Welcome to Sweet As Chocolate
I am an IT Solution Architect, Infrastructure Architect,
Principal Engineer and Senior Systems Engineer with 25+ years experience |
Solution Architect |
Infrastructure Architect |
I've worked for 8 years at 2degrees, a large New Zealand full service telco and performed due diligence during their purchase of Snap Internet (an ISP). I migrated Customer Care to a new IVR platform which I built amongst myriad other projects.
Dev/Ops Automation EngineerI've used PowerShell DSC to Build and Configure a 12x DC and 2-Tier PKI Infrastructure for a Public Cloud Provider and automated many processes. I have a library of thousands of scripts.
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I have experience with IBM and Dell EMC SAN's, HP StoreAll NAS, Commvault, Commvault Hyperscale Hyper-Converged Infrasturcture, VMware ESX from at least version 3 to 6.5, Hyper-V from it's time as Microsoft Virtual Server, Microsoft Azure, Azure AD, Conditional Access, Azure Apps, Azure Blob, Cloudflare, Dev Ops, PowerShell, Automation, Desired State Configuration (DSC), Authentication, AWS, ADFS, MFA, 2FA, Agile environments amongst many others.
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Telco ExperienceSee my resume for more information.
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Hedge FundsI worked in London with a number of Hedge Funds and Art Galleries, Publishers and others and consulted with a Swiss Merchant bank based in Lugano for an Exchange migration.
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PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) - Policy Driven Infrastructure aka Infrastructure as Code experience in an extremely large multi-forest, multi-country, multi-company infrastructure with in excess of 17,000 servers.
ITIL certified (ITIL V3 Foundation)
Kepner Tregoe KT Resolve Problem Management certified
Kepner Tregoe KT Resolve Problem Management certified
I am a highly skilled Solution Architect with a Bachelors degree in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Auckland (BSc.).
I have 25+ years of experience in IT on 3 continents and have spent 8 years as the Microsoft Solutions & Data Protection Architect at the large New Zealand telco 2degrees.
I have 25+ years of experience in IT on 3 continents and have spent 8 years as the Microsoft Solutions & Data Protection Architect at the large New Zealand telco 2degrees.
The Person You Need to Succeed
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