Personal Details
Recent History
| May 2003 - Present | Employed
as a Development Engineer. |
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I am currently working for a small, dynamic UK company who develop and produce practice management solutions for the veterinary profession. My position involves research and development of new products and technologies as well as general systems administration, infrastucture planning, information management and software engineering. I am primarily working with Linux, SCO OpenServer and Windows systems and developing using shell scripts, perl, php and MySQL. |
| Jul 2002 - May 2003 | Working as Freelance IT Consultant / Training. |
| Jan 2002 - Jul 2002 | Employed by Internet Business Services Ltd as a Development Engineer. |
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IBS (www.ibs.co.uk) developed and produced unique Linux based Internet connectivity and management systems
tailored for SMEs, educational establishments and business centres.
Heavily involved in all technical aspects of the company my duties included administration of
Win98/Linux LAN/WAN infrastructure as well as product development, construction, testing and
on-site installation, user training and technical support.
Unfortunately the company was forced to downsize in July and I was made redundant.
The company ceased trading six months later.
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| Aug 2001 - Jan 2002 | Working as Freelance IT Consultant / Training. |
| Jan 2001 - Aug 2001 | Employed by Electronic Commerce One as an Assistant Systems Administrator.
Promoted to Infrastructure Manager in March 2001. | |
A highly respected e-commerce consultancy, EC1 provided a full range of services from investment
sourcing to full implementation of e-commerce projects.
Although primarily responsible for the company's LAN/WAN infrastructure (Win95/98/NT/2K, Linux,
Solaris, MacOS) I was also heavily involved in our client's e-commerce projects at both a development
and project management level. From mail, web and DNS server management
for 100+ client companies to development of major e-commerce projects this position offered a vast array
of challenges and opportunities to expand my skills base.
Due to a major client defaulting on payments the company went into liquidation in August 2001.
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| Aug 1998 - Jan 2001 | Self Employed Web Developer. | |
My company, Squid Webdesign, provided strategic planning and implementation of a solid web presence for SMEs.
Operating as a sole trader I ran my web development agency from home. I managed the sales, marketing,
promotion and administration tasks for the company as well as planning, design, development, implementation,
administration and promotion of client's web sites. I also provided support services such as e-mail solutions,
domain name management and infrastructure planning and implementation. Sadly my sales skills were not at the same level as my technical skills and I was forced to leave self-employment. |
Education and Training
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Secondary School :
| 1985-1990 :
Preston Lodge High School,
Park View,
Prestonpans,
East Lothian.
| | Qualifications Gained : |
`O' Level
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Art
(B)
Chemistry
(C)
Geography
(B)
Physics
(A)
Standard Grade
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Craft & Design
(3)
English
(2)
Mathematics
(1)
Higher Grade
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Art
(C)
English
(C)
Geography
(C)
Physics
(D) | |
Training :
| 1995 :
MI Technologies,
308 Leith Walk,
EDINBURGH.
| | Qualifications Gained : |
Advanced City & Guilds Diploma in Computer Applications.
Course included Employment of Operating Systems, Word
processing, Database design and manipulation and
Spreadsheet design and operation.
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IT Related Skills / Experience. - Comprehensive understanding of Information Technology.
- Installation, use and administration of Unix-like (Linux, FreeBSD, Unix etc) and Microsoft
(Windows 3.1 to XP) operating systems and software and TCP-IP networks.
- Development of web based applications using HTML, DHTML, WML, Javascript, PHP, Perl, CGI, SQL.
- Planning and implementation of multi-OS LAN/WAN solutions based on TCP/IP, SMB and other standard protocols.
- Administration of mail (mainly sendmail and exim), DNS (mainly BIND) and web (mainly Apache) servers.
- Development, construction and configuration of server appliances and computer systems for desktop and server applications.
- Development of databases using proprietary software and SQL based solutions.
- Proficiency with a massive range of software applications including database, spreadsheet, word processing,
web development, multimedia production, graphic design, DTP and games design packages.
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Administration utility development for Unix-like systems using Perl and shell scripts.
Personal Skills / Attributes. - 133 I.Q. (UK top 2%)
- Scrupulously honest.
- Hard-working and dedicated.
- Loyal.
- Highly motivated.
- Natural aptitude and fascination with all with technology and science related subjects.
- Aptitude for problem solving and lateral thinking.
- Keen and able to learn new skills quickly, especially technology related skills.
- Highly literate with well developed communication skills.
- Flexible and quick to adjust to new circumstances and working practices.
Personal Interests.
Science and technology, current affairs, politics, movies, books, music, nature, art, computer games.
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