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Daniel Symonds

Senior System Administrator

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Singapore

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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

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