Darren Poulson
22 Balmoral Road
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 3BU
Tel : 01524 389862
Mobile: 0797 101 5737
e-mail : cv@22balmoralroad.net
website : http://www.22balmoralroad.net/
DOB 3rd May 1975
Driving Licence - Full and without points.
Profile
I am a loyal, hardworking individual who likes his independence. I find it easy to interact with people from all walks of life and have a wide circle of friends. My approach to work is very flexible and I enjoy a challenge.
Skills and Achievments
- Over ten years of experience in using computers and networks. Systems include Solaris, Linux, Windows, TCP/IP networks, Cisco network equipment and the Internet.
- Six years experience as Solaris Systems Administrator on Solaris 7, 8, 9, and 10. Over twelve years of using and administrating Linux systems of various distributions.
- Deployment and tuning of key internet services such as DNS, HTTP, and SMTP.
- Work with Sun Enterprise UltraSPARC II, III, IV, and CoolThreads servers in Sun Cluster 2.2/3.0/3.1 Environments including installation, filesystem layouts, performance tuning and security.
- Instrumental in the design and deployment of a Sun Cluster 3.0 system utilising SunFire systems and HDS storage connected by a SAN for use with the iWorld housing system from Sx3 (Now Northgate) and SSA's Financial Management system.
- Experience with High Availability's RSF1 cluster system.
- Instrumental in the implementation of centralised backup system using Hitatchi Shadow Image and Veritas NetBackup.
- Played a key role in real life disaster recovery situations and implemented changes due to lessons learnt.
- Some Ingres and Oracle experience from a Systems Administrators point of view which includes installation and some system tuning.
- Veritas Volume Manager and File System administration knowledge, including clustered implementation.
- Working knowledge of computer languages including C, C++, HTML, SQL, PHP and JAVA.
- An understanding and some practical knowledge of PBX systems including Nortel Meridian Option 11 and Asterisk.
- Maintaining and updating a personal website, along with supplying hosting to a number of local individuals, businesses and bands.
- Other software experience: Objective document management system, Chris21 (payroll and HR), Academy Housing, OpenLDAP, .
Employment
- October 2000 to Present
Places for People
4, The Pavillions
Portway
Preston
Lancashire
PR2 2YB
Position Held: Unix (Solaris) Administrator.
Tasks included: Day to day running of the company's core applications running on Sun Enterprise systems including datacenter monitoring. Implementation of new hardware and software. Also main point of contact for all backups.
- April 2000 to October 2000
E-Mailshots.com
Mailshot House
Bold Street
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 7JT
Position Held: Unix (Linux) Administrator.
Tasks included: Setting up and maintaining Web server (including PHP and MySQL), DNS, email, firewall and physical network on mission critical systems. Also co-ordinated integration with existing Windows based network.
- May 1991 to March 2000
Iceland Frozen Foods plc
Royalty Mall
Arndale Centre
Morecambe
Positions held;
- Sales Assistant
- Stock and Order Supervisor
- Till Worker
- Delivery Driver
Qualifications
Hobbies
- Designing, building and programming computers and networks.
- Reading, mainly Science Fiction / Fantasy.
- Socialising with friends, going bowling, to the cinema, pubs etc.
- Listening to Rock music, going to live concerts and Rock night-clubs.
- An active member of the Lancaster rock music scene.
- I have also experienced scuba-diving and taken flying lessons.
Personality Quirks
Never has drunk alcohol, however this has not curtailed my social life in any way, shape or form!
Ambitions
To work in the field of computers and networking and to get as much out of life as possible.