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: 9 December 2024 —
China's national surveillance system data stolen by Chinese insiders. [The Register]
The "simple" 38-step journey to getting an RFC. [Benjojo]
Chinese hackers linger in telecom networks. [Ars Technica]
Codespaces for network engineers. [ipSpace] [ContainerLab] [JulioPDX]
Is BGP PIC Edge an oxymoron? [ipSpace]
Why phishers love the new TLDs. [Krebs]
Chinese ship suspected of submarine cable sabotage. [The Verge]
IPv6 support for multiple routers and multiple interfaces. [ipSpace] [IETF]
NSO Group spies on people on behalf of governments. [Schneier] [The Guardian]
The workplace has become a surveillance state. [The Register]
What to expect with the new FCC. [No Jitter]
What Graykey can and cannot unlock. [Schneier]
EVPN design - EVPN iBGP over IPv4 eBGP. [ipSpace]
Crackdown coming on Verisign's .com monopoly. [Ars Technica]
A more comprehensive news/article list can be found on my networks sub-domain here.
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