Profile

I am a skilled IT professional with over 20 years networking and communications experience including WAN/LAN,  Network Security,  IP Telephony, Server and Desktop technologies. I have strong communication, organisational and leadership skills and a proven track record of generating successful results.

Major Achievements

Voice Technical Design Authority for a Cisco Call Manager 6.1 Mega Cluster designed to support up to 25,000 phones on over 1000 gateways across 800 sites.

Lead designer of VocaLink Faster Payments Network, which provides the communication infrastructure for immediate payments between the UK’s major banking and finance companies.

Redesigned the Content Delivery Network for sportal.com,  adding fault tolerance, security and increased peak throughput to 90Mb/s, while reducing annual IT operational costs by over half a million pounds.

Systems Experience

Desktop, Servers and PC Networking

Microsoft Windows Server,  Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows XP
Mac OS X
VMWare Infrastructure/ESX, GSX, Workstation and Fusion

IP Telephony

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (formerly Call Manager)
Cisco Communications Manager Express (formerly Call Manager Express)
Cisco IPCCx
Cisco Unity, Unity Connection and Unity Express

Networking

Cisco routers, switches, CSS (Content Switches)
Juniper M Series, Sarian GPRS/3G Devices, Nortel Passport
SNA SDLC X25/XoT MPLS EIGRP BGP OSPF RIP PIM IGMP MULICAST QoS

Security

Cisco PIX/ASA Firewalls
Cisco VPN Concentrators
Checkpoint FW/1 corporate ZoneAlarm
Opensource Firewalls (IPTABLES/IPCHAINS/PF/IPF), VPN’s
Cisco ISO EzVPN/DMVPN/Firewall/IDS/IPS

Unix and Open source

FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux
Apache Sendmail Exim Tacacs+ Radius OpenLDAP MySQL Clamav

Current Development Languages

PHP,  HTML, C, C#, VB.NET

Professional Qualifications

Cisco CCNA
Cisco CCNP
Cisco CCVP
Cisco CCIE #20394 – R&S + Voice (Written)

Hobbies

Network and Computer Security Forensics
Scuba Diving (PADI DiveMaster #646728)
Reading
Horse Riding
Growing Plants
Electronics