Resume

Mark Slatem
System Operations 

Mark Slatem

An IT professional with a consistent work history and proven track record. Successfully supporting, implementing and facilitating many aspects of clients IT infrastructures and operational needs. An effective communicator, able to manage projects and business functions to achieve objectives; seeking challenging assignments where experience will be valuable.

I enjoy understanding customer psychology and how it relates to enhancing business processes and workflows, with a particular emphasis on improving customer facing services and user interfaces. My strengths are derived from a diverse skill-set that incorporates technical proficiency, underpinned by business logic and end user understanding. I like gaining new knowledge and applying it successfully as well as recognising and evaluating the consequences of infrastructure decisions before they are made.

15 Stone Street, Caulfield South | 3162 Melbourne, Australia | Mobile: +61 431820464 | mark@onyxit.com.au | Birth: 17/02/1975

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Skill Overview

OS Applications Other Hardware Code
 • SmartOS Request Tracker documentation   PC-Engines Alix bash
 • OpenSolaris Zabbix training   Switches html
 • OmniOS Sawmill customer interaction   Supermicro Servers css
 • FreeBSD Project-FiFo design   Intel Servers chef / ruby
 • pfSense Observium ZFS   Dell Servers
 • Centos PowerDNS SMF
 • Debian ejabberd networking
 • Ubuntu Racktables
 • Windows MySQL / Postgres
 • OS X Confluence
Git
Nginx
Apache

novice      intermediate      skilled     

Recent Professional History

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Previous 15 Year Timeline

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As a business owner for the last 15 years, I have been involved with operating 3 conceptually similar IT companies with a focus on serving the SMB market space. In this capacity our core business was to provide comprehensive IT services, focused on offering full service, outsourced IT departments for our customers.

In 2006 as part of my planned immigration strategy, from South Africa to Australia, I merged my existing client base with a local IT company “ITWizards” and became a partner. In 2007 I immigrated to Australia. For the last 7 years my role has been working remotely with a focus on infrastructure, data-centre operations and reaching business objectives. In 2007 I formed a local company called Onyx-IT to service Australian customers in Perth. I have recently moved to Melbourne for family reasons and I am now seeking a challenging role where my experience, skills and commitment to excellence can be of benefit.

Recent Experience

My responsibility has been to operate, manage and monitor our data center / colocation facilities both in South Africa as well as Australia. This ranges from identifying and testing suitable technologies and applications as well as implementation, maintenance, backup and documentation. I was also responsible conducting remote training sessions as well as in person technical training with our technical team. I was also responsible for putting together technical documentation and workflow procedures.

The core systems that I managed are as follows:

In addition, I look after all client connectivity and security such as branch firewalls and vpn infrastructure that terminates on individually collocated perimeter devices at our data centre. I also action all firewall rule changes and manage client proxies and zfs storage servers.

Education & Training

present Coursera – “Crafting an Effective Writer”
2012-2013 Coursera – “Behavioural Economics”
2006-2007 ITIL Foundation Diploma
2001-2003 Various Linux courses & seminars
1996-1997 MCSE
1992-1993 Diamond Grading Diploma
1991-1992 Graduated High School

Personal Interests and Projects

 Project FiFo: Documentation & adhoc “community manager”
 SmartOS: It’s pretty awesome!, whats there not to like?
 screencasts: http://www.youtube.com/user/nitronap
 reading: Science Fiction, Philosophy and Science
 humour: Everyone loves a good laugh
 walking: Enjoy long walks in nature + podcasts
 blogging: If you are reading this you are on my blog 😉