Rich

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Senior ICT Engineer at NEC Technologies
Information Technology and Services | Reading, United Kingdom, GB

Summary

• Over 7 years experience as an IT Professional
• Exposure to a huge range of IT working environments and processes
• Experience working on Windows and Linux systems
• Passion for learning new technologies
• Excellent troubleshooting and investigatory skills
• Excellent general communications and reporting skills
• Ability to self motivate and work pro-actively
• An awareness & interest in computer and network security
• Great customer relationship skills and ability to prioritise work in SLA driven environments
• Quick learner with the ability to research answers to own problems
• Experience working in a managed hosting and "cloud" environment
Specialties: Windows 2003-2008 servers, including Active Directory, exchange, Terminal Services, MS SQL, DNS, IIS and DHCP server. Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat and Centos experience. LAMP managing apache web server, and mySQL services. Experience maintaining CMS web systems such as Wordpress and Drupal. Mail transfer services such as postfix and dovecot. File sharing; samba and FTP. Linux Bash shell scripting, Windows batch file scripts, also with HTML/PHP/CSS exposure. Hyper-V and VMware

Experience

  • Dec 2010 - Present
    Senior ICT Engineer / NEC Technologies
  • Sept 2009 - Present
    System Administrator / DediPower Managed Hosting
    Managing and supporting clients hosted solutions with us. Supporting a variety of configurations on both Windows server system and RedHat linux.
  • Feb 2007 - Present
    Technical Consultant / HP CDS
    Provided technical support and consultancy, reporting directly to Ericsson IT manager. Maintaining and implementing a variety of systems across their network and local IT support.
  • Jan 2005 - Present
    Field Engineer / Computacenter
  • Jan 2004 - Present
    Hardware Engineer / Centerprise International

Education

  • 2001 - 2003
    Basingstoke College of Technology
    BTEC in National Diploma for IT Practitioners

Additional Information

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Recent tracks

  • Year Down In New Orleans by {u'mbid': u'b9ffd0e7-7f95-46db-bc1c-8094d459f084', u'#text': u'Nanci Griffith'}
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  • Forrest by {u'mbid': u'26551a36-2a3b-42f5-a81d-bd55278caab8', u'#text': u'Ralf Illenberger'}
    7 weeks ago
  • Instant Karma by {u'mbid': u'4d5447d7-c61c-4120-ba1b-d7f471d385b9', u'#text': u'John Lennon'}
    7 weeks ago
  • Instant Karma by {u'mbid': u'4d5447d7-c61c-4120-ba1b-d7f471d385b9', u'#text': u'John Lennon'}
    7 weeks ago
  • Even Flow by {u'mbid': u'83b9cbe7-9857-49e2-ab8e-b57b01038103', u'#text': u'Pearl Jam'}
    7 weeks ago
  • Even Flow by {u'mbid': u'83b9cbe7-9857-49e2-ab8e-b57b01038103', u'#text': u'Pearl Jam'}
    7 weeks ago
  • Evil Woman by {u'mbid': u'0c502791-4ee9-4c5f-9696-0602b721ff3b', u'#text': u'Electric Light Orchestra'}
    7 weeks ago
  • Fool For Your Loving by {u'mbid': u'5dedf5cf-a598-4408-9556-3bf3f149f3ba', u'#text': u'Whitesnake'}
    7 weeks ago
  • Rocket by {u'mbid': u'7249b899-8db8-43e7-9e6e-22f1e736024e', u'#text': u'Def Leppard'}
    7 weeks ago
  • Subterranean Homesick Blues by {u'mbid': u'72c536dc-7137-4477-a521-567eeb840fa8', u'#text': u'Bob Dylan'}
    7 weeks ago

Top tracks

Posts

May 25, 05:01 PM
By Dan Martin (fat jack) and Rich Stokes (small jack).
From: ricsto
Views: 1
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Time: 00:53 More in Comedy
May 20, 07:47 AM
Fezza
From: ricsto
Views: 22
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Time: 00:25 More in Comedy
May 08, 08:26 AM
Seen everything now!
From: ricsto
Views: 169
2 ratings
Time: 03:07 More in Gaming
April 21, 12:18 PM
215bhp with exhaust and decat
From: ricsto
Views: 89
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Time: 02:06 More in Autos & Vehicles
April 15, 01:32 PM
Weekend project completed! Lexus 5.4l V8 into a C class! Fun :)
From: ricsto
Views: 35
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Time: 01:45 More in Comedy
April 08, 04:28 PM
Babbabooy
From: ricsto
Views: 45
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Time: 15:01 More in Music
May 04, 02:35 PM
Idek.
From: ricsto
Views: 131
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Time: 02:37 More in Music
April 13, 09:23 AM
Yep. This happened.
From: ricsto
Views: 15
1 ratings
Time: 00:17 More in Comedy
May 22, 12:01 PM
Replacing headlight on S2000, and fitting new carbon bonnet
From: ricsto
Views: 131
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Time: 02:07 More in Autos & Vehicles
February 04, 07:25 PM
It snowed.
From: ricsto
Views: 43
1 ratings
Time: 02:19 More in People & Blogs
September 15, 02:23 PM
Dan covering Drifting
From: ricsto
Views: 107
1 ratings
Time: 03:16 More in Music
May 19, 04:23 AM
Trying out some of the effects in imovie
From: ricsto
Views: 86
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Time: 00:42 More in Autos & Vehicles
May 15, 11:57 AM
Testing my new exhaust :) Doesn't really do it justice still - could of done with a camera man to get some fly bys! but gives you an idea of what it sounds like. Check out http://www.jdmodified.com/contact.shtml for contact details
From: ricsto
Views: 2491
11 ratings
Time: 04:50 More in Autos & Vehicles
February 28, 01:59 PM
Stock S2000 on dyno, 250bhp at the fly, 199 @ wheels.
From: ricsto
Views: 166
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Time: 01:21 More in Autos & Vehicles
February 13, 05:05 PM
Basingstoke photo shoot
From: ricsto
Views: 162
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Time: 02:31 More in Autos & Vehicles
September 05, 01:58 PM
A friend having some fun in the snow with his mx5 :]
From: ricsto
Views: 415
2 ratings
Time: 04:42 More in Autos & Vehicles
March 05, 11:42 AM
From: ricsto
Views: 1670
7 ratings
Time: 11:12 More in Autos & Vehicles
November 17, 08:37 PM
From: ricsto
Views: 178
1 ratings
Time: 00:45 More in Autos & Vehicles
February 21, 01:04 PM
FTO chase car.. On the way home we spotted this unknown chap going somewhat insane and decide to follow! :O
From: ricsto
Views: 847
4 ratings
Time: 01:53 More in Autos & Vehicles
April 05, 05:25 AM
Dan
From: ricsto
Views: 435
2 ratings
Time: 00:56 More in Comedy
July 07, 02:45 PM
Drifting Silverstone in my HJC S2000 Tuning set up available in my storefront, see gamertag: revo84
From: ricsto
Views: 931
2 ratings
Time: 00:30 More in Gaming
March 03, 05:04 PM
Down pompey with the team
From: ricsto
Views: 121
1 ratings
Time: 00:28 More in Autos & Vehicles
September 29, 07:07 AM
Who says you need big BHP to drift? :P This is done in a stock '84 supra, about 150bhp. using nothing but feint and handbrake initiated drifts. Get some momentum then chuck it into the bend and go for some lollerangle :D
From: ricsto
Views: 2902
11 ratings
Time: 00:30 More in Gaming
August 15, 09:30 PM
Only got the first couple of tunnels due to hard to read directions :( bit of a shame but was fun anyway. Driver car is Evo VII GSR w/ magnex exhaust
From: ricsto
Views: 1096
3 ratings
Time: 08:27 More in Autos & Vehicles
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