Experience

Radius Technologies - Security Focused ICT Solutions

• Ireland
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technical Consultant

  • Mar 2021 - Present



Z Energy NZ

• New Zealand
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Infrastructure Architect

  • Aug 2014 - Mar 2020



Dimension Data

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Oct 2009 - Mar 2020

  Enterprise Servers Storage Consultant at Dimension Data in Wellington Enterprise Servers Storage Consultant at Dimension Data in Wellington



Transpower New Zealand

• New Zealand
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Infrastructure Architect

  • Jul 2012 - Aug 2013



Housing New Zealand Corporation

• New Zealand
• Government Administration
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Infrastructure Architect

  • May 2011 - Oct 2011

  Completed secondment to Housing New Zealand Corporation. Role encompassed Architecture and Detailed Design for a number of internal infrastructure refresh projects covering servers, storage, network, backup and virtualisation. Completed secondment to Housing New Zealand Corporation. Role encompassed Architecture and Detailed Design for a number of internal infrastructure refresh projects covering servers, storage, network, backup and virtualisation.



Fujitsu

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Technical Specialist - Storage

  • 2007 - 2009

  Role initially encompassed third line support of an enterprise environment for a key government department. The environment primarily consisted of two data centres, a number of smaller remote sites, 1800 users, HP bladesystems, Windows 2003/2008 servers, VMware virtualisation, virtual and physical tape library backup solutions. The storage element of the role in particular included design, planning, and implementation of HP EVA hardware and firmware upgrades, disaster recovery testing, business continuity planning, as well as the day to day system maintenance of the fabric, continuous access link., replication, capacity planning, and liaison with third party suppliers.Role later expanded into providing enterprise server and storage solutions as part of a dedicated storage team



Mercury Projects Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Construction

• Senior Technical Specialist

  • Jun 2006 - Jun 2007

  Senior Systems Engineer responsible for a number of SMB clients in the Wellington region. Covered architecture, consultancy, Microsoft server and mail technologies, server, backup, communications, security as well as project work. Senior Systems Engineer responsible for a number of SMB clients in the Wellington region. Covered architecture, consultancy, Microsoft server and mail technologies, server, backup, communications, security as well as project work.



Cable & Wireless

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technical Specialist

  • Jun 2004 - Jun 2006

  Varied role, primarily providing implementation services for Corporate and Government clients in a managed data center of 6000 servers. Typical implementations were for clustered, high availability solutions based on Microsoft applications running on HP servers, EMC storage, and Cisco networking. Varied role, primarily providing implementation services for Corporate and Government clients in a managed data center of 6000 servers. Typical implementations were for clustered, high availability solutions based on Microsoft applications running on HP servers, EMC storage, and Cisco networking.



AzTek Corporate Solutions Ltd

• Owner

  • Jan 1996 - Dec 2004

  Sole trader company providing professional consulting services to:-Zurich Financial ServicesZurich BankLegal & GeneralThe National GridBass BrewersRenault (UK) LtdProton Cars Ltd Sole trader company providing professional consulting services to:-Zurich Financial ServicesZurich BankLegal & GeneralThe National GridBass BrewersRenault (UK) LtdProton Cars Ltd



Zurich Bank

• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Infrastructure Specialist

  • 2000 - 2001

  Managed enterprise servers, and banking applications. Responsible for server hardening, penetration testing and host security. Managed enterprise servers, and banking applications. Responsible for server hardening, penetration testing and host security.



British Gas - Transco

• Contractor

  • 1996 - 1997

  Developed SOE for Transco field engineers, Novell and Microsoft server support. Backup and recovery design and implementation. Developed SOE for Transco field engineers, Novell and Microsoft server support. Backup and recovery design and implementation.