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Through a blending of resourcefulness and a strong enthusiasm to learn, the past 12 years of working in the IT industry has meant valuable experience has been gained designing, implementing and consulting on many technologies.

Expertise in working with a multitude of operating systems located both on physical and virtual systems, including ...

? Microsoft Windows 9x/ME (12yrs), NT4 (12yrs), 2000 (9yrs), XP (7yrs), 2003 (6yrs), Vista (2yrs), 2008 (1yr)
? Red Hat Linux 6.x-9.x (8yrs), RHEL/Fedora Core 1-7 (5yrs), CentOS 3.x-5.x (4yrs), SUSE/OpenSUSE 9.x-10.x (3yrs)
? Novell Netware 6.x (3yrs) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.x-10.x (3yrs) and Apple Mac OS X 10.x (2yrs)
? Microsoft Active Directory on 2000 (9yrs) and 2003 (6yrs), Novell eDirectory 8.7.x (3yrs)

... Diverse ?thin client', ?application delivery' and ?virtual' environments ... (including VMware ESX(i) and XenServer)

? Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 (4yrs), XP (5yrs), Presentation Server / XenApp 3.x-4.x (4yrs), Password Manager 4.x (½yr)
? Citrix Web Interface/NFuse 2.x-4.x (5yrs), Secure Gateway 1.x-3.x (2yrs), Access Gateway 4.x (1yr)
? RSA ACE/Server 5.x (1½yrs) - including integration with Active Directory & Citrix MetaFrame (1½yrs)

... And other core enterprise applications, both on single server, multiple servers, and load balanced / clustered systems:

? Microsoft Exchange 5.x-2007, SQL Server 6.x-2005, ISA Server 2000-2006, Internet Information Server (IIS) 2.x-6.x
? Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000-2005, SUS/WSUS 1.x-3.x, Virtual Server 2005, SharePoint 2001-2003
? Apache 1.x-2.x, BIND 8.x-9.x, Sendmail 8.x, Exim 4.x, Qmail 1.x, SpamAssassin 2.x-3.x, ipchains/iptables 1.x
? Check Point FireWall-1 on Nokia IP130/300/530, Blue Coat SG800/AV800 Appliances

Naturally, this experience has meant certification in a number of areas, including security specialisations such as CISSP (Certified Information Security Professional), CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker), CHFI (Computer Hacker Forensic Investigator), CSTA (Certified Security Testing Associate) and Security+ to others such as CCEA (Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator), MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) and the Certificate in IT Service Management (ITIL)

Additionally, an MSc in Computer Security and Forensics is in progress with the University of Bedfordshire and 7Safe.