July 2006 - Onwards
PricewaterhouseCoopers (Click for link)
Auckland, New Zealand
Business Assurance - Data Management (January 2007 - Present)
Business Assurance - Systems and Process Assurance (July 2006 - January 2007)

• Responsibilities:

End to end coordination and management of jobs, supervision and review of work performed, coaching and training of staff.

• List of my clients (click for link)

May 2006 - July 2006
IT Nexus (Click for link)
Auckland, New Zealand

• Responsibilities:
I worked for a month at a startup Wireless Internet Service Provider. I was involved with creating company structures, billing and setting up of long range wireless networks and nodes.

April 2006 - May 2006
WiMan (Click for link)
Auckland, New Zealand

• Responsibilities:
I worked for a month at a startup Wireless Internet Service Provider. I was involved with creating company structures, billing and setting up of long range wireless networks and nodes.

Aug 2005 – Sept 2005
Institute of Information Sciences and Technology (Click for link)
Massey University , Palmerston North, New Zealand

• Responsibilities:
Lecturing, Lab preparation, tutoring and organisation of labs for paper.

I was asked to lecture for a week for the paper Architecture and Networks during my masters. The paper was a second semester 3rd year engineering paper and consisted of approximately 80 students.

In addition to lecturing for the week that the lecturer was away at a conference, I was asked to conduct five weeks (Ten 3 hour labs a week) of computer labs for the paper.

Mar 2005 – June 2005
Institute of Information Sciences and Technology
Massey University , Palmerston North, New Zealand

• Responsibilities:
Lab preparation, tutoring and organisation of labs for paper.

While working on my masters, I worked part time for my Institute for the first semester 3rd year paper; Web Technologies. I was in charge of conducting workshops for students to learn about computer hardware and software.

There were four labs run, with topics varying from learning about computer hardware, to installing Operating systems like Windows 2000 and Red Hat Linux, in addition to being taught about networking and performance aspects of computers.

March 2003 – July 2004
Institute of Natural Resources (Click for link)
Massey University , Palmerston North, New Zealand

•  Responsibilities:
Computer Lab Administrator, IT Systems Consultant & GIS (Geographical Information Systems) Systems Administrator.

My responsibilities were the Institute of Natural Resources (INR) computer labs and GIS labs containing approximately 100 workstations and 10 file, web and application/licensing servers. I headed the requirements elicitation and management of allocated projects on time and within budget

Computer Lab Administrator:

- Management of Server and Client Machines for Institute of Natural Resources
- Troubleshooting/helpdesk
- Requirements elicitation and decision making for hardware and software procurement
- Hiring out and logging of departmental hardware (laptops, projectors etc.)

IT Systems Consultant:

- HTML projects
- Wireless projects and security

GIS Systems Administrator:

- Management of Server and Client Machines for GIS computer labs
- Troubleshooting/helpdesk
- Construction and maintenance of servers and high end graphics workstations
- Requirements elicitation and decision making for hardware procurement
- GIS webmaster. Management of Atlas mapping system
- Database management of ortho photos, topographical maps, vector data and satellite imagery
- Rectification of satellite and aerial imagery data

Projects:

- Software migration of servers from older O/S'es to Windows 2003 Server
- Hardware upgrades of multiple File and Licensing servers
- Requirements elicitation and decision making for hardware and software procurement
- I streamlined the licensing and setup of GIS systems at Massey University . My documentation and setup protocols are still being used for all GIS systems at Massey University
- Updating/fixing GIS website and imagery database
- Rectification of satellite and aerial photography of flooding in the Manawatu region from Horizons Regional Council
- Computer audit of hardware and software in labs
- Documentation of network topology of labs

References (Click on link to view):

Kevin Harris Certificate of Experience

Kevin Harris Reference

Mike Tuohy Reference

Dec 2002 – Feb 2003
Serco Project Eng. Ltd (Click for link)
Trentham Army Camp Wellington , New Zealand

•  Responsibilities:
Network Administration, Systems Administration, Computer training of employees, trouble shooting/Help desk, Maintaining National Security, backup of vital information and disaster mitigation, procurement of computer hardware and software, documentation.

I worked with SPEL who are in charge of the logistics systems for the N.Z Army.

I was solely in charge of the IT infrastructure for a week when both Army Administrators were on leave.

Projects:

- Organised the sale of old computer hardware to employees to improve morale (hardware sold at below cost price) and computer literacy. This involved making sure that an inventory was done, the computers were secure (all information was erased permanently), finalising the sale and receipt of goods, and documentation.

- Conducted a detailed computer hardware and software audit and created documentation that made the location of hardware, maintenance and licensing of software for SPEL more efficient.

- Developed and implemented a daily staff training scheme, which included setting up the training machines and lab in addition to developing and teaching week long computer courses to improve staff computer literacy. In addition I created documentation that could be used by others to run further courses.

References (Click on link to view):

Malcolm Hansen

Feb 2001 – Feb 2002
Dick Smith Electronics (Click for link)
Palmerston North, New Zealand

•  Responsibilities:
Customer Service, cash transactions, stocktaking, stock ordering, servicing computers.

- Achieved 2nd highest sales for the country in June 2001

Nov 2000 – Feb 2001
Nico International (Click for link)
Dubai , U.A.E

•  Responsibilities:
IT Co-ordinator & IT Systems Administrator, trouble shooting/Help desk, IT budget control, IT hardware and software procurement.

I signed on as a trainee at Nico International Dubai, and was responsible for approximately 100 computers (their use varying from accounts to Ship building and design). A month into my working at Nico, the two IT managers left the company, leaving me the only person in charge of the IT department for three weeks.

Projects:

- Auditing of hardware and software
- Disaster recovery from a recent hardware failure of server
- Backup of vital data

References (Click on link to view):

Daniel Handley

Gerhard EygeLaar