Michael Fleming

Michael Fleming

Experienced systems administrator and infrastructure developer

South Brisbane Area, Australia

Past
  • Systems and Solutions Architect at HostingShop / Dedicated Servers
  • Systems Administrator / Developer at Sauce Software
  • Senior Systems Engineer at MelbourneIT
  • Technical Support at Webcentral Pty Ltd
Education
  • TAFE
  • South Bank Institute of TAFE
  • Griffith University
Connections
81 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Michael Fleming’s Summary

Contact: mfleming@thatfleminggent.com or michael.fleming@member.sage-au.org.au

Experienced systems administrator / integrator / support engineer (8+years) with a background in UNIX (Linux / OpenBSD / FreeBSD / some Solaris) and Windows Server technologies, primarily in larger scale environments.

- Design, installation and management of electronic mail systems using primarily open source technologies (including anti-spam and anti-virus technologies)
- Strong skills in DNS services - ISC BIND, Microsoft DNS, PowerDNS
- Web server installation, optimisation and security (from small installations to large hosting environments) on Windows and UNIX systems
- Jabber/XMPP based messaging systems and gateways
- Database server administration and management
- Host and network security (AUSCERT trained), firewalling, SELinux
- Virtualisation (VMWare, Xen)
- Systems related development and scripting
- Product development and engineering
- Software packaging and deployment
- Strong knowledge of open source technologies and communities (I am a contributor to Red Hat's Fedora Project)
- Server/Performance monitoring
- Hardware procurement, installation and maintenance
- Experience with streaming media services (Windows Media Server, Darwin Streaming Server)
- Network Time Service (managing a widely used stratum 2 timeserver)

Michael Fleming’s Specialties:

Server security and administration with some product engineering skills, Web servers (IIS + Apache), email / messaging servers (Postfix, Qmail, Sendmail, Microsoft SMTP; Ejabberd/ Jabberd2), databases (MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL) coding (Perl, PHP), packaging (RPM), Version Control (CVS / Subversion / Bazaar) monitoring (Nagios, WhatsUpGold, Microsoft Operations Manager, Zabbix) and network services (DHCP/DNS)


Michael Fleming’s Experience

  • Systems and Solutions Architect

    HostingShop / Dedicated Servers

    (Internet industry)

    June 2008August 2008 (3 months)

    Optimisations and improvements in existing infrastructure as well as growing additional high-volume larger scale environments and services for small to medium enterprises

  • Systems Administrator / Developer

    Sauce Software

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    May 2007May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

    Systems Administrator / Datacentre Manager / Developer, responsible for server maintenance and support, infrastructure management, research and development (new products and virtualisation options)

  • Senior Systems Engineer

    MelbourneIT

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; MIT.ASX; Internet industry)

    June 2004May 2007 (3 years)

    Systems Administration and design (Windows Server and Red Hat Linux), infrastructure support and development, customer and internal support.

  • Technical Support

    Webcentral Pty Ltd

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    June 2000June 2004 (4 years 1 month)

    Windows server / coding support for customers and internal users


Michael Fleming’s Education

  • TAFE

    Information Technology 19992000

  • South Bank Institute of TAFE

    Computing 19992000

    (incomplete)

  • Griffith University

    B.Ed, Music, English, 19931998

    Includes 1 year @ Queensland Conservatorium of Music (1993)


Additional Information

Michael Fleming’s Websites:

Michael Fleming’s Groups:

Fedora Project, SAGE-AU

  •    Australian IT Industry
  •    Official VMware Virtualization Group
  •    XMPP
  •    Fedora Project
  •    AUUG
  •    SAGE-AU
  •    BOINC Users

Michael Fleming’s Contact Settings

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