I'm a DevOps-oriented Software Engineer currently making my way in team leadership
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This is the full work history that used to be included in that ancient resume, which has been following me around since the early-to-mid 2000s in some form or other.
Jobs are in in reverse order from 2014 backwards.
City of Sydney
Town Hall House
Kent Street, Sydney
Senior Web Systems Administrator
Oct 2011 –Apr 2014
I was initially brought in to manage City of Sydney’s internal SharePoint environments, but while in-progress, the role expanded considerably, with responsibility for deployment and maintenance of internal and external IIS and SharePoint server farms. I became part of a two-man DevOps team with responsibility for all of the City’s IIS and SharePoint environments, including the critical Online Business Gateway application.
Dimension Data
Harrington Street
The Rocks
Sydney
Senior Applications Developer, SharePoint
Dec 2010 – Sept 2011
My second stint at DiData, managing three separate SharePoint 2003, 2007 and 2010 farms, migrating content from older to newer, managing underlying SQL systems and developing new solutions. Mentoring of junior staff members on SharePoint 2010 and K2 Workflow
Cargowise
Unit 3a, 72 O’Riordan Street
Alexandria
Sydney
SharePoint Specialist
Aug 2010 – Nov 2010
Managing migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, developing collaboration and social media strategy, as well as ongoing SharePoint management and development.
Antares Solutions
SharePoint Consultant
July-Aug 2010
Short term engagement consulting on SharePoint 2007 and 2010
Gen-I Pty Ltd
SharePoint Consultant
May 2010 – July 2010
Specialising in SharePoint delivery to Gen-I customers, with particular focus on migration and best practice. 3 month contract.
Fujitsu Australia Limited
Oct 2009 – May 2010
Senior Systems Engineer – SharePoint
Role involved mostly architecture, infrastructure, project forecasting and support work, though some hands-on code and customization work was required. Primarily worked with Qantas on large-scale SharePoint deployments, again who I’d worked with at Microsoft.
Dimension Data
Aug 2009 – Oct 2009
Technical Consultant, MS-AI
SharePoint technical consultant on a part-time, short-term basis. The role included onsite consultancy, presales and development, as well as infrastructure design and build. Primary client was WorkCover NSW, who I’d worked with at Microsoft.
Microsoft Pty. Ltd.
April 2005 – June 2009
2005-2007
Support Engineer, IIS and internet technologies
Supporting premier customers on Web platform issues
2007-2009
Support Engineer, SharePoint; Dedicated Support Engineer, SharePoint
Supporting Premier customers exclusively on SharePoint 2003, 2007 and client SKUs
Won several awards during tenure, including the globally visible “Great People, Great Performance” award, for SharePoint related work with Telstra. The project involved cross-team collaboration within Microsoft, liaison with Telstra and a third-party integrator, and highly detailed performance analysis and troubleshooting with C-level visibility.
Role (and entire team) was made redundant in the global round of May 2009.
Job Futures
Feb 2003 – April 2005
Application Development manager
Attik Pty Ltd
Sept 2000 – Feb 2003
Senior Web Developer
Leo Burnett
August - Sept 2000
Contract Web Developer
Orbis/E-Integration
Contract Web Developer
June-August 2000
Mallesons Stephen Jacques Solicitors
Web Database Developer
May-June 2000
Pres.co (now called Wheel)
Junior Web Developer rising to Middleweight Web Developer.
May – November 1999