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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Andrew Garrett’s Summary

Currently IS Group Assistant Manager at SWS Australia.

Recently: Lead Admin at Jaiku.com, teleworking in Finland from New Zealand. Also community liason, both within Jaiku and broader social media outreach.

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.

Andrew Garrett’s Specialties:

IT management and team leadership, including team creation/growth/mentoring, budget creation and control, policy development and documentation. Server side 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 (1 year 8 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 Company

Andrew Garrett’s Interests:

Photography, niche social networking, better living through judicious application of appropriate technology, martial arts, reading, physical fitness, internet communications.