General Details:

Last Updated: 16/11/2009

Name: Kev 'Kyrian' Green.

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Education: To Degree Level (South Bank University), after GCSE's and A-Levels.

Core Skills:

• Linux Security & Management [including firewalling, blocking attacks, compromise (rootkit, backdoor, trojan) recovery]

• Systems Administration (Redhat, Fedora, Debian, Solaris, etc).

• Network Administration (from LAN to multinational, including Cisco)

• Linux Virtualisation (Xen) for new and legacy systems.

• High-performance & high-availability websites.

• eCommerce / Online Retail (Search Engine Optimisation, payment gateways)

• Data munging and conversion (eg. From MySQL to Excel and back again).

• PHP/MySQL Web Development, including XML/SOAP integration, ImageMagick, Object-Oriented(OO) Classes/Modules, Perl/Shell scripting.

• Business process & systems development experience, in ISP, Online Retail, Content Provider, and other environments.

Previous Employment:

In total about a decade of experience in the Internet/IT industry, primarily networking, web development and systems administration at a variery of companies, thereafter variously self-employed as an Internet/IT consultant, linux security expert, web host, web developer, virtualisation expert, and Rock/Metal/Industrial/Goth music DJ.

I've worked in various capacities, for various reasons for Cerbernet/Atlantic Telecom/First Telecom, Netbenefit/Netnames, Fiat, Music HQ/Notion, Deskdemon.com, Codix, Venus Business Communications, LocationWorks, Wychwood/Marstons, Eerie Pub Co/Punch Taverns, Rock Matrix/Darkstore/Unified Sounds. Ask for details...

Seeking:

Freelance, Contract or part-time work in a challenging Internet position in relaxed, flexible and realistic company (I'm not keen to give up all of my outside interests, or wear a suit only for it to be wrecked on a datacenter floor).

Hobbies:

Music, Linux, Open Source Software (Mailman MySQL, Sendmail SQL, Pidgin "Office Hours", Nagios, etc), Clubbing, Drinking, Speech Synthesis, Movies, Helicopters, Internet.

Keywords:

Open Source, Cisco, Linux(Desktop, Multimedia, Server, Debian, RedHat Linux, Fedora, Redhat Enterprise, CentOS), Bay/Nortel, Worldpay, Splashpay, Paypal, Froogle, Apache, Tradedoubler, Ascend/Lucent, Windows NT/XP/95/98, IIS 3 & 4, Real Media (Encoding, Broadcasting, etc), ADA, C, Python, Oracle. Amiga, DEC VAX/VMS, Proteon/OpenRoute, SNMP, NNTP, Cyrus IMAP, BGP/OSPF/RIP, ISDN/Dialup/Leased Lines/ADSL, Firewall-1, FFMpeg, Sendmail, Exim. LVS, Veritas, DAC960, RIPE LIR management, LINX, Webperf (100 position improvement). Project Management, Xen (HVM/PV), VoIP.