virtualisation ease data centre footprint and vendor management.Responsibilities:Management of IT security policy and governance standards for our dept. Management of IT infrastructure technology portfolios, and setting strategic direction.Translation of Business objectives and requirements to IT operationsManagement of reporting, including financials, risk and opportunities, and project status updates Infrastructure, OS upgrades\deployments, storage\backup, and disaster recoveryEstablish Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) working with Helpdesk ManagerResponsible Technologies:* Manage Data Centres and Disaster Recovery* Middleware as400, Antivirus, Web Proxy’s* Monitoring and Clustering Services* Management of IT Capex and Opex Budget(s)* Manage EMC Stack – Symmetrix, Centera, ISilon & Data Domain Storage Infrastructure* Security, SSO, AD, * Backup & Recovery* Application Delivery (Citrix)* Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)* SQL Databases* File / Print / Fax Access* Messaging and Collaboration\ ActiveSync* Virtualisation* Software and Hardware Procurement* Managed Services* Operating System Deployment and Management* Support all IT for shopping centres across Australia.* HR Performance Reviews for staff* MDM – iOS devices

• Wintel Infrastructure Engineer - Team Lead

  • 2002 - 2003

  Reported to the Network Manager and took responsibility across following transformational projects as we aligned Westfield IT core infrastructure initiatives across the globe to assist in simplifying the environment and taking advantage of being a global company.* Transitioned from Netware Novell to Active Directory across AUS, NZ, US, UK* Transitioned from Lotus Notes to exchange AUS, NZ* Transitioned antivirus across all regions. * Consolidated Web Proxy Solution in all regions to one platform.* Transitioned Server platforms to one partner across the globe to leverage cost.* Co-location of Data Centre in AUS.* Consolidated switches from Bay Networks to Cisco equipment and leveraged price as a global company. * Transitioned from Checkpoint FW to Cisco Pix

• Help Desk Manager

  • 1999 - 2002

  Management of 6 Helpdesk Staff across desktop\laptop applications, operations, printing, backups, AS400 & Executive Support. Rollout of JD Edwards ERP. Looked after Head Office and remote shopping centres plus pop up constructions site sheds. Assisted in operational and strategic interactions between different business units and IT infrastructure functions to deliver an efficient IT service. Managed 3rd party vendors to provide support to remote sites to be our hands on hardware fix team across the states of Australia as we triaged all the service desk tickets. Continued to provide a dedicated executive support structure and helped to deliver ITIL Framework aligning IT services with the needs of business with new Service Desk System Remedy.

• Helpdesk Support & Executive Support

  • 1994 - 1999

  Provided technical support to end-users, leveraging broad-based expertise to handle problem identification, diagnosis, resolution, and escalation via helpdesk system, telephone, and desktop support. Performed security administration functions for user, data, and remote access. Supported the Westfield Head Office and Remote Shopping Centres.



TNT

• Netherlands
• Freight and Package Transportation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Help Desk Analyst

  • 1994 - 1994

  Reported to the IT Manager - Provided phone support across IT technologies, responsible for Helpdesk support for Internal and external centres. Reported to the IT Manager - Provided phone support across IT technologies, responsible for Helpdesk support for Internal and external centres.