Experience

Harcourts gold Real Estate

• New Zealand
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales Consultant at Harcourts gold Real Estate

  • dic. de 2020 - - actualidad

  After a long and successful career in IT, it is time for a change.Whether you're buying, selling or just want to know what your property is worth, give me call today for a free no obligation appraisal. After a long and successful career in IT, it is time for a change.Whether you're buying, selling or just want to know what your property is worth, give me call today for a free no obligation appraisal.



Christchurch International Airport Limited

• New Zealand
• Airlines and Aviation
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Technology Infrastructure Manager

  • ene. de 2018 - jun. de 2020



SBS Bank

• New Zealand
• Banking
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Technology Services Manager

  • mar. de 2010 - sept. de 2017

  Responsible for the following:Infrastructure - Desktops, Servers, Communications equipment etc for 16 branches across New Zealand.Project co-ordination – Prioritisation of and accountability for projects for three Project Managers in the teamVendor Management for the following areas Core Banking System in Christchurch and AucklandHardware and Support servicesCommunications InfrastructureSecurity, including Intrusion Detection and PreventionInternet Services HostingBusiness Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning and testing.Communications Infrastructure between Data Centres, head office and local campuses.



DHL Express

• Germany
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 700 & Above Employee

• I.T. Manager

  • ago. de 2001 - mar. de 2009

  Managed the I.T. function for DHL Southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and the 6 Indian Ocean Islands)Responsible for Servers, Infrastructure, Network Management, Project Management, Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery Planning, External Vendor Management, Telephony, Procurement, Service Desk, Licensing, IT Security Management and full P&L and IT Budget Licensing - Overall accountability for Microsoft, Citrix, Lotus Notes, Linux (RHEL) and PABX licensing, including vendor management and legality issuesScope - 20 staff members, 48 servers (Unix, Linux and Wintel), 13 remote sites and a user base of 780 - 24x7x365 support of critical applicationsMember of the Senior Management Team (Exco) Technological leadership - planning strategy, hardware and communicationsHuman resource leadership - all aspectsVendor liaison including contract management, negotiations, SLA tracking and service improvementAchievements:Successfully relocated the Head Office in 2006 and received recognition from the Managing Director for this achievement at the annual recognition awardsCommunications hub for Southern Africa successfully relocated to a third party facility - including national, international and cross-border linksImplemented blade server technology with Citrix XenServer virtualisationFirst volumetric scale implementation in South AfricaSuccessfully upgraded mobile communications through implementation of third party APN and new generation courier scanners using GPRS - target time of under 1 hour return achieved with 75% cost reductions

• I.T. Support Manager

  • ago. de 2000 - jul. de 2001

  Managed Application and Technical Support areas of I.T. department2ic Responsibility for I.S. DepartmentManaged desktop project - conversion of all dumb terminals and PCs to Windows NT operating system and simultaneous e-mail migrationsInitiated Disaster Recovery Plan for South AfricaMember of the E-Commerce steering committeeManaged the Local Information Security function for the regionAchievements:Raised the Security Assessment score to 95%Desktop migration for Southern Africa - hands-on participation with simultaneous hardware upgradesE-mail migration from Uniplex to Netscape Messenger

• Project Manager

  • may. de 1998 - jul. de 2000

  Rollout of Operations related projects in Service Centres across South AfricaCourier scanners for capturing of checkpoint dataMobile devices for checkpoint return (Scanner GSM interfaces)Implementation of new applications, encompassing all aspects of Project ManagementCo-managed Y2K project - Collated data, undertook audits, hardware and software upgrades for various African countriesConduct technical training sessions for Sub Saharan Africa technical staffLed internal ISO quality audits in all departmentsAchievements:Successfully completed Y2K transition without disruption to the businessTechnical training conducted for entire Sub Saharan region on installation and support for PC based systems for smaller entities/countriesMapped entire billing processSuccessfully rolled out Operations projects across South Africa:Transport Harmonisation (Region wide standardization of processes)MCR Rollout (Remote checkpoint return via mobile phones)RPM project rolled out ( Route Optimisation)Other positions held