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Cloud Consultant and Instructor

Linux Academy

Head of Cloud Curriculum

Creator of Cloud Training :

- AWS Certified Security - Specialty
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Amazon Lightsail Deep Dive

AWS Training Architect

LevelUpCloud

Instructor / Co-founder

Cantrill Consulting

Cloud Architect

A Cloud Guru

Creator of Cloud Certification Training :

- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Course.
- Amazon DynamoDB - From Beginner to Pro
- Advanced CloudFormation 
- AWS Advanced Networking - Specialty.

Cloud / Technical Trainer

Bulletproof Group Limited

Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer

Idea 11

Working within a Brisbane based IT consultancy with a cloud and security focus, I've been called on to provide a range of technical design and consultancy such as :-

Cloud infrastructure architecture, design & implementation (AWS, Azure, Google, OpenStack)
Design and implementation of CI/CD/General DEVOPS processes and tooling within medium/large clients - with a focus on on-demand infrastructure provisioning.
Integration of build tooling and AWS spot capability for large scale parallel low cost build processes (1 build per commit) 
Infrastructure orchestration (Chef & Cloud formation) including AWS lambda based serverless extension of cloud formation. 
Security Auditing & Penetration testing
Design of complex multi-cloud  & hybrid cloud DR and production systems.
Scalable Windows stack deployment on AWS
Consulting on Multi Cloud adoption & migration strategy
Consulting on cloud deployment & automation: architecture, governance, implementation & verification

Solutions Architect

Ordyss

A hands on technical solutions architect role providing the following services to the business :-

- Client pre-sales and requirements analysis engagement within major clients.
- Technical evangelism (full stack, windows/open source, traditional/private cloud, on-premise/AWS/Azure, Messaging & Communications, Storage, Business Applications, Web applications)
- Trusted advisor to clients senior management to drive IT strategy.
- Technology evaluation and solutions research.
- Technical solutions design
- Tech lead on all major Ordyss Projects
- Sys admin / Project team mentorship - advice & technical development.
- Project & programme management of major technical projects across all major clients.
- DR/BCP, Security, Cloud Adoption audits for major clients.
- IT environment Reviews (on premise, hybrid, full cloud - IAAS/PAAS/SAAS)
- Vendor/Partner management 
- Practise creation and management (AWS)

As head of Ordyss’ newest business unit, 'PMO & Technical innovation' I have responsibility for the technical pre-sales and project-delivery pipeline. I also lead technical innovation within the business via the evaluation, design & delivery of new technical products & product lines to existing and new clients.

Responsibilities include :-

Managing design, direction and delivery of technology & business products and solutions.
Evaluation of emerging technologies and platforms 
Assistance with customised solutions to meet customer requirements.
Project and Programme Management - Delivery of excellent end-to-end projects and management of project team resources within the business.
Ordyss executive-team level technical strategy and product direction

Head of Solution Design & Innovation

A member of the Ordyss executive team with responsibility for the following areas:

Service and project delivery (PMO Function)
Technical direction, design and product development for the business
Management, development and mentoring a team of eight Senior Systems Administrators
Senior technical escalation and SME for Ordyss' technical competencies

Strategic and technical experience of cloud based technologies including Infrastructure and Platform/Software as a Service operating within a rich co-existence environment. Practical experience of large scale 550+ seat hybrid cloud implementations within existing client environments. 

Responsible for client private infrastructure cloud rollouts using VMWare vSphere5 and associated technologies. Design and implementation of a number of highly available and resilient infrastructure platforms. Fibre Channel and iSCSI performance optimisation across a large number of virtual platforms. 

Achieved cost savings and ongoing support reductions for clients through environment simplification and increased virtualisation or PaaS/SaaS/Cloud adoption.

Solutions Delivery Manager

UnitingCare Health

Managed a team of five infrastructure engineers responsible for a medical network across four major Queensland hospitals. Provided senior technical assistance to clinical and financial application teams supporting Cerner, Oracle and SAP in addition to general financial and payroll systems.

Project manager and lead technical resource on a SAN replacement and business continuity project. Installed and configured an EMC VNX5300 storage array with 45TB capacity.  Migrated a number of key corporate and medical systems including Windows 2003/2008 File, Email and SQL servers in addition to SAP Clusters and AIX Application and Oracle DB Servers.  The project was completed ahead of schedule with no service interruption or unplanned downtime.

Infrastructure Team Leader

National Museum of Science and Industry

Internally promoted to Service Delivery Manager and Lead Technician for the UK’s National Railway Museum and National Media Museum.  Was responsible for managing a countrywide network and server platform supporting 800 front-of-house and back-of-house staff members. 

A $300,000AUD Cisco Call Manager 7 implementation to replace a failing analogue PBX;
A multi-site backup consolidation project, replacing a number of isolated backup servers with a single BackupExec platform;
A $75,000AUD investment in Apple server infrastructure to allow network based deployment, centralised control and management and single-sign-on (SSO) against an incumbent 2003 Active Directory system.

In addition, I acted as Lead Technician ensuring the reliable provision of 30+ Windows 2003/2008 servers and associated AD/DHCP/WINS/DFS/SQL/IIS services. Managed a site-wide Cisco WIFI system with WIFI LAN controller and 10 access points supplying private and public networks.

IT Service Delivery Manager

Assigned overall technical accountability for a national IT network within the UK, located across five heritage sector sites. Assisted with escalated technical issues, functioned as a member of the change advisory board (CAB) and owned most server, security or internet hosting incidents, problems or changes. Led a number of major projects including:

A 20TB backup migration project from NetBackup to BackupExec;
Planned and implemented a business wide migration of file storage towards a Microsoft Distributed file system (DFS);
A firewall consolidation project moving away from isolated Cisco PIX firewalls towards a centrally managed Checkpoint FW1 system.

Functioned as the department’s primary liaison with the NMSI web platform team, assisting with the technical implementation of the ‘SiteCore’ content management system running the primary museum website.  Promoted to ICT Service Delivery Manager and Lead Technician for the NMSI’s UK North operation.

Senior ICT Engineer

IT Solutions Architect and senior AWS & DEVOPS consultant with a wide ranging skill set encompassing client, server, network and security systems. Keen interest in furthering technical development and involvement in mobile and open source community projects.

Current Certifications:

Amazon Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Amazon Certified DEVOPS Engineer - Professional
Amazon Certified SysOPS Administrator - Associate
Amazon Certified Solutions Architect (ACSA) - Associate
Amazon Certified Developer - Associate
Suse Certified Administrator
LPI Certified Linux Administrator (LPIC-1)
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) x 3 - Communications, Private Cloud, Server Infrastructure
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) x 2 - Windows Server 2012, Server 2008R2
Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) x 3 : Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2010, Enterprise Administrator, Server Administrator
Microsoft Technical Specialist (MCTS) : System Centre Configuration Manager 2007, Configuring
Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) Xenapp 6.5
VMware Certified Professional v5, v5.1, v5.5 (VCP5)
ITIL v3 & Prince 2 Foundation
Cisco CCNA
Apple Certified System Administrator (10.6)
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (10.7)

Specialties: 

Cloud (IAAS/PAAS/SAAS) Technologies, with a focus on AWS platforms.
Virtualisation, Infrastructure Consolidation & Simplification
Storage (FC & iSCSI) Optimisation
System Center : Configuration, Operations & Service Manager 2012
Open Source Integration and Implementation
Multi Platform & Vendor Integration
Perimeter & Edge Security
Storage Systems and Optimisation
Technical Project Management
Technical Team Leadership
Apple OSX Client / Server & Associated Technology

Adrian Cantrill

I posted about a week ago that I was back to making content again. There's a bigger story behind why, and that is "I'm moving". I've been recording content in a single room at home for the past five years because of an understanding family and an enterprise Ethernet connection from Aussie Broadband and the nbn® Australia - but recently it's become harder due to outside noise (neighbors and an airport flight path).

In about a month I settle on a new property and so I'm moving (elsewhere in Brisbane) to a larger block of land (less noise/less neighbors) and because it has a few more rooms I can setup 1-2 of them to be dedicated recording and tech spaces - including a full sound proofed recording studio.

There is still a long way to go, and a few weeks of work to make it 100% ready after we move - and the 1-3 months to get a new Enterprise Ethernet connection in once we order it after the xmas/new year change embargo but I hope to be optimally churning out content again in January and once the internet connection is installed it should be much faster to upload everything and move all my onsite hosting to the new place (until we get the enterprise fiber we have a 5G cellular connection where the tower is about 3 minutes walk away!)

I'm excited, I can't wait to be 100% back. Don't worry, I'll be prepping the content and uploading as much as I can between now and then, but I wanted to let everyone know the good news that in Q1 2026 things are going to massively speed up!.

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