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About 10 years ago
Answered a question: What's your number one piece of advice for someone looking to purchase an Ethernet switch?
Throughput, bandwidth and latency- in that order.
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About 10 years ago
Ethernet Switches
About me
• Network, Infrastructure, Security, Data-centre & Cloud Project Manager offering 16+ years’ commercial & technical project management experience; an intentional consequence of which is a well-developed ability to bridge the ‘techno-commercial’ communications gap that so often arises between divergently focused project stakeholder ‘speech communities’. In brief:
◦ 8+ years’ cumulative project management experience running both commercial & IT initiatives with budgets ranging from £5k to £2.5m in value, & 10 to 40,000 man hours in effort. Majority of projects have employed appropriately tailored Prince 2/Agile methodologies &, where possible, best practice ITIL Service Management principles
◦ 8+ years’ exposure to both ‘hands-off’ & ‘hands-on’ IT (largely network, security, virtualisation, infrastructure & SWIFT-focused) support & management, much of which was gained in FSA regulated environments (SWIFT & SecFinex at NYSE Euronext)
◦ A credibility-enhancing portfolio of internationally recognised IT certifications from major institutions, including Cisco, Microsoft, Citrix, CompTIA, APMG, EXIN & TOGAF
Specialties:
• IT Service/Project Management
◦ PRINCE2 (Practitioner)
◦ ITIL v3
◦ MOF v4 (Microsoft Operations Framework)
◦ ITSM – ISO/IEC 20000
• Networking
◦ CCNP (Cisco Network Professional R&S)
◦ CompTIA Network +
◦ CompTIA A +
• Design/Architecture
◦ TOGAF 9 (The Open Group Architecture Forum)
◦ CCDP (Cisco Design Professional)
◦ Cisco Unified Computing Design Specialist
• Server-side
◦ MCSE + Security
◦ MCSE + Messaging
• Virtualisation/Cloud:
◦ Exin Certified Secure Cloud Integrator
◦ Exin Cloud Computing Specialist
◦ VMWare VCP (Passed exam but not taken an accredited WMWare course)
◦ Citrix CCEA
◦ Citrix CCA
• Security
◦ CCNP Security (Cisco Security Professional)
◦ ISO/IEC 27002 Certified
◦ Cisco Specialist in: IOS Security; IPS; VPNs; ASAs/Firewalls