A multi-disciplinary Network/Unix Engineer with ~7 years industry experience. Strong planning, implementation and troubleshooting skills. Able to provide complete end-to-end design , implementation and rollout.
In my current role as Network engineer, I work together with other team-members to design and maintain the network infrastructure at KBC-FP. This includes maintenance of WAN , VOIP , internet routers , switches, external and vendor facing firewalls, zeus zxtm, bluecoat infrastructure and associated virus scanning, also configuring and troubleshooting technologies such as OSPF, BGP, VSS, LACP, L2TP, Netflow.
I have had the chance to implement from scratch much our infrastructure to interface with many of our different network attached devices and also a suite of python based tools and underlying libraries for configuration management and password maintenance.
I have designed / implemented new offices and disaster recover sites and co-ordinated setup of peering between ourselves and several partner companies. During my time in this role I have also worked to integrate companies which have been acquired, and also to build new infrastructure and seperate departments which have been spun off.
During this time I have also been the project lead in a realtively large virtualization initiative using Vmware, and I have implemeneted a virtual desktop infrastructure using Citrix XenDesktop 5
During this time my primary focus at KBC-FP was a new Linux infrastructure. I worked as part of a project team which implemented a Linux build (based on Centos 5) for use within the company. Previous to this we were primarily a Solaris house. Aspects of the project I was directly involved with were creating a build system , creating maintenance tools for patch deployment and package roll-out, dealing with subtle differences in automount behaviour between Linux and Solaris and also developing our standard build disk layout using technologies such as MD / LVM / dm multipathing etc..
During my first 2 years at KBC-FP I worked as part of the Systems Operations group. This group was charged with the day-to-day smooth running of the companies infrastructure. During my time in this role I worked on reducing event load, so as to free up time for other operational projects. I became recognised as a knowledgeable resource for all things network and oracle database related. Technologies I had exposure to in this role included, Sybase ASE + Repserver , Oracle Enterprise Edition 9i and 10g, Solaris 8, 10 , Cisco / Extreme networks, Netapp, Bluecoat, Brocade Silkwork FC + Sun Storagetek storage. My work with oracle included maintaining and troubleshooting multimaster replication and MV based relication, also extensive experience with RMAN and Dataguard warm standbys for resiliency. I have done some limited work on Oracle performance analysis.
In this role I performed the job of technical lead on a project to implement a customer support system which was used by over 100 employees in 10 locations worldwide. This system was used to support an ever growing e-query load from all of Elseviers authors and editors. This role involved initial research on candidate systems; Establishing core requirements from relevant departments; Prioritizing requirements; Choosing a vendor; Communicating with the vendor during the implementation phase; Organizing data migration
Following from my internship at Elsevier, I was asked on numerous occasions to do work a contract basis. This involved doing things like developing Intranet based systems used by the e-editor support department, maintaining and extending the reporting engine I developed during my internship, I was also involved in the beginnings of the project to implement a global customer support system.
I worked at Elsevier Ireland Ltd. for the duration of my internship. My role was helpdesk analyst but I also got involved in several projects like Windows 2000 roll-out, query reporting for Support departments, query coding , and implementing small scale systems as required for various internal departments. These systems were generally a stopgap solution until the functionality was included into the main production tracking system. Though in reality some of them were used for several years.
Primarily this involved developing internal and external websites for various departments within the university. I also was appointed a TA for mature student computer labs, and developed a call-tracking system for the University of Limerick foundation. This helped them track their work to raise donations for University projects.
During my time at University I worked as a TA in several subject areas and as a Lab assistant in others. Subjects I was involved in were, Computer Organisation, OO Programing with C++, Postgrad Dip C++ programming , ECDL Qualification and Intro to IT for Mature Students
I was awarded first prize for my role in the Elsevier Ireland 2005 innovation competition. This competition was for work done in the areas of business process improvement and cost reduction.
For my work on my final-year-project, out of a class of more than 200, I was awarded best final year project 2004 as sponsored by Fidelity Investments for my work on implementing from the ground up a Linux based wireless router and firewall device. I used mainly uclibc/busybox but also with custom kernel modifications (2.4.17 kernel), and software to manage text based firewall, routing and access permissions.
While at University I was a very active admin on the University of Limerick Computer society maintaining primarily Debian Linux machines and a single Solaris 8 V480. I'm still an active member, but to a much lesser degree.
IrishWAN is a club of enthusiasts who implement long distance wireless networks for the purpose of interconnecting its members throughout the island of Ireland. Using 802.11b/g I've been involved with implementing long-range links up to a distance of several miles. In the days before ADSL was widespread and affordable I implemented a small ISP for my neighborhood sharing the use of 1 2mbit link between up to 12 clients, with Email, Proxy, DNS and webspace services.
I currently hold both CCENT and CCNA qualifications.
I graduated with a 2nd Class honors degree from the University of Limerick, Ireland, in 2004. I graduated with final QCA of 3.32 / 4 , missing a 1st class honors by 2% :( . The core of this qualification included subjects such as Object Oriented programming and design with C++ and Java, Software Architecture, Web-based Systems and Computer graphics amongst others. This course also involved an internship and a large final-year project module for which i was awarded Best FYP 2004.
References are available upon request