Rich
Welcome to my spectacular homepage. As you can see, it really is quite special.
I am a:
(Professional) g33k
Hampshire Jap Car Club Admin
JDM Lifestyler
Evo Triangler
Tunnel Runner
Airfield Dayer
Guitar player
Rock n Roller
Xboxer
Film watcher
Mentalist.
richstokes@gmail.com
Profile
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
• 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 - PresentSenior ICT Engineer / NEC Technologies
- Sept 2009 - Dec 2010System Administrator / DediPower Managed HostingManaging and supporting clients hosted solutions with us. Supporting a variety of configurations on both Windows server system and RedHat linux.
- Feb 2007 - Sept 2009Technical Consultant / HP CDSProvided 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 2007Field Engineer / Computacenter
- Jan 2004 - Jan 2005Hardware Engineer / Centerprise International
Education
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2001 - 2003Basingstoke College of TechnologyBTEC in National Diploma for IT Practitioners
Recent tracks
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Radar Love by Golden Earring7 days ago
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This Day Is Mine by Rise To Remain2 months ago
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The King Is Dead by Max Raptor2 months ago
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Satellite by Rise Against2 months ago
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High Castles by Funeral For A Friend2 months ago
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Devils Island by Architects2 months ago
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I Like It by Foxy Shazam2 months ago
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Mein Land by Rammstein2 months ago
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WannaBe in L.A. by Eagles of Death Metal2 months ago
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Stupify by Disturbed2 months ago
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Posts
January 19, 05:11 AM
November 23, 04:06 PM
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I'm weird. |
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| Time: 01:21 | More in Film & Animation |
December 30, 04:37 AM
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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 |
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| Time: 06:27 | More in Autos & Vehicles |
October 25, 05:33 PM
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272heroes practice session, first video just messing about on forza 4
www.272heroes.com |
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September 15, 02:23 PM
May 19, 04:23 AM
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Trying out some of the effects in imovie |
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January 30, 04:14 AM
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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 |
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February 28, 01:59 PM
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Stock S2000 on dyno, 250bhp at the fly, 199 @ wheels. |
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February 13, 05:05 PM
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Basingstoke photo shoot |
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September 05, 01:58 PM
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A friend having some fun in the snow with his mx5 :] |
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March 05, 11:42 AM
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November 17, 08:37 PM
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February 21, 01:04 PM
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FTO chase car.. On the way home we spotted this unknown chap going somewhat insane and decide to follow! :O |
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April 05, 05:25 AM
July 07, 02:45 PM
March 03, 05:04 PM
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Down pompey with the team |
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| Time: 00:28 | More in Autos & Vehicles |
September 29, 07:07 AM
December 04, 11:34 AM
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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.. |
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August 15, 09:30 PM
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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 |
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