James Bromberger

Over 35 years with SMB, multi-national companies and government agencies leading teams on web-scale technology platforms, architecting, implementing and operating services to meet global 24x7 service requirements. My communication skills have allowed me to quickly collaborate and direct global IT operational, DevOps, development and support staff, as well as set agency and organisational strategies on cybersecurity uplift.

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Expertise

Senior Leadership & Technology Professional

Since the early 1990s, making extensive use of cost effective bespoke, OSS and commercial digital software and hardware solutions.

Industry & Skills Summary

Professional skills
Leading Enterprise technical teams across multiple sites, time-zones, and languages.
Industry Expertise
Professional Services; Information Technology and Services; Tertiary Education; Financial Services; Advertising; State Government Departments; Mining & Energy
Nationality
Dual Australian & British Nationality

Employment Summary

Year Company Location Role
2022 — PresentAkkodis (Modis)GlobalVice President, Global Ecosystem Partnerships, AWS Cloud Global Practice & Global Alliance Lead
2020 — 2022ModisPerthConsulting Director; Global Cloud Lead
2018 — 2020ModisPerthConsulting Director; AWS Practice Lead (Aus)
2014 — 2018Modis (Ajilon)PerthAssociate Director
2012 — 2014Amazon Web ServicesPerthSecurity Solution Architect, Australia & New Zealand
2010 — PresentNephologyPerthFounder & Trainer
2005 — 2010Vibrant MediaLondonGlobal IT Operations Director
2003 — 2005Fotango (Canon Europe)LondonSystem Administrator Team Director
2001 — 2003Linux.conf.au '03PerthConference lead organiser
2000 — 2002Hartley Poynton/JDVPerthWeb System Adminstrator
1997 — 2000The University of Western AustraliaPerthChief Webmaster

Education, Licences & Certifications

Validate AWS certifications on Credly.

AWS Foundational Certifications

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AWS Associate Certifications

Solution Architect - Associate icon Developer - Associate icon Sys Ops Administrator - Associate icon

AWS Professional Certifications

Solution Architect - Professional icon DevOps Engineer - Professional icon

AWS Specialty Certifications

Advanced Networking - Specialty icon Database - Specialty icon Security - Specialy icon

Additional AWS Badged Recognition

Well Architected Proficient icon Partner Accreditation (Sales) Partner Accreditation (Business) Partner Accreditation (Technical) Cloud Economics Accreditation Migration Ambassador Foundations 2023 Migration Ambassador Foundations 2022 Block Storage Specialist Object Storage Specialist File Storage Specialist Storage Core Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Data Migration Storage Technologist Serverless Architecture Generative AI (business) AWS Ambassador Amazon Connect Ambassador Technology: Networking Core

Training & Conferences

2024
  • AWS Public Sector Symposium — Canberra, Australia
  • AWS Summit — Sydney, Australia
2023
  • BSides Perth 2023 — Perth, Australia
  • AWS Summit — Sydney, Australia
  • AWS End User Compute Roadshow — Perth, Canberra (sponsor/supporter)
2022
  • Australian National Cyber Security Conference, AISA CyberCon — Melbourne, Australia (Presenter)
  • AWS Ambassador Global Summit — Seattle, USA
  • AWS Summit — Canberra, Australia
  • AWS Summit — Sydney, Australia
2021
  • ISACA Secure IT 2021 Conference at Beaumonde on the Point (Presenter) — Perth, Australia
  • University of Technology Sydney guest lecturer: The Modern Cloud and the Serverless [R]evolution (Presenter) — Sydney, Australia
  • BSides Perth 2021 — Perth, Australia (Presenter)
  • AWS User Group Perth — Perth, Australia (Presenter)
2019
  • Linux.conf.au — Christchurch, New Zealand (Presenter)
  • Australian Information Security Association Perth Branch Annual Conference — Perth, Australia (Presenter)
  • AWS Summit — Sydney, Australia
  • AWS Ambassador Meetup — Seattle, USA (Guest of AWS)
  • AWS Certification Workshop SME — San Francisco, USA (Guest of AWS)
2018
  • Australian Information Security Association Branch Annual Conference — Perth (Presenter - link)
  • Latency Conference — Perth, Australia (Presenter)
  • AWS Public Sector Summit — Canberra, Australia
  • AWS: APN Cloud Warrior Summits — various cities around Australia
  • AWS Summit — Sydney, Australia (Presenter)
2017
  • AWS: APN Cloud Warrior Summits — various cities around Australia
  • AWS Summit — Sydney, Australia
  • AWS Public Sector Summit — Canberra, Australia (Presenter)
2016
  • AWS Summit — Sydney
2015
  • Linux.conf.au — Auckland, New Zealand (Papers Committee)
2014
  • AUSCERT Security on the Move — Perth, Australia (Presenter, link)
  • Australian Computer Society (ACS) Branch Conference — Perth, Australia (Presenter)
  • AWS Summit — Sydney, Australia (Presenter)
  • AWS Summit — Auckland, New Zealand (Presenter)
  • Linux.conf.au — Perth, Australia (Presenter, Papers Ctte)
2013
  • Debconf 13 — Geneva, Switzerland (Presenter)
  • AWS Customer Summit — Sydney, Australia (Presenter)
  • Linux.conf.au — Canberra, Australia (Papers Committee)
2012
  • AWS Customer Event/Region Launch — Sydney, Australia
  • Linux.conf.au — Ballarat, Australia
2010
  • Management Skills for IT, Learning Tree — London, UK
2007
  • Debian Conference — Edinburgh, UK
  • FOSDEM — Brussels, Belgium
2005
  • FOSDEM — Brussels, Belgium
  • UKUUG Summer Conference — Swansea, UK
2004
  • FOSDEM — Brussels, Belgium
2003
  • Linux.conf.au — Perth, Australia (Organiser)
2002
  • Linux.conf.au — Brisbane, Australia
  • Australian Debian Mini-Conf — Brisbane Australia (Organiser)
2001
  • 1st Debian Conference — Bordeaux, France
  • Linux.conf.au — Sydney, Australia
2000
  • Apache Con Europe — London, UK
1999
  • AusWeb 1999 Conference — Ballina, Australia

AWS Cloud Experience

Affiliations

Career Detail

2023 — present: Vice President & AWS Partnership Global Cloud Lead, Akkodis (formerly Modis)

In 2022-2023, Modis globally merged with Akka Technologies to become Akkodis.

Roles

My role within the Adecco Group has morphed fomr being a Principal architect in 2014, designing, implementing, operating and then training teams on the Land Registry in the Cloud (the official ownership resords of land for the state government of Western Australia), to national solution & practice lead, to global practice & partnership lead, and in 2023, providing leadership to the global partnership and practices across all technology providers.

While still maintaining 8+ AWS Certifications, I also provided the global Best Practice for the 400+ engineers worldwide, directly working with each of the global Practice leads in each geography to ensure technical delivery excellence, and working with sales and marketing to help enable our global team understand the value proposition of strong digital engineering across architecture, implementation and operation (eg, as a Managed Sevices Provider).

I also started the delivery focus on cybersecurity within Modis Australia, working with the Australian Signals Directorate's Joint Cyber Security Centre (JCSC) to enable the company to become a part of the Managed Service Provider Partner Program (MSP^3), and facilitating the internal disemmination of security alerts to our operational support teams (many of whom themselves look after our largest enterprise and public sector customers, including security services, law enforcement, education, lands industry, transport, mining, energy, etc).

I also provide guidance on cloud enablement for software solutions sold to the automotive and aerospace industries.

2018 — 2022: Consulting Director & Global Cloud Lead, Modis (formerly Ajilon)

Company Profile

In 2018, Ajilon in Australia merged into Modis, its sister brand from other geographies within the Adecco group.

Roles

Responsabilities

As Modis Consulting Director, I specialises in managing the Cloud practice. My leadership provides technical direction and assurance implementing AWS-based cloud solutions delivered to clients, as well as ensuring critical long-term delivery quality, modernisation and security with large cloud-based teams. I frequently present at various industry associations, conferences and User Groups throughout Australia and New Zealand on Cloud, Security, Linux, and Open Source, as well as organising many private customer and public events. He has written and delivered training material on encryption and web security focusing on up-skilling staff to ensure successful customer delivery.

I also spearheaded the company’s interactions with Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) Managed Services Provider Partner Program (MSP^3), ensuring current cybersecurity awareness is a core element of IT service delivery.

2014 — 2018: Associate Director, National Cloud Lead, Ajilon

Company Profile

Ajilon provides program and project management, bespoke development, analysis, architecture, testing & QA, services, as a part of the Adecco Group. Its customers are large enterprises and government agencies.

Assignments

2017
  • AWS APN Cloud Warrior
  • RAC
  • Dept Training & Workforce Development
  • Education Dept WA
  • Racing & Wagering WA
2014 – 2018
  • AWS Partner Alliance Lead/Manager
2014 – 2017
  • Landgate. Land Title Registry Transformation Project – migration to AWS Cloud-based infrastructure of the Western Australian Land Titles processing and the creation of Land Registry as a Service platform, Advara.
2015

2012 — 2014: Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services

Company Profile

Amazon Web Services provides computing services that make up the world’s leading Cloud Computing platform.

Responsabilities

Along with a regional sales manager, I opened the Perth office of Amazon Web Services in June 2012, as the technical face of AWS to customers in Western and South Australia, and Security specialist across Australia & NZ.

2010 — Present: Nephology

Company Profile

Nephology provides Linux, Open Source, Cloud expertise to local and international clients.

2005 — 2010: Global Network Operations Manager, Vibrant Media

Company Profile

Vibrant Media is a web advertising platform linking context-relevant advertising into content.

Responsabilities

Joined when 28 people in 3 offices (server footprint ~20 hosts); directed data centre growth across US and Europe, with ~800 physical servers delivering content to 50% of the US Internet. Responsible for service delivery to hundreds of staff in 13 offices, across 4 countries — a growth of over 1,000% over three years (Deloitte Fast 50, Inc500 fastest Growing Companies).

Historical Roles

Contact Details

Mobile/cell
+61 422 166 708
Email
james_AT_rcpt.to
Twitter
@JamesBromberger
LinkedIn
/in/JamesBromberger
Physical Location
Ardross 6153, Western Australia

Testamonials

Numerous testamonials are on LinkedIn.

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CV.JamesBromberger.com Footnotes

This site is an example of using AWS to serve content in a serverless way. Components of this are:

  1. CodeCommit: all content is inside a Git repository.
    1. Access to the repo is from an assumed role
    2. pre-commit hooks ensure the files have good HTML, no credentials, and other validations before being committed
  2. CodePipeline: upon commit to the above CodeCommit repository, a pipeline:
    1. runs a CodeBuild on Amazon Lambda that reads the buildspec file, which:
      1. removes files from the codebase that should not be published (eg, pre commit hooks in use, and the buildspec file itself)
      2. deploys this content to a non-production URL using the "aws s3 sync" command, which ensures that other removed files from the repo are removed from the target S3 Bucket
    2. flushes the CloudFront cache for non-production
    3. notifies me to validate it.
    4. runs the CodeBuild job again to push to a production location
    5. flushes the CloudFront cache for production
  3. The static content files are extracted to a prefix with an S3 Bucket: /staging/$non-prod, and /production/cv.jamesbromberger.com/ for production
  4. CloudFront is serving the content from its worldwide network of Points of Presence
  5. CloudFront is serving this on IPv4 and IPv6
  6. The TLS configuration of CloudFront is up to date: check it with SSLLabs.com. Only TLS 1.2 and 1.3 are enabled.
  7. This domain has a CAA record to restrict other CAs from being duped into mis-issuance
  8. CloudFront has HTTP/2 enabled, and compression enabled
  9. CloudFront has HTTP/3 enabled, which uses UDP instead of TCP (if this is your first time recently on this site, you may notice the first request is HTTP/2, and subsequent requests (eg, images) were upgraded to HTTP/3 over UDP; the cache time is according to the alt-svc header from that first request)
  10. CloudFront is redirecting all HTTP to HTTPS
  11. Security headers for this are set to be restrictive: check them with securityheaders.com; they are set using Lambda@Edge with NodeJS
  12. CloudFront is accessing the S3 bucket for content using an authenticated Origin Access Control (replacing the deprecated Origin Access Identity)
  13. CloudFront is logging to an S3 bucket
  14. S3 is also logging to an S3 bucket (different prefix to the CloudFront log)
  15. There is S3 versioning on the S3 logging bucket, and the bucket holding the web content
  16. There is an S3 retention policy on the logging bucket for all objects after a period
  17. There is an S3 retention policy on the content bucket for previous revisions to be removed after a period
  18. There is an ACM issued certificate on both the staging and production sites for this CV
  19. Route 53 has the DNS for this site; it also holds the TLS Certification authorisation records so te certificates will automatically be reissued year-on-year
  20. The HitCounter
    1. is via AWS API Gateway
    2. has a valid CORS header
    3. executes Lambda (Python) to increment and return the current hit
    4. is using ARM instead of x86 to be more efficient on cost/performance
    5. is accessing DynamoDB as its persistent store
  21. The web framework for the content is Bootstrap 5 (check the HTML to see how recent and compare to getbootstrap.org)
  22. The TLS certificate is not RSA based, but Eliptical Curve Digital Signing Algorithm (ECDSA) issued by Amazon ECDSA 256 M02.
  23. The monthly cost for this hosted CV in AWS is less than a few cents.

If this simple CV has higher uptime, better response time, better security posture than your corporate services, then we should talk!