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Having been involved with PCs since 1987, it follows that considerable experience has
been accumulated in many associated areas of hardware and software. The
following are the areas of core skill and experience:
I first used an IBM PC compatible in 1987. It was a Compaq Deskpro equipped
with 128Kb RAM and a 10Mb hard drive - luxury! I used it to teach myself Dbase
II, and created a stores management system to handle the stock of electronic
components needed in an electronics training lab.Soon after this the training
environment at which I was employed required a network of PCs, primarily to
get the trainees accustomed to systems they should expect to come across out in
the real world. I was tasked with selecting a suitable system. Back then
Microsoft existed as the DOS supplier and not much else, and Novell was wildly
expensive. I the end I purchased, configured
and installed a small network of 6 Amstrad 1512s and two "Tiara-Net" file-servers
(Amstrad 1640 with 20Mb hard drives!) based on a thinnet Arcnet infrastructure. For
its time, this was a sweet NOS! The fileservers were configured as Primary and
Secondary, with data being automatically mirrored onto the secondary. It
included both Messaging and E-Mail (with attachments!), something which didn't
come into general use for another five years, and cost arms and legs! All applications were, of course, DOS-based
and consisted primarily of Star applications, since we couldn't afford the
luxury of the real Lotus 123 and Wordperfect.
Other
experience has been within an Apple Macintosh, Appletalk/Ethertalk environment. Further, I
have been responsible for integrating Apple Macintosh computers into Novell Netware
networks.
I have worked within a Novell Netware environment since 1989. At this time I was
involved in the installation, configuration and administration of a 6 user Netware v2.15
network. A number of other Novell networks were purchased by individual departments,
and in due course the installation evolved into a seven server, 200+ user, thinnet and UTP
based bridged company network. As time went on, the network operating system was upgraded
through v2.2 to v3.11 and v3.12. Later contracts introduced v4.01, v4.10, v4.11 and
more recently v5.0 and v5.1
The normal course of events as led me to gain experience with MS-DOS v2 up to v6, and
onwards into the original Windows 3 environment. I have used and configured
the various desktop incarnations of Windows since 1996, and later gained wider
experience with the introduction of Windows NT.
- Microsoft Windows NT Server
It was never my intention to become involved with Windows NT, preferring to maintain
focus on Netware. However it was inevitable that I would be asked to deal with
NT-based workstations and servers, and particularly since the introduction NT4, the amount
of hands-on has increased exponentially.
Since 1992 I have been involved in developing Lotus Notes databases to varying
degrees. The most complex of these applications was the creation of a
newspaper publishing system, followed closely by the development and
implementation of a Notes-based Help Desk system. The bulk of this
experience is in v3.x. I have limited experience of v4.x, and have not
utilised these skills for approximately five years.
As networks developed, the threats to data integrity increased and
multiplied. The following lists those areas of security with which I have been
most heavily involved:
- Backup - with tape technology ranging through DAT, DLT and LTO, and
including autoloaders from many manufacturers. In depth knowledge of
Arcserve, Backup Exec, Tapeware, and the much lamented Palindrome.
- Anti-virus -
- Firewalls -
- Login Security -
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