General Manager
Durban Area, South Africa
I was the General Manager & Owner of Computer Freedom which has been operating for over 12 years. I started this company in March 2003. We have been supporting over 320 clients across South Africa with Technicians / Sub-Contractors in KZN, Gauteng and the Western Cape. Our Clients range from 1-2 Man Businesses to Businesses with up to 100 workstations and various types of servers. Key Skills: • Managing Small Software / Hardware Development Projects• Server Installation & Administration (Microsoft & Linux - Primarily OpenSuSE)• Network Administration / Design - Routers, Modems, Switches, Load Balancers, Limited Cisco Experience, LAN Interfaces, VLAN, WAN Interfaces, ISDN, ADSL, Microwave, Satellite, 3G/4G Failover Routers, Mobile Broadband Routers, Fibre, Wireless 802.11a/b/g/n• Firewalling, Port Forwarding, Packet Filtering, Packet Routing using Iptables, etc• Proxy Servers, ACL’s, Usage Reporting using Squid / SARG• Scripting / Automation/ Reporting Primarily BASH Shell, (Limited Perl, Python, PHP & MySQL)• Web Server Installation using Apache, PHP, MySQL• Mail Servers – Sendmail, Dovecot, Postfix, Exim• File Servers using Windows & Linux (Samba, CIFS, FAT, NTFS, Reiser, Ext2, 3, 4)• Software & Hardware RAID Experience• Web Development – Primarily HTML, (Limited PHP, Perl, Javascript, MySQL)• Experienced in TCP/IP, DNS, Routing, SSH, VPN, DHCP, RPC• Protocol Experience – TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, FTP, SFTP, NTP, Telnet, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, PPP, PPPoE, SNMP, ICMP, ARP• Other Software Experience - VHDL , Turbo Pascal, Assembler, PLM51 (8031/8051 Microprocessors), OCCAM (Transputers), C/C++• Hardware Development from Schematic Capture, PCB Layout, Prototyping & Testing for Low and High Volume Production• System Integration, Development, Testing and On-Site Commissioning• Qualification & Environmental Testing of Computer / System Components• Technical / Admin Staff / Subcontractor Management