1. Andrew Kemmy
Private and Public Cloud Architect
Hataitai Wellington
+64 (0)27 532 2638
andrew.kemmy@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/andrewkemmy
Summary
Private and Public Cloud Architect - Compute, Network, Storage
Work History
Senior Technical Consultant
COMSMART Oct 2014 - Present
Technical Consultant for a WAN augmentation project linking six diverse organizations to critical hosted medical
applications
I maintain technical and commercial relationships with WAN providers, external customers, and stakeholders up
to CIO level
Infrastructure Architect
Telecom New Zealand Nov 2011 - Oct 2014
I re-architected TNZI infrastructure to achieve annual OPEX savings of $107,000 while adding significant BCP
capability
Network Engineer
XannaX Works Nov 2002 - Nov 2011
My position with XannaX was as a consultant working for Telecom New Zealand International. Between 2006 and
2011 I acted in Infrastructure Architect and Subject Matter Expert capacities for large TNZI projects such as Soft
Switch (VoIP) and Billing/OSS/Business Process Automation
Skills
Infrastructure Architecture
Multi-domain expertise allows complete overview of environment including server, networking, and storage
Iterate future state designs including pricing, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements
Work with Management, Design, Security, Change, Compliance, and Operations Teams to ensure design
acceptance
Project Management
I can take ownership of a medium sized project and bring it to a successful conclusion
Stakeholder identification, and Stakeholder Workshops
Business and Technical requirements analysis, Budgeting
Vendor Management including running tender processes
Preparing documentation to a high standard including Business Case and Project Plan
Project Planning and Execution
Mentoring
Ten years experience as Senior Technical Lead and Subject Matter Expert
The "go to" person on projects when technical decisions are needed
Provide advice and guidance to Engineers on the team
Infrastructure Team Lead on large technical project

2. VMware
Proficient at the Architecture and Design Levels as well as Implementation Level
vSphere Data Protection, vSphere Replication
Familiar with Hyperconverged Solutions Nexenta, and Nutanix, also VMware NSX certified
Routing and Switching
Cisco 2800 and 7200 routers, 3750 and 4948 switches
Developed several layer 3 proof-of-concepts to improve VoIP availability Proof of concept MPLS RSVP-TE and EoMPLS on
Cisco 7200
F5 BIG-IP LTM
Firewall and Security
Excellent hands on capabilities with Cisco ASA and Fortigate
IPSEC VPN, ACL, Destination NAT, Source NAT, QoS, layer 7 inspection
Remote Access including two Factor Authentication (RSA, Safeword)
Storage
Migration of TNZI datacenters to a unified storage solution
Design, planning, and implementation of IBM DS8000/Cisco MDS9000 SAN
Design, planning, implementation of, and migration to, Dell PS6210 arrays
Linux and WindowsServer
15 Years experience with all flavors of Linux including Red Hat, SUSE, Debian
Windows Server DNS, DHCP, Radius, Active Directory, Clustering, basic Exchange and SQL
Certifications
VMware Certified Professional 5-DataCenterVirtualization
VMware
Extensive knowledge of vSphere including Data Protection, Operations Manager
Cisco Certified Network Professional
Cisco Systems
Routing and Switching, Troubleshooting
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Nov 2013 - Nov 2016
Education
MASTERS
Dublin City University
Masters in Electronic systems
1999
Availability and References
I am a New Zealand Citizen
I am required to give one months notice to my current employer
References are available upon request