Phil Pearson

Experience

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  Victoria Police

  Jun 1986 - Apr 1998

  Senior Constable

  General Police dutiesSenior Detective

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  Chisholm Institute

  Feb 1995 - Jun 1998

  Sessional Teacher

  in the Associate Diploma of Information Technology.Subjects taught:Command line databases using dBase IVSpreadsheets and business graphicsValue Added Information ServicesInstallation and Configuration of Micro Computer HardwareConfiguring your PCAdvanced Hardware and Fault Finding

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  Bonlac Foods Limited

  Apr 1998 - Mar 2002

  Communications Team Leader

  Initially employed as infrastructure and communications support with Australia’s largest dairy manufacturer (prior to being absorbed by the Fontera group in 2002) Highly perishable FMCGs requiring 24 X 7 uptime of IT & T infrastructure critical for PLC and SCADA systems located in metropolitan and regional Victoria and NSW.

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  Emoleum / Axim

  Nov 2002 - Apr 2006

  IT Infrastructure Manager

  IT Infrastructure ManagerOperations and infrastructure management for Australia’s largest road paving and asphalt manufacturing company, with 37 offices throughout Australia, and cloud pioneer AXIMBrought the IT function in-house from a previously outsourced environment and built a professional team to provide support and project management. “……Your IT team is the best I have worked with. You should be proud of your achievements, and if you were an Eagles supporter you would even be a good bloke.”Wayne Manners, GM Western Australia Business Show less

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  Frigrite Refrigeration

  Apr 2005 - Jun 2008

  IT Manager (CIO)

  Strategic and Operational leadership for an innovative commercial refrigeration company responsible for developing and manufacturing the first commercial Co2 unit in Australia.

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  Grocon

  Jun 2008 - Jan 2011

  ICT Manager (CIO)

  Strategic and Operational leadership for the largest privately owned property development and construction company in Australia spread over 4 states and 21 sites.

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  Norman Disney and Young

  Jan 2011 - Jul 2011

  IT Analyst - Business and Engineering Systems

  Provided IT, business and financial analysis skills to assess the IT environment, prepare tenders for the supply of critical infrastructure and analyse tender submissions for an Australian leader in consulting Engineering.-Financial analysis-Scenario analysis-Tenders-Capacity forecasting-Financial modelling

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  Australian Conservation Foundation

  Aug 2011 - Sept 2011

  Volunteer

  Voluntary work assisting with outstanding IT issues. Major activity centred around installing the new library catalogue database and migrating the data from the old system. -RDBMS-SQL-Linux

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  Cox Gomyl

  Aug 2011 - May 2018

  CIO

  Global leadership of the IT function for the world leader in building access solutions with a large manufacturing facility in Spain and sales/maintenance presence in 10 countries. A Rapidly growing company that has increased EBITDA from 42 $M to 148 $M in 4 years. This role was approximately 25% technical and 75% management.-Strategy development and implementation-Mergers and Acquisitions-Budgeting-Global responsibility-Disaster recovery planning-ERP Systems, GreenTree, Sage-VMWare-Vendor Management-Global outsourced support contracts-IT strategy roadmaps-Project/programme Managment Show less

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  Alimak Group AB

  May 2018 - now

  IT Infrastructure Architect

  Founded in 1948, Alimak Group is the global market leader and pioneer in designing, developing, manufacturing and servicing industrial rack and pinion vertical access solutions. Alimak Group has a presence across more than 90 countries with physical offices in over 70. Head office is located in Stockholm, Sweden.I was appointed as the Infrastructure and Security Specialist after the Alimak Group purchased my previous employer CoxGomyl. This title was changed to IT Infrastructure Architect in March 2025 after the employment of a specialist IT security architect.-Matrix Organisation-Infrastructure Architecture and Strategy-Microsoft 365-Azure-Global responsibility-Corporate Governance-Policies & Procedures-Cyber Security-Disaster recovery-Strategy Road Map-IoT-Powershell-Python-Project Management-SD WAN-infrastructure/network architecture-Mergers and Acquisitions, so many mergers and acquisitions.-Budgeting Show less