Brief Summary

I have over 30 years' experience in the IT industry, most of which has been spent in networking/telecoms in the UK and Europe, where I’ve worked in varied roles such as technical consulting, network design/architecture, pre-sales support, operational support and software engineering/development. After emigrating to Wellington, New Zealand in October 2008, I worked in a number of roles for over 13 years. In March 2022, I emigrated back to the UK – mainly in order to be closer to family again.

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.

My background has a strong hands-on element to it, and as such I get satisfaction from being able to test a design in a lab to prove that it will work before deployment in a production environment. To back this up, I have over 20 years experience with Cisco’s IOS, routers and switches, as well as more than 14 years experience with Juniper’s JUNOS, routers and NetScreen firewalls.

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 in-depth 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 2022 —

• Accessing IPv6-only resources via legacy IP: NAT46 on Fortigate. [Weberblog]

• Why would you need an overlay network? [ipSpace]

• Cisco unifying GUIs across security range. [The Register]

• Hacking cars remotely with just their VIN. [Graham Cluley]

• Running routing protocols over MLAG links. [ipSpace]

• Broken commit diff on IOS XR. [Vincent Bernat]

• How Chinese netizens swamped China’s Internet controls. [Ars Technica]

• Darknet markets generate millions in revenue selling stolen personal data. [Ars Technica]

• Egress anycast in Cloudflare network. [ipSpace] [Cloudflare]

• New malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices. [Ars Technica] [Schneier] [Kaspersky] [The Register]

• Functional separation in network design. [Russ White]

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

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