Experience

Career History

From IT support at a Sydney ad agency to platform engineering and SRE work in the cloud — a quarter-century of keeping infrastructure honest.

28

years in tech

9

roles

7

companies

  1. Dec 2021 — Present

    Site Reliability Engineer

    Current

    Ping Identity

    AWS infrastructure reliability, DevOps automation, and IaC. Remote, Sydney.

  2. Mar 2022 — Jun 2025

    Student Mentor

    Monash University

    Mentored final-year Master's students (IT, Data Science, Cyber Security) over 12-week project cycles. Provided feedback, industry expertise, and guidance on project execution.

  3. Aug 2021 — Dec 2021

    DevOps Lead

    FirstWave Cloud Technology

    Led DevOps practices and platform engineering initiatives. North Sydney.

  4. Oct 2013 — Aug 2021

    Senior Platform Engineer

    FirstWave Cloud Technology

    Web content security pre-sales & builds, cloud infrastructure management. North Sydney.

  5. 2013 — 2014

    System Engineer

    CITI Recruitment

    Contract system engineering role.

  6. Sep 2010 — May 2013

    Senior System Administrator

    3RDSense

    Office IT and cloud infrastructure management.

  7. 2009 — 2010

    Systems Administrator

    iMega Group

    Systems administration.

  8. Oct 2000 — Sep 2009

    Network & Security Manager

    Singleton Ogilvy & Mather / STW Group

    Network and security management across the agency group.

  9. Apr 1998 — Sep 2000

    IT Support

    Leo Burnett

    IT support, sysadmin, and network management.