Director/Senior IT Manager & Consultant

Matt is an experienced and commercially astute senior IT professional, with over 18 years of experience in diverse environments, including international placements in management and consulting roles throughout the Asia Pacific region with a wide range of practical skills established across a diverse range of industries (Defence, Commercial and Public Sectors).

He thinks outside the box’ to develop strategies that are both practical and aligned to the business objectives, ensuring cost effective solutions can be developed and delivered. He always working with the ‘big picture’ in mind, allowing the solutions to be broken down into projects that can be delivered over an appropriate timeframe and budget allocation.

He is a self-motivated and collaborative team player, who is both influential and achievement focused with the ability to work with any level of management, from the C level and board executives through to delivery and vendor resources.

Key Competencies:
- Portfolio, Program and Project management
- Business ICT strategy and investment
- Stakeholder engagement, reporting (C level) and expectation management
- Business Operations streamlining (outsourcing, benefits realisation and process improvement)
- Cloud strategy and service consumption (End user Compute, DRP)
- ICT strategy development and delivery
- Strong ability to see projects through to completion, with an excellent track record in project management to deliver projects on time, under pressure and on budget.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Management:

• Provide Staff Management, leadership, training and mentoring
• Project Management / Change Management
• Strategic planning and development for future IT path
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Contract negotiations with vendors and third party contractors    
• Building Relationships and ability to resolve conflict
• Ability to be able to promote process improvement related to IT and business requirement

General IT Skills:

• Network Design & Implementation
• Network Maintenance
• System Administration
• New office setups, including required infrastructure of data and phone systems
• Network hardware configuration
• Website Development and maintenance
• Pronto / Linux Skills
  

 Installation, Configuration and Administration of:

Ø  Microsoft Windows Server 2011, 2008, 2003, 2000 Server (Standard / SBS / Advanced Server),Virtualization / VMware, Windows NT 3.51 & 4.0

Ø  Windows7, Windows Vista, Windows ME, Windows XP Pro / Home and workstation operating systems

Ø  Standard Operating Environment (SOE) image development and rollouts

Ø  Office 2013, 2010 / 2007 / 2003 / 2000 / 97  installation, configuration etc

Ø  Data Storage and SAN’s

Ø  SQL Server / SharePoint

Ø  Windows 7, Windows XP Professional & Home, Windows Vista, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and earlier based Windows operating systems

Ø  Microsoft Exchange Server (5.5 / 2000 / 2003 / 2007 /2010)

Ø  Lotus Notes Domino Server / MDaemon Mail Server

Ø  Backup Applications – Acronis True Image, ArcServe, Backup Exec etc

Ø  Firewall & VPN Hardware and Software – Cisco, SonicWall, Guardian, Wingate, Winroute, CheckPoint

Ø  Cisco, IBM and Shiva Routers

Ø  Print Servers

Ø  VoiP systems and environments

Ø  Virtual Private Networking (VPN) configuration and maintenance.

KEY PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

Leadership:

Ø  History of excellent subordinate, management and work mate repour

Ø  Long history of excellent customer satisfaction

Ø  Focused on objective and solution orientated

Ø  Focused on task at hand

Ø  A strong belief in team work

Ø  A true team player and leader

Ø  Strong belief in open and constructive staff performance evaluations

Ø  Strong belief and history in information sharing

Ø  Strong belief in ensuring a team understanding of  “the big picture” and clear direction

Ø  Lead by example

Ø  Hands on

Communication:

Ø  Excellent presentation skills.

Ø  Extensive experience communicating technical information to people of all technical abilities ranging from CEO’s to clerks and also non English speakers of extremely little IT knowledge

Ø  Extensive staff and client training experience in variety of cultural and professional environments

Ø  Ability to communicate in all social, professional and cultural situations

Ø  Experience preparing technical reports, SLA’s and user manuals for non technical people

Ø  Experience dealing with Royal Malaysian Navy for project detailing

Committed:

Ø  An honest commitment to my work and responsibilities

Ø  Committed to seeing a task through to completion

Ø  Commitment to thoroughness

Ø  Commitment to a team work

Ø  Commitment to meeting deadlines

Ø  Commitment to subordinate development