Date of Birth:- 12/11/1978

Nationality:- British

Location:- Warrington, just south of Manchester

Marital Status:- Single, living with partner

Holder of a full clean UK driving license

June 2001 to current	Via Net.Works Unix Systems Administrator	Birchwood, Warrington
Responsible for administering, developing and upgrading internal and customer facing servers, including DNS, mail, ftp, news, web. Monitoring performance of servers. Dealing with network abuse issues, including spam complaints etc. Responding to postmaster and hostmaster queries and other generic Admin roles. Participating in 24/7 call-out rota. Pro-actively developing, evaluating and implementing new or enhanced solutions to support business requirements, maintaining business SLA's and stats reporting. Providing technical support and advice to customer services and other internal departments. Adhering to Datacentre and Network policies and processes, e.g. incident reporting and change/revision control. Developing and maintaining security policies for the UK Datacentre.
March 2001 to June 2001	Contract work
Configured and installed, a new DNS server for Emap Online, and migrated their data and old system onto it. Installed servers and configured routers for the Internet café in Birmingham.
November 2000 to March 2001	World Online Telecoms/Tiscali Unix Systems Administrator	Chelford, Cheshire
Responsibilities included:- The supervision of all of the services that the company provided, i.e., managed hosting, virtual ISP, virtual servers and voice services. Looking after modem banks, Conducting server reboots. Conducting dial-in tests. General system maintenance. Various scripting tasks. Network fault diagnosis. System security, i.e. firewall configuration and patching. Server and infrastructure racking. Bi-hourly checks on system status. I also developed a customer facing, web based interface into the company's ticket system,
May 2000 to November 2000	Emap Online Technical Operations Assistant and Unix Systems Administrator	Farringdon, London
Responsibilities included the management of the company's mailing lists, (for external subscribers), running on a remotely administered NT workstation. Ensuring the smooth and reliable running of the Solaris 2.6 and 7 based web farms. Handling and maintaining the Redhat Linux based DNS servers, along with any new domain registrations needed. General Postmaster and Webmaster responsibilities for all of the company's domains, which involved answering and re-directing email inquires, automated responses and error reports. Research into the transfer and management the (Emap Plc.) corporation's, Domain names into a centralised place. Generating reports of the current system security, and monitoring its condition. Configured NFS sharing of all static HTML and images. Installation of a SCOUnixware machine for Ferry booking testing.
January 2000 to May 2000	Netadventure Cybernet Café Network Technician	Town Centre, Birmingham
The installation and configuration of a 10/100 bridge using the bridge module in the 2.2.16 kernel, firewall using the IPCHAINS component of the Linux 2.2.16 Kernel 2nd Web Proxy via the SQUID program, implemented under Redhat Linux on an Intel RAID based system. Building of various terminals, with specifications ranging from p2-300 to p3-500. Building of the internal 10 based network and the 100 based, (servers network. Installation and configuration of a number of gaming servers, mainly running Unrea Tournament and Quake3.
September 1999 to January 2000	Computer Exchange Sales Assistant and Hardware Technician	Town Centre, Birmingham
Duties included the buying and selling of new and second hand products, the maintenance of stock levels and pricing using the stores' in-house EPOS system. The testing of any hardware that was offered to the shop, using both commercially available products and our own testing scripts. Advising customers on the current products for their home PCs, offering advice on how to solve various problems and difficulties a customer might have.
Summer 1997	Manstall Electrical Contractors Health & Safety Co-ordinator	Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
Responsible for the design and implementation of the Company Health and Safety policy, and the Company Health and Safety Manual, Various items of quotation work, assisting CAD Draftsmen with minor jobs

Knowledge of the following, Computer Networks, - TCP/IP, Network infrastructure i.e. Cat 5 UTP cabling, Co-axial cabling, the use of hubs/repeaters/bridges etc. implementation of firewalls and Web Proxies, Exim MTA(sendmail equivalent), OpenSSH, Apache Webserver, DNS, MRTG(bandwidth monitoring tool,)samba, NFS, and some experience of radius. Computer languages;- Perl, Bourne shell, Python, Ada95 and BASIC. I also have a passing familiarity with C. Computer Hardware and repairs, including building machines from component parts and configuring them as workstations, servers, bridges or firewalls. Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT Workstation &Server, Windows 2000 Professional, Sun Solaris, Linux (many variants), FreeBSD, OpenBSD. Familiarity with the Cisco IOS for both switches and routers,(more the former than the latter). I am currently studying towards getting my CCNA.

1998-2000	Aston University	Birmingham
BEng Communications Engineering, (not completed due to leave of absence to fund course. Full time employment since departure).
1997-1998	Aston University	Birmingham
MEng Electronic Systems Engineering, (transferred to BEng Communications 1998).
1995-1997	Rendcomb College	Cirencester
4 "A" Levels
Maths (A). Physics (C). Music Technology (D). Performing Arts (D).
1995-1996	Rendcomb College	Cirencester
G.C.S.E :- Media Studies (A).
1990-1995	Rendcomb College	Cirencester
9 G.C.S.E.'s, 1xA, 4xB's, 3xC's 1xD.

My current interests and activities include,

• Computer Hardware, (esp UNIX). I currently have a small selection of unix hardware, ranging from Sun IPX's to a Silicon Graphics O2, with accessories for most. All of the boxes currently run, or are capable of running, the vendors OS, or Gentoo Linux.
• Judo, I recently started to attend the Warrington Samurai Judo club, and I'm currently ranked 6th Kyu(Rokkyu) (green belt)
• Learning and playing the Japanese board game, "Go".
• Juggling, I currently juggle a number of props to a reasonable proficiency, such as clubs, diabolo, staff, devilstick and balls, including flammable versions.
• Gentoo, I am currently a member of the Administration and documentation teams for the Gentoo Linux distribution.

Maintenance Co-ordinator for Aston Students Guild. Trained Technical Manager for Aston Students Guild. Trained Door-staff Supervisor for Aston Students Guild. Trained Stage Manager/hospitality for Aston Students Guild. Active Member of Entertainments Department of Aston Students Guild. Leader of Various Summer Childrens Camps. Steward for Spring Harvest. Member of the Administration and Documentation teams for Gentoo Linux.

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