Mor-Pah Studios

Curriculum Vitae

James Greig
E-mail james@mor-pah.net
Home site http://www.jamesgreig.co.uk

Objective

To seek a career with a company that appreciates individual creativity and initiative, and to enhance my computer related skills.

To work with an organization that allows new challenges for people like me with a good working environment.

Education

Secondary Education:

School:

Date:

Contact Name(s):

Montsaye Community College

Tel 01536418844

September 1997 - June 2002

Head Teacher - Mrs Fennel

Mrs Fennel Tutor - Ms Harries

Further & Higher Education: College:

College:

Date:

Contact Name(s):

Qualifications:

Hobbies/Interests:

Tresham Institute

Tel 08456588990

September 2002 - June 2006

Further Education Tutor - Dr E. J. Benham

Higher Education Tutor . Mr A. Chalmer

GCSE Level
English A
Information and Communications Technology (Higher Level) B
Maths (intermediate Level) C
Science Double Award C/C

NCFE Level 2
NCFE National Award in Telematics

BTEC National Diploma For I.T Practitioners
Distinction, Merit, Merit Overall

HND Computing
Gained a HND in Computing at De Montfort University

Cisco . (ID: CSCO11414321)
CCENT . Passed 11/07/08

Computer Security, UNIX Networking, C/C++ Programming. In my spare time I also enjoy working with cars and rebuilding Renault 5 C1J Turbo engines.

Employment

Chef (August 2002 to May 2006)

Worked in the hotel industry as a part time employee in the kitchen as a chef working with several chefs at a time, along with the restaurant staff and other hotel employees.
Worked under a part-time contract with part-time wage, working hours comparable to full-time work.
Prepared food for restaurant customers, hotel employees, weddings and many other functions on a regular basis.
Worked with the classic ala carte' menu.

Network Administrator (Linux Technical Support Engineer) (June 2006 to Present Day)

Took on the role of Network Administrator after just a few months of starting the job in support.
Setup a large scale enterprise mail server using postfix, dspam, clamav and dbmail with around 5000 .active. mailboxes.
Setup several customer dedicated servers, both Linux and Windows incorporating Exchange server and SQL server in some cases.
Dealt with customers directly over the phone as part of a small support team.
Setup and configured numerous types of network devices inc. Cisco PIX.s/ASA.s

Skill Summary & Personal Qualities

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Have a good ability to use analogies to explain highly technical subject matter to the uninitiated.
Excellent troubleshooting/problem solving skills.
Able to quickly break down problems into parts and through process of elimination, deduce probable causes and solutions.

Hardware Experience

Cisco ASA 5500 & PIX 500 series
Cisco 3845 Adv.Ent IOS Routers
Cisco 3750 IPServ. IOS Switches
Cisco 2960 ISO Switches
3Com 4400 (Traffic Shaping version)
Coyote Point E350si Load Balancer
HP Procurve 4000m (J4121A)
Dell PE2950/2850s

Application Experience

Postfix (good knowledge)
DBMail
DSpam
Apache
IIS6
MSSQL
MySQL
NIS/YP
NFS
BIND
Sendmail
MyDNS
Plesk
Exchange (Basic knowledge)
HELM 3
Experience with SAMBA PDC.s
Coldfusion MX Server

Operating Systems (Order of Preference)

FreeBSD
NetBSD
Debian GNU/Linux
Solaris (SunOS)
Windows 2003 Server

Programming/Databases

PHP
MySQL
C (Sockets/API)
C++
PERL
Visual Basic (fair knowledge)

Miscellaneous

RIPE NCC experience
RIPE LIR Experience (acted as administrator)
Nominet TAG Holder experience

Personal Projects

I am currently working on several projects of my own that I work on in my personal time. One of which featured in the books, .Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker.s Handbook. Page 79-80, (ISBN: 0-07-225709) and .Professional Pen Testing for Web Applications. (ISBN: 978-0471789666) also. Below is a brief about it.

Dmitry (Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool) is a UNIX/(GNU)Linux Command Line program coded purely in C with the ability to gather as much information as possible about a host.

References

These are available upon request