One of the fortunate to be able to explore and indulge in an area of interest as 'the day job'​, I enjoy the challenge of the unknown just as much as completing a familiar task.PocketSmith allows for a wonderfully diverse day with the flexibility to structure my working hours around both fixed work commitments and family happenings, such as picking up the kids from school, or helping out on class trips. True, self managed, work-life balance.Starting in the web engineering team with a focus on backend work, my role has morphed into having an IT operations focus. Looking after the existing infrastructure, refining and expanding capacity and adopting new systems as we prepare for (our current and future!) growth no two days are the same. While the ops team itself is fairly small, the company has a vibrant culture with fantastic cross-team collaboration that means we deliver the excellent service our users know to expect.Previously with the New Zealand Mortality Review Datagroup I spent my days developing the web-based applications and underlying SQL databases used by several Mortality Review Committees to collect, collate and ultimately analyse data about mortality in New Zealand.With a broad range of experience behind me, from helping users through a mail-merge in Microsoft Word to designing (and building) a web-based system for the entry and printing of 'student reports' to the installation of a linux-based RADIUS server backed by Active Directory (via LDAP), I am comfortable in a similarly wide range of environments from the one-to-one SMB peer networks to larger more enterprise-oriented infrastructure with multiple servers, routes and layer-2/3 segregation to distributed development teams crossing multiple time-zones.In ny role with Decision 1 dealt predominantly with the SMB market and included a healthy education component. The client base encompassed a good variety of both technologies (wireless, VPN, VLAN, WAN, Virtualisation, cloud, MDM) and platforms (Linux, Microsoft Windows Server/Desktop and Mac OS X Server/Desktop) keeping each day interesting and somewhat unpredictable.With a slightly less directly technical tone, stepping into the Service Manager role has offered opportunities to help develop and improve internal company systems and procedures and provide additional higher level support to other team members.Specialties: Solutions Design, Software Architecture, Embedded Software, System/Network AdministrationARM, PIC, ye olde Z80C, Assembler, Delphi/Object Pascal, Python, Perl, Java, PHPLinux, MS Windows, RISC OSDry Humour