Ant Moran

Experience

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  Compaq Computer Australia

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1997

  Advanced Technical Support Engineer, Trainer, Enhanced Warranty Program

  Service repair, custom builds, warranty escalations. Advanced phone support across notebook, desktop & servers. Instructor training delivery & accreditation of partners throughout Australia. Developed Compaq's Enhanced Warranty Program.

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  ASK Training Solutions

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  Instructor

  Certified Cisco Instructor delivered introduction / advanced routing and Catalyst swithing (lead instructor) to users and partners throught APAC.

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  GeoTrain Asia Pacific pty ltd

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  Senior Instructor

  Certified Cisco Instructor delivering introductory to advanced route and Catalyst switch training to engineers throughout APAC.

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  Global Knowledge

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Business Development Manager

  Grow Cisco and Nortel vendor relationships through joint marketing to increase skills & certification uptake.

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  A.S.K Learning

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2004

  Instructor / Consultant

  Delivered product & sales training to Telstra Sales Account Managers throughout Australia on Telstra's range of data and IP solutions. Held IP & Data Awareness pilots for Alcatel, Optus, Telecom NZ, Telstra Clear & Ericsson. A Cisco Certified Sales Instructor onboarding Cisco’s Account Managers and proctored internal instructors APAC wide to achieve Cisco’s Sales Training certification.

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  Crystal Echo Pty Ltd

  Jun 2002 - May 2020

  Founder & Director

  Juniper Networks Authorized Education Partner (JNAEP) and Professional Services Specialist (PSS) Partner supporting partners and customers across enterprise and service provider hardware and software solutions. Developed sales and technical programs supporting Juniper distributors and channel partners in ANZ. Built remote lab hire service supporting Juniper technical certification physical and virtual labs worldwide to JNAEPs. Delivered bespoke training and service programs to Juniper’s largest ANZ service providers, enterprise customers across all industry verticals, state, and federal government. Became Juniper’s most capable education and services partner worldwide acknowledged with over a decade of awards across all service categories. Directed “all” elements of running a small business from marketing, sales, business development, project management, training delivery, staff management, accounting, and HR functions. Show less

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  North Sydney Training Centre

  Jan 2009 - Apr 2022

  Founder & Director

  Class 9b Certified venue provides training rooms, boardroom, serviced office space, and breakout areas spanning a whole 440m2 floor. Sharing 20 years of training delivery and coordination experience helping our customers run successful training events.

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  SDN Essentials

  Sept 2015 - Sept 2019

  APJ Sales Director

  Identified new APJ accounts and maintained relationships formed by SDN Essentials Headquarters. Customised instructor led and hands on events using the latest SDN opensource & vendor technologies in Openflow, Openstack, OpenDayLight, Python, Pica8, Bigswitch, Brocade, Cisco, HP & Juniper. Successfully formulated and managed delivery of DevOps training to support Telstra's first network automation "throwdown" events.

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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Jun 2020 - Dec 2020

  Skills Guild, Delivery Lead

  Support large enterprise customers with their skills transformation journey towards cloud fluency. Built bespoke tools and assets for each Skills Guild program in the form of playbooks, templates, how to guides, presentations, surveys, launch videos, and report metrics. Recruited Guild champions and provided personalised mentoring to design and deliver informal learning events. Built out and supported onboarding of new hires with the creation and curation of assets.

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  Brace168

  Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

  Service Delivery Manager

  Delivery of cyber security services to customers across retail, property, hospitality, finance, and SaaS providers. Alignment of deliverables with stakeholders across vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, static code analysis, security architecture design and phishing campaigns. Manage customer lifecycle from project kick-off, customer stand-ups, milestone reporting, report composition and writing. Internal focus on continuous improvement of people, processes, project management and documentation enabling business growth. Show less

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  Earthmoving Equipment Australia

  Jul 2021 - Sept 2022

  Training & Information Technology Manager

  Consolidated branch sites and IT systems nationally and developed the groups end to end digital strategy to support our cusotmers lifecycle incorporating phone, web, social, CRM, ERP, Automation BOTs, Data Warehosing to deliver detailed reporting across all sales, marketing, and cusotmer activities across all business units.

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  Akamai Technologies

  Sept 2022 - Nov 2024

  Partner Account Executive

  Develop and support Akamai's Partner network with the tools and knowledge to power and protect customers with Akamai Cloud Compute, Infrastructure, Enterprise Microsegmentation, Web Application & API Security.

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  Illumio

  Nov 2024 - now

  Partner Account Director

  Drive Partner success with Illumio’s leading Zero Trust Segmentation solutions by providing the tools, resources, and expertise they need to secure cloud and data center environments. Empower Partners to eliminate lateral threat movement, protect high-value assets from ransomware, and enhance customer security through robust Zero Trust models. Exclusively through our Partners, we deliver resilient, lasting cyber protection.