Hire Jason/CV
Experienced information technology professional. Key areas of technical expertise lie within infrastructure design/support, including Cisco LAN/WAN, Server deployments windows & Linux, Security systems and application integration. Strong technical skills are also complimented with people management and business acumen.
Member of the federation of small business , and writes a quarterly IT related column in a FSB publication.
Contact Jason Simmons: Mobile:07973 255898 Tel: 01908 888337 Fax:01908 888150
Core Skills
Technical
- Cisco Network Engineer\Manager , LAN/WAN, Catalyst,routing, layer3 ,ccna (10 Years)
- Windows Server technologies, NT4,Windows XP, Windows 2003 server (15 Years)
- Linux System Administrator ,Redhat, Ubuntu,fedora ,gentoo ,centos,bash scripting (7 Years)
- Technical Architect , SAN/NAS, iscsi, SNMP, Load balancers,Firewalls (8 Years)
- Web application developer, Linux,PHP,Mysql, Apache Javascript (7 years)
Soft Skills
- Man Management (5 Years)
- IT operations, knowledge of ITIL,PCIDSS, Disaster Recovery (4 years)
- Customer facing. (11 years)
- Budget management.(7 years)
Recent Projects
- Upgraded the network security systems major high street franchise web ordering system to comply with PCIDSS. This was done before the compliance deadline, and without disruption to the ordering service.
- Increased the throughput of a Linux web server farm for a London based online marketing company. Redesigned the production network to increase resiliency with distributed VLANS. This segmented traffic reducing the time to perform cross site backups, and web server performance.
- Designed/upgraded the network for a VAG company. This enabled the CAD/CAM users greater network throughput, reduced network outages and faster project turnaround. Reduced licensing costs by deploy CAD/CAM workstations running Suse Linux.
- Configured IBM & HP Blade centers for a Buckinghamshire college and a online gaming company. Vmware was also configured to enable server consolidation
- Deployed a Cisco LAN for a Northamptonshire school. A secure Wireless LAN was also installed using EAP 802.1x, Each of the wired ports were also secured using 802.1x
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Keywords
Cisco network engineer, Vmware, Linux, redhat, ubuntu, Technical Architect, CCNA, Network Support, LAMP, Virtual Private network, Cisco PIX, Cisco ASA, OSPF, EIGRP, NAS, SAN, Iscsi,Open Source, Ecommerce, Development manager, Disaster recovery, project management, IT operations management, TCP/IP, IT consultant, Asterisk VOIP, Network Design, Infrastructure manager, Linux Email servers, Zimbra, scalix, centrify, Funambol


