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Background A highly motivated, professional Senior Technical Consultant that is focused on combining his knowledge, skills and experience with his natural determination, drive and enthusiasm to consistently deploy and manage todays leading technologies efficiently, on time and on budget. Key strengths include: Excellent analytical and problem solving skills Works well as part of a team or autonomously Excellent written and verbal communication skills Excellent customer service skills and proactive, customer focused attitude Motivated and holds himself accountable for achieving successful outcomes Focused on staying up to date with emerging technologies that can benefit our customer Personal commitment to ongoing technical and professional skills development Employment History Duration Role Employer 2008 – Now Senior Technical Consultant 3rdMill 2001 – 2008 Senior Network Administrator Network Remote Management Services 1999 – 2001 Service Technician Business Computers Australia Ltd Experience & Certifications Experience VMWare all versions Windows 2008 & 2012 Windows 2000, 2003 Server and Windows 2003 SBS Server Infrastructure Services including Active Directory, DHCP, WINS & DNS Powershell Dirsyc / FIM MS SQL Microsoft office Products including Office 365, Exchange 5.5 , 2000 , 2003, 2007,2010 and 2013 Blackberry Enterprise Server IBM DS SAN Dale Baker: 3/8 Dale Close, Thornleigh NSW 2120 Australia Mobile: 0432 794 584 Email: [email protected] DALE BAKER – SENIOR TECHNICAL CONSULTANT

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Background

A highly motivated, professional Senior Technical Consultant that is focused on combining his knowledge, skills and experience with his natural determination, drive and enthusiasm to consistently deploy and manage todays leading technologies efficiently, on time and on budget.

Key strengths include:

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills Works well as part of a team or autonomously Excellent written and verbal communication skills Excellent customer service skills and proactive, customer focused attitude Motivated and holds himself accountable for achieving successful outcomes Focused on staying up to date with emerging technologies that can benefit our customer Personal commitment to ongoing technical and professional skills development

Employment History

Duration Role Employer

2008 – Now Senior Technical Consultant 3rdMill2001 – 2008 Senior Network Administrator Network Remote Management Services1999 – 2001 Service Technician Business Computers Australia Ltd

Experience & Certifications

Experience VMWare all versions Windows 2008 & 2012 Windows 2000, 2003 Server and Windows 2003 SBS Server Infrastructure Services including Active Directory, DHCP, WINS & DNS Powershell Dirsyc / FIM MS SQL Microsoft office Products including Office 365, Exchange 5.5 , 2000 , 2003, 2007,2010 and 2013 Blackberry Enterprise Server IBM DS SAN Disaster Recovery, Storage, Backup including Kaseya and Veeam Backup Symantec SEP

Certifications VMware VCP 5 VMware VCP 4 VMware VCP 3 MCSA Windows 2012 (currently working towards MCSE) MCITP Windows 2008 MCSE NT4, Windows 2000 Windows 2003Work Experience

Dale Baker: 3/8 Dale Close, Thornleigh NSW 2120 Australia Mobile: 0432 794 584 Email: [email protected]

DALE BAKER – SENIOR TECHNICAL CONSULTANT

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June 2008 Current, 3rdMill – Senior Technical Consultant3rdmill was founded in 1997 as a web solutions company but quickly expanded to deliver the full range of IT services to its clients. During this growth period 3rdmill appeared in the BRW Fast 100 three times, and more recently in 2009 won an Australian Achiever award for customer service. Today, 3rdmill is a mature IT services company with staff across Australia and in New Zealand.

During this period I have been responsible for IT Infrastructure support, project planning and implementation for over 50 of 3rdMill’s key clients.

Responsibilities Undertaken:

Provide high level Windows Server Administration for over 50 businesses primarily in the insurance industry.

Responsible for 24/7 support for client Windows Active Directory & Server environments VMware as the Hypervisor choice and Hyper-V deployment and management Project planning and implementation including, new server builds, migrating existing servers to private as

well as public clouds as well as application patching and upgrades Vendor engagement and management

Achievements/Projects: Webcentral Datacenter relocation to Equinix for our managed customers and websites Migrate two separate companies into new domain into private cloud, including migrating to Office365

with software vendors, Merge SQL ERM systems

March 2001 June 2008, Network Remote Management Services – Senior Network Administrator Network Remote Management Services was started in 1996 and were focused on IT support for SMB’s. NRMS were acquired by CornerstoneIT in 2009. During this period I started out as a Call Centre Support Engineer for IBM, evolving into general IT support primarily for the SMB dealing mostly with travel agents. During this time my key responsibilities covered all duties required for the day to day running and support of small to medium businesses IT Systems.

Responsibilities Undertaken:

Disaster Prevention and Recovery Network planning capacity management as well as the upgrading of IT infrastructure IT Project Management New systems installation, Upgrading as well as Migration to Microsoft Products New product testing Active Directory Troubleshooting Remote access and Terminal Services. VPN solutions Presales and project proposal development

Achievements/Projects: TraveScene American Express

September 1999 February 2001, Business Computing Australia (BCA IT) – Service Technician

Dale Baker: 3/8 Dale Close, Thornleigh NSW 2120 Australia Mobile: 0432 794 584 Email: [email protected]

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After being appointed as one of IBM's first authorised dealers in Australia, BCA IT quickly grew and expanded its footprint to have offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane as well as Perth and were eventually acquired by Leading Solutions. Many of its customers are the who's who in corporate Australia.

During this period, I was responsible for the installation and maintenance of enterprise hardware systems.

Responsibilities Undertaken:

Hardware Technician specialising in server hardware builds and SOE roll outs. SOE System Installation. SCSI Troubleshooting. IT Infrastructure Rollouts. Companywide imaging equipment rollouts.

Customers: NRMA (Australia’s largest Insurance company) Westpac (One of Australia’s leading banks) Police Association of NSW. (Australia’s largest police force)

Dale Baker: 3/8 Dale Close, Thornleigh NSW 2120 Australia Mobile: 0432 794 584 Email: [email protected]