I am an experienced Linux and Unix system administrator with a very wide range of skills and knowledge.I have a senior role at Intersect where I am responsible for the design and operation of the systems and network, including peta-scale data storage and Openstack based cloud computing services.Prior to this I was part of a small consulting business with a group of colleagues for 20 years. The type of work was mostly onsite technical consulting, system design and architecture, system administration, for Solaris and Linux environments.I have presented technical papers at SAGE-AU, AUUG and Sun User Group USA conferences on topics ranging from High Availability, Best Practice for Host and Network design to Volunteering.I have strong technical skills in Linux: Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, SLES; Virtualisation: Openstack, KVM, AWS and Azure; Sun Solaris, Openstack, Yubikey, Advanced System Administration, High Availability, Training, Perl, Shell, DNS and DHCP. I have used a Schwartzian Transform in a real Perl program.