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: 8 December 2025 —

• UK to strengthen submarine cables against Russian snooping.  [The Register]

• Neighbour discovery considerations in IPv6 deployments.  [Forwarding Plane]

• Entire country IPv6 adoption.  [Forwarding Plane]  [Forwarding Plane]

• An inside look at RFC9872 for discovering IPv6 prefixes.  [Forwarding Plane]

• India considering more draconian smartphone surveillance.  [Engadget]

• JavaScript - the 1995 Netscape employee hack.  [Ars Technica]

• Why record-breaking 30Tbps DDoS concerns everyone.  [Fortra]

• Technical writing - lower your expectations.  [ipSpace]  [Sean Goedecke]

• AI/ML data center design.  [ipSpace]  [YouTube]

• All about the Dark Web and how to use it.  [ExtremeTech]

• Banning VPNs.  [Schneier]  [EFF]

• DNS packet capture - DoT, DoH, DoQ, DoH3.  [Weberblog]

• Huawei and Chinese surveillance.  [Schneier]

• CISA warns spyware crews cracking Signal, WhatsApp.  [The Register]  [Cluley]

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

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