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: 14 October 2024 —
How do you get experience in IT? [Lost In Transit]
Russia scanning for unpatched vulnerabilities. [The Register]
Meet the team paid to break into top-secret bases. [BBC News]
Discord block in Russia and Turkey. [Restore Privacy]
Two new tools from same group can infect air-gapped devices. [Ars Technica]
The size of packets. [Geoff Huston]
EVPN design - eBGP everywhere. [ipSpace]
China hacked Verizon, AT&T, wiretap systems. [Ars Technica] [Schneier] [WSJ]
Cops love facial recognition and resisting court orders. [The Register]
Egress peer engineering - building blocks. [RoutingCraft]
Largest recorded DDoS is 3.8Tbps. [Schneier] [Cloudflare]
Pluggable optics in need of a makeover. [GazettaByte]
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 more comprehensive news/article list can be found on my networks sub-domain here.
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