Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
System Engineer | Pro Bono IT Advisor | Facilitator | Linguist | Volunteer | Comites NZ Executive Member | Advocate for Made in Italy & Made by Italians. Hello There, Nice to e-meet you! Alessio here and if you are reading this, guess you might be interested to know more about me. Currently employed by Medical Assurance Society, a mutual company that offers outragesouly good services in the financial space, as an IT System Engineer. I am pleased to contribute to the smooth running of our IT infrastructure through constant maintenance and improvement of MAS network and Server nodes, both on prem and in the Cloud, striving for outstanding outcomes. An extract of my decennial experience in the field can be found below. I am always up for good conversations about technology and its impact on society, start-upping, community projects and sustainability, so do not hesitate to touch base with me if you deem my experience would be of help to your cause, happy to listen! Cheers, Alessio
Medical Assurance Society is a vibrant reality in the variegated market of financial institutions. Working as a System Engineer in this dynamic company, allows me to develop hands on experience with Microsoft technology from Premise to Cloud. That involves fully support the Windows as a Service lifecycle, adoption of SCCM, GPO domain management, SSO Integration, Office 365, Exchange and much more of the long list of services available up and down Azure. Networking and Security are main focuses for my role and as consequence, am experienced operating and supporting Cisco, Hp, F5 network and security appliances. From the perspective of Device Management, am deeply involved with the adoption of Intune and the MAM/MDM framework in Azure to better support the transition to a cloud first environment. Project work is still a big component of my days, and share an equal part with core Infrastructure work.
As an IT Consultant for Focus was in charge of technical/process R&D and T3 ICT Support. My contribution led to the following outcomes: •Re-engineered the configuration procedure cutting device deployment time from 1 device in 5 days to 3 devices a day within the first month of consultancy. • Designed and deployed Microsoft WDS for large device deployments, documented the solution and trained junior staff up to full BAU proficiency. •Improved Security system stability to achieve superior business continuity. This role gave me priceless insights on New Zealand work culture, allowing me to appreciate the immense value of healthy and dynamic environments while securing my Diploma in Advanced Network Engineering.
As a young entrepreneur I started my firm with more dreams than money. Still my goal has been clear since the very beginning: to provide outstanding niche IT services, at the right price, for the right customers. We provided reliable and dynamic assistance through the whole life cycle of our tailored solutions. This involved a preliminary infrastructure assessment, collecting and understanding business requirements, research, plan and quote robust IT solutions, implementation and ongoing support. Business continuity and flexibility were prominent in our designs and encountered the interest of our growing customer base. From a technical point of view was mainly dealing with network management (data link to routing). This included planning and deployment of wired and wireless networks in Small and Medium environments, troubleshooting and hardening of existing network systems in multi vendor environments. Role also fostered a consolidation of my system administration skills both in Microsoft and Apple environments. Technology Involved: • Microsoft Windows Server and SBS 2003 • Microsoft Windows Server and SBS 2008 • Microsoft Windows Exchange 2007 • Microsoft Office (2003, 2007, 2010) and Visio (2007, 2010) • Cisco ASA firewall (5505/5510) • Cisco Routers and Switches (Series 800, 1800, 2800, 3550, 3750, 2950, 2960) • Cisco Wireless Controllers (2500) and Cisco Aironet AP (1000, 1100, 1130AG) • • ZyXel Firewalls Zywall (USG 50/100/200) • Fortigate Firewall (Series 60/200) • Vmware ESX/ESXI (version 3.5/4) • Apple MacOs (10.5/10.6/10.7) • Qnap Storage (412, 419,420,659+,869 Pro) This experience forced me to think outside the box and to better identify priorities. As a side effect of the considerable stress of meeting my initial goal against the complex financial situation of the country, developed strategies to deal with working under pressure and on tight deadlines while keeping the quality of my efforts to the highest professional standards.
As a free lance IT Consultant I have been collaborating with companies that required both networking and documentation skills to support, manage and report existing projects. Daily activities ranged from Infrastructure Auditing to access/distribution networking Support for medium-large companies often jointly with a team of internal professionals. Notably, I have been involved as a support engineer in the fusion between two large Italian banking institutions: Banca Intesa and Banca San Paolo IMI. My duties involved branch router configuration, device remote management, address plan reconfiguration and ACL deployment. Technology Involved: • Cisco PIX firewall (501, 515E) • Cisco Routers (Series 800, 1800, 2800) and Switches (3550, 2950, 2960) • ZyXel Firewalls Zywall (USG 50/100). This role helped me develop a better time management and activity scheduling, boosted my natural attitude to team work and helped me to better realise the advantages of consistent documentation, especially when dealing with large networks.
As system Administrator my role concerned maintenance of the internal IT infrastructure of the company following the directions of upper IT management located in the UK/USA and the local security policies. Daily duties involved Microsoft server maintenance and troubleshooting, tape rotation and backup consistency checks, general support to production environment (desktops, printers, biometric security access) Technology Involved: • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 • Cisco Switches (3550, 2950, 2960) • Microsoft and Apple networking • Microsoft client OS (Xp,2000) • IBM As/400 (ISeries 520, 550, 570) This experience allowed me to understand the complexity of an enterprise environment, the necessity of up to date procedures and solid support documentation. Role required commitment to follow parallel ongoing tasks, often on a tight timeline and on a 24/7 basis, to fully support ongoing business operations.