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+ Personal Information
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- Full Name +
Benjamin Austin Roberts
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+ - Email Address +
{mailto address="me@benroberts.net" encode="hex"}
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+ - Date of Birth +
09/09/1986
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+ - Nationality +
British
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Employment
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+ Atos IT Services UK + July 2010 - Present +
+Graduate Technical Specialist
++ Design and implementation of network solutions for Atos customers in the Transport and Financial + Services industries. +
++ Installed, configured and managed an out of band console service for remote management of core + infrastructure across multiple datacentres. +
++ Designed, built and operated an 8-rack development lab containing ~70 mixed-vendor devices + for validation of a large-scale internal project. +
++ Lead planner for physical aspects of 5-datacentre core infrastructure upgrade including + circuit delivery, rack and equipment placement, power/network connectivity, and logistics + management for ~3000 items of hardware. +
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+ Netcraft + June 2008 - May 2009 +
+Internet Services Developer
++ Penetration testing of web applications and hardware devices for large financial + institutions. Development of a perl/sql based data mining survey. Take-downs of + phishing sites (via legal channels), and other anti-phishing related activities. + Windows Server/Active Directory/Exchange administration (including migrations to + newer hardware/operating system versions). +
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+ NXP Semiconductors + +
+Student Intern
++ Maintained and extended an existing internal web application using PHP and + Perl. Installed and configured a streaming video on demand server on Red + Hat Linux, with an embedded Linux client running on a Set Top Box. +
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+ Electronics and Computer Science Faculty, University of Southampton + September 2006 - June 2010 +
+Helpdesk Assistant
++ Worked in the University's Computer Science Helpdesk on an ad-hoc basis, + performing day-to-day tasks to help the System Administrators. This included + repairing and reinstalling the operating systems on lab PCs. +
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Certification
+| Certification | +Date | +
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| CCNA | +Feb 2010 - Present | +
Education
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+ University of Southampton + October 2005 - June 2010 +
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++ + + +Subject +Level +Grade ++ + ++ Computer Science +
+ with Distributed Systems and Networks +MEng +First Class +
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+ Uckfield Community Technology College + September 2003 - June 2005 +
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+ ++ + + +Subject +Level +Grade ++ +Mathematics +A-Level +A ++ +Physics +A-Level +A ++ +Computing +A-Level +A ++ + +Further Mathematics +AS-Level +B +
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Skills
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- Networking
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+ Experience with: +
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- Routing and Switching (Cisco, Brocade, Mikrotik) +
- Firewalling (Cisco FWSM, ASA, Linux iptables) +
- VPNs (Juniper, OpenVPN, Mikrotik) +
+ Experience configuring and operating network services, including: +
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- DHCP (ISC) +
- Resilient DNS (BIND, Windows Server) +
- Resilient LDAP (OpenLDAP) +
- HTTP (Apache, IIS) +
- SSL CA (OpenSSL) +
- Logging (Syslog, Splunk) +
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+ - System Administration +
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+ Experience with: +
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- Installation, configuration and operation of Operating Systems (Linux [many distributions], Windows, Mac OS X). +
- Writing and maintaining Linux software packages and package repositories (Gentoo Portage, Sabayon Entropy) +
- System automation (Puppet, Molecule, Kickstart). +
- Virtualisation (KVM, libvirt, VMWare) +
+ Brief experience with Active Directory, Group Policy and Exchange administration on + Windows-based systems and integration with Linux systems via LDAP. +
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+ - Web Programming +
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+ 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. +
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+ - Application Programming +
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+ Proficient with C/C++, Qt. Basic experience with Perl. Able to read and write many + other languages, including Java, Ruby and UNIX Shell scripting. +
+ - Databases +
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+ Experienced with SQL, including database normalisation. Installation and operation of + MySQL DBMS. +
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- IDEs (Eclipse SDK, Microsoft Visual Studio) +
- UNIX build environments (Vim, gcc/g++, make) +
- Version Control systems (Git, Subversion) +
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Interests
++ 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. +
++ I enjoy developing many small systems for both personal and educational use. + Aside from the projects listed on my + personal website, + 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. +
++ 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. +
++ 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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