MELVIN WEBB

CONTACT Mobile: +64 27 222 6338

Email: melvin@webb.net.nz
PERSONAL I am regarded as a trusted advisor and have forged great relationships. I’m known to be
PROFILE approachable and my peers see me as a mentor and a leader, this is reflected in the
commendations which I have been nominated by customers, recognized and awarded for the
following.
 (Technical Lead) NZ Oil Services Ltd. – Successfully migrated from servers based onsite to
new “Gen-i Ready Could” infrastructure including Windows Server 2011 SBS, Server
2008R2 with SQL 2008, Citrix XenApp 6.
 (Technical Lead) Ministry of Justice - Vic Data Centre Relocation Project. Measures taken
to meet strict and tight timeframes with demanding standards.
 (Technical Lead) Shell NZ – Data Centre Relocation Project. Successfully transferred with
limited hardware failure and the project made a sizable profit when it originally was
budgeted to break even.
OBJECTIVE I intend to further develop my leadership capabilities and business acumen with the aim to
progress my career in Infrastructure & Cloud Design.
SKILLS  Microsoft Server versions (NT4, 2000, 2003, 2008 & 2012)
 Windows desktop OS versions (XP, 2000, 7, 10)
 Office365
 Microsoft Office 2003-2016
 Microsoft Exchange 2010
 Cisco (basic - switch, router, ASA)
 Linux (BSD based, Red Hat, SuSE)
 Backup (CA Arcserve, Symantec BackupExec, Veaam)
 HP cClass blade chassis and server
 HP EVA
 EMC RSA
 Tape library and autoloader
 Citrix XenApp 4.5 – 6.5
 Citrix XenDesktop
 Citrix Provisioning Server
 Citrix NetScaler
 VMware ESX / vSphere
 Hyper-V
 Leadership
 Advisor
 Mentor

WORK HISTORY

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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE NOVEMBER 2017 – CURRENT
Infrastructure Engineer
There is an ongoing program of work which is expanding and updating the capabilities to provide relevance within the
ministry. I am contracted to deliver on multiple projects and assist with daily maintenance with my knowledge and
experience in a variety of areas.

Key Competency Daily maintenance and fault resolution involving Microsoft AD, Microsoft SCCM, VMware
vSphere, Symantec Endpoint Protection and Citrix NetScaler Gateway.
Achievements  Replace the Citrix Branch Office Repeaters with security, network infrastructure and branch
servers at remote sites around the world. My responsibilities were to build and deploy WAN
optimizers and branch servers.
 Upgrade of VPN gateways to support Windows 10 and improve stability.

SPEEDY SIGNS – PRODUCTION LINE TECHNICIAN SEPTEMBER 2017 – OCTOBER 2017

CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY OF NEW ZEALAND APRIL 2017 – AUGUST 2017
Consultant: Infrastructure (Short Term Contract)
Key Competency Solution design and implementation.
Achievements  Successfully completed a data migration project which included provision of storage, deploy
new Server 2012R2 file servers and automate provisioning shares with quotas applied as a
replacement for mapped home drives.
 Successfully automated mail archive ingestion into MS Exchange 2010.

Holiday December 2016 – April 2017

IAG NEW ZEALAND LIMITED SEPTEMBER 2015 – NOVEMBER 2016
Consultant: NetScaler and Security
I was responsible for redesigning the NetScaler Application Delivery Controller and NetScaler Gateway to satisfy the
requirements of the network and security design. Additionally, I was appointed the subject matter expert and stake holder
for the solution. As the stake holder for application security and traffic I consulted to internal DevOps teams. I successfully
completed the redesign and implementation of a resilient solution within and across geographically segregated data
centers. I also completed the migration of application which were integrated with Cisco Firewall Services Module to Citrix
NetScalers.
Key Competency  Architectural Leadership Team – Subject Matter Expert and Stake Holder.
 Key Stake holder for remote access, application security and delivery.
 Technical Lead for the NetScaler team.
 Consultant: Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop

Achievements  Design NetScaler solution to align with the Network and Security design under the Digital
Program.
 PCI-DSS compliance review and remediation.
DEPTIVE AUGUST 2015 – SEPTEMBER 2015
Solutions Consultant – Contract
Key Competency Consultant and design engineer
Achievements  Design and deliver remote access solution.

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SPARK DIGITAL JANUARY 2015 – JULY 2015
Senior Consultant - Contract
Key Competency Consultant and design engineer
Achievements  Design application traffic control and delivery solutions.

DATACOM SYSTEMS LIMITED MAY 2013 – JANUARY 2015

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Key Competency Consult, design and provide guidance with regards to delivery and security of applications.
Achievements  Proof of concept implementation of Hyper-V
 Complete design review and produced the final solution design which was signed off and
implemented. The NetScaler infrastructure includes four NetScaler SDX 11500 appliances
(hosts) running a hypervisor with 12 NetScaler VPXs spanning 2 data centers. The NetScaler
infrastructure performed load balancing, content switching, application delivery by
geolocation, automated failover to DR and form processing functions within core business
applications.
 Successfully delivered a project which entailed migration from physical infrastructure to a
virtual environment and introduction of a new application stack implemented to improve
business process efficiency. The user base grew from 200 to 8000 and the applications
replaced paper-based processes and documents.
 Successfully completed and proved an automated DR solution.

Assignments  New Zealand Defense Force (Security Cleared)

 IAG New Zealand
 IHC

GEN-I WELLINGTON FIELD DELIVERY AUGUST 2007 – MAY 2013

Senior Systems Engineer / Technical Lead
I was a Technical Lead with a team of 8 engineers responsible for tier 3 escalations and project delivery for several
government agencies and small to medium businesses.
Key Competency Technical Lead, Project design and implementation, Server hardware and OS fault diagnosis and
repair, Environment monitoring and management.
Achievements  (NZ Oil Services) Successfully completed an infrastructure migration project from scoping
through to hand over. This project was challenging due to commercial restrictions which
resulted in taking file-based backups of the environment and transposing them into the new
cloud-based infrastructure. The process included the following.
o Assess the Physical infrastructure and Design the new Cloud environment including
a new Citrix farm.
o Prepare new infrastructure in “ReadyCloud” comprising of Windows Small Business
Server 2011 with Exchange 2010, Windows Server 2008R2 with SQL server 2008
and Windows Server 2008R2 with Citrix XenApp 6.
o Migrate data from infrastructure hosted on physical servers onsite to the
ReadyCloud servers and connected 8 sites around New Zealand.
 (New Zealand Fire Service – Technical Lead) Lead a team of 8 engineers, we fielded tier 3
escalations and were responsible for commissioning the HP cClass Blade infrastructure
which hosted the Citrix environment across 2 datacenters and servicing 9000 users.
 (New Zealand Fire Service – Technical Lead) Successfully completed the project to upgrade
the Citrix XenApp infrastructure from 4.5 to 6.5.
 (Shell New Zealand) Successfully planned and moved 26 racks of infrastructure from a
datacenter, which was decommissioned, to another ahead of time and budget and only

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 conceding 2 minor hardware failures. The timelines were tight and to achieve our target I
lead 4 teams of engineers and 1 external vendor, totaling 24 members.
 (Ministry of Justice – Technical Lead) Successfully completed a datacenter consolidation
project. I was the lead field engineer involved in scoping, planning and consolidating servers
from 4 sites to 2 datacenters. Following the completion of the physical consolidation, I lead a
team of engineers in commissioning an HP Blade infrastructure fleet and migrated from
physical to virtual infrastructure.
 (Ministry of Justice) Successfully planned and deployed servers to all main centers in New
Zealand, built them as SuSE Linux based automated voice transcription nodes.
 (Department of Corrections) Successfully commissioned NetScaler Gateways in 2
datacenters.
Assignments  NZ Fire Service
 NZ Oil Services Ltd.
 Ministry of Defense (Security Cleared)
 Ministry of Justice
 Department of Corrections
 Computerland NZ
 AMP Capital Investors
 Z Energy / Greenstone Energy

CANTERBURY DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD FEBRUARY 2004 – JULY 2007

Senior Field Engineer (Information Services)
EDUCATION
CAG-200-1 Implementing Citrix Access Gateway 9.0 Enterprise Edition Course completed
Citrix CCA XenApp 4.5 Administration Server 2008 Certified
Novell Platespin Course completed
CompTIA A+ Certified
CompTIA Network+ Certified

REFERENCES
Craig Sidwell Mobile 021 729 452
Team Leader, Infrastructure Support Email craig.sidwell@mfat.govt.nz
Information Management Division
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Alastair Campbell Tel 04 439 8760
Project Manager Email alastair.campbell@mfat.govt.nz
Information Management Division
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Nelish Vallabhjee Mobile 027 555 5899
Network Architect Email Nelish.vallabhjee@mfat.govt.nz
Information Management Division
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

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