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Benjamin Molloy, Infrastructure Architect

Benjamin Molloy

Infrastructure Architect·Quest (questapartments.com

Australia

Master's degree, Computijng Science

Work experience

Total years of experience: 17 years, 4 months

Infrastructure Architect

August 2013 - November 2013

Quest (questapartments.com

August 2013 - November 2013

During this role I was responsible for producing the acceptable separation documentation (including migration testing), High Level Design and Detailed Level Design documents for the target state hybrid cloud infrastructure. I maintained a healthy 50/50 split between design and hands on and made sure everything was implemented correctly by myself and the engineers, following Microsoft Best Practice and the impact to end users was at a minimum.
The environment consists of 8, 000 seats.
Job role:
Information Technology

Infrastructure Architect

April 2013 - August 2013

Microsof

April 2013 - August 2013

APN Outdoor has recently been sold by its parent company, APN News and Media privately including all subsidiary companies including GSP Print. All of the IT infrastructure was mostly located in the APN parent company and as a result all of the child companies had to be separated from APN to have individual environments.

It was decided to have a hybrid cloud environment with 80% of the infrastructure being cloud-based and a combination of
Company industry:
Sales Outsourcing
Job role:
Information Technology

Infrastructure Architect

March 2013 - April 2013

ALKO (alko.com

March 2013 - April 2013

ALKO traditionally have always upgraded their infrastructure in line with the release of new Microsoft technologies and as such an uplift of their mail environment was necessary. My job at ALKO was to design, implement and migrate their Exchange environment from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013.

The target state Exchange environment consisted of 3 servers and 600 seats.
Job role:
Information Technology

Infrastructure Architect

July 2012 - August 2012

Trans urban (transurban.com)

July 2012 - August 2012

Transurban have recently implemented SCCM 2007, which had not been architected in line with Microsoft Best practices, and re-architecture and proper documentation was therefore necessary.

Role & Responsibilities:
During my tenure I was responsible for producing acceptable SCCM 2007 R3 documentation and implementing an SCCM infrastructure in line with Microsoft Best practices. I was also responsible for overseeing packaging of applications and testing application compatibility.
Job role:
Information Technology

Infrastructure Architect

January 2012 - June 2012

NewSat Limited (newsat.com)

January 2012 - June 2012

During the earlier part of 2011 NewSat Limited was audited by an authorised third party auditing company (as they are a public listed company on the ASX). This audit included the auditing of the current Microsoft Infrastructure. It was thought necessary to uplift their current infrastructure to current Microsoft technology versions of Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange and to implement SCCM 2007 R3 into their environment.

In order to adhere to the Public Listed ASX company standards it was necessary to employ a Microsoft Infrastructure Architect.

Role & Responsibilities:
During my tenure I was responsible for producing an Active Directory Current State Audit document and Designing high level and detailed level Active Directory 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange 2010 and SCCM 2007 R3 design documents. Once the documents had been completed and sign-off had been completed I was solely responsible for implementing my designs.
Job role:
Information Technology

Infrastructure Architect

August 2010 - November 2011

REA Group (realestate.com

August 2010 - November 2011

During the earlier part of 2011 REA Group was audited by an authorised third party auditing company (as they are a public listed company on the ASX). This audit included the auditing of the current Microsoft Infrastructure, which revealed a lot of inconsistencies and security risks within the Active Directory environment.

In order to adhere to the Public Listed ASX company standards it was necessary to employ an Active Directory Specialist.

Role & Responsibilities:
During my tenure I was responsible for producing an Active Directory Current State Audit document and Designing high level and detailed level Active Directory design documents. Once the documents had been completed and sign-off had been completed I was solely responsible for implementing my design.
Job role:
Information Technology

Client

April 2011 - August 2011

Microsof

April 2011 - August 2011

February 2011 Visy underwent an audit with
Company industry:
Sales Outsourcing
Job role:
Customer Service and Call Center

Infrastructure Architect

August 2010 - March 2011

NAB - Goldman Sachs

August 2010 - March 2011

One of the first key deliverables in the Infrastructure arena was the creation and delivery of artefacts for Goldman Sachs that articulated the business requirements, strategies and approaches for their own Active Directory environment. These Detailed Level Designs formed the basis of that communication to Goldman Sachs.

Role & Responsibilities:
High Level Design
Detailed Level Design
Migration Strategy
Testing Procedure
Risks and Environmental Assessment


Activities:
Technical consulting lead architect to deliver design and implementation of Microsoft Exchange 2010 in a virtualised environment.
Technical consulting lead architect to deliver design and implementation of Microsoft Active Directory 2008 R2 in a virtualised environment.
Technical consulting lead architect to deliver design and implementation of Microsoft
System Centre Configuration Manager in a virtualised environment.
Technical consulting lead architect to deliver design and implementation of BlackBerry Enterprise Server in a clustered array.
Provision of customer documentation to a high standard to support customer engagements.
Assistance with Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange email migration and associated Blackberry Enterprise Service troubleshooting for an Australian manufacturing company
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Consultant

April 2010 - August 2010

Hewlett Packard Company

India

April 2010 - August 2010

Role & Responsiblities:
Technical consulting lead to deliver design and implementation of ISA 2006 Clustered Array in a virtualised environment for an Australian manufacturing company.
Provision of customer documentation to a high standard to support customer engagements.
Presales support to HP services sales organisation.
Assistance with Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange email migration and associated Blackberry Enterprise Service troubleshooting for an Australian manufacturing company
Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Solutions Architect

January 2010 - March 2010

CenITex

January 2010 - March 2010

Active Directory and SOE (Contract)


Role & Responsiblities:
Solutions Architect for the Active Directory migration design for CenITex. This included full documentation of the proposed solution, testing processes and high level and detailed designs and also included testing procedures.
Solutions Architect for the SOE design for CenITex. This included full documentation of the proposed solution, testing processes and high level and detailed designs and also included testing procedures.
Implementation of Windows 7 SOE into Citrix VDI virtualised environment.
Company industry:
Public Administration
Job role:
Information Technology

Infrastructure Consultant

January 2006 - January 2010

Starcom Group (a Pisces Group Company)

January 2006 - January 2010

Role & Responsibilities:
Infrastructure Architect for the Active Directory design for large Australian confectionary and soft drink manufacturer. This included full documentation of the proposed solution, testing processes and high and detailed designs
Design and Implementation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) for a large Melbourne based financial institution.
This comprised custom web parts for document management and document
expiration customisation for legal documents.
Design and Implementation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) for AL-KO International, a global manufacturing company.
This comprised custom web parts for document management and customer tracking
and service databases.
Microsoft Case Study for the design and implementation of Microsoft SMS 2003 at NSW Ambulance Service (300 sites)
Design and Implementation of Microsoft SMS for St George Bank for deployment of patches
and applications to their 1000+ server fleet
Job role:
Information Technology

Client

July 2005 - October 2005

United Arab Emirates

July 2005 - October 2005

Job role:
Customer Service and Call Center

Consultant

March 2005 - July 2005

Logica CMG

March 2005 - July 2005

Windows 2003 upgrade project - Yarra Valley Water Responsibilities:
During this role I was employed as a senior Windows server consultant (project resource) to work on various 2003 upgrade related projects, including SOE build for servers and related design of these environments.
Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Network Engineer

November 2004 - March 2005

Newcrest Mining

November 2004 - March 2005

Company industry:
Mining & Quarrying
Job role:
Information Technology

Engineer

October 2004 - November 2004

ANI Intellec

October 2004 - November 2004

Job role:
Engineering

Engineer

September 2004 - October 2004

Mercer Super Trus

September 2004 - October 2004

Role & Responsibilities:
Support and administration of approximately 35 sites for some of Australia’s largest firms.
One focus of my roll was to implement strategies to solve ongoing website coding problems. The strategies were put in place and the problems were solved. I also was involved in a global 2003 Active Directory upgrade.
Job role:
Engineering

Services engineer

July 2004 - September 2004

Telstra BigPond

July 2004 - September 2004

Role & Responsibilities:
My responsibilities included administration and support of Narrowband (dial-up), Broadband (ADSL) and Bigpond websites, including DNS.
I was involved in a project to upgrade two NT 4.0 domains (our admin domain and resource domain) into one 2003 A/D domain (one domain was upgraded and the resource domain were retired). There are approximately 200 member servers and 20 dc’s.
In addition to this I ran / administered my own web services company. This consisted of five servers running Red Hat ES 3.0, BIND 9, Apache 2.0.46 and SendMail. These servers were remotely administered from the command line and are racked with Comindico in their North Melbourne Data Centre. The Company URL is www.rapidaxcess.com.au
Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Engineering

Engineer

September 2003 - June 2004

IAG (Insurance Australia Group)

September 2003 - June 2004

My responsibilities included administration of the 2000/2003 Active Directory infrastructure and implementation of projects into a 2003 environment. I was also in a team of administrators for a Citirx farm (XPe) of 30 servers.
Job role:
Engineering

Senior Systems Administrator

August 1999 - August 2003

Maersk Sealand

August 1999 - August 2003

Role & Responsibilities:
My responsibilities included the overseeing of the day to day operation whilst responsible for the entire Maersk Australia IT Department.
Company industry:
Shipping
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Technician

October 1998 - August 1999

Regal D

October 1998 - August 1999

also installed and managed Citrix NFUSE and Citrix XP s for remote and small offices. Projects that I ran solo in the Australian branch:
Set up from scratch New Balance warehouse in Footscray, Melbourne.
Set up Citrix environment for New Balance warehouse (NFUSE and Citrix XP s)
Head Office relocation from Australia Square building to Elizabeth Street (75 users)
Office relocation from Mascot to Mascot West (50 users)
Brisbane office move (20 users)
Global Active Directory rollout (326 offices worlwide)
Global Exchange 2000 rollout (326 office worldwide
Company industry:
Hospitality & Accomodation
Job role:
Maintenance, Repair, and Technician

Network Operator

September 1997 - October 1998

Fujitsu

United Arab Emirates

September 1997 - October 1998

Role & Responsibilities:
In this position I was a member of a team of four Network Operators who were primarily responsible for offering contracted support to the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority. This network consisted of 270 sites, having 290 routers running over two networks (Drives system and the corporate Roads network).
Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Technician

November 1995 - September 1997

HCOA (Health Care of Australia)

November 1995 - September 1997

Role & Responsibilities:
Extensive experience with hardware (PC’s) and connection to networks. Offered 3rd level support and remained on call 24hrs for the duration of my employment with this company. I performed tasks such as building PC’s, repairing PC’s and installing PC’s onto the network. I administered two Digital servers with Digital alpha UNIX running a medical application written in MUMPS.
This role also involved the maintenance / upgrade of PC’s and printers, CAT-5 cabling / patch
leads and installation, installing network cards and other hardware.
At a later stage, approximately 6 months after employment, I commenced building PC’s for the company. During the course of my employment I worked mainly unsupervised.
Job role:
Maintenance, Repair, and Technician

Consultant

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Role & Responsibilities:
During this role I was employed as a senior Windows server consultant (senior project resource) in a backfill role to work on various 2003 upgrade related projects, including SOE build for servers, upgrades and migrations of Exchange and Windows server 2003. I was also the senior consultant for a web server implementation project.
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Network Engineer

-

Citrix

Germany

-

offering specialist services based around Windows 2003, Active Directory and Exchange

Role & Responsibilities:
Working in a team of 12 my role as Senior Network Engineer was to offer specialist services based around Windows 2003, Active Directory and Exchange. The projects included the implementation of a new Windows 2003 SOE to centralize 10 sites (4000 users) and to relocate to a new data centre (co-location) in Melbourne. My role also covered software migrations, new hardware roll-outs and upgrades of Exchange,
Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

NSW Institute of Technology

October 1995

October 1995

Master's degree, Computijng Science

Australia

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