Mathew Leary
IT Infrastructure Leader
Hong Kong
Summary
Highly motivated leader with experience developing procedures for the configuration of security devices. A confident Infrastructure Manager with exemplary budgeting, needs assessment and task prioritization skills.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
35
35
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Regional Head of Digital Workplace
Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking
Admiralty
08.2021 - Current
- Manage teams of 60+ employees in charge of developing and maintaining Digital Workplace services across Asia Pacific and more specifically:
- End-Users proximity support
- Workstations engineering and packaging, Remote Access and Virtual Desktops
- Collaboration, Audio/Video and Messaging solutions, Mobile service offering
- User office network connectivity & internet connectivity
Infrastructure Manager
09.2020 - 08.2021
Cathay Pacific Airways
01.2012 - 08.2021
Senior Infrastructure Lead
07.2017 - 08.2020
- Manage engineering, project and L3/L2 support teams of 35 and service providers
- Service ownership and strategy globally for Workplace and End User technology including Identity, Directories, Core Network Services, Collaboration, Email, Unified Communications, Windows servers/desktops and all corporate and BYOD devices
- Scope: 27,000 employees, 14,000 computers, 10,000 corporate tablets, 30,000 BYOD devices, 300 offices globally
- Results:
- Insourced L2 support to reduce cost and provide agility for fast-moving technology
- Upon joining the team after restructure, quickly worked to build communication and trust, align resources capabilities and stabilise the technical services
- Lead the vision, strategy and execution of Office 365, Windows 10 & identity security
- Executed the migration of all employees to Office 365 (Exchange, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint) reducing on-premises servers and enabling new capabilities
- Drove ad-hoc and strategic security related initiatives across in scope services.
Senior Infrastructure Architect
06.2016 - 07.2017
- Deliver the technical architecture of two streams:
- Greenfield build of two new data centres with 270 racks including the network and integrations to form the CX Private Cloud
- Stand-up of virtualisation platforms and core infrastructure services as well as migration planning
- Develop architectural and sourcing strategies to reduce cost, improve performance and shorten lead times from the existing Managed Global WAN, deliver trials and site blueprints to move towards a Hybrid, Software-Defined WAN
- Results:
- Delivered the conceptual design and lead partners to develop the high level and low-level designs to support the implementation of a Software Defined Network across data centres built on Cisco ACI
- Lead the end-to-end delivery, from concept through to production implementation of an innovative, low cost SD-WAN architecture in a short timeline, quickly expanded to ~20 sites globally to lower operating costs and improve experience.
Technical Architect
07.2013 - 06.2016
- Engagement with enterprise and application architecture as well as senior management on infrastructure solution options and Proof-of-Concepts
- Infrastructure design covering Networks, Servers & Storage, Middleware and Databases
- Working with technical teams through detailed design, build and implementation
- Results:
- Concept design and POC of public cloud IaaS for non-production workloads
- High level architecture for a greenfield VMWare farm
- Solution design, infrastructure design of new global Remote Access platform
- Tasked to deliver a new customer wi-fi solution for global airport lounges
- Concept design of a product to allow fast deployment of infrastructure to new cities.
Environment Analyst
01.2012 - 07.2013
- Provide SME advice and support on the use of end to end testing environments to deliver project objectives and maximise usage of a shared environment
- Co-ordinate requests and resolution of environment defects/incidents among service providers, delivery teams and communicate with PM's and other stakeholders
- Review and approve change into the test environment for inter-project impacts.
Middleware Delivery Lead
02.2010 - 04.2011
- Coaching project members on process and technical connectivity skills
- Creation of schedules, negotiation of resources and ownership of change to quality and compliance standards
- (On average 5 concurrent streams)
- Tracking and reporting on costs, deliverable status, risks/issues to Project Managers
- (Resource spend approx HK$3.2m p/a)
National Australia Bank
02.2007 - 04.2011
Middleware & Connectivity Design
12.2008 - 02.2010
- Development, Responsible for the end-to-end development lifecycle of client and partner connectivity including: - Writing design and interface documentation
- Leading build of integration components, engage infrastructure teams.
Middleware & Connectivity Application Support
08.2007 - 12.2008
- Day-to-day incident and problem resolution
- Work with clients and partners to troubleshoot connectivity and messaging problems
- Provide environment support and complete implementation activities.
Data Warehouse Application Support
02.2007 - 08.2007
- Support the load and transform of data (ETL) into a global Oracle data warehouse
- Investigation of data quality issues including analysing the root cause and putting a fix in place as well as cleaning data.
Windows Server Administrator
Invizage Technology
09.2003 - 01.2007
- In a team of 9 provide remote management of small/medium enterprise clients infrastructure, Windows Server fleet of 500
- Configure /maintain/patch/backup Windows 2K/2003 File servers, Web, Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, Maintain/configure Active Directory.
Windows Desktop Engineer
GE Consumer Finance Australia
12.2001 - 04.2003
- Support of 2000 desktop / 80 server Windows end user computing environment
- 2nd level support of server/network infrastructure problems and escalation.
Education
Bachelor of Information Systems -
University of Melbourne
Skills
Technical Skills SummaryTechnical concept development, solution design, high level and detailed infrastructure designsCloud ServicesIaaS/PaaS (AWS/Azure), SaaS (Office365: Exchange, Teams, SharePoint)Unified Endpoint Management (Identity, Mobile Device Management)Networks: Load Balancing, F5 LTM/GTM/APM, Firewalls, TCP/IP, DNS, Routing & Switching, WAN Acceleration (Riverbed) Wifi: Cisco Aironet & MerakiOperating systems: MS Windows, Red Hat LinuxInfrastructure Services: Active Directory, Virtual Applications/VDI, ProxyHypervisors: VMWare vSphere & SRM
Timeline
Regional Head of Digital Workplace
Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking
08.2021 - Current
Infrastructure Manager
09.2020 - 08.2021
Senior Infrastructure Lead
07.2017 - 08.2020
Senior Infrastructure Architect
06.2016 - 07.2017
Technical Architect
07.2013 - 06.2016
Cathay Pacific Airways
01.2012 - 08.2021
Environment Analyst
01.2012 - 07.2013
Middleware Delivery Lead
02.2010 - 04.2011
Middleware & Connectivity Design
12.2008 - 02.2010
Middleware & Connectivity Application Support
08.2007 - 12.2008
National Australia Bank
02.2007 - 04.2011
Data Warehouse Application Support
02.2007 - 08.2007
Windows Server Administrator
Invizage Technology
09.2003 - 01.2007
Windows Desktop Engineer
GE Consumer Finance Australia
12.2001 - 04.2003
Bachelor of Information Systems -
University of Melbourne