Peta Nicholson
Sydney,NSW
Summary
Cyber Security, Governance & Cloud Specialist Successfully leading and mentoring teams to deliver the best customer experiences. Committed and customer-oriented Cyber Security, Governance & Cloud Specialist knowledgeable in developing and implementing successful business solutions that drive productivity and growth. Excellent communication skills, ability to produce strategic plans for a diverse range of customers and requirements. With more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry across all sectors. Dedicated architect with several years of experience leading and collaborating with professionals on extensive technical designs. Presents in-depth technological knowledge to satisfy up-to-date guidelines for project road mapping, launch and provisioning. Resourceful expertise bolstering organization's IT deployment performance. Organized approach to balancing project-management tasks.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Presales Lead Architect
Digital61
2024.12 - 2025.06
- Designing and writing policies for DISP, PSPF, E8, and other regulatory requirements.
- Mentoring and leading senior and junior staff members.
- Regulatory and compliance consulting and review across government and defence departments.
- Solution design and review of all solutions for security, Microsoft 365, Azure and AWS.
- Regular reporting and presentations to all levels of management.
- Delivery of proposals, to match customer requirements.
- Contract
Cyber Security Lead
QBE
2024.03 - 2024.12
- Mentoring and leading junior cyber and project members.
- Secure by Design and Secure in Run consulting and review.
- Regulatory and compliance consulting and review.
- Solution design review for Microsoft 365 and Azure.
- Global project consulting and advisory across all cyber security services.
- Penetration and security testing and findings consulting and review.
- Regular reporting and presentations to all levels of management.
- Contract
Principal Consultant – Pre Sales
Wipro Shelde Australia
2022.02 - 2024.03
- Mentoring and leading junior staff, running project teams.
- Presales engagements across all cyber security practices.
- Leading the Microsoft engagement and GTM strategy.
- Designing GTM across cyber security & risk services.
- Solution designs for Microsoft 365, Azure, and AWS.
- Regulatory and compliance consulting, reviews, and policy writing.
- Tender, proposal, SOW, preparation, and pricing ownership.
- Service catalogue creation and review.
- Customer roadshows.
- Contract
Corporate IT Architect
Tyro Payments
2021.09 - 2022.02
- Lead and mentor support staff.
- Ownership of Azure and Microsoft 365 environment.
- Security assessments for all Microsoft cloud services.
- Coordinate and work with Security team on projects.
- Develop roadmap for Corporate IT Services.
- Design and implement Azure App Proxy, Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Autopilot, and JAMF solutions.
- Documentation for all solutions, designs, and implementations.
- License audit and uplift - Microsoft cloud and on premises.
- Contract
Lead Microsoft Architect EUT
NBNCo Limited
2021.05 - 2021.09
- Manage and lead support staff that maintain the Microsoft 365 services.
- Develop road maps, improvements, and efficiencies for EUT Services.
- Provide Technical Governance over the Microsoft 365 environment.
- Develop and design solutions which meet requirements while aligning to standards and policies.
- Business Continuity planning and operational risk management for end user technologies.
- Service ownership of key service in the Microsoft 365 environment.
- Contract
Domain Architect - Workplace
Vodafone
2020.02 - 2021.05
- Leadership responsibilities and mentoring of junior staff.
- Ownership of Microsoft cloud services.
- Business and Vendor engagements.
- Security best practices recommendations and implementations.
- Solution designs for Azure, Microsoft 365, and Enterprise Mobility + Security.
- Cloud auditing, reporting and recommendations.
- Process and procedure development, documentation, and implementation.
- Implementation of Intune, Autopilot, Defender, MIP, Azure App Proxy, Azure AD SSO.
- Contract
Cloud Practice Lead
BEarena (ASI Solutions)
2017.08 - 2020.02
- Cloud practice setup, cloud solution set development and marketing.
- Development of sales staff and engineering staff and upskilling.
- Cloud based solution designs for Azure, Microsoft 365, and Enterprise Mobility + Security.
- Customer engagements, pre-sales meetings, requirements collection, and solution design.
- Proposal, RFP, RFQ, Scope of Work and quote preparation.
- Process and procedure development, documentation, and implementation.
- Contract
Technical Solutions Consultant
XCentral
2015.10 - 2017.04
- Customer engagements, pre-sales meetings, requirements collection, solution design.
- Cloud based solution designs, readiness and usage reviews for Azure and Office 365.
- Digital transformation discovery workshops.
- Proposal, RFP, Scope of Work, Managed Services contracts and quote preparation.
- Cloud solution set development, marketing and sales administration staff training.
- Contract
Senior Project Engineer
Accucom
2012.08 - 2015.10
- Telstra Channel Partner project management, pre-sales, and customer engagement.
- Presales meetings, requirements collection and design.
- Cloud implementations, transitions and migrations.
- IT infrastructure auditing, reporting and recommendations, project management, reporting and delivery.
- Process and procedure documentation uplift and template creation.
- Contract
Senior Wintel Engineer/Project Manager
Ventyx (Mincom)
2011.10 - 2012.06
- Infrastructure project management, reporting and delivery.
- Service recovery planning and testing, transition projects into BAU support.
- SOE design, implementation, and documentation.
- Contract
Wintel Engineer
BPAY
2011.07 - 2011.09
- Desktop replacement project.
- WINTEL review/best practice audit.
- Contract
Senior Support Technician
First Focus
2011.04 - 2011.06
- IT&T environment audit including hardware, software, network, data, and documentation.
- Procedure and process improvement, documentation development and implementation.
- SOE development and implementation for server and desktop.
- Disaster Recovery recommendations, planning, setup, and testing.
- Transition of Recove role to First Focus.
- Contract
Senior Systems Admin
The Recovre Group
2009.02 - 2011.04
- IT&T environment audit including hardware, software, network, data, and documentation.
- Procedure and process improvement, documentation development and implementation.
- SOE development and implementation for server and desktop.
- Disaster Recovery recommendations, planning, setup, and testing.
- Transition of Recovre role to First Focus.
- Contract
Infrastructure Analyst
BIGW
2008.09 - 2009.01
- Build, support of and troubleshooting of lab environments.
- AD, Group Policy and DNS setup and testing, VMware server builds, support, and troubleshooting.
- Contract
Infrastructure Support Engineer
Allianz Australia
2006.04 - 2008.06
- Data Centre and office relocations planning, setup, implementation, and testing.
- Disaster Recovery recommendations, planning, setup, and testing.
- Contract
IS Support Specialist
Westrac
2004.02 - 2006.04
- Server setup, installation, and configuration, SOE creation and implementation.
- Implementation of companywide custom applications, setup, testing and rollout.
- Contract
2nd Level Support Analyst
Thomson Legal & Regulatory
2003.10 - 2003.12
- Desktop support.
- Contract
IS Project Team Engineer
Chandler Macleod
2000.08 - 2003.10
- Office upgrades, relocations and openings.
- AD, Domain and Exchange merger, integration and cut over.
- Contract
Desktop Support Engineer
Thomson Legal & Regulatory
1998.08 - 2000.08
- Y2K Project support and administration.
- Desktop Support.
- Contract
Education
Master of Information Technology - Virtualisation & Cloud Computing
Charles Sturt University
Bachelor of Information Technology - IT Management
Charles Sturt University
Certificate IV in IT - PC Support
TAFE
Certificate III in IT -
TAFE
Statement of Attainment - Computer Comms Technology
TAFE
Skills
- Leading and mentoring teams
- Team leadership
- Consulting and advisory
- Governance, risk, and compliance
- Regulatory compliance
- Solution design
- Security assessments
- Cloud services management
- GTM product strategy
- Auditing and reporting
- RFP, RFQ, proposals, SOW
- Vendor management
- Project management
- Process and procedure uplift
- Critical infrastructure
- Security baselines
- Public, private, hybrid cloud
- M365, Azure, and AWS
- Backup, BCP, DR
- Stakeholder engagement
- Security best practices
- Stakeholder communication
- Technology roadmapping
- Requirements gathering
- Customer support
- IT strategy development
- Solution architecture
- Technical leadership
Certification
- MCSA Microsoft Office 365
- Azure Fundamentals
- M365 Fundamentals
- Netskope
- Zscaler
- Check Point CloudGuard
References
Available upon request.
Projects
Presales Lead Architect - Digital61 Dec 24 – Jun 25 (Contract), Cyber Security Lead - QBE Mar 24 – Dec 24 (Contract), Principal Consultant – Pre Sales - Wipro Shelde Australia Feb 22 – Mar 24, Corporate IT Architect - Tyro Payments - Sep 21 – Feb 22 (Contract), Lead Microsoft Architect EUT - NBNCo Limited - May 21 – Sep 21, Domain Architect – Workplace - Vodafone - Feb 20 – May 21 (Contract), Cloud Practice Lead – BEarena (ASI Solutions) - Aug 17 – Feb 20, Technical Solutions Consultant - XCentral - Oct 15 - Apr 17, Senior Systems Engineer – Projects - Accucom Systems Integration - Aug 12 - Oct 15, Senior Wintel Engineer/Project Manager - Ventyx (Mincom) - Oct 11 - Jun 12 (Contract), Wintel Engineer - BPAY - Jul 11 - Sep 11, Senior System Administrator - The Recovre Group - Feb 09 - Jun 11 (Contract), Infrastructure Analyst - BIG W - Sep 08 - Jan 09 (Contract), Infrastructure Support Engineer - Allianz Australia - Apr 06 - Jun 08, IS Support Specialist - Westrac - Feb 04 - Apr 06, 2nd Level Support Analyst - Thomson Legal & Regulatory - Oct 03 - Dec 03 (Contract), IS Project Team Engineer - Chandler Macleod - Aug 00 - Oct 03, Desktop Support Engineer - Thomson Legal & Regulatory - Aug 98 - Aug 00
Timeline
Presales Lead Architect
Digital61
2024.12 - 2025.06
Cyber Security Lead
QBE
2024.03 - 2024.12
Principal Consultant – Pre Sales
Wipro Shelde Australia
2022.02 - 2024.03
Corporate IT Architect
Tyro Payments
2021.09 - 2022.02
Lead Microsoft Architect EUT
NBNCo Limited
2021.05 - 2021.09
Domain Architect - Workplace
Vodafone
2020.02 - 2021.05
Cloud Practice Lead
BEarena (ASI Solutions)
2017.08 - 2020.02
Technical Solutions Consultant
XCentral
2015.10 - 2017.04
Senior Project Engineer
Accucom
2012.08 - 2015.10
Senior Wintel Engineer/Project Manager
Ventyx (Mincom)
2011.10 - 2012.06
Wintel Engineer
BPAY
2011.07 - 2011.09
Senior Support Technician
First Focus
2011.04 - 2011.06
Senior Systems Admin
The Recovre Group
2009.02 - 2011.04
Infrastructure Analyst
BIGW
2008.09 - 2009.01
Infrastructure Support Engineer
Allianz Australia
2006.04 - 2008.06
IS Support Specialist
Westrac
2004.02 - 2006.04
2nd Level Support Analyst
Thomson Legal & Regulatory
2003.10 - 2003.12
IS Project Team Engineer
Chandler Macleod
2000.08 - 2003.10
Desktop Support Engineer
Thomson Legal & Regulatory
1998.08 - 2000.08
Master of Information Technology - Virtualisation & Cloud Computing
Charles Sturt University
Bachelor of Information Technology - IT Management
Charles Sturt University
Certificate IV in IT - PC Support
TAFE
Certificate III in IT -
TAFE
Statement of Attainment - Computer Comms Technology
TAFE