Chris MacDonald

Background

About Chris MacDonald

PERSONAL PROFILE • Highly motivated to achieve and have a passion for success • Professional, goal-focused and oriented, with a strong focus on customer outcomes • First class analytical, design and problem-solving skills • Dedicated to maintaining high quality standards • Proven leadership of teams in both Agile and DevOps environments • An accomplished leader and team builder who develops and leads high performing teams and who is recognised as a capable mentor to others • People and customer focused with an engaging communication style along with the ability to build excellent relationships at all levels with clients, colleagues and suppliers • Strong organisational and time management abilities, able to prioritise and manage multiple responsibilities and tasks, work under pressure and meet deadlines CAREER PROFILE • Highly skilled and adaptable IT professional with broad experience in several different disciplines within IT • Appreciate creating solid business relationships, which result in win-win situations where both parties benefit • Experienced at human resources, recruitment and mentoring of staff across multiple sites • Appreciate witnessing the progression and development of staff to use their strengths to their benefit and the benefit of the company • Leadership of high performing teams, including internal and external resources, on infrastructure and software projects • Management of budgets for on premise and public cloud infrastructure, and databases • Administration and maintenance of Cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure) • Architectural design and administration of enterprise OLTP and Datawarehouse database solutions (Oracle/ SQL Server / Postgres / Redshift / Athena / mySQL / MongoDB) • Administration and maintenance of collaboration tools and source code repositories (Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket)