Experience

7 Years of Experience

Experience

01/2025 - Current
International College of Management, Sydney, AU

Systems and Network Administrator

09/2023 - 12/2024
New Zealand Government, Wellington, NZ

Senior System Engineer (Level 3)

SME in high grade cryptography.
Provided support to all of government surrounding deployment of security systems protecting nationally significant assets.
Presented security talks around the world to top tech organisations.
08/2023 - 09/2023
New Zealand Government, Wellington, NZ

Team Lead Engineering

Providing technical leadership surrounding national network infrastructure.
Demonstrating strong knowledge of networking challenges, and leading an engineering team who provides services to thousands of users.
03/2022 - 09/2023
New Zealand Government, Wellington, NZ

System Engineer (Level 2)

Increasing productivity through automation
Leading modernisation projects of cryptographic systems and networks
Tutoring junior engineers
01/2021 - 03/2022
New Zealand Government, Wellington, NZ

System Engineer (Level 1)

Deploying systems to customers
Troubleshooting complex networks
Providing cyber security advise to all of government
10/2020 - 12/2020
Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, Tauranga, NZ

Network Engineer (Contract)

Configuring and deploying network services.
Focus on network security, Cloudflare and Microsoft 365 defender
11/2016 - 09/2020
Spark, Hamilton, NZ

IT (Contract)

Providing multi-enterprise automated deployment tasks using Microsoft deployment toolkit.
Providing support to team members surrounding network configuration.

Education

2020
University of Waikato

Master of Cyber Security (First Class Honours)

Grade: First Class Honours
2019
Wintec

Bachelor of Applied IT (Network Engineering)

Grade: A+
2017
Wintec

Diploma of Applied IT

Grade: A+

Main Certificates

Networking Skills

Routing Protocols

95%

Firewall configuration

95%

VPN

90%

Network Automation

85%

Soft Skills

Leadership experience

80%

Public Speaking

90%

Autodidact

100%

Problem solving

100%

Cyber Security Skills

Risk assessment

95%

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

90%

Splunk

80%

Incident Response

95%