Phillip McIver
Information & Communication Technology Manager
Seeking a position in a dynamic work environment where I may apply my skills, experience and knowledge, in the fields of information technology (IT) and Communication Design with a focus on UX design/development, WebApp development, and system administration (hardware, software, cloud tech and networks)
Skills
Systems Admin
- Microsoft 365
- Account Management
- Technical Support
- Windows/macOS
- Security Oversight
- Software installs
- Hardware Installation
Microsoft 365 Business/Enterprise
- Word/Excel/PowerPoint
- Outlook/Exchange
- OneNote/Visio/Visio Studio
- Remote Desktop win/macOs
- Microsoft 365 Admin Centre
- Power Apps/Power Automate
- SharePoint/OneDrive
Open Source Projects
- Nextcloud/CalDAV/CardDAV
- Ubuntu/Linux/Redhat
- Gitlab/Docker/Kubernetes
- WireGuard/OpenVPN
- apache/ngnix/php/SQL
- Dovecot/exim/Sendmail
- Onlyoffice/Collabora Servers
Project Management
- Project Management
- Trello
- Scheduling
- Budgeting
- Hire Management
Cloud
- AWS
- Oracle
- IBM/Bluemix
- Azure
- DigitalOcean
- Alababa
Web Development
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- Python
- PHP
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
UI Design
- Experience
- Wireframing
- Prototyping
- Sketch
- InVision
Network Tech
- OpenVPN Cloud
- WireGuard
- Tailscale/Headscale
- SSH/IPsec tunneling
- Firewall/NAT
- Secure Cloud
- Mesh Overlay
Computer Tech
- Software installs
- Hardware Installation
- Network systems
- Cabling
- Router/Switch
- Systems Setup
ITC Support
- Patient
- Good Communicator
- Business Aware
- Interpersonal Skills
- Relationship Building
- Collaboration
- Analytical Mind
Educator
- Effective Communicator
- Patient
- Creative
- Preparedness
- Adaptabile
- Active Listener
- Lifelong learning
Work Experience (3)
Mar 2011 - Oct 2019
Course Developer and Tutor
RMIT University, Melbourne City Campus, VIC.
Tutor - School of Computer Science and Information Technology. Course Developer and Tutor - School of Current Science, Engineering and Health Key Responsibilities: • Liaise regularly with course manager and coordinators • Designing and delivering courses • Developed lectures, tutorials and practical’s and other in class material • Maintain online materials on Blackboard & Moodle & Canvas • Prepared assessments, assignments, exams and solutions • Deliver and timetabled tutorials over semester • Marked assessments & exams • Provided assistance to students during tutorials and assist head tutors • Worked as tutor, under direction of supervisor • Mark lab tests and live quizzes • Respond to student queries
- Developed and maintained 4 subjects (in Civil & Environmental engineering)
- Subjects covered AutoCad Civil 3D, Surfer(contour mapping), advanced Microsoft Excel and Geo coordinate calculation.
- Tutored 3 subject’s (in BA. Information Technology)
- Developed Video tutorial covering (AutoCad, Excel & css/html design)
Feb 2003 - Oct 2010
Educator
Cambridge International College, Melbourne, VIC
Key Responsibilities: • Liaise with course coordinator and head of school • Designing and delivering courses • Developed courses, tutorials and practical’s and other in class material • Maintain online materials • Developed assessments, assignments, exams and solutions for course • Marked assessments/test and delivered results
- Developed and maintained 9 subjects
- Promoted paperless classroom (in class material and assignments submissions) via PDF
- Standardised submission & marking process within subjects (online)
Jan 1989 - Oct 2010
Creative Director/Business Owner
Bilasi
Key Responsibilities: • Responsible for all aspects of business operations • Provided creative direction • Team and resource management • Digital and Print Media design, development and production
- Started business from scratch
- Employed 3 to 5 staff fulltime staff and up to 10 contractors as required
- Setup and developed all the business systems. for a multiplatform environment
- Promoted a creative environment through training and ownership of design process from concept to delivery
- Silver PICA Award for Design (Printing Industries Craftsmanship Awards)
- Supported work experience program which help 30 developing designers
Projects (2)
Cloud in a Box
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
- MAAS
- Ubuntu Server
- Cisco
- IBM
- SysLink
- SAAS
- Ansible
- OpenStack
- Juju
- Chamhub
- Private Cloud
- Trello/Kanban
- Agile Project Development
Allowed a fulling functioning cloud service to be demonstrated in the Lab environment. Hands on Live experience and setup for students. Demonstration in class can be easily reset for next class. A Portable Cloud in a Box could be moved anywhere in the university and setup as needed.
- MAAS infrastructure setup that was used as a teaching aid.
- Bare metal cloud with on-demand servers.
- Remote edge cluster operating setup.
- Infrastructure monitoring and discovery demonstration.
- 1x 12u Box with wheels it included.. A 1x node setup: 1x Controller, 8x computers, 1x switch, 2x routers 1x wifi, 1x UPS, 1x Wireless data modem.
- Advanced Firmware setup for machine access via MAAS controller for spinning up and down resources as needed.
- The whole system was off the shelf (made by resource we had available at the time)
JetBot AI
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
- NVIDIA JetPack
- NVIDIA DeepStream SDK
- NVIDIA DIGITS
- Jetson Nano TX2
- Waveshare
- Ubuntu
- Gitlab/Github
- Anaconda
- Jupyter Notebook
- Python
- CUDA Core
- TensorRT
- OpenCV
- Deep Learning
- Computer Vision
AI Robot kit based on Jetson Nano Developer Kit. Supports facial recognition, object tracking, auto line following or collision avoidance and so on. Stared on it as a COVID project during the long lockdowns in VIC.
- Setup an in house solution for managing, testing and programming the AI. Jupyter Notebook for programming and Gitlab a self hosted code repository.
- The project was setup to be accessed via a wireless network connection.
- Programming done directly on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano using Jupyter Notebook.
- Discovered the Memory limitations of the Jetson Nano requiring an upgrade to the storage for a faster solution which enabled an expansion of the memcache which improved its overall performance.
- To gain a better understanding of Nvidia CUDA Cores/GPU in A.I. I also setup and tested geForce rtx 3060 ti as well as the Jetson Nano.
Education (3)
2014 - 2018
Bachelor
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - RMIT Uni
- Bachelor of Information Technology - BP162P7
2012 - 2013
Diploma
TAFE Business
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - RMIT
- Diploma of Information Technology - ICT50220
2010 - 2010
Cert IV
Education & Training
MBG Education
- Cert IV - Training & Assessment - TAA40104
Awards
2000
PICA - Printing Industries Craftmanship Awards
PICA Silver Award
It was awarded to Bilasi for a Innovative multi lingual book design
Interests
Learning New Things
- Thing That Fly
- Researching
- Traveling
- Nature's Microenvironment
- How Things Work
Building Things
- RC Aeroplane/Drones
- Systems & Networks
- Computers/Servers
- Robotics
- Car Restoration