Daniel Symonds

Daniel Symonds

Senior System Administrator

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  • About me

    Information Technology and Services Professional

  • Education

    • University of Techology, Sydney

      1997 - 2003
      Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Systems Engineering
  • Experience

    • UTS: University of Technology, Sydney

      Aug 2003 - Aug 2008
      Senior System Administrator

      System technical manager and team lead for email, directory services, and software development for system integration and administrative tools.

    • Sun Microsystems

      Aug 2008 - Mar 2011
      System Support Engineer

      A second level Unix software and hardware support role providing a point of escalation for field engineers and technical support for customer system administrators and other technical personnel. Software installation, software configuration, on-site hardware installation and maintenance functions were also a requirement of the role.

    • Oracle Corporation

      Jan 2010 - Jan 2012
      Senior Field Service Engineer

      An On-site service delivery role installing, supporting and maintaining cutting edge oracle software and managed systems for Oracle’s customers. Opportunities also existed to deliver professional services with installation and maintenance activities.

    • UTS: University of Technology, Sydney

      Mar 2012 - Apr 2013
      Technical Lead and Solution Architect

      A varied project technical lead role including solution architecture, software development, integration, testing and system administration. The solution delivered was a highly scalable and extensible cross-site replicated account management and authentication system based on a virtualised Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment. Disaster recovery and deployment times were reduced from a week to a few hours. Additionally Perl code libraries used to synchronise data between this system and others were ported from an older system and new functionality added. Show less

    • Cubic Transportation Systems

      Oct 2013 - Sept 2014
      Unix Engineer

      This was primarily Solaris and Linux system specialist contract role supporting operation of a major public transport project delivered through Solaris 11 and supporting applications on Redhat Linux( RHEL6). Additionally I maintained SAN infrastructure for multiple environments. A tight project schedule required maintenance and enhancement activities to all of this infrastructure.

    • LMAX Group

      Apr 2017 - now
      Senior System Administrator
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Sun Certified Security Administrator for Solaris 10 OS

      Sun Microsystems
      Jan 2010
    • Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 10 OS

      Sun Microsystems
      Jun 2009
    • Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 OS

      Sun Microsystems
      Feb 2009