Experience

Wattyl - A part of Hempel

• Australia
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Network Engineer

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  Provide network expertise and support to the wider business divestiture and integration team. Saved the business $6000 in monthly operational costs through the consolidation of IT infrastructure from 2 sites to shared premises. Significant capital savings through the migration of a business unit from an obsolete on-prem phone system to a Cloud UC system. Provide network expertise and support to the wider business divestiture and integration team. Saved the business $6000 in monthly operational costs through the consolidation of IT infrastructure from 2 sites to shared premises. Significant capital savings through the migration of a business unit from an obsolete on-prem phone system to a Cloud UC system.



Sherwin-Williams

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Network Engineer

  • May 2017 - Mar 2021

  A member of the global Network Services team responsible for the architectural, administrative, and technical support of a complex global enterprise network comprising of over 4700 sites across 120 countries. Improved efficiency by 75% by scripting administrative tasks on the Meraki environment using Python and API Designed the network solution to enable 24 Business Critical Roles to continue remotely during Covid lockdown. Creation and execution of project playbooks to deliver network infrastructure integration and upgrades in the range of 5K-$250K across APAC. Show less



Valspar

• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Network & Telecom Engineer

  • Mar 2013 - Apr 2017

  Increased network performance and uptime to over 95% by migrating 142 sites to Meraki SD-Branch, upgrading to NBN, and implementing LTE/carrier redundancy. Migrated 60 stores across Australia to hosted VoIP phone system with a 20 channel SIP trunk and decommissioned auxiliary fixed lines resulting in a monthly savings of over 94% per store in telephony costs Reviewed network security and enforced NAC policies at over 150 APAC sites in accordance with defined policies. Increased network performance and uptime to over 95% by migrating 142 sites to Meraki SD-Branch, upgrading to NBN, and implementing LTE/carrier redundancy. Migrated 60 stores across Australia to hosted VoIP phone system with a 20 channel SIP trunk and decommissioned auxiliary fixed lines resulting in a monthly savings of over 94% per store in telephony costs Reviewed network security and enforced NAC policies at over 150 APAC sites in accordance with defined policies.



The Valspar (Australia) Corporation Pty. Limited

• Australia
• Chemical Manufacturing

• System Administrator

  • Jul 2010 - Feb 2013

  Planning, execution, and documentation of business continuity strategy as well as performing and reviewing disaster recovery plans and fail-over testing.Virtualization of legacy physical servers onto a Dell PowerEdge R710 running VMware ESXi 4.1 hypervisor resulting in over 40% reduction in power consumption.

• IT Support Analyst

  • Aug 2008 - Jun 2010

  Provisioning and deployment of desktop hardware, software, and applications.Improved endpoint visibility by installing a device inventory and reporting system using Spiceworks.