Damian Burne

Architecting and executing a comprehensive efficiency roadmap for SOLEUM, designing interconnected systems across innovation, product, and engineering domains, building also the tooling infrastructure to operationalise them at scale.

- Implemented the core Operating Model for the company, encompassing accountability structures and cross-functional process architecture.
- Built and currently insti

Architecting and executing a comprehensive efficiency roadmap for SOLEUM, designing interconnected systems across innovation, product, and engineering domains, and building tooling infrastructure to operationalise them at scale. Implemented the core Operating Model, centralised Knowledge Base, and Product OS framework, and designed a comprehensive Jira taxonomy with traceability to version control

Worked as Travel at Career Break.

Insurance Australia Group (IAG) is the largest general insurer in Australia and New Zealand, underwriting over AU$ 16 billion in premiums annually. It operates well-known brands such as NRMA, CGU, and WFI, supporting millions of customers across personal and commercial insurance.

Contracted to support enterprise-wide Atlassian tooling across 8,000+ users, with a focus on automation, Jira system c

As Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, Telstra is proud to be helping our customers improve the ways in which they live and work through connection.

While being part of the technical delivery arm for HR in the company, assisted with the alignment of people, delivery, and finance areas through the consistent use of Jira.

Deliverables:
- a technical Community o

Provided data and usability insights about the Jira instance where the Test and Bug work items were tracked in the largest B2B programme in the company.

Coordinated a technical enablement team to allow B2C delivery teams to track and report work in a consistent way.

Having previously contracted at Lenovo, I was re-engaged to create a framework for future
implementation of a set of customisations, which extend the official support from Microsoft.

This project saw me consult with various stakeholders to ultimately deliver PowerShell scripts that optimally provided:
- Windows 10 black box deployment via Azure
- Device configuration migration and bespoke alterat

Virtus Health is one of the largest integrated practices of its kind in the world and is highly regarded providing the very best in fertility care, IVF and related services.

Having been requested to take on the Technology Strategist role I was responsible for:

- Rolling out a framework to run projects in a Scrum format, training the spearhead local team and fostering a culture of fail fast & lea

I was originally engaged for my expertise in PowerShell scripting and advocacy for upcoming trends in the DevOps, Agile, Lean and user-centric design spaces.

Upon an internal workflow revision and a thorough assessment of the IT processes, and after a series of MVPs which led to an acknowledgment of requirements, I was responsible for:

- Implementing a ChatOps channel on Slack and integrating it

Equifax is a global data, analytics, and technology company, blending unique data, analytics, and technology with a passion for serving customers globally, to create insights that power decisions to move people forward.

I was engaged to assist with the acquisition of Veda as a Senior Consultant for the Active Directory Migration project using Dell/Quest Migration Manager as the tool of choice. My

Project: Leighton-Thiess-Visionstream merge - Active Directory Migrations Consultant
• Coordinator of Computer objects migration with local end users and IT teams.
• AD user auditing and reporting via PowerShell scripts.
• Trained onsite technicians and provided senior level support assistance to external consultants.
• Extensive stakeholder management.

Project: APAC Collaboration Team as Technical Consultant (Collaboration Engineer)
• Delivered 10+ PowerShell custom scripts, joining multiple domain queries in a single report.
• Trained staff in performance scripting, cut down reporting time from hours to seconds.
• Trained staff to connect to various domains using Dell ActiveRoles cmdlets.

Project: Reece-Actrol-Metalflex merge as Technical Consultant (Project Design and Direction by Lintec IT)
• Delivered a variety of custom PowerShell scripts, including integration with web services.
• Executed a 1,000+ Active Directory user objects migration.
• Upgraded an ActiveRoles environment from 6.7 to 6.9.

Project: Computer Objects migration as AD Migrations Consultant
• Delivered consultancy services for migration of remaining 10,000+ Active Directory objects.
• Led the initial phase for computer objects migration, with a total of 2,000+ objects migrated.
• Wrote scripts in PowerShell to monitor the daily status of manual migrations.
• Helped foster relationships between Faculty stakeholders.
• Led

Project: Fletcher Building BAU team (remote, 6 months, 3000 staff)
• Windows Server (2003, 2008, 2012) administration and monitoring via automated scripts.
• Active Directory administration. GPOs, DNS, LDAP queries.
• Exchange 2007/2010 administration, white/blacklist update.
• Administered virtual machines and resources management (VMWare and Hyper-V, ~150 hosts).
• System Center Configuration Ma

Project: Exchange migration as Email & AD Migrations Consultant (users, groups and mailboxes)
• Migrated a total of 15,000+ AD objects from 7 environments in a cross-forest migration. Migrated 5,000+ mailboxes to a single Exchange 2010. Quest/Dell manager operation, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Led 4 migration projects, autonomously migrating 3,500 users to a unique domain.
• Maintained an

Service Desk tasks: Exchange 2010, Active Directory (W2008) administration in a post-migration environment (cross-forest Exchange merge to a centralized Ex2010)
PowerShell reports, scripting.

-System support and administration for Live@edu project, based on Exchange 2010 (pre-Office365).
-Clients from South America and Eastern Europe.
-Testing experience: Single Sign-On solutions, GUI, OWA configuration.
-Tools used: PowerShell, HTTP Watch, HTML code analysis, manual testing.

Assisted the company liaising with British Telecom and managing stakeholders in the follow-the-sun operation model with India and Czech Republic.

Extensive stakeholder management, coordinating internal and external parties to deliver B2B products. Responsible for the delivery of Last Mile connections throughout metropolitan and northern areas of Argentina (up to 10Gbit via optic fibre).

Remote support on weekends. Troubleshooting issues with Unix devices for the largest hotel chains in South America, and providing phone support in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Pursued a Bachelor of Arts with a focus on Logic and Computation.