Overview
Barry Chandler MA(Oxon), MBCS, CITP. BJC@BCS.org
Last update: Spring 2006
Headline: Diverse IT experience - Complete Systems TroubleShooter
"can easily tell a management problem from a technical one"
This online CV is not as 'polished' as the paper version which hides the gaps, and even starts
with a different
Headline:
Hands-on technical consultant and systems manager with 20 years experience of designing, implementing, developing and troubleshooting
complex systems on a variety of platforms.
Key skills include:
- In depth understanding of TCP/IP Networks, Firewalls and Security
- Software Development
- Coaching, Team Leading and Quality Management
- Analytical. Oxford Mathematician and a very fast researcher and learner
Looking for another new role in life - preferably based fairly local to Home
(Thames Valley), for the next 18 months (to end-2007) but then likely to be free to travel ...
(happy to spend occasional days anywhere).
(Part-week near Southampton can also be easily considered).
Offering a mix of Management skills (learned at Mars Inc.), combined with very strong
Analytic skills.
Career in Software Development and Computer Networking with a recent emphasis on
Security and troubleshooting has created such a broad range of IT experience that many different
roles can be considered.
Others may argue that I should leave the technical details to younger minds, and concentrate on
mentoring and coaching.
Career has included the following main areas:
- Software Design and Development,
- Network and Systems Architecture,
- eCommerce Consultancy to Implementation,
- Interim Management of networking and software teams,
- Package Evaluation and Installation,
- Troubleshooting of Projects, Networks and Systems.
Current Technical Skills:
- TCP/IP based networks, Firewalls, DNS.
- Unix, NT.
- Security, Network Management, Internet/e-Commerce.
- SMTP eMail, DNS.
Significant Knowledge of:
- Programming
- From Machine Code to 4GL with OO and SQL
- In 2000 lots of Perl(cgi) and JavaScript the past has lots of 3GLs and scripting
- More than 10 years of 'C', C# looks ok, never liked C++
- 8 years of Multi-Dimensional (Acumen / PcX)
- Lots of VB from v3 thru to v6 and VBA under Excel, some .NET
- Languages from yesteryear include:
Fortran-IV, NEAT (assembler for NCR Elliot 4100),
City and Guilds,
Algol-66, HP-Hardwired Basic, Cobol, MicroCobol
RTL/2 and Macro-11 (those were great days !
- writing own parsers for functional languages)
Macro-32, Pascal (TI and VMS), PL/SQL,
and then mostly C and Fortran-77
- with ventures into ProLog, PopLog and Lisp till 1990.
- Operating Systems
- Unix (HP-UX, Linux are current - many others in the past)
- Windows NT4/2000, XP at Home, VAX/VMS, some MVS/TSO/VM
- Software
- Network Management: Cisco ASA, Cisco PIX IDS CSPM, Openview
- DNS - QIP 50+ servers, plus Standalone Internet side on hardened Linux
- Squid proxy, WebTrends, Apache
- MimeSweeper. WebSweeper, SafeGate, eTrust, RealSecure, InterShop 4.
- ORACLE (base and tools - NOT Financials)
- SGML, XML, Saxon,
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Protocols
- TCP/IP, esp. SMTP, SNMP, XML and some VPN
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Hardware
- Networking: Cisco- ASA Routers PIX IDS, ACE, Shiva LANrover, SecureId,
- Intel, HP9000, NeXT, VAX, Alpha, IBM RS6000, IBM S/370 and others.
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