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Stephen Ollis's Bio:
Stephen Ollis's Experience:
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Senior Escalation Engineer at Riverbed Technology
December 2012 - Present | Sydney, AustraliaSupport of Steelhead, Stingray Traffic Manager, Stingray Application Firewall, Stingray Aptimizer, Whitewater and Granite products. Internal support of test lab, and associated VMware and networking infrastructure.
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Data Centre Administrator at Oriel Technologies
April 2010 - December 2012Provide systems management of Managed / Hosted Services infrastructure, across three data centers in Sydney metropolitan area. Provide capacity planning, forecasting and budgeting for internal and external customers on hosted environment. Provide Tier-3 support for VMWARE Systems and VDI (View 4.5), Citrix, RSA SecurID, Exchange 2003/2010, MSSQL 2005/2008, HP Blade Servers, EVA 4x00 (Fibre Channel), LeftHand (iSCSI), 3PAR (iSCSI and Fibre Channel), Brocade Fibre Switching, Cisco switching + routing + firewalls Promoted to IT Manager, giving principal authority over direction, design and deployment of internal Oriel IT Systems including Cisco VoIP solution, using IPFX management solutions.
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Manager, Technology Services at Hillsong Church
January 2003 - October 2009Responsible for the provision of all Technology Solutions for Hillsong Church in Australia, including Web Services, Database, Analytics, Helpdesk, Desktop, LAN, WAN, Voice over IP and Video over IP. Budgetary responsibility for all data and voice communication, and IT infrastructure for 17 sites, 650 desktops, 1500 users, >30 servers. Staff responsibility for 6 full time staff and up to 50 volunteers.
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Manager, STAC at Ozemail
1999 - 2002Led a team of 14, supporting the customer-facing Solaris and BSDi systems for OzEmail. This included: - Email - Personal Web Services - Corporate Web Services - LDAP / Radius - DNS - FTP - NetApp Filers - NetApp Proxies - Foundry ServerIron L4 load balancers - Monitoring and Alerting - Database (Oracle, SyBase) Provided Tier 3 support for Systems related issues in OzEmail infrastructure. Involved in the core team for achieving initial ISO 9001 accreditation.
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Manager, Systems TAC at UUNET
1999 - 2002 -
Systems Engineer at AT&T Easylink
1996 - 1999AT&T Easylink Services Provide management of legacy AT&T EDI systems, while developing new Inter-based business- to-business EDI solutions, as well as providing IP Service Provider functionality to a wide range of Australian clients. Corporate Security: Configuration, management and monitoring of CISCO PIX firewalls and routers for Corporate LAN. Network Monitoring: Setup, populated and managed a HP OpenView networking monitoring system, and integration of Open Source Pager/SMS gateway for alerting to on-call engineers. Software Development: Software development in C, of pilot Business-To-Business EDI product on Digital Alpha OSF hardware platforms
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Customer Support Specialist at DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
1989 - 1995Provide product support for commercial, educational and government clients for any/all DIGITAL products running on Digital VAX/VMS, Digital Ultrix and Digital UNIX/OSF platforms. Specifically focused on software related to PC/MAC Desktop file/print services and mainframe database integration
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Systems Engineer at TAFENET
1987 - 1988 -
Computer Operator at ACIRL
1986 - 1987 -
Computer Operator at Tafenet
1985 - 1986
Stephen Ollis's Education:
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Newcastle Christian Life Academy
1980 – 1986Higher School Certificate
Stephen Ollis's Interests & Activities:
Virtualisation, Emerging Technologies, Anything-AsAService, Music, Cooking