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# ICANN 59 - Johannesburg, South Africa

Etuate is currently a Technical Engineer/Trainer at Exclusive Networks Pacific where he runs a number of Cyber Security workshop (Fortinet) for re-sellers and partners. In addition, he assist customers with re-design of their network and the deployment of vendor's Cyber Security products to effectively mitigate against Cyber Security threats. On a daily basis he support customers with complex issues that is normally escalated as TAC support cases.

Previously he was a Team Lead for New Zealand's biggest network (Spark) on their ICT Network Operation Center. On this role his Engineers respond to Cyber Security threats and manages the operational needs of major Banks, Enterprise, Corporate networks, Spark's own internal Enterprise network, Public Wifi as well as NZ Government institution networks. In essence his team execute many changes across routing, switching, load balancers, DNS, firewall, and Wifi technologies. He currently hold '''23 industry certifications''' on which majority of the certifications were completed on his first year at Spark. He continuously work towards a number of industry certifications as part of his role at Exclusive Networks with the goal of bridging the gap between academia and the ICT industry.

In 2004, Etuate was awarded the '''New Zealand Regional Development Scholarship (NZRDS)''' in conjunction with the government of Tonga where he studied at the University of the South Pacific for a Bachelor of Science majoring in Information Systems and Geography. He completed this degree in 2014 and graduated with '''BSc, Information Systems and Geography''' in 2006.