Sonia Hamilton

Current

Professional Services Server Architect at Verizon Business

Past

Senior Technical Specialist at Optus
Committee Member at Sydney Linux User Group
Linux Mentor at Enlace Quiché, Guatemala

Digital Infrastucture Engineer at Fairfax Digital
Technical Trainer at Dimension Data
Volunteer Network Administrator at Catalyst - Community Access Techknowledgy
Technical Trainer at New Horizons Learning
Analyst Programmer at Ernst & Young/Commonwealth Bank

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Education

University of New South Wales

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Sonia Hamilton’s Experience

Professional Services Server Architect

Verizon Business

(Public Company; VZ; Telecommunications industry)

October 2009 — Present (3 months)
Senior Technical Specialist

Optus

(Public Company; SGT; Telecommunications industry)

April 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Optus Consumer Infrastructure and Server Engineering (CISE). CISE is responsible for the deployment, build and Tier 3 support of the servers and switches that support the Optus Core Consumer Platforms. The team's primary responsibilities are to manage and grow capacity of all platforms to meet customer and business requirements, provide the LAN and server infrastructure to meet Consumer Business's initiatives. The group is accountable for setting and maintaining the Standard Operating Environment for Servers, LAN and space planning in data centres.
Committee Member

Sydney Linux User Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2008 — March 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Member of the managing committee for SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group).
Linux Mentor

Enlace Quiché, Guatemala

(Non-Profit; Public Relations and Communications industry)

January 2008 — February 2008 (2 months)

Volunteer position whilst on holidays in Central America. I taught basic Linux to 5 workers and volunteers at Enlace Quiche, a community group for Mayan Indians in Guatemala. Language of instruction was Spanish.
Digital Infrastucture Engineer

Fairfax Digital

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FXJ; Online Media industry)

September 2007 — December 2007 (4 months)

Fairfax Digital is one of Australia's leading provider of online news and classifieds websites. It represents the online business of Fairfax Media Limited, and publishes more than 30 websites including: smh.com.au (The Sydney Morning Herald), theage.com.au, drive.com.au, domain.com.au and mycareer.com.au.

My role of Digital Infrastructure Engineer involved implementing and troubleshooting advanced issues across the many hundreds of Fairfax Digital Linux and SunOS Servers.
Technical Trainer

Dimension Data

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DDT; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 8 months)

Technical trainer of Linux and Microsoft courses, focussing on:
• Linux - Redhat RHCE, Novell CLE, and Linux+
• Microsoft SQL Server (SQL 2000 and SQL 2005)
Volunteer Network Administrator

Catalyst - Community Access Techknowledgy

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2001 — July 2006 (5 years 2 months)

Catalyst (www.cat.org.au) was an organisation that provided low cost internet and ISP services to community groups such as Active (www.active.org.au), Marrickville Tunnel Action Group (www.marrickvilletag.org), and Rising Tide (risingtide.org.au).

My role was Volunteer Network Administrator for a Linux network consisting of 6 Linux Servers. Whilst this wasn’t a professional role, like many volunteer organisations in the Linux area (SLUG, PCAN, Apana) Catalyst is a meeting point for Linux talent and development, and has a active group of network administrators.
Technical Trainer

New Horizons Learning

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

July 2002 — January 2005 (2 years 7 months)

Technical trainer of Linux and Microsoft courses, focussing on:
• Microsoft SQL Server (SQL 7 and SQL 2000)
• Linux - Novell CLE, RHCE, and Linux+
Analyst Programmer

Ernst & Young/Commonwealth Bank

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2000 (less than a year)