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A graduate earning a B.Sc. with Honours in Computer Science from the University
of Kent at Canterbury, in England, which was the forerunner and the major
hubsite of the European part of the Internet, and the first site outside the
USA to have UNIX in its computer labs.
Recent roles were as an engineer and system admin for Google, the largest Internet search engine company, then previously an Information Security Specialist for almost 3 years at Metris, now HSBC, a top 3 world bank, and prior to that as a Network Security Architect for 8 years at Cray & SGI, a high tech computer manufacturer. Tasks included monitoring and configuring top performance and constantly reviewing improvements to code. Interviewing applicants and focusing on high level technical skills. Ensuring regulatory requirements, through ensuring systems are administered in a reliable and secure way, and providing input to the design of systems from a security perspective. Being involved to design and implement a company wide firewall methodology to provide security from the Internet, meanwhile allowing employees secure remote access. The design allowed secure connections to the company externally hosted website, as well as partners and vendors, allowing appropriate and denying unnecessary access in either direction. Integrated network services, such as email, web, DNS, etc, as efficiently as possible, in terms of being robust, reducing bandwidth, and increasing speed of services. Frequently involved with security incidents, tracking hacking attempts from the Internet, or employee inappropriate behavior. With over 10 years of designing web pages and scripts, people find me a valuable resource to advise on various problems and solutions, ensuring efficient use of distributed systems, monitoring everything is as it should be, as well as often the central point for co-ordinating and creating webpages for the department, and the entire company. Worked in depth with Linux, SGI, Sun, Cray, AIX, HP, and DEC workstations and servers, and gained much knowledge through training and hands-on experience of TCP/IP networking (17 years), email processing (11 years), X-Windows (10 years) and SQL (6 years), as well as skills in email management and interfacing to mainframe computers (HP/IBM/DEC) to reliably transfer user reports. These skills have enabled me to be an effective data security investigator, designer and advisor, as well as ensuring reliable systems for users, through effective system administration, backups, performance tuning, capacity planning and resource allocation. 23 years experience with UNIX from the low level system/kernel coding to programming and office automation tools and user front ends, on a wide range of hardware and versions, which has given me excellent experience in portability of programs. 16 years programming experience with C at a high standard, including assembler level appreciation of many processors. An expert at shell scripting and perl programming too. 9 years detailed knowledge of database techniques, following products from design to support of many customer database applications on a variety of UNIX systems. An early example is an EPOS system operating in a large Oxford Street (London) music retail store. Experience with Oracle SQL and installed Oracle on a Sun based customer service centre, and created an employee database that involved developing a user interface too. 7 years experience of graphics being involved in an implementation of a library of routines conforming to the GKS (C binding) standard, and interfacing these to FORTRAN. 5 years of detailed HTML programming, admin, and ideas, and 4 years experience in X programming. Been employed in 2 large American banks, a software house, and also high tech computer companies, learning a wide range of abilities in many areas, and utilized network and communication skills. Always supported internal staff solving a wide range of problems, and have 6 years experience with customer site installations, support, remote networking, and upgrades. |
Summary of experience and job history.
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