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 - Dec 2010
    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 - Sept 2009
    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 - Jan 2007
    Field Engineer / Computacenter
  • Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
    Hardware Engineer / Centerprise International

Education

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

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Posts

January 19, 05:11 AM
From episode 11, Season 4 of It's always sunny in Philadelphia - genius.
From: ricsto
Views: 407
1 ratings
Time: 01:27 More in Comedy
November 23, 04:06 PM
I'm weird.
From: ricsto
Views: 34
0 ratings
Time: 01:21 More in Film & Animation
December 30, 04:37 AM
272heroes.com monthly meet, this time at Chichester multi-story car park for some night time photos! Thanks to everyone who attended, was a fun evening. Filmed on an iPhone 4S with 8mm app
From: ricsto
Views: 251
2 ratings
Time: 06:27 More in Autos & Vehicles
October 25, 05:33 PM
272heroes practice session, first video just messing about on forza 4 www.272heroes.com
From: ricsto
Views: 337
0 ratings
Time: 00:30 More in Autos & Vehicles
September 15, 02:23 PM
Dan covering Drifting
From: ricsto
Views: 98
1 ratings
Time: 03:16 More in Music
May 19, 04:23 AM
Trying out some of the effects in imovie
From: ricsto
Views: 68
0 ratings
Time: 00:42 More in Autos & Vehicles
January 30, 04:14 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: 1221
6 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: 140
0 ratings
Time: 01:21 More in Autos & Vehicles
February 13, 05:05 PM
Basingstoke photo shoot
From: ricsto
Views: 145
0 ratings
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: 340
2 ratings
Time: 04:42 More in Autos & Vehicles
March 05, 11:42 AM
From: ricsto
Views: 1584
7 ratings
Time: 11:12 More in Autos & Vehicles
November 17, 08:37 PM
From: ricsto
Views: 152
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: 658
4 ratings
Time: 01:53 More in Autos & Vehicles
April 05, 05:25 AM
Dan
From: ricsto
Views: 418
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: 829
2 ratings
Time: 00:30 More in Gaming
March 03, 05:04 PM
Down pompey with the team
From: ricsto
Views: 116
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: 2831
11 ratings
Time: 00:30 More in Gaming
December 04, 11:34 AM
Quick vid of my latest drift car, 370z The tune is available for download on my store front - Tag=Revo84 Get car to about 700bhp, full suspension mods etc, 2 way diff. Mines supercharged in this example :) This is RWD - not sure why people keep posting that its AWD. The tune is on my store front, tag Revo84..
From: ricsto
Views: 7071
12 ratings
Time: 00:31 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: 1074
3 ratings
Time: 08:27 More in Autos & Vehicles

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