Senior networking technical and strategic lead whose interest started during his research degree in distributed programming. This is complemented by a sound grasp of all elements of IT service through experience of help desk, PC support and server installation & maintenance in previous roles. Historically the focus has been on resilience, convergence and value-add - developing additional services to run over the network in a secure and scalable manner. Work has included development of intuitive technology ("ergonomic IT") and developing "user experience" (UX) assurance in preference to traditional red/green light monitoring. Recently interests have moved into security and compliance whilst maintaining user operability.Has been used to dealing with budgets, suppliers, projects and finding innovative solutions - budgets have been in excess of 2M UKP pa. Has previously led teams and been a keen motivator of others since 1997.Specialties: Networking architecture, Firewalls, IPv4, OSPF, LANs, WANs, ACLs, switching, routing, wireless, 802.1x, MAC auth, RADIUS, client VPN, IPAM, DDI, DNS, DHCP, topology (inc site-to-site VPN and MPLS), developing resilience and value-added services such as multicasting, network load balancing, media streaming (inc convergence - esp VoIP solutions) and futures.
Listed skills include Networking, Network Security, System Administration, Security, and 20 others.
