Leon Stringer MSc, IEng, MBCS, CITP
Personal Details
| Name: |
Leon Stringer |
Nationality: |
British |
| Email: |
leon.stringer@ntlworld.com |
Health: |
Good |
| Date of Birth: |
10 August 1972 |
Driving License: |
Full |
| Place of Birth: |
Crewe, Cheshire |
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Employment
2000-Current: Network Engineer
West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS
Trust, Stafford, Staffordshire
- Locality lead engineer for emergency, non-emergency and administrative
operations
- Providing network and systems support in a high pressure environment
with on call cover
- Managing two Active Directory networks with:
- Microsoft Windows servers and clients (Windows
2000, XP and 2003)
- Linux (Red Hat/Fedora with Samba, CUPS and Apache) and UnixWare
servers
- Citrix and RDP thin client servers and terminals
- Implementation, support and monitoring of control room services such as
Computer Aided Dispatch command and control systems
- Supporting fault-tolerant server systems (Stratus ftServer)
- Excellent knowledge of networking systems, e.g. TCP/IP,
LANs, WANs, switches, routers and firewalls
(3Com, Sonicwall, Netfilter)
- Working with various communications technologies, e.g. VPN, ISDN, X.21,
radio, GPRS
- Administering Microsoft Exchange 2003 email server
- Developed and implemented anti-virus strategy (McAfee, ServerProtect
and Antigen)
- Support and maintenance of Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL
databases
- Developed web-based systems using Apache and PHP
- Developed in-house utility systems using Java and C#
- Mentoring staff in the IT and Comms team for skills development and
project work
1992-1998: Software Developer
Metascybe Systems Ltd.,
Wimbledon, London
- Developed software in Visual Basic, VBScript (for IIS) and C
- Provided telephone support of developer-oriented products
- Gave on-site training to customers
- Co-ordinated cross-company software development
- Gained in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Windows
- Experience of hardware and software aspects of networked systems
Education & Training
October 2007: Implementing, Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 Network Infrastructure (M2277)
- 5-day course at QA-IQ, Birmingham
July 2007: Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
(M2275)
- 3-day course at QA-IQ, Birmingham
2005-2007: MSc Computer Science, Staffordshire University
- MSc Computer Science course during 12-month career break and part-time
study
- Modules in networking, forensics, databases (Oracle/XML), 3D graphics
(Java), OOP (C++)
- 5-day course with GBdirect, London
- Studied maintaining Unix and Linux systems including user management,
file systems and security
- 4-day course at Interquad, Birmingham
- Studied installation, configuration and maintenance of MetaFrame XP
server farms
April 2002: Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional &
Server
- 5-day course at IT-IQ, Oldbury,
West Midlands
- Studied installation, configuration, roll-out and maintenance of
Windows 2000
September 2001: VisiCAD Command System Administration
1998-2000: BSc (Hons) Computing Science, Staffordshire University
- Upper second class honours (2:1) degree in Computing
Science
- Developed in Java (with Swing),
Visual Basic, C, Visual C++, Prolog, Smalltalk
- Projects using SQL, Oracle
Forms, UNIX and various design methodologies (ERM, UML, etc.)
- A-levels in Computer Science and Physics
Published Papers
- L. Stringer, F. Dudek & C. Bauer, 2007, Location Information Discovery for IP
Telephony
Interests
I have a general interest in computers and contribute to several Free/Open
Source software projects. I enjoy cycling and swim regularly.
Referees
Available on request.