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            <h3>Personal Information</h3>
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                <dt>Full Name</dt>
                <dd><p>Benjamin Austin Roberts</p></dd>

                <dt>Date of Birth</dt>
                <dd><p>09/09/1986</p></dd>

                <dt>Location</dt>
                <dd><p>Hampshire, United Kingdom</p></dd>
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                <dt>Email Address</dt>
                <dd><p>{mailto address="me@benroberts.net" encode="hex"}</p></dd>
                
                <dt>Portfolio</dt>
                <dd><p><a href="https://www.benroberts.net/" title="Portfolio">https://www.benroberts.net/</a></p></dd> 
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            <h3>Employment</h3>
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                    <h4>
                        Atos IT Services UK
                        <small>July 2010 - Present</small>
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                    <h5>Network Technical Specialist - Major Projects</h5>
                    <ul>
                        <li>
                            Design and implementation of network solutions for Atos customers in the Transport and Financial
                            Services industries.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            Lead planner for all physical aspects of 5-datacentre core infrastructure upgrade including
                            WAN circuit delivery, rack and equipment placement, power &amp; network connectivity, build validation,
                            and logistics management for ~3000 items of hardware.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            Designed, built and operated a large development lab for validation of a large-scale internal project, containing:
                            <ul>
                                <li>~70 mixed-vendor devices across 8 fully populated, full-sized racks</li>
                                <li>500 copper &amp; fibre connections</li>
                                <li>&gt;2.5km of network cabling</li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            Installation, configuration and maintenance of an out of band management service for remote console access
                            to hundreds of core infrastructure devices across multiple datacentres and unmanned sites.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            On-call proximity support, providing out-of-hours coverage for any incidents requiring a hands-on activity at the local data centre.
                        </li>
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                    <h4>
                        Netcraft
                        <small>June 2008 - May 2009</small>
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                    <h5>Internet Services Developer</h5>
                    <ul>
                        <li>
                            Penetration testing of web applications and hardware devices for large financial institutions. 
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            Development of a perl/sql based data mining survey.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            Take-downs of phishing sites (via legal channels), and other anti-phishing related activities.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            Windows Server/Active Directory/Exchange administration (including migrations to newer hardware/operating system versions).
                        </li>
                    </ul>
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                    <h4>
                        NXP Semiconductors
                        <small>June 2007 - September 2007</small>
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                    <h5>Student Intern</h5>
                    <ul>
                        <li>
                            Maintained and extended an existing internal web application using PHP and Perl.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            Installion and configuration of a streaming video-on-demand server on Red
                            Hat Linux, with embedded Linux clients running on set-top boxes.
                        </li>
                    </ul>
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                    <h4>
                        School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
                        <small>September 2006 - June 2010</small>
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                    <h5>Helpdesk Assistant</h5>
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                        <li>
                            Working in the University's Computer Science Helpdesk on an ad-hoc basis,
                            performing day-to-day tasks to help the full-time System Administrators. This included 
                            repairing and reinstalling the operating systems on lab PCs.
                        </li>
                    </ul>
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            <h3>Certification</h3>
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                        <th>Certification</th>
                        <th>Vendor</th>
                        <th>Date</th>
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                    <tr>
                        <td><strong>CCNA</strong></td>
                        <td>Cisco</td>
                        <td>Feb 2010 - Present</td>
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            <h3>Education</h3>
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                        University of Southampton
                        <small>October 2005 - June 2010</small>
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                                <th>Subject</th>
                                <th>Level</th>
                                <th>Grade</th>
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                                <td>
                                    <strong>Computer Science</strong><br />
                                    <em>with Distributed Systems and Networks</em>
                                </td>
                                <td>MEng</td>
                                <td><strong>First Class</strong></td>
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                        Uckfield Community Technology College
                        <small>September 2003 - June 2005</small>
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                                <th>Subject</th>
                                <th>Level</th>
                                <th>Grade</th>
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                            <tr>
                                <td><strong>Mathematics</strong></td>
                                <td>A-Level</td>
                                <td><strong>A</strong></td>
                            </tr>
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                                <td><strong>Physics</strong></td>
                                <td>A-Level</td>
                                <td><strong>A</strong></td>
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                                <td><strong>Computing</strong></td>
                                <td>A-Level</td>
                                <td><strong>A</strong></td>
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                                <td><strong>Further Mathematics</strong></td>
                                <td>AS-Level</td>
                                <td><strong>B</strong></td>
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            <h3>Skills</h3>
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                <dt>Networking<dt>
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                    <p>
                        Experience with:
                        <ul>
                            <li>Routing and Switching (Cisco, Brocade, Mikrotik)</li>
                            <li>Firewalling (Cisco FWSM, ASA, Linux iptables)</li>
                            <li>VPNs (Juniper, OpenVPN, Mikrotik)</li>
                        </ul>
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                        Experience configuring and operating network services, including:
                        <ul>
                            <li>DHCP (ISC)</li>
                            <li>Resilient DNS (BIND, Windows Server)</li>
                            <li>Resilient LDAP (OpenLDAP)</li>
                            <li>HTTP (Apache, IIS)</li>
                            <li>SSL CA (OpenSSL)</li>
                            <li>Logging (Syslog, Splunk)</li>
                        </ul>
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                <dt>System Administration</dt>
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                    <p>
                        Experience with:
                        <ul>
                            <li>Installation, configuration and operation of Operating Systems (Linux [many distributions], Windows, Mac OS X).</li>
                            <li>Writing and maintaining Linux software packages and package repositories (Gentoo Portage, Sabayon Entropy)</li>
                            <li>System automation (Puppet, Molecule, Kickstart).</li>
                            <li>Virtualisation (KVM, libvirt, Ganeti, VMWare/ESX)</li>
                        </ul>
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                    <p>
                        Brief experience with Active Directory, Group Policy and Exchange administration on
                        Windows-based systems and integration with Linux systems via LDAP.
                    </p>
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                <dt>Web Programming</dt>
                <dd>
                    <p>
                        Proficient at creating standards-compliant, cross-browser (X)HTML documents,
                        with CSS styling, and dynamic JavaScript behaviour.
                        Many years' experience creating both simple and complex dynamic systems using
                        PHP. Emphasis on writing secure code.
                    </p>
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                <dt>Application Programming</dt>
                <dd>
                    <p>
                        Proficient with C/C++, Qt. Basic experience with Perl. Able to read and write many
                        other languages, including Java, Ruby and UNIX Shell scripting.
                    </p>
                <dt>Databases</dt>
                <dd>
                    <p>
                        Experienced with SQL, including database normalisation. Installation and operation of
                        MySQL DBMS. 
                    </p>
                </dd>
                
                <dt>Development Tools</dt>
                <dd>
                    <p>
                        Experience with:
                        <ul>
                            <li>IDEs (Eclipse SDK, Microsoft Visual Studio)</li>
                            <li>UNIX build environments (Vim, gcc/g++, make)</li>
                            <li>Version Control systems (Git, Subversion)</li>
                        </ul>
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            <h3>Interests</h3>
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            <p>
                I am a supporter of the opensource movement, and try to use free/libre software
                and code where I can. I also release all my code under free licenses where possible
                in the hope that they might be useful to others. 
            </p>
            <p>
                I enjoy developing many small systems for both personal and educational use.
                Aside from the projects listed on my
                <a href="https://benroberts.net" title="Personal Website">personal website</a>,
                in the past I have also written a web-based remote control for WinAMP, and
                "audio emoticon" software for use with MSN Messenger, which was downloaded more than
                a million times.
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                At University I was in a group named "CSLib" (Computer Science Library),
                which maintained a centralised software repository for other students in the
                department. This involved building and maintaining software, often compiled from
                source. It also involves managing a Windows 2003 Terminal Server for remote use
                by other students.
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                My third year individual project was to design and implement a cross platform
                document sharing system which featured zero-configuration peer discovery, and
                password-less, decentralised authentication whilst maintaining privacy and
                security.
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