Over 11 years of experience helping businesses prepare for tomorrow.

Hastwell has been successfully delivering ICT business solutions for over 14 years. With tech and IT running through our veins, we live and breathe ICT and are dedicated to helping you find solutions that grow your organisation.

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Our team of experienced and highly skilled IT specialists assist organisations in a range of industries, including Government, Non-Profit, Defence, Corporate and Education. We understand the risks and opportunities within each of these sectors and proactively offer innovative solutions and technology that help support your organisation’s goals.

Your technology is only as good as the people behind it. We are your people. With years of experience and a plethora of qualifications and certifications, we are fully equipped to help your business succeed. We have coverage over a wide variety of ICT projects, and we have provided solutions with remarkable benefits to our customers, always providing excellent results.

Milton, Founding Director of Hastwell has designed, implemented and managed enterprise networks and security systems for a large number of customers – he’s an engineer at heart. His primary goal is to evolve and continually nurture relationships with our customers, vendors, and partners supporting the team to solve our customers’ business and technical challenges. Milton also serves on the board, providing governance, accountability and strategic direction to Hastwell.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Management (IT) from CSU and has studied with the Australian Centre for Business Growth.

Milton Medina

Founding Director / Account Manager

As a Director of Hastwell, Start provides executive guidance and facilitates operational accountability. With a strong focus on technical capability, solution architecture and innovation, Stuart also provides guidance and mentorship to our technical teams.

Having worked previously in corporate and consultancy roles, Stuart has experience across a range of enterprise, Government & defence industries, backed by 20 years of technical knowledge in the design, implementation and support of ICT networks & cyber security.

Stuart holds a Master’s Degree in Management (IT) and is a graduate of both the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and the Australian Centre for Business Growth (ACBG). He also maintains IT technical competencies with a number of industry certifications from companies such as Palo Alto Networks, Cisco and VMware.

Stuart Rainsford

Director

Shawn is responsible for the leadership, growth and strategy of the business. This accountability extends further into the day-to-day operation at Hastwell across all business functions including Technical Delivery, Service Delivery, Finance, Sales, HR and Administration. With over 20 years of experience working in IT within small, medium and large businesses, he has gained long-lasting relationships with clients and industry professionals. 

Shawn is a graduate of both the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and the Australian Centre for Business Growth (ACBG) and is passionate about building teams and empowering people to grow and achieve their best, creating a positive and welcoming work environment that feels like home.

Shawn Donaldson

CEO

Kaisa is the Finance and Administration Officer at Hastwell. She’s responsible for all financial functions and financial reporting in the business along with a range of administration duties.

Kasia has years of experience in both finance and administration coupled with a Master of Finance and a range of other certifications in Accounting and Business Administration.

Kasia Howells

Finance and Administration Officer

Mark works closely with customers to understand their business needs, then uplift these with thought leadership and design of impeccable technical solutions. He has an outstanding reputation in the industry with over a decade of experience as a Solution Architect and vCIO in the Adelaide and Melbourne markets. He holds a range of certifications across Nutanix, Cisco, Lenovo, Dell and more as well as strong collaborative relationships with a range of vendors and distributors.

Mark Butler

Solution Architect

Shaun is a network engineer and instructor with a combined 10 years of corporate-based experience in LAN, WAN & network security, including the design and implementation of complex unified communication solutions. Since completing his degree at the University of Qingdao, Shaun has furthered his skills and knowledge base with additional IT industry certifications while working in the industry for the past ten years. Shaun is one of a few network engineers in South Australia to be qualified as a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE).

Shaun Gong

Solution Architect

If you’re receiving your hardware and software on-time and as-promised, you may just have Ricardo to thank. Serving as an Internal Sales Representative, Ricardo is the friendly voice on the other end of the phone who is working hard with our distributors and customers to provide rapid and accurate procurement services.

Ricardo Medina

Internal Sales Representative

As the Operations Manager at Hastwell, Rob is responsible for the overall performance of the Operations Team. Rob is here to ensure that our customers receive the very best service available. This means that projects are devliered on-time and on-budget, that our staff augmentation arrangements provide the utmost skillset and team alignment, and that our managed services ensure the most well-maintained and stable systems for their users. Rob’s background was initially technical, having served as a Systems Engineer in Defence. He has then expanded on this, having served in various technical management roles since 2007.

Rob Burgemeister

Operations Manager

Denzil recently arrived in Australia from London and brought with him over 20 years of experience in Networking and in leading technical teams. As a Senior Network Engineer at Hastwell he provides a range of expertise to our customers in both Networking and Networking Security as well as serving as a mentor to other engineers at Hastwell. Denzil holds a BSc (Hons) in Physics from Imperial College London and multiple certifications, including PCNSA, NSE4 and CCNP. He also has extensive experience across a range of our vendors including Aruba, Fortinet, Cisco, Meraki and Palo.

Denzil Stephens

Senior Network Engineer

Joining us all the way from Namibia, Burkhard’s early IT career found him providing services as a systems engineer. He has complimented that in recent years with a high-level skillsets in Networking, Security and Voice. Burkhard’s experience spans many of the technologies from vendors we support including Cisco, Meraki, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Aruba. His focus at Hastwell as a Senior Network Engineer is to provide specialist technical services and advice to our customers to help them realise their business goals.

Burkhard Conrad

Senior Network Engineer

Anmol is not only the best-dressed Network Engineer you’ll find, he also has a broad range of technical skillsets aimed at helping our customers be successful in diverse technologies. He has a strong passion for networking, developed during his studies, and holds certifications across Cisco, Fortinet and ITIL as well as a Masters in IT. Anmol has led network projects including firewall migrations, network security audits, and within data center management.

Anmol Batish

Network Engineer

Have you noticed your systems have kept operating seamlessly? Sean might just be the person to thank. As our Network Administrator, Sean is responsible for ensuring the ongoing operation of our clients systems. This includes monitoring, triage and resolution of incidents as well as fulfilling requests for technology assistance. Sean holds a Bachelor of Information Technology (Network and Security), CompTIA A+ and has completed the CCNA course material. He comes from a hospitality industry where customer service is at the forefront of his responsibilities and it’s no surprise that he exhibits outstanding care for our customers which he combines with strong technical understanding to help customers address the challenges where they depend on Hastwell.

Sean David

Network Administrator

As the first point of contact, Rahul is responsible for monitoring Hastwell’s customer environments, providing proactive and reactive support as well as owning triage and initial triage and troubleshooting for customer issues. Rahul has significant certifications in the Cisco space including CCIE and CISSP and Bachelor of Technology and couples this with experience in Cisco UC and security environments.

Rahul Chhabra

Service Desk Analyst

Be The Tribe

We believe in a tribal culture encompassing our staff, clients and families. Through a common purpose and common language, we work hard, play hard, and band together to achieve great outcomes.

Master Your Craft

We believe in the pursuit of excellence. Through a genuine passion for learning and pride in our judicious delivery, we craft impeccable solutions that solve complex issues.

Challenge What Is

We believe that the bare minimum is not an acceptable standard. With an insatiable hunger for growth, innovation and improvement, we challenge ‘what is’ and deliver something bigger and better. 

Own It!

We believe in accountability for our actions; our successes and our mistakes. We encourage individual achievements, supported by a tenacious tribe. We thrive when we’re relied upon and trusted.

In Your Corner

Our passion is to drive your success. We believe in life-long partnerships with our customers built on trust, understanding and transparency. We offer flexibility and simplicity and we always have your interests at heart.