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Chris Knowling

Chris Knowling

Information Associate

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  • About me

    Senior Technical Consultant

  • Education

    • University of South Australia

      1998 - 2004
      Computer Science Software Engineering, Digital Electronics

      Activities and Societies: Field Hockey Student Council Rep: supporting improvement of the School of Computer & Information Technology.

  • Experience

    • EDS

      Oct 2004 - Jul 2008
      Information Associate

      Roles: Programmer, Incident Manager, Systems Designer, Systems and Network Administrator, Facilites Operator (HVAC/UPS)Technologies: OpenVMS, DEC Alpha, HPUX, HP RISC Servers, EMC Clariion SAN, AIX, IBM P-Class, Clustering & HA, HP Openview Operaions & Network Node Manager, Cisco Works, BMC Patrol, APC UPS & Netbotz, Leibert HVAC, SCO, IBM X-Series, Windows Server, Java, C, Kednos PL/I, KSH & BASH Scripting, DCL, Database Design

    • Logi-Tech Pty Ltd

      Jul 2008 - Dec 2010
      Senior Engineer

      Senior Engineer / Administrator, Storage and Backup

    • BAE Systems Australia

      Jan 2011 - Nov 2015
      Senior Storage Administrator

      I operate NetApp FAS, HP P4000, P6000 & EMC CX4 storage arrays in conjunction with Brocade and McData Fibre Channel switched fabrics. I work closely with specialist system administrators across all operating systems to ensure storage is provisioned in an optimal fashion.I also administer Windows servers, including HA clusters and VMWare. I regularly assess system performance in response to user reports.My goals are:- Driving process standardisation and change control for storage infrastructure.- Managing storage systems performance, capacity, availability to support all corporate IT services. Show less

    • Telstra

      Apr 2016 - Aug 2018
      Senior Technologist

      Providing infrastructure, backup, visualisation and process expertise.

    • Perfekt Pty Ltd

      Apr 2016 - now
      Senior Technical Consultant

      Technical consultant on backup, storage and virtualization.

    • Ambulance Victoria

      Aug 2018 - now
      Technical Specialist

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Commvault Simpana Administrator

      Commvault APAC
      Jul 2013

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Chris Knowling
      2008 Chairman's Honor's Award: Best of the Best. Holden GEPICS Deployment General Motors 2008 As part of the on-site support team I helped deploy a revolutionary new manufacturing management system 'GEPICS' over the course of about 12 months. This was driven by GM's global manufacruting system standardization initiative.My focus was on infrastructure deployment and maintenance as lead storage & Unix administrator and on source code reviews.My team successfully adapted our legacy systems to integrate with GEPICS during a phased migration without incurring unplanned losses of… Show more As part of the on-site support team I helped deploy a revolutionary new manufacturing management system 'GEPICS' over the course of about 12 months. This was driven by GM's global manufacruting system standardization initiative.My focus was on infrastructure deployment and maintenance as lead storage & Unix administrator and on source code reviews.My team successfully adapted our legacy systems to integrate with GEPICS during a phased migration without incurring unplanned losses of manufacturing time.A single project or team receives this award annually. Show less

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Recruiting and Members Affairs

      Issued by Ravesafe on Jan 2001
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