Matthew Parslow

Current

• Unix Consultant at Linfox Armaguard

Past

• Project Manager at Challenger Financial Services Group
• IT Infrastructure Manager at PLAN Australia
• UNIX Engineer at Bristol-Myers Squibb

• Technical Expert - IN at Telstra
• Senior Systems Administrator at State Library of Victoria
• Unix administrator / Support Engineer at Webstrike Solutions
• Unix Administrator at Lonely Planet Publications
• Unix Administrator at Spotlight Stores

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Education

• Swinburne University of Technology

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Information Technology and Services

Matthew Parslow’s Summary

I have always had a passion for IT. Through the early part of my career I focused on developing my technical skills and gaining exposure to many different systems and environments. More recently I have been focusing on Management of people, projects, and processes. I have a passion for ground up construction or renovation of infrastructure and enjoy a challenge. I get great satisfaction seeing a project thought from planning stages to completion, on time and within budget. I have also found a passion for management and have taken part in leadership training where I learnt a great deal about getting the most out of people and getting the best from my self. I’m looking for an opportunity to develop further with a senior management role bringing positive changes, leading and developing skilled staff under my control.

Matthew Parslow’s Specialties:

linux, unix, system administration, system design, solutions architect, hardware, networking, software

Matthew Parslow’s Experience

• Unix Consultant

  Linfox Armaguard

  (Privately Held; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Designed and Built a redundant Xen based virtualisation system using heartbeat and drbd with quick deployment images and customised web interface
  Reverse engineered system setups based on existing systems in order to recreate the environments from scratch.
  Extensive Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise reverse engineering and administration.
  Built all linux infrastructure using SuSE 10 SP2
  Build and deploy custom MSI Installation packages.
  Virtualised Windows 2003 servers
  Designed and implemented new development procedures.

• Project Manager

  Challenger Financial Services Group

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CGF; Financial Services industry)

  August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)

  Manage Project to migrate all infrastructure from PLAN Australia to Challenger infrastructure.

• IT Infrastructure Manager

  PLAN Australia

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

  December 2007 — August 2008 (9 months)

  * infrastructure management across several office locations and remote users
  * Management of infrastucture staff
  * Developing business processes

• UNIX Engineer

  Bristol-Myers Squibb

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BMY; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  June 2007 — December 2007 (7 months)

  Part of a global team responsible for managing Linux, HP-UX and Solaris servers worldwide. Servers running diverse applications and systems such as SAP, Oracle, Netbackup, LDAP, Email, calendaring. Full DR setup where required, heavily regulated and procedure driven.

• Technical Expert - IN

  Telstra

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TLS; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2007 — June 2007 (4 months)

  Part of a team responsible for the Intelligent Network, handling call routing of mobile phone calls. Nationally. Involved administration of Solaris machines in an extremely high availability environment. Technologies used include Solaris 9,10, Veritas clustering, sun cluster, custom high availability software. Projects involved include 3G Wireless Local Loop and improved alarm monitoring with emergency fix documentation.

• Senior Systems Administrator

  State Library of Victoria

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 7 months)

  Senior administrator of over 40 machines, primarily debian and ubuntu linux, some windows and solaris. Responsibilities included marinating mail (postfix), web services (php/perl/proftpd/apache), proxies (squid) as well as maintenance and purchasing of all server systems. Included a full system review as well as rebuild of major services and reimplementation of server room racks and equipment.

• Unix administrator / Support Engineer

  Webstrike Solutions

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

  July 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 2 months)

  Large scale web hosting, over 12,000 clients. Responsibilities included answering support requests related to webhosting, managing 6 linux machines and 25+ window machines (windows management shared with two others). Developing linux account management software in perl and php and modifying various programs to suit the environment including a webmail client.

• Unix Administrator

  Lonely Planet Publications

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

  November 2001 — April 2002 (6 months)

  Part of a team of 3 (Unix administrator, Network Administrator, Windows Administrator) Managed by the Global IT Operations Manager
  Co-ordinated re-implementation of linux based web server farm, including TCP/IP load balancing and redundancy, DB2, Mysql, PERL, Cold Fusion, apache (including mod_ssl and mod_perl)
  Administered Solaris machines running mapping software linked with Oracle database.
  Also administered solaris machines running Netscape web server and java for the procurement of images in an online purchasing site.
  Assisted team members with network configuration, cisco administration, and firewall setup.
  Other duties included backups, system upgrades, and general maintenance

• Unix Administrator

  Spotlight Stores

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  November 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  Part of different teams firstly a network team, and later the systems administration team, in which I was team leader.
  Administered various unix machines throughout spotlight including AIX, SCO, linux and SunOS. (primary systems on AIX) Responsible for backups, Oracle and MySQL administration and Windows/UNIX integration.
  Created web based and other programs for data retrieval and interfacing.
  Involved in network configuration, firewall setup and design of WAN to 80 locations.

Matthew Parslow’s Education

• Swinburne University of Technology

  1999 — 2001

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