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Scott Dash

Edithvale,VIC

Summary

Results-oriented professional with robust background in product engineering and agile frameworks. Known for fostering team collaboration and adapting technical solutions to accelerate business outcomes. Reliable in adapting to evolving requirements and prioritizing key deliverables, showcasing strong ability to manage stakeholder expectations. Extensive history engineering infrastructure and cloud-native technologies.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Product Owner

Telstra Limited
03.2018 - 12.2024
  • Technical Product Owner for Telstra Programmable Network (TPN) - Self service Software Defined Network (SDN) and Virtual Network Function (VNF) hosting Environment.
  • Technical Product Owner Telstra Cloud Gateway - Automated network connectivity for public Cloud tenancies (AWS, Azure and IBM).
  • Management of >50 developers, engineers and 24/7 service desk across Australia, EU and India.
  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery;
  • Responsibilities for end-to-end budget, development and prioritisation of front end, backend, network and compute infrastructure (physical and virtual) across 26 global sites.
  • Key Technologies: OpenFlow, OpenStack, AWS, Ansible, Terraform ,Cisco NSO, Juniper and Cisco Routing & Switching environemnts.
  • Implemented a follow the sun support model with staff located across Australia, EU and India reducing incident resolution time and budget by 30% and 50% respectively.
  • Manage complex sales escalations for enterprise customers.
  • Collaborate with partners and customers to identify and share best practices. Facilitate workshops and conducted research to identify innovative solutions and process improvements.
  • Managed backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
  • Fostered culture of continuous improvement, encouraging team feedback and implementing process enhancements.

Senior Solutions Architect

Telstra Limited
04.2017 - 03.2018
  • Responsible for requirements gathering and architecture solution definition of cloud and infrastructure platforms.
  • Led cross-functional teams to deliver complex IT solutions on schedule and within budget.
  • Architectural, design and implementation of Telstra Google Cloud Platform; cloud connectivity, standards, governance and consumption modelling.
  • Engage with leadership team to synchronise the technical roadmaps with the business strategy.
  • Collaborate application and group owners to develop cloud migration strategy.
  • Architecture, design and implementation of public Cloud private connectivity.
  • Design and Implementation of Telstra VMware ‘As-a-Service’ ESX and NSX platform - fully automated deployment and lifecycle of VMware ESX and NSX environments across multiple data centres.

Platform Lead

Telstra Limited
08.2012 - 04.2017
  • Leader engineer for Telstra's largest virutalisation platforms (VMware and Oracle OVM), responsible for >1000 physical hosts and >8000 virtual workloads spanning 6 data centres.
  • Manage level 4 engineering and support for virtualisation and Operating System (OS) Standard Operating Environment (SOE).
  • End to end life cycle of physical infrastructure, virtualisation environments (VMware and Oracle OVM).
  • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.

Solutions Designer

Telstra Limited
02.2011 - 08.2012
  • Delivered designs for Enterprise Data warehouse solutions build around Teradata, SQL, Dataflux and ERWin data modeler.
  • Provided solutions design around package and deployment of desktop applications via Citrix Virtual Apps.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science -

Monash University
Clayton
01.2010

Skills

  • Roadmap development and strategic planning
  • Scaled Agile framework (SAFe)
  • Operations management
  • Stakeholder relationship management
  • Infrastructure Management (VMware, OpenStack)
  • Network Management (Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto)
  • Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Automation (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, NSO)
  • Container technology (Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, AquaSec, Multis, OpenShift)

Certification

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA
  • Infoblox Certified Infoblox Core Administrator - CICA
  • Palo Alto Accredited Configuration Engineer - ACE PAN-OS
  • SUSE Certified Administrator in Enterprise Linux - SCA
  • VMware Certified Professional - VCP 6

Technical Experience

Amazon Web Services AWS, Microsoft Azure, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Microsoft AKS, Rancher RKE, Red Hat OpenShift, Aqua (OSS tools), Palo Alto PAN, SUSE NeuVector, Sysdig (OSS tools), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Linux (Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu), Windows Server, ArgoCD, Codefresh, BASH, Python, Ansible, Terraform, VMware ESX & NSX, OpenStack

Timeline

Technical Product Owner

Telstra Limited
03.2018 - 12.2024

Senior Solutions Architect

Telstra Limited
04.2017 - 03.2018

Platform Lead

Telstra Limited
08.2012 - 04.2017

Solutions Designer

Telstra Limited
02.2011 - 08.2012

Bachelor of Computer Science -

Monash University

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