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 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 in my previous work, when I gained satisfaction from performing proof-of-concepts before deploying to production environments.  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: 7 October 2024 —

• RPKI, the fix for BGP's weaknesses, has big issues.  [The Register]

• Evil Corp's ties with Russia and NATO member attacks.  [The Register]  [BBC News]  [Tripwire]

• A close look at router forwarding engines?  [Packet Pushers: part 1]

• Meta pays price for 100s of millions of passwords stored in plaintext.  [Ars Technica]

• Common-sense NIST-recommended password rules.  [Schneier]  [NIST]

• Tor Project and Tails to merge.  [The Register]  [Ars Technica]

• One-arm hub-and-spoke VPN with MPLS/VPN.  [ipSpace]

• Telegram to share user data with authorities on legal requests.  [Restore Privacy]  [BBC News]  [The Register]  [The Verge]  [Engadget]

• Egress peer engineering - basics.  [RoutingCraft]

• NAT overload towards specific host.  [Lost In Transit]

• Social engineering attach using captchas.  [Schneier]  [SANS]

• Tor Project de-anonymisation attack claims.  [Restore Privacy]  [The Register]

• Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace firm's network.  [The Register]

A more comprehensive news/article list can be found on my networks sub-domain here.

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