IT and Cloud Services Lead specialising in national project management, cost optimisation (Fin-Ops), and automated identity access management.
Extensive experience in designing, maintaining, and automating enterprise-grade infrastructure. Expert in national IT project management, cost optimisation (Fin-Ops), and identity access management. Proven track record of reducing operational expenditure by over 30% through platform consolidation and process automation.
$ whoami
> IT and Cloud Services Lead based in Melbourne. Expert in AWS, GCP, and enterprise automation.
$ ls core_competencies
[1] Cloud_Infrastructure.tf
[2] Identity_IAM.yaml
[3] FinOps_Optimization.sh
[4] Device_Management.plist
$ fetch --stats
ROLE: IT & Cloud Services Lead
LOCATION: East Melbourne, VIC
EDUCATION: Bachelor of IT (RMIT)
FOCUS: Automation & Cost Optimisation
IT and Cloud Services Lead
Aug 2024 – Current
IT and Operations Consultant
Oct 2022 – Aug 2024
Administration Assistant & IT Consultant
Jan 2022 – Oct 2022
RMIT University
2022 – Present
Total Objects: 04
Migrated Australian servers to a global instance; leading initiative to integrate ABM, NetSuite, and MDM for a single source of truth.
Consolidated 150 accounts into one organisation and decommissioned 25% of legacy environments, reducing AWS costs by ~30%.
Migrated business units into global enterprise tiers for Slack, Adobe, GitHub, and Atlassian while improving SSO hygiene.
Accelerated device deployment through Zero-Touch Provisioning, standardizing macOS/Windows profiles using JAMF and Intune.
Beyond the office, I'm an enthusiast for "open-source first" architectures and self-hosted infrastructure. My personal lab serves as a testing ground for the enterprise solutions of tomorrow.
Proxmox, TrueNAS Scale, and Docker-based infrastructure.
Leveraging N8n for financial tracking and lifecycle management.
will@homelab:~$ screenfetch
####### OS: Proxmox VE
## ## Kernel: 6.5.11-8-pve
## ## Uptime: 142 days
####### Packages: 1240 (dpkg)
## ## Shell: bash 5.2.15
## ## CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
## ## GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060
RAM: 98124MiB / 128542MiB
Whether you need a full network overhaul or a strategic IT lead to optimise your cloud spend, I'm ready to connect.