I have a broad background of more than 10 years in the IT industry. Working for small to medium sized oranganisations. With proven past experience of installation of and supporting client desktops / servers, networking infrastructure, providing IT consultancy and web development.
Qualifications
Systems Administration
- CompTIA Security+ (SY0-201)
- Microsoft Certified Professsonal (70-291) – Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure.
- Microsoft Certified Professsonal (70-290) – Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment.
- Microsoft Certified Professsonal (70-270) – Installing, Configuring and Administering Windows XP Professional.
- Diploma in Personal Computer repair.
Software Development
- Association of Computer Professionals initial award in C and C++
- Association of Computer Professionals initial award in Java.
- OCR – The Object Oriented Programming (309) module from the CIT - Programming in Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0
Experience
Over 10 years of extensive experience covering a broad range of client, server and networking technologies.
Client operating systems
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP
- Windows 2000
- Windows 9x and prior
Server operating systems
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2000
Server/client and networking technologies experience
- Active Directory, Exchange Server 2003, Internet Information Service 6 and 7, SQL server 2000 / 2005 / 2008 administration and programming. Cisco routers, Netgear and Dell Switches
- Using and support Microsoft Office 2003 / 2007 / 2010 (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
Future Aims / Ambitions
My current future plans are to continue to further qualifications. Currently I have achieved both Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) levels of certifications. I intend to continue study towards Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) with Security specialisation.
Continuing my interest in security and networking, other qualifications that I wish to do are EC-Council's Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), EC-Council Certified Security Analyst/Licensed Penetration Tester (ECSA/LPT), EC-Council's Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) and Cisco's Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) to name just but a few.