damion budd

senior infrastructure specialist

About

An agile problem solver leading positive change from within the organization. Supporting collaborative work processes. Embracing not reacting to change. Long term experience within a number of environments. > Dynamic time sensitive workloads at News Corp Australia. > Process driven customer service within Government and the Education Sectors. > Providing cost effective solutions within short time frames to Small & Medium business. Passionate about technology, driven to promote innovative & agile methodologies, always striving to achieve a simple is better approach. Strengths include, > Cost effective solution design & innovation. > Customer focused outcomes. > Business process design & improvement. > Virtualisation, high availability and infrastructure consolidation > Infrastructure and application monitoring. > Backup, risk mitigation & disaster recovery solutions. > Knowledge transfer and team mentoring. > Business & vendor engagement.

Country

australia

City

sydney

Industry

insurance

Skill

solution architecture, team mentoring, knowledge transfer, technical documentation, business process design, business process improvement, virtual teams, vmware infrastructure, vmware vsphere, vmware vcenter, vmware site recovery manager, hp service manager, hp server hardware, ibm san, hp eva, storage virtualization, storage architecture, brocade fibre switches, windows server, active directory, sccm, microsoft exchange, windows azure, office 365, data center infrastructure, data center virtualization, data center management, data center relocation, data center consolidation, cloud computing, ups systems, symantec antivirus, disaster recovery, disaster risk reduction, xerox printers, font management, avaya ip telephony, agfa arkitex suite, high level of confidentiality, cost effective solutions, leading positive change, dynamic communicator, vendor management, customer focused service, customer focused outcomes, keeping things simple, vmware, vmware esx, data center, infrastructure

Experience

infrastructure engineer

allianz australia limited

2017-4 - Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

senior infrastructure specialist

metricon

infrastructure specialist

wesfarmers industrial and safety

2016-1 - 2017-3 · 1 yr 3 mos

* VMware vSphere 4,5,6, Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 * Hitachi, HP, IBM FC SAN & Brocade Fabric * NetBackup 7.7.3 & Appliances 2.7.3, Microsoft DPM * SCCM 2012r2

team leader

it logic pty ltd

2015-11 - 2016-2 · 4 mos

system administrator

tafe tasmania

2003-1 - 2004-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

service desk analyst

department of education, tasmania

2002-1 - 2003-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

ict technical lead

hazell bros group

2014-7 - 2015-5 · 11 mos

* Responsibilities include * gt * Technical lead & high level direction for IT roadmap. * gt * Contributing to business case and solution design. * gt * Managing IBM blade and SAN infrastructure. * gt * Managing VMware infrastructure. * gt * Managing backup and DR infrastructure. * gt * Consolidating Vendor support and maintenance contracts. * gt * Working closing with Vendor managed services. * gt * Mentoring staff and documenting systems.

storage and ilm specialist

news corp australia

2011-1 - 2014-7 · 3 yrs 7 mos

* Responsibilities include * gt * SAN monitoring, troubleshooting & maintenance * gt * Storage provisioning (IBM, HP & NetApp hardware) * gt * Brocade fabric administration * gt * Advanced Symantec Netbackup administration and configuration * gt * VMware/Netbackup advanced troubleshooting * gt * Symantec 5XXX series appliances * gt * Symantec Backup Exec migration to Netbackup * gt * Mentoring staff and documenting systems locally and interstate * gt * 3rd level support * gt * Working closely with vendors and architecture on design, solutions and troubleshooting

senior system engineer

news corp australia

2008-1 - 2014-1 · 6 yrs 1 mo

* Responsibilities include * gt * 1st, 2nd & 3rd level support, troubleshooting and analysis via phone or onsite. * gt * Mentoring staff & documenting systems locally and interstate. * gt * Storage and ILM Administrator, responsible for SAN migration and DR site installation. * gt * VMware ESX/SRM administrator. * gt * Responsible for documentation and transition of local systems/processes to national News limited teams. * gt * Undertake 24x7 on call support as required.

system administrator

news corp australia

2006-1 - 2008-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

* Responsibilities include * gt * 1st & 2nd level support, troubleshooting and analysis via phone or onsite. * gt * Liaising with 3rd level support and or vendors to resolve ongoing software/hardware issues. * gt * Proactive maintenance of desktop fleet, physical/virtual servers, applications and HP SANs. * gt * Server installations, migration & wide scale desktop roll outs. * gt * Symantec Anti Virus CE Administration. * gt * SCCM Administration including OSD & packaging/deployment of software. * gt * Responsible for design and migration plan to VMware ESX / IBM V7000. * gt * Responsible for scoping upgrade of UPS/generator/aircon to Mercury data center. * gt * Undertake 24x7 on call support as required.

system administrator

computercorp

2005-1 - 2006-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

* Responsibilities include * gt * 1st & 2nd level support, troubleshooting and analysis via phone or onsite. * gt * Liaising with 3rd level support and or Vendors to resolve ongoing software/hardware issues. * gt * Proactive maintenance of desktop fleet, servers and backups. * gt * Server installations, migration & wide scale desktop roll outs.