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: 11 February 2025 —
Why use an SDN controller for RSVP-TE? [Routing Craft]
Tagged VLAN 1 on a trunk is a really bad idea. [ipSpace]
Precision vs accuracy. [Packet Pushers] [YouTube]
UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks. [The Register]
UK demands access to Apple encrypted user accounts globally. [The Verge] [Engadget] [BBC News] [Ars Technica] [Schneier]
The curious case of the BGP Connect state. [ipSpace]
CML and infrastructure-as-code. [ipSpace]
Cargo ship seized after submarine cable sabotage. [The Register]
Juniper router magic packet VPN backdoor. [The Register] [Lumen] [Schneier]
Cisco VRRPv3 configuration sucks. [ipSpace]
FBI warrantless searches violate Fourth Amendment. [Ars Technica] [The Verge]
Developing and publishing a new IPv6 documentation prefix. [ForwardingPlane]
Defining IPv6 operating modes. [ForwardingPlane]
IPB167 - crossing the 50% IPv6 adoption threshold. [ForwardingPlane]
A more comprehensive news/article list can be found on my networks sub-domain here.
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