Chris Addison

Background

About Chris Addison

I'm an experienced IT support engineer. After 12 years in London, in October 2013 I moved to the Gold Coast, Australia. In November 2013 I accepted a 2 year contract as a Cloud Architect for a Gold Coast based service provider. After the contract ended in February 2016 I was self-employed refurbishing enterprise computer hardware, and still do it in a part time capacity. I'm currently working full time for Honeywell Building Solutions looking after the IT side of building automation and security systems. That includes, Vmware, Veeam, Compellent SAN's, Dell servers and workstations, Procurve switches and over cameras with their recordings in Petabytes of storage-I love what I do. Matching technology to a problem and implementing it is what inspires me -I've worn many hats in my career: Network Engineer, Hardware Engineer, Network Administrator, Salesman, Programmer, Accountant, Manager, Teacher and Mentor. As a result, I have a uniquely broad skill set to enable me to manage diverse projects -Specialties: Virtualising, Backup systems, Replication, High Availability, Hosting, Cloud and in-house Solutions, Microsoft Server and Desktop Support, Project Management, Cloud Computing Father of 4 sons, 2 under 17 and 2 in their 40's and grandfather of 3 boys. Married to a Sydney girl, Felicity, who I met on the Orkney Islands on the other side of the world, with whom we created the last 2 little miracles. Outside of work and family, my passion is off road motorcycle riding and travelling. See my website describing how I mixed the 2 passions: https://adventurebiker.com/