Darryl Weaver
9, Gladstone Road, Dartford, DA1 1TU
Contact number:07930355834 Email address: darryl@darrylweaver.co.uk
Personal Profile
I am a highly motivated, professional linux system administrator, with a broad range of
skills in system administration of UNIX based systems and networking and hosting services.
Key Skills
● 12 years unix system administrator experience
● Management experience managing small teams.
● Expert in Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora.
● Experience in FreeBSD, Solaris, IBM AIX and HP-UX.
● Architecture design and implementation of networks and network based applications.
● Automated Deployment of servers using Kickstart and FAI and PXE network booting
● Virtualisation Experience with Vservers, OpenVZ, VMWare and KVM.
● Database experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL.
● Network routing protocols, including OSPF and BGP.
● Internet Services including Domain registration, RIPE IP allocations, TCP/IP, DNS,
DHCP, LDAP, SMTP, POP, IMAP and HTTP and all open source software that implements
these protocols.
● Digital encryption technologies including SSL, IPSec, OpenVPN, PGP, S/MIME.
● Experience with scripting languages for system administration functions and web
application for debugging, Bash, Perl, Python, PHP, SQL.
● Experience with Service Level provision in a support environment
● Experience with Agile project development and Kanban boards.
● Various applications including SugarCRM, Asterisk, FreePBX, Nagios, OTRS, Request
Tracker, Issue Tracker Product, Status.Net, Plone, Zope, Django, SQL Ledger, Gosa, Munin,
Nictool, Postfix, Cyrus Imap, Mailman, SVN, GIT, Vyatta routers, Mikrotik routers, Cisco
IOS.
● Integration of various cloud services such as Google apps, Amazon Web Services,
Salesforce CRM and SugarCRM.
Key Achievements
● Designed and Implemented 100% network uptime from April 2009 to date using
Vyatta routers and n+1 redundancy network.
● Implemented new procedures to increase the average server uptime to over 99.9%.
● Developed a new company selling domain names and hosting online using open
source technologies.
● Team Leadership and management of support services staff for helpdesk and back
office infrastructure operations.
● Implemented network authentication and authorisation using OpenLDAP integrated
into Gosa web frontend, Cyrus mailserver and other LDAP enabled software.
● Managed development of a customer dashboard to display server status and
integrate with project management systems and issue tracker.
● 12 years of hosting experience and open source software experience.
● Using virtualisation hosting systems for the last 5 years.
Areas of experience
Director
I was director of my own company for 10 years.
The company employed up to 3 staff managing domain and hosting services.
The company also provided on-site support and consultancy services for open source
software.
Customers included Emap, France Telecom, Earls Court and Olympia, Exentra
Transport, Vectayn, Havenco.
System Administration
Linux system administration for the last 12 years
Open source specialism providing low cost services that run from virtualised
infrastructure.
Provided system administration to Havenco, once of the most challenging data
centres in the world, located on a Fort at Sea off the Essex coast.
Project Management
Agile project management of development tasks.
Kanban board management of support functions.
Experience with ISO standards and certification.
Employment History
April '08 - Nov '11 Fry-IT Ltd London
Network Architect and System Administrator
Aug '99 - Apr '08 Weaver Web Ltd Chelmsford
Director
Apr ‘98 - Aug ‘99 Suitable Technologies Ltd Chelmsford
System Administrator
Sep ‘95 - Apr ‘98 Vectayn Ltd Witham
Engineering Finite Element Analyst and IT System Administrator
Sep ‘90 - Sep ‘95 British Railways Board Derby
Management Trainee (Mechanical Engineering)
Education and Training
Graduated 1995 Sheffield University Sheffield
BEng Mechanical Engineering
1982 - 1990 King Edward VI Grammar School Chelmsford, Essex
Maths A Level A
Further Maths A Level B
Physics A Level B
Chemistry A Level B
Maths S Level 1
Physics S Level 2
References available upon request