Matthew Jones
Senior Infrastructure and Cloud Specialist at Loyalty New Zealand- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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VMware Cloud on AWS - Trained Professional
VMwareAug, 2021- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Loyalty NZ
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New Zealand
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Advertising Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Infrastructure and Cloud Specialist
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Oct 2017 - Present
Technical lead for Loyalty NZ infrastructure and cloud platforms. Loyalty New Zealand is New Zealand's expert in loyalty, and runs the largest and most comprehensive coalition loyalty programme in New Zealand – Fly Buys. In addition to this Loyalty New Zealand undertakes a range of marketing services for clients including customer insights, analytics, modelling and reporting. - VMware on AWS full production Migration technical lead/Architect completed March 2022. - Responsible for the design, build, maintenance, support and documentation of Loyalty's Infrastructure and cloud services, both in a hands on and management of vendor resources capacity. - Work with the CIO, Head of IT, other Cloud Architects and Managed Service Designers and Consultants to formulate and carry out the strategic plan for the Loyalty NZ IT roadmap. - Working with both internal teams and the managed service provider in scoping, designing, planning and deploying projects. - Modern Desktop Design and build for both Mac and Windows 10 using VMware Workspace One. To scope and review project proposals and statements of work. - Work closely with the Information and Security Risk Manager to ensure all proposal’s, implementation and maintenance of IT infrastructure meets Loyalty NZ security standards. Accountable for the technical delivery, maintenance and monitoring of Loyalty NZ’s IT infrastructure. - Look to challenge and critique upgrades, implementations and maintenance to ensure it is being performed efficiently, cost effectively and minimising risk to the business. - To be the conduit between technical delivery teams and Loyalty NZ business owners, ensuring clear, timely and accurate communications. - To be the primary contact point for Loyalty NZ managed service provider technical teams. - Support and mentor the “Desktop and End User Computing Engineer” to help grow them in their role within the business.
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Ministry of Education of New Zealand
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New Zealand
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Education Administration Programs
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700 & Above Employee
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Architect
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Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Architect for the ESTI Programme of work.The ESTI (Education Sector Technology Infrastructure) programme was establishedto provide a shared hybrid infrastructure platform and create service supportcapabilities that will be able to provide ICT services for use by multiple sectororganisations, and Ministry of Education business groups. This environment will beoperated as a managed service with costs recovered across both thesector agencies consuming the services and Ministry of Education itself.In this role I have been responsible for providing the ESTI Programme witharchitectural direction, design and documentation.
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Solutions Architect / Technical Lead
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Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
Architect and Technical Lead role for the Zinios re-platform Project. Zinios is a IIS framework for applications provided by Assura. The Zinios project is responsible for re-platforming, four critical, currently externally hosted applications onto the Ministry’s Infrastructure.In this role I was responsible for the Architecture and Detailed Design of the re-platforming solution, as well as leading the technical Implementation as it relates to the Ministry’s complex Infrastructure and processes.
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Dimension Data
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South Africa
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior System Engineer
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Jun 2013 - Jun 2016
Senior Technical and Consultancy role deployed on site for the Ministry of Education. The Ministry’s environment consists of two main Datacom run Datacenters. Kapua is the Ministry's main Production Datacenter located in Hamilton and consists of over 100 physical Servers and Appliances. Included in that physical kit are multiple ESX host clusters running over 2000 virtual servers, appliances and Desktops. Orbit is the Ministry's DR and Pre-Production Datacenter. Located in Auckland, It is also used in an active-active configuration with Kapua for some Ministry systems. In this role I was responsible for the Design, Build, Maintenance, Support and Documentation of the Ministry's IT Infrastructure.
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Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
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New Zealand
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Infrastructure Specialist
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Nov 2008 - Jun 2013
Senior technical and consultancy role for the NZTA.. The JTOC combines Auckland Transport (AT) and the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) to provide for the smooth running of Auckland’s Motorway, inner city and main arterial road traffic and services. The infrastructure involved is complex and includes devices and systems on Auckland’s motorway, the Auckland Harbour Bridge and the inner city road network, as well as the Johnstone’s Hill, Victoria Park and Waterview tunnels. In this role I was responsible for the design, build, maintenance, support and documentation of the NZTA's JTOC IT Infrastructure.
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Vector Limited
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New Zealand
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Utilities
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700 & Above Employee
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Server and Systems Specialist
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Mar 2008 - Nov 2008
Senior technical and consultancy role for Vector Ltd Vector is a leading New Zealand energy infrastructure group. Vector owns and manages a portfolio of energy and fibre optic infrastructure networks in New Zealand. Vector’s assets perform a key role in delivering energy and communication services to more than one million homes and businesses across New Zealand. In this role I was responsible for the build, maintenance, support and documentation of the Vector's IT Infrastructure. Senior technical and consultancy role for Vector Ltd Vector is a leading New Zealand energy infrastructure group. Vector owns and manages a portfolio of energy and fibre optic infrastructure networks in New Zealand. Vector’s assets perform a key role in delivering energy and communication services to more than one million homes and businesses across New Zealand. In this role I was responsible for the build, maintenance, support and documentation of the Vector's IT Infrastructure.
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Unisys
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Technical Specialist
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Oct 2007 - Mar 2008
3rd level technical systems support role, Working on the IRD account, supporting Government Desktop SOE’s and the servers that support a Desktop SOE, as well as packaging, application delivery and desktop upgrades and patches. Responsible for many of the backend computer systems as well as the desktop environments of Unisys’ large government clients. 3rd level technical systems support role, Working on the IRD account, supporting Government Desktop SOE’s and the servers that support a Desktop SOE, as well as packaging, application delivery and desktop upgrades and patches. Responsible for many of the backend computer systems as well as the desktop environments of Unisys’ large government clients.
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Ministry of Justice - New Zealand
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New Zealand
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Desktop, Infrastructure and Network Specialist
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Jun 2005 - Oct 2007
This Ministry of Justice has a large and complex, multi system, 4500 user environment. This was a senior technical, consultancy, and service delivery role responsible for desktop, infrastructure and network design, development, implementation, security and support. This Ministry of Justice has a large and complex, multi system, 4500 user environment. This was a senior technical, consultancy, and service delivery role responsible for desktop, infrastructure and network design, development, implementation, security and support.
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