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With 10+ years working in the technology sector, I am experienced in the design, implementation and smooth operations of resilient systems. I enjoy working in high growth environments, working on rapidly evolving systems that become large scale internet services. I am experienced in reverse engineering, troubleshooting, stabilizing and migration of legacy systems. During my time at NetNames...

With 10+ years working in the technology sector, I am experienced in the design, implementation and smooth operations of resilient systems. I enjoy working in high growth environments, working on rapidly evolving systems that become large scale internet services. I am experienced in reverse engineering, troubleshooting, stabilizing and migration of legacy systems. During my time at NetNames I have gained experience in the area of system consolidation and integration during a series of acquisitions and more recently working on a technical systems separation project due to a divisional disposal. Skills: Perl, Networking, Debian, Ubuntu, Linux, Apache, Fortinet, OpenVPN, KVM, NetApp cDOT, VMware, SeaMicroTechnical Architect @ • Design and implemented, Load balanced, DNS Clusters. • NetApp cDOT / VMWare / Dense server array. • Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana for exim mail forwarding logs. From August 1997 to Present (18 years 5 months) Senior System Administrator @ • Standardized legacy plesk based shared hosting, implemented redundancy. • Integrated legacy managed hosting servers and bandwidth monitoring systems post acquisition • Added web based micro site design system, to offering. • Converted webforwarding to use GroupNBT cluster. • Designed and wrote systems for new linux shared hosting cluster. From February 2006 to December 2013 (7 years 11 months) Perl Developer @ • High volume Parallel DNS lookup engine. • Parsers for a variety of whois outputs, with generic fuzzy matcher. • Spreadsheet style web page, search/sort/export/rearrange. • Daily reporting system with filters, to notify changes to data.. • Web based user management system. From August 2004 to February 2006 (1 year 7 months) Network Engineer / System Administrator @ • Renumbering project onto own AS number, dual homed with BGP4 routing. • Border access list management system. • Cflow monitoring for billing with 95%ile graphing. • Graphing of 1000+ switch ports, available on client control panel. • Sflow logging, searchable database of top users. • Foundry ServerIron XL configuration. • Automated vlan configuration for XMR and Cisco devices. • Built monitoring system, highly configurable, autofixers & inbuilt escalation. • Implement oncall rota and payment structure. • Named Key employee during public listing. • Create Unix and Windows control panel for shared hosting. • Created customizable holding page system, and web redirector. From August 1999 to August 2004 (5 years 1 month) Techincal Support @ • Created automatic setup for windows shared hosting. • Implemented Unix frontpage hosting system. • Setup SMS based alerting system. • Obtained MCSE qualification From August 1997 to August 1999 (2 years 1 month) System Administrator @ Maintaining backups, diagnosing some network issues, server installs. From 1996 to 1997 (1 year) London, United KingdomC Programmer / System Admin @ Testing, and fixing issue in large C application. Migration of legacy data from 1 format to another via shell script tools. From 1995 to 1996 (1 year) Manchester, United KingdomComputer Science, BSc @ The University of Manchester Richard Langston is skilled in: DNS, Servers, Linux, Unix, Perl, Networking, CentOS, Cisco Technologies, Shell Scripting, Debian, NetApp, System Administration, Data ONTAP, VMware Certified Professional, Network Administration