Nov 2022 – Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• A national role with a consulting focus leading/managing engagements for regulated, unregulated and Greenfield customers. Responsible to designing, building and documenting secure AWS Landing Zone solutions, DevSecOps capabilities uplifts and managing risk through AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices. Working closely with senior and executive stakeholders to Uplift processes and technology to comply with industry standards including CIS Benchmarks, NIST, APRA CPS-234 and OWASP security frameworks. Developing teams with the skills to manage and maintain effective security governance and compliance. As a Well-Architected Lead, I carry out Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFR) and remediation activities to resolve high-risk issues.
• As an AWS Ambassador, I build AWS capabilities through building and submitting AWS competencies, case studies, service delivery programs and partner solutions. Deep community engagement through public speaking (local user groups, AWS Summit Sydney and AWS reInvent workshops). Thought leadership (blogs, LinkedIn engagement and AWS Community Builders). My role is to solve complex problems and implement delivery excellence at the highest standard.

Mar 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Working with Servian customers to deliver excellent outcomes utilising the best the public cloud has to offer. As a Senior Consultant, Support Lead and Engagement Lead working in the DevOps and Cloud space, I advise and build solutions for our customers centred around the Well-Architected framework, run and manage projects, manage and mentor people, project budgeting and reporting, timesheet approvals and organise social events with my clients. I also run the AWS practice for QLD in addition to contributing to go to market solutions and working closely with AWS senior leadership to help elevate our partner status within the AWS Partner Network. In addition I write articles and blogs and contribute to marketing and increase IP across Servian while assisting in presales activities including tender responses and RFx’s.

Jan 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Brisbane, Australia

• A national role with a solution focus covering presales and post sales assisting customers in advising, consuming, designing and running hybrid cloud solutions running on private cloud, AWS and Azure. Growing the AWS APN capability and competency to move from Select to Advanced Tier Consulting Partner. Delivery of advanced networking solutions and public cloud connectivity. Building proof of concepts aligned to specific outcomes and key success criteria for Public Sector, SMB and enterprise customers. Assisting Sales and Marketing in GTM strategies, responding to tenders and RFX, producing SoW and mentoring team members.

Jan 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Brisbane, Australia

• VMWare Cloud on AWS solution design, Data Centre consolidation, Service Migration to Microsoft Azure, Private Cloud (VMWare and Hyper-V) integration, Wireless refresh and Guest Services, WAN Optimisation Refresh, Data centre core redesign, Office 365 optimisation and end user experience monitoring.

Oct 2017 – Dec 2017 · 2 mos · Brisbane, Australia

• Responsible for solution architecture to Bank of Queensland (BOQ) designing Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions built on industry leading Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) technology.

Mar 2017 – Oct 2017 · 7 mos · Brisbane, Australia

• Delivering cloud and managed services to a broad customer base covering Queensland State and Local Government and private enterprise. Responsible for presales, developing commercially responsible products and services to support the Sales Director, architecting and delivering innovative connectivity solutions for public and private cloud connectivity. Operating and designing on best of breed solutions using VMWare (vShpere, Horizon View / VDI and NSX SDN) and Huawei CloudEngine products running on a TRILL network architecture. Leadership and governance for future architecture strategy and capacity planning.

Nov 2016 – Feb 2017 · 3 mos · Fortitude Valley, Queensland, Australia

• Design, optimise, support and integrate innovative solutions tailored to business requirements leveraging AWS native services and third-party tools to deliver robust, secure and scalable solutions. Exposure to basic Linux and Windows Server system administration, Ansible, GitLab, GlusterFS, OpenVPN, EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, EBS, Cloud Formation, RDS and DynamoDB for Queensland State Government and private SMB and Enterprise customers.

Oct 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Brisbane, Australia

• Design, integrate and support Cisco networking solutions for the mining sector covering voice, wireless, service provider, core and edge (LAN and WAN) network architectures. Develop business and architectural strategies for technology to improve business agility and streamline processes.
• Design and integrate AWS hybrid cloud solutions leveraging partners such as Megaport and Cisco to deliver secure and agile cloud connectivity to meet current and future business needs.
• Leverage the power of scripting for network automation, manage change control and configuration backups.

Dec 2011 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Brisbane, Australia

• Tasked with designing, integrating, optimising and managing the enterprise network infrastructure for Echo Entertainment Group. This covers five total sites including The Star in Sydney (formerly Star City), Jupiters Gold Coast and Treasury in Brisbane as well as AWS hybrid cloud and off-site remote data centre.
• Working with the true innovation, embracing latest technology such as integration with AWS, VDI, Nexus Data Centre Switching and cutting edge Unified Wireless and security solutions, Echo provides experience across a wide range of technologies in a truly ever-changing network environment.

Oct 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Brisbane, Australia

• Employed as a network engineer tasked with the design, support and deployment of cisco voice and data networks. Worked as a member of a technical team to drive new business opportunities for the QLD branch and the support of existing customer network environments.

May 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Victoria, Australia

• Worked as a member of the information technology support team as a high level escalation officer. Started as a junior support officer supporting the Microsoft environment but quickly progressed into a senior level network support engineer who was tasked with the management and support of the Cisco networking environment.

Oct 2003 – May 2008 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Darwin, Australia

• As part of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals, deploy secure IT infrastructure both onshore and oversees in all weather and terrain. Provide IT infrastructure to support Brigade infrastructure requirements.