Lauchlin Wilkinson

Current

Unix Systems Contractor at Betfair

Past

Unix Systems at IPC Media
IT Director at HaVa Web- & Processdesign
Unix Systems Manager at Rated People

Senior Unix Engineer at Betfair
Technical Manager at Internet Tasmania

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Lauchlin Wilkinson’s Experience

Unix Systems Contractor

Betfair

(Privately Held; Gambling & Casinos industry)

October 2009 — Present (3 months)
Unix Systems

IPC Media

(Public Company; TWX; Publishing industry)

December 2008 — July 2009 (8 months)
IT Director

HaVa Web- & Processdesign

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2004 — December 2008 (4 years 1 month)

I joined HaVa in 2004 when the outgoing IT director left and created a vacancy for someone who had experience in the area of virtual hosting. The company has grown slowly but stedily over the years and is now focusing more on co-location rather than virual hosting. I mainly use HaVa as a testing ground for new technologies and ideas I want to bring to my day to day work.
Unix Systems Manager

Rated People

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

October 2007 — September 2008 (1 year )

My role at Rated People saw me head back to my roots in small business. It gave me the opportunity to architect core systems in a fresh environment. While with the business I implemented:

- Centralised authentication for Windows clients and Unix servers using LDAP.
- A high availability infrastructure for the company's production environment using Linux HA and MySQL replication.
- A reporting and business intelligence system using open source products using an OLAP database.
- A Windows domain using samba and LDAP.

Day to day I was involved with troubleshooting live systems, managing development environments and dealing with vendors.
Senior Unix Engineer

Betfair

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)

April 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Joining Betfair gave me the opportunity to work on some larger systems in a more complex environment than the one that I had been managing at Internet Tasmania. During my time at Betfair I was involved with the a variety of projects including:

- Building out and maintaining the Australian exchanges Linux infrastructure including front-end sun web servers.
- Researching and implementing proactive monitoring solutions using open source technologies
- Performing migration of critical support infrastructure including high volume mail servers, DNS server and some lower volume internal applications
Technical Manager

Internet Tasmania

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1999 — April 2006 (6 years 6 months)

I worked at Internet Tasmania part time from its date of inception in late 1999 whilst also studying part time for my Bachelor of Computing. Although starting as helpdesk staff I quickly moved in to the role of Technical manager where I;

- Designed and integrated RADIUS authentication systems.
- Designed and implemented DNS, mail and hosting solutions.
- Designed and authored company website.
- Implemented account management system including online credit card processing systems.
- Managed vendor relations.

Working at an ISP was a good introduction to building high availability systems while keeping costs low.