Curriculum Vitae

ICT Professional • Network & Security Specialist

Contact

4 Station Street, Arncliffe, NSW 2205
Phone: +61 450 639 249
Email: nirajthapaliya95@gmail.com

Objective

As an ICT professional with over 3 years of experience, I deliver reliable IT services and infrastructure improvements for organisations of varying sizes. I focus on fast response, minimal downtime, and system reliability.

Education

Masters in Applied Information Technology — Victoria University, Sydney CBD

Key skills

Networking & Security
Cisco ASA/Firepower, Fortinet, Sophos, IPS, VPN

Routing & Switching
Cisco, Aruba, Juniper, HPe, Mikrotik

Cloud & Virtualization
Microsoft 365, GSuite, Zoho, VMware vSphere, Citrix

Scripting
Bash / shell

IP Telephony
Cisco, Avaya, SIP systems

Monitoring & Troubleshooting
Datacenter ops, ticketing systems, Tier 2 SLA

Experience

Club Attendee — St George Leagues Club

March 2025 — Present

Overseeing daily operations following club policy
Ensuring compliance with RSA / RCG regulations
Providing customer service and troubleshooting gaming systems

ICT Officer — Sastra Network Solution

Oct 2018 — Mar 2022

Ensured smooth IT operations for private and government organisations
Updated legacy systems using L2/L3 network components to reduce latency
Deployed wireless solutions (standalone & controller-based)
Implemented VMware / vSphere / Citrix, achieving up to 40% cost reduction & better backups
Maintained datacenter operations following Tier 2 SLAs using ticketing systems
Managed SIP systems for multi-site communications (Cisco, Avaya)
Worked across multi-vendor environments: Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, HP, Cambium, Ubiquiti, FortiGate

Projects & Leadership

Team Leader — Final year project (Victoria University)
Topic: VPN System for Remote Workers

Led team using Agile methodology, split tasks and maintained repositories
Implemented OpenVPN for client-side secure remote connectivity
Managed CI/CD pipelines and development environment

References

Available upon request.