Rik Harris

I am an experienced IT professional who has been working in corporate and government Australia, predominantly with IT infrastructure, for almost 20 years. My primary areas of expertise include infrastructure strategy, planning, management, design and deployment – most recently in shared infrastructure ("Infrastructure as a Service") and infrastructure consolidation/virtualisation. Specialties • Technologist with commercial experience. • IT infrastructure strategy, architecture, standards, planning, deployment and management. • Infrastructure virtualisation and consolidation. • Technology communications, vendor/product selection, outsourcing, service contract negotiation. • Service Management for IT, particularly technology planning, service description, infrastructure and technology lifecycle management, infrastructure risk management.