Leon Stringer MSc, IEng, MBCS,
CITP
Personal Details
| Name: |
Leon Stringer |
Date of Birth: |
10 August 1972 |
| Email: |
leon.stringer@ntlworld.com |
Place of Birth: |
Crewe, Cheshire |
| Driving License: |
Full |
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Employment
2008 - Current: Intel Services Engineer
ACS Syan (Telford, Shropshire)
- Server support engineer for IT hosting and outsourcing company
- Providing telephone and remote support to customers
- Administration of Citrix Presentation Server/XenApp, Active Directory and
Microsoft Exchange
- Supervision and troubleshooting of Backup Exec, ARCserve and TSM
backups
2000 - 2008: IT Engineer
West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Stafford, Staffordshire)
- Local lead engineer for emergency, non-emergency and administrative
operations
- Provided network & systems support in a high pressure environment
(including on-call cover)
- Managed Active Directory-based 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
- Implementated, supported & monitored emergency control room
services
- Supported fault-tolerant server systems (Stratus ftServer, Marathon
Endurance)
- Maintained 3Com switch infrastructure, SonicWall and Netfilter (iptables)
firewalls
- Administered 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
- Mentored team members for skills development
1992 - 1998: Software Developer
Metascybe Systems Ltd. (Wimbledon, London)
- Developed software in Visual Basic, ASP 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 and Certifications
December 2008: Linux Professional Institute level 1 certification
(LPIC-1)
April 2008: PRINCE2 Practitioner
- 5-day course at New Horizons, Birmingham
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, web database applications (Oracle), 3D
graphics (Java), OOP (C++)
February 2004: Linux and Unix Fundamentals
- 5-day course with GBdirect, London
March 2003: Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows Administration with FR 2
(CTX-1222)
- 4-day course at Interquad, Birmingham
April 2002: Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional & Server
(2152)
- 5-day course at IT-IQ, Oldbury, West Midlands
September 2001: VisiCAD Command System Administration
- 3-day course at TriTech Software Systems, San Diego, California
- Studied maintenance of SQLServer 2000-based Computer Aided Dispatch
system
1998-2000: BSc (Hons) Computing Science, Staffordshire University
- Upper second class honours (2:1) degree
1983-1990: Greenshaw High School, Sutton, Surrey
- A-levels in Computer Science and Physics
Published Papers
International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information & Systems
Sciences, & Engineering
- 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.