Brief Summary
I have over 30 years’ experience in the IT industry, most of which has been spent in networking/telecoms in the UK/EMEA and NZ/APAC. I have worked in varied roles such as technical consulting, network design and architecture, pre-sales support, operational support and software engineering. I moved to New Zealand in 2008, where I worked in several roles for over 13 years before returning to the UK in 2022.
My experience has been gained in a wide range of organisations, from start-ups, through enterprises and to large service providers and telcos. I have worked in both team environments and on an individual and independent basis. In recent years, I have also done a lot of my work in the public sector.
Though performing hands-on work is not as regular as it used to be, it has been a strong element to my background, and I gained satisfaction from being able to test a design in a lab to prove that it will work before deployment in a production environment. I first started working with Cisco in 1994, and with Juniper in 1999.
I very much enjoy customer-facing roles since no two customers are alike, and so the variety this gives is always a challenge that I am keen to take on. Taking part in technical discussions with customers forms a key part of being able to fully understand their requirements, which is essential to being able to deliver a successful solution.
Latest News and Useful Articles — Updated: 26 July 2024 —
NK hacker hired by security firm, then loads malware. [Ars Technica] [KnowBe4]
Juniper open's AI test lab for customers and partners. [Packet Pushers]
VLAN 1 history in Cisco switches. [Lost In Transit]
Almost 7% of all Internet traffic is malicious. [Schneier] [CrowdStrike]
It's never been easier for the authorities to break into your phone. [The Verge]
Encapsulation of PDUs on trunk ports. [Lost In Transit]
Net Neutrality in danger again. [The Register] [Ars Technica]
Kaspersky quits US after ban. [BBC News] [The Register]
DNS and UDP truncation. [Geoff Huston]
Detecting mismatched native VLANs. [Lost In Transit]
The resurgence of Russia's Fin7. [Krebs]
Russian AI disinformation spam. [Ars Technica] [Graham Cluley]
A more comprehensive news/article list can be found on my networks sub-domain here.
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