Work

History... It all started with my fathers brand new VIC 20 and continued through Commodore 64, 128 and Amiga 500 to PCs and various operating systems. I've worked as a Computer/Infrastructure Consultant since August '98.

I began my professional career working for a consulting company called Swiftnet where I used Microsoft and third party products to create solutions for customers. I Planned, deployed and maintained regular Windows NT based infrastructures, NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition and Win2000 Terminal Services (with or without Citrix Metaframe) and some of the products running on top of these..

After Swiftnet I've worked a short while for D.Carnegie where I helped support the infrastructure on Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X.

Currently I'm at Siemens Business Services where I do 1st, 2nd & 3rd level support for SBS and our customers.

I also do some programming and scripting. Creating small utilities to help me with day to day administrative work or workarounds for limitations in OS or software code. Mostly though I play around learning more of OS internals.

Education

  • 2yr - Process Engineering (aimed at crude oil refineries)
  • 1yr - Electronics & Computer Technology
  • 2yr - Complementary studies to qualify for University studies (KomVux)
  • 30w - Network Engineering (MCSE & CNA)
  • 1w - Windows 2000 Accelerated Training

Architectures

  • x86 - Intel compatible clients & servers

Operating Systems

  • DOS 5.0 - 7.0, Windows 3.x | 9x | XP| NT 4.0 | NT TSE | 2k | 2k3
  • Linux RedHat 4.2-8.0 & Fedora Core 1-5 | SUSE 6.1
  • MacOS X
  • Netware 3.12 | 4.11
  • Solaris 7
  • some SCO OpenServer 5
  • even less OS/2 Warp 3

Programming & Scripting languages

  • C, C#, some C++
  • VBScript (ASP, WMI, ADSI)
  • some Visual Basic
  • KiXtart
  • JavaScript
  • HTML & some XML
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • BASH shell script
  • Pascal
  • Pike
  • some Assembler

Applications

  • Active Directory
  • Microsoft Office + Resource Kits
  • Citrix Metaframe
  • Remote Control (Dameware, SMS, NetOp, PC Anywhere, Hyena, VNC, X-Win32 etc)
  • Backup (ARCServe, BackupExec, Ghost)
  • Application Packaging (WinInstall, Windows Installer + SDK)
  • Security (SSH, ipchains/netfilter, tripwire)
  • Development (Visual Studio, gcc, SharpDev etc)
  • Web (Dreamweaver, Flash, a little Frontpage, IIS, Apache)
  • DB (MySQL, MS SQL, Access)
  • Mail (Exchange, Sendmail)
  • Graphics (Photoshop, GIMP, Lightwave)
  • Remote Installation Service
  • Borland Appserver
  • RiTA (SoliCard 6000) (Solid)