Michael Richardson (richo_au)

Managing Director at Ironstar. Empowering mission-critical Drupal websites with enterprise hosting.

• I love helping customers deliver value to market sooner. I've been able to do this with some of Australia's largest organisations including Bunnings, Tourism Australia, and Optus.
• Highly experienced Internet engineer with 20 years architecting and scaling service provider networks across a range of disciplines (network, storage, database, Linux, Windows, virtualisation, cloud, and more)
• Wide range of experience managing multi-million dollar, absolutely mission critical platforms across Asia where every second of downtime has huge impact on the business and the brand.
• I work to increase revenue and find new growth opportunities in businesses by finding opportunities for IT to grow the business, not just meet SLAs.
• Security Focused. 10+ years securing highly sensitive yet highly exposed assets for major brands, medical records, and government departments in accordance with relevant legislation and standards (PCI DSS, ACSC ISM, etc).
• High-value account manager. 10 years selling and marketing enterprise infrastructure solutions to non-technical C-suite clients in demanding blue-chip organisations.
• Member of the Future DrupalCon Working Group, Treasurer of the DrupalSouth Steering Committee and Chair of the DrupalAsia Steering Committee.
•  Founder of high-growth BRW Fast Starter's recognised managed web hosting business.
• Leader of high-performance teams and passionate about helping to facilitate individual growth and lead team change and achievement
• Project and product management delivering successful infrastructure platform products and consulting to identify opportunities to expand existing and cultivate new revenue streams.