About
About Me
I'm an unashamed geek, in love with both technology and my growing family. I watch sci-fi on TV, read Asimov, surf the 'net (more often than I should), and have a great interest in new & shiny things. (See my blog for more on that and other sysadmin things).
I'm also currently the president of the South Australian chapter of SAGE-AU, the "Systems Administrator's Guild of Australia". I arrange monthly meetings on all things IT for the local group - drop me an email if you'd like to come along.
Professional Summary
Right now, I'm primarily a Systems Administrator, focusing on Linux and Solaris. I also have a background as a programmer (in various languages - mostly PHP, C, Perl).
I'm a good communicator and strongly believe in customer-focused approaches to solutions, no matter if the customer is an external client or an internal department. This extends from a general building of customer relations via regular interaction, through mutual planning and post-change follow-ups.
As both a developer and systems administrator, I've dealt with optimising the software (through code reviews, and integration of technologies like memcache) and the system (with thorough tuning of the OS, database, and application stack) for community-driven websites, in order to handle many times their original capacity.
Experienced in...
- Linux (Debian/Ubuntu, Gentoo, RHEL)
- Solaris 9, 10
- Virtualisation - Solaris Containers, Linux-VServers, VMWare ESXi
- DNS - authoritative & recursive
- Apache
- MySQL tuning, index optimisation
- IPv6 in-place migrations
- Monitoring (munin, collectd, mon)
- PHP development & platform optimisation
- HTML / CSS / Javascript
- A constant desire to expand and refine my skillset
Education
- Bachelor of Information Technology, Flinders University 2003.
- On the job! I learn new systems and technologies quickly.
More?
There is an employment history and various recommendations on my LinkedIn profile.
