Michael Fleming

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

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Education

TAFE
South Bank Institute of TAFE
Griffith University

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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 2008 — August 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 2007 — May 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 2004 — May 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 2000 — June 2004 (4 years 1 month)

Windows server / coding support for customers and internal users

Michael Fleming’s Education

TAFE

Information Technology 1999 — 2000
South Bank Institute of TAFE

Computing 1999 — 2000

(incomplete)
Griffith University

B.Ed, Music, English, 1993 — 1998

Includes 1 year @ Queensland Conservatorium of Music (1993)