Andrew Garrett

Current

• IS Group Assistant Manager at SWS Australia

Past

• Sysadmin and Operations guy at Jaiku.com
• Website Creator at CreateMyWebsite
• Infrastructure and Production Support Team Leader at Datamail

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Connections

61 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Andrew Garrett’s Summary

Currently Lead Admin at Jaiku.com, teleworking in Finland from Melbourne, Australia - and actively seeking a new primary role.

Previously employed as the Team Lead of the Infrastructure and Production Support team of a document management company, leading a team of 7 Linux/Unix administrators, while also acting as the Lead Infrastructure Architect.

Much experience with Open Source web-facing technologies, including high availability, high performance and multiply-redundant systems.

Open source enthusiast and believer, but not anti-Microsoft bigot.

Personal weblog can be found at http://redemption.co.nz/, which also includes contact details.

Andrew Garrett’s Specialties:

Linux and applications, infrastructure architecture. Familiarity with Linux and related open source technologies ranging back to the mid-nineties. Experience in consulting, development, leading teams, mentoring, middle-management and technical troubleshooting.

Andrew Garrett’s Experience

• IS Group Assistant Manager

  SWS Australia

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Automotive industry)

  December 2007 — Present (9 months)

• Sysadmin and Operations guy

  Jaiku.com

  (Internet industry)

  January 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 3 months)

• Website Creator

  CreateMyWebsite

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  July 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 4 months)

  Largely Wordpress implementations/Weblog consulting for a variety of clients.

• Infrastructure and Production Support Team Leader

  Datamail

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2003 — February 2007 (3 years 5 months)

Additional Information

Andrew Garrett’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Andrew Garrett’s Interests:

Social networking, enabling technologies, martial arts, reading, pistol shooting, physical fitness, internet communications.

Andrew Garrett’s Groups:

•    JoiIto

Andrew Garrett’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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