Overview

Barry Chandler MA(Oxon), MBCS, CITP.        BJC@BCS.org

Last update: Spring 2006

This online CV is not as 'polished' as the paper version which hides the gaps, and even starts with a different

• 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,
• Protocols
  • TCP/IP, esp. SMTP, SNMP, XML and some VPN
• Hardware
  • Networking: Cisco- ASA Routers PIX IDS, ACE, Shiva LANrover, SecureId,
  • Intel, HP9000, NeXT, VAX, Alpha, IBM RS6000, IBM S/370 and others.