Executive 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. In 2008, I emigrated to New Zealand, where I am based in the Wellington region.

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 / Useful Articles — Updated: 20 October 2021 —

• Graceful restart and BFD. [ipSpace]

• Ransomware attacks against water treatment plants. [Schneier] [CISA]

• ARP problems in EVPN. [Routing Craft] [ipSpace]

• Choosing the least incorrect answer. [Networking Nerd]

• DNSSEC with RSA-4096 keys. [Geoff Huston]

• Security risks of client-side scanning. [Schneier]

• BGP optimal route reflection 101. [ipSpace]

• Why does DHCPv6 matter? [ipSpace]

• Microsoft mitigated one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded. [The Verge] [The Register]

• Graceful restart and routing protocol convergence. [ipSpace]

A more comprehensive list of news and useful articles can be found here.

More Information

• For the latest full version of my CV, please click here.

• Link to me on these business/social networking sites: LinkedIn – Twitter

• Have a look at my networks sub-domain for some (hopefully) useful network- and security-related news and information. I keep this updated on pretty much a daily basis.

rob (at) larsenconsulting (dot) net

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