Anthony McKee
Pimpama,Australia
Summary
Highly skilled IT professional with a background in Defence Systems administration, maintenance and end-user training. Accomplished in designing solutions to achieve software compatibility and streamline system upgrades and installations. Talented in administering and maintaining complex systems. Seeking to leverage comprehensive IT experience to take the next career step in systems administration with a respected organization that values hard work, strategic thinking, and results.
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Systems Administrator
oobe PTY LTD
Brisbane CBD, QLD
02.2024 - 05.2024
- Managing server infrastructure, handling user accounts, ensuring secure access, and performing regular system maintenance
- Implementing and managing identity management solutions, maintaining user accounts, roles, and permissions, and ensuring compliance with security policies.
- Developed and implemented system security policies, procedures and standards for the organization.
- Conducted regular maintenance activities on servers such as patching or cleaning up disk space usage.
- Resolved escalated tickets assigned by Service Desk team members in a timely manner according to SLA requirements.
Operational Support Engineer
Point Duty PTY LTD
Pimpama, QLD
11.2022 - 01.2024
- Operational engineer for a variety of different applications and programs currently in development and in production
- Lead engineer in a team of three that maintain and administer Virtual networks running on a variety of different platforms including RedHat Open Shift and RedHat Linux environments
- Skills used in this position include SQL, Application Security, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker Products, Bitbucket, Jira, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Red Hat Linux, Confluence.
- Participated in team meetings to discuss project progress updates.
Systems Administrator & Team leader
DEFENCE IT SYSTEMS
05.2010 - 08.2022
- Developed system documentation for the end user IOT troubleshoot the simple errors
- Designed new procedures, system documentation and workflows for equipment management and maintenance
- Worked in, and supported a team to collaborate with our developers, business partners and delivery services to end users
- Acted as a key contact for all technical enquiries related to site configuration and defect rectification
- Demonstrated ability to analyse business requirements and existing business outputs to inform and develop information architectures, data schemas and data dictionaries to achieve business outcomes
- Proven experience in developing information architectures and incorporating information capture into business processes to answer complex business and policy questions
- Lead workshops and engagements with business stakeholders to elicit, capture and document business processes, requirements, rules and acceptance criteria
- Adhere to all established processes, methodologies and procedures; contribute to the development of new work practices
- Deployed to Afghanistan for seven months in 2016 providing communication and IT support to a large team under operational conditions
- Deployed to Iraq for seven months in 2018/19 as the Information Systems Section Commander and mentor for a team of six soldiers
- I was responsible for the security and administration of Top Secret / Secret / Restricted / Unclassified networks that provide tactical and sensitive data for 500+ users
- This was under strict operational conditions with workdays of 12+ hours a day
- Knowledge in Defence ICT policy and procedures, ISM, and other Defence ICT doctrine
- Supported the Coalition Network Operations Centre on multiple Exercise Talisman Sabre and many other major ADF exercises, providing level 2/3 support for at a brigade level which included participating coalition partners
- Discharged at the rank of Corporal (senior) and have completed all relevant leadership courses associated with the rank
- Responsible for server management, systems administration, network design, staff management, compliance, IT security, hardware and software configuration and helpdesk services
- Analysed communication needs, engineered networks to meet end user needs, managed all hardware and developed network management policies
- Installed, configured and managed Active Directory, SCCM, DHCP, Group Policy, Symantec 10 and 12.5 Backup Exec, WSUS server software, Dell servers, EATON UPS, cabinet installations, tape libraries, IBM Lotus Notes 6 and 8.5, Microsoft Exchange 2016 and 2013, MSSQL, SharePoint design and administration, McAfee EPO, cabling and CISCO switches and routers including CME and CM
- Managed backups, information retrieval, restores, business continuity and disaster recovery planning
- Managed a fleet of IT equipment and deployed major system upgrades
- Actioned jobs based on priority, working with customers via telephone, face to face and by e-mail
- Established a reputation for prompt and polite service and was routinely commended for my strong interpersonal skills and for taking time out to listen to customer needs in detail to get to the bottom of problems before acting
- Responsible for the physical security of hardware and software.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Information Technology
Defence Force School of Signals
Melbourne, VICSome College (No Degree) - Information Technology
Box Hill Tafe
Melbourne, VICSkills and experience
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Course (DDLS)
- Microsoft AZ-304T00 Microsoft Azure Architect Design (DDLS)
- Microsoft MS-500T00 - Microsoft 365 Security Administration Course (DDLS)
- Microsoft AZ-500T00 - Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Course (DDLS)
- Microsoft AZ-104T00 - Microsoft Azure Administrator Course (DDLS)
- Microsoft MD-101T00 - Managing Modern Desktops Course (DDLS)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA) 2013
- RedHat Open Shift
- RedHat Linux
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Kafka
- Bitbucket
- Jira
- Exchange
- Identity and Access Management
- Office365
- Call Manager and Call Manager Express
- ForeScout
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016 and 2019.
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Active Directory.
- Group Policy.
- Failover cluster
- Splunk
- PowerShell Scripting
- Windows Deployment Services.
- IBM Lotus Domino.
- Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager. (SCCM)
- VMWare vCenter.
- McAfee EPO
- Wireless network deployment
- Secret Server course
- Tactical C2 applications
- SharePoint (Design, Content management and administration)
References
- Nathan Reinbott, Supervisor Point Duty, 0407 637 707, nathan.reinbott@pointduty.com.au
- Vikrant Deokar, Supervisor oobe, 0432 092 933, vikrant.deokar@oobe.com.au
Timeline
Systems Administrator
oobe PTY LTD
02.2024 - 05.2024
Operational Support Engineer
Point Duty PTY LTD
11.2022 - 01.2024
Systems Administrator & Team leader
DEFENCE IT SYSTEMS
05.2010 - 08.2022
Some College (No Degree) - Information Technology
Defence Force School of Signals
Some College (No Degree) - Information Technology
Box Hill Tafe
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