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Bob Rathbone - C.V.
Qualifications Educated at Thornbury Grammar School and Filton Technical College Bristol O’ Level Mathematics, Physics, General Science, A Level Dutch st (University of London ) 1 Year Mechanical engineering, City & Guilds Electrical and Electronic Certificate, Indentures in Industrial Instrumentation and process control. Dutch Civil Aviation Commercial Pilot Examinations (See additional information). Experience April 2002 – A leading Pharmaceutical company, Belgium Network and security operational support
Support improvements to the network infrastructure throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East, PIX firewalls, Some Cisco secure policy manager maintenance. Cisco routers and switches. Nortel Contivity VPN concentrators. Arrowpoint 11500 Load balancers. Some IDS experience. Some QIP and Nethealth. IpSec, WCCP some BGP. Setting up Envirex X-Terminals, CDE, menus etc. HPUX 11.0 system administration (SAM ,NFS etc.) Wrote interface between Tivoli and HP Openview NNM( Korn shell). Wrote Internet Lines monitoring program using Cisco remote ping and Perl. Alarms sent by e-mail and posted to Openview NNM and Tivoli. Wrote customer monitoring facility using Perl. Graphical history provided by Cricket graphing tool. Wrote Arrowpoint (Cisco) Load-balancer enquiry program, in Perl and HTML. Wrote customer enquiry program in Perl and HTML. Wrote test procedures for some 30 new network centres to comply with the Federal Drug Administration (USA) part 11 regulations for the qualification of networks used in the drugs industry. Windows 2000 terminal services. Linksys Wireless ADSL.
July 2001 – Feb 2002 Nuon ICT - Amsterdam Network and security specialist
Troubleshooting and maintenance of Cisco PIX Firewall, Cisco content switch, Cisco 7100,7206,3600,2610,2500 routers, Exposure to Cisco 8500 and Madge ATM switches. Cisco 800 ISDN routers. 2980 series switch. Lucent M770, P882 and P330. Involved in security policy discussions with Price Waterhouse. Consultancy on network improvements in particular security. Redesign of head office network (Router consolidation). 802.1Q VLAN Trunking protocol. ISDN PRI/BRI dialer setups. E3 and E35 serial WAN interfaces. Cisco works. PC-Duo. Familiar with Cisco 8540 ATM switches. HP Openview en Cisco Works. Cisco PIX firewall. Implementation of various web site infrastructures for Nuon (nuon.business.com).
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Experience (Continued)
Implementation of infrastructure for home teleworking for Nuon employees. Windows NT/2000 server (DHCP, WINS and DNS). Project management of Head office network redesign and re-cabling. Colt Telecom (ISP) - Amsterdam
July 2000 – June 2001
Operations support (Network monitoring and security) Set up of a Remote Access Server into the Amsterdam Point of Presence for remote monitoring of systems using CISCO 3640 ISDN and POTS (MICA card). Cisco 2600. Some 6500 Catalyst and MFSC experience. VPN set up (PPTP). Project management and design for the set up of a network monitoring system based upon HP Openview, NNM, Customer views, SNMP, on two Sun Solaris 7.0 platforms (Sun E220R and E240R). integration with CiscoView, Concorde E-Health and BMC patrol. HP Open view maps built from customer database (SQL 7.0) on Compaq DL30 NT using Easysoft ODBC bridge and Web based interface using PHP4. Linux O/S. Solaris administration and security hardening, SSH and TCP/Wrappers, Tokens based Ace security servers Set up of Cisco routers and switches, IP over Sonet (SDH).. General ISP management using QIP (IP Management tool), DNS management, RIPE, maintenance of SLA’s. Experience with Veritas Netbackup. Win NT,Compaq RIMLOE. AIRSYS ( now Thales) ATM Chessington
Nov 98 – June 2000
Commissioning Manager The production of commissioning and installation specifications for a safety critical Air Traffic Control System for the Swedish Civil Aviation Authority (LFV) for Stockholm & Malmö. Digital UNIX (5.04D) on DEC Alpha Servers and Workstations. Supervising of commissioning activities. Networking some 52 individual networks over 9 separate sites using Digital Hubs, Concentrators, CISCO Routers, Bridges and FDDI networking (single and multi-mode fibre) equipment. ClearVISN (HubWatch) and Tivoli Netview. Trained on UBS (Unix based system). Documentation to DOD 2167A and ISO 9000 standards. Project management of all commissioning aspects and customer acceptance testing of installed Air Traffic control system. Chaired all acceptance test meetings with senior Swedish Civil Aviation Authority project managers (LFV). Training of two small teams in commissioning and test procedures, one in Sweden and the other in the UK . Supervising their activities. Bristol
June 98 – October 98 Swift Computing Limited, Senior network and communications consultant
In house and client consultancy for all aspects of networking and associated infrastructures. Java serialised object communications (KAWA), HTML, Apache Server under SCO Unix. Writing communications daemon using C and Sockets, pseudo tty's, setting up proxy web servers and firewall.
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Experience (Continued)
Feb 96 - May 98
Thorn Transit Systems Int. Ltd.
Wells
Network and communications consultant & programmer Design and programming of a object orientated communications interface over TCP/IP for a combined project for a automated fare system for The Lantau Airport Light railway system in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur light railway system, Malaysia and Metrolink Manchester. Responsible for design and techniques to link some 35 station systems with 300 pieces of computer equipment using TCP/IP LANs and WANs using TCP/IP. Setting up Network Time protocol (NTP),. Implementation of Client/Server programs on Sun sparc ( Solaris 2.x) , Dec Alpha 2100A and QNX embedded systems using Watcom C++ and Unix C++ tools. Tools used are Sun RPC/XDR and Berkley Sockets. Perl and Korn shell scripting. Implementation and system administration of Thorn Transit’s own Unix Network, Domain name service (DNS) and NIS 2, Automounter, Exceed X-Windows on PCs including Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95. Unix and Exchange mail integration using POP3 and SMTP. Setting up Netscape and Apache httpd web server, CGI scripts and HTML documentation. Setting up Develcon ISDN routers. Dynamic Link Library for CSocket based comms interface using MFC classes and Visual C++ Version 5.0. Southampton University Hospital trust.
Jan 96 -Feb 96
Contract programmer Programming of pathology reports over Net-Tel X.400 E-Mail system using Korn Shell, SCO Unix. System documentation . Nedlloyd Lijnen BV. Rotterdam Holland.
Oct 95 - Jan 96
Senior Unix consultant - contract Disaster recovery planning for world wide X.25 and Lan network. Setting up Domain Name server under TCP/IP for Europe and Asia. Unix ‘C’ and Korn shell script programming, DEC Alpha, Sequent. Reuters Limited London
June 95 - Oct 95
Systems programmer - contract Conversion of X.25 and Lan products from DOS to Windows NT using Visual C++ version 2.0. System and test documentation. Siemens Nixdorf Utrecht - Holland
Feb 94 - June 95
Senior consultant programmer - contract Wrote an X.25 dialer over UUCP for Ministry of employment in Madrid, Spain. Wrote telephone call routing using TCP/IP and Winsock libraries under Windows 3.11 and Unix. Using Visual C++ v1.5. and MFCs Unix kernel support for TCP/IP NFS, X.21, HDLC products. Crash dump analysis. System V Transport Level Interface (TLI). Streams modules programming. Sybase ESQL-C. Unix administration.
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Experience (Continued)
May 93 - Jan 94
GPT Limited
Poole - Dorset
Communications programmer - contract Wrote Emergency and Operator Services subscriber lookup system using Borland C++ Novell Lan Workplace toolkit, TCP/IP and Unix C. Wrote real time call monitoring system using Windows SDK toolkit. TCP/IP server using Berkley sockets on a HP9000 under HP/UX Swift Computing Ltd. Bristol
Sept 92 - March 93 Consultant
Pre-sales and technical support on network products. Informix and Tetra accounting systems. Systems analysis and programming. Forte Computer Systems Ltd. Bristol
Oct 91 - Sept 92 Managing Director
Formed company after break up of Sure partnership. Sold business in September 92 to Swift Computing Limited. Sure Computing Partnership. Chepstow
Aug 82 - Sept 91
Partner and Technical Director (Some 30 employees) Design, implementation and project management of a 6809 microprocessor based communications interface for PC to ICL System 25 Minicomputer. Terminal Emulator and File Transfer facility using ‘C’ 8086 assembler. Designed and implemented ½ size 6809 based internal PC for a communications interface. Wrote 6809 based firmware. PC Device drivers in 8086 assembler for a communications interface (Sirup PC Card). Designed and implemented interface between CDC concentrator and ICL minis for ICL North America Retail Division in Dallas in the USA. International Computers LTD Bristol
Jan 75 – July 82
Regional Systems Support Engineer Regional systems support on ICL System 25 mini computer. Implemented Factory Data Collection Systems for Rolls Royce, British Aerospace, and Westland helicopters. Lecturer at the ICL training college in Letchworth. Singer Business Machines Ltd. Bristol
May 69 - Nov 74 Hardware Engineer
Repair and servicing Electronic data processing equipment.. Transferred to Singer BV Apeldoorn in the Netherlands from December 1973 until November 1975. Rio Tinto Zinc Co. Bristol
May 65 - May 69
Indentured apprentice in Industrial Instrumentation. Four year apprenticeship in Industrial Instrumentation and Process control, Repairing electronic and pneumatic equipment.
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Interests
Flying (Qualified pilot with IMC (Instruments ) Twin Engine and Night rating. Dutch Civil Aviation Authority (RLD) commercial pilot theory exams in Avionics, Flight instrumentation, Combustion and Jet engines, Meteorology, Navigation and Air law. (All examinations taken in the Dutch language). Guitar playing.
Languages
Dutch ( Fluent with A’ Level), Tourist French and German.
Skills Summary
Operating Systems PC Based Operating Systems DOS Version 1.0 to 7.0, C/CPM, DR DOS Microsoft Windows 3.11, Windows for Work groups. Windows NT 3.0 and 4.0, Windows 95/98/ME/2000, O/S2. Windows XP. Unix Based Operating Systems SCO Xenix, SCO Unix, SCO open desktop. X-Windows, Common desktop environment (DCE). XDM Unix, Dynix/ptx, Solaris 2.5, OSF/1, Sinix, HP-UX 11.0, Ultrix, Sun O/S, BSDand System V. Digital UNIX. Sun Solaris 7.0 and 8.0 Linux O/S (Redhat and Suse 8.0) Embedded Operating Systems QNX version 4.23 (Posix compliant embedded operating systems) Programming Languages PC Based Programming Languages Mark Williams ‘C’, Microsoft ‘C’ Version 5.0 and 6.0 Microsoft C/C++ Version 7.0. Borland C++, Foundation Classes Microsoft Visual C++ Version 1.0 1.5 and 2.0 (32 Bit), SDK Watcom C/C++ compiler. Borland Delphi. Unix Based Programming Languages Unix C/C++on both System V and BSD Unix systems. Korn Shell, Bourne shell and C Shell scripts. Some Perl. Low level and Assembler ICL System 25 assembler (Similar to IBM assembler). 8086 Intel Assembler 6809 Micro processor firmware and assembler.
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Relational Databases ( NB.Contracts not sought for RDB work)
PC Based Relational Databases) Rbase, Informix 4GL SQL Version 1.0 Some DbaseIV and Clipper . Unix Based Relational Databases Informix 4GL and SQL version 2.0. Some Oracle experience (mainly ESQL-C and related CGI scripts)
Networking
PC Based Networking TCP/IP toolkits including PC/TCP, Novell Workplace and Winsock. Novell 2.11, 3.1, Netbios, Lan Manager, MS Net, and RS232 serial. PCNFS, Reflection. RS232/442 Serial communications and Modems. Exceed X-Windows emulator. Samba. Windows NT/2000 server (WINS, DHCP, DNS). Windows XP Unix Based Networking TCP/IP, NFS, DNS and BIND Network Time Protocol, SNMP. ISO TP0 - TP4. UUCP, FTP, TFTP. Slip and PPP, PPTP and VPN’s Berkley Sockets, IPC, Sun RPC and XDR, System V TLI. Internet, E-Mail, Compuserve, World Wide Web, MS Exchange E- Mail including X.400, smtp, POP3 and Elm. E-Fax Lan and Wan All lan technologies including FDDI, Ethernet, and UTP. X.21 , HDLC, X.25 Packet Switching. Familiar with ATM. Logic analysers, Sniffers, Datascopes and other test equipment. Cisco, 3Com, Develcon ISDN and V.35 routers, Spider ISDN routers Digital FDDI and UTP hubs, concentrators, bridges and routers, ClearVISN (Formerly Hubwatch). ADSL ( Lynsys and Alcatel) Monitoring Tivoli Netview HP Openview. Tivoli Enterprise Console. Cisco CISCO 3640, 2611, 7200, 7500, 2700, 2500 series routers. Some 6509 Catalyst and MFSC experience, Cisco 800 series ISDN router. Load balancers and Content engines. Cisco 520 PIX Firewall Cisco Content switch. Arrowpoint load balancers. Cisco Secure policy manager. CiscoWorks. Routing protocols RIP,EIGRP, HSRP,OSPFand WCCP. Some BGP E35, E3 high speed serial interfaces. Channelized E3.
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Virtual private networks Nortel Contivity VPN concentrators, Contivity Client. IPSEC VPN’s (Cisco technology). GRE PPTP tunnels. Web based technologies Apache, Sunserver, and SCOHTTP web servers. Wingate proxy servers. CGI, PHP4 (Limited experience) HTML authoring, some java applet and Java based comms. QIP (DNS Management tool) and RIPE requests Web enabled mail, WCCP, Content engines, Load balancers, Proxy servers, Reverse proxy.
Applications
PC Based Applications All versions of Microsoft Office. Word,Excel,Powerpoint etc. AutoCad,SuperCalc, Aldus Pagemaker, Corel Draw, Visio,MS Draw Windows 95 applets, Windows 3.1 applications, Exchange Sage & Quickbooks, Quicken accounting. CA Project, PC-DUO. Unix and Mini Computer Max production control, Safes production control Uniplex, SCO open desktop, System Administration shells. Tetra Payroll, ICL Paypac, JIS Factory Data Collection. SOP
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Professional Profile
I am a computer professional with some twenty years experience in Open Systems. I have had considerable experience in all types of revenue earning computer projects for a number of Blue Chip companies both home and abroad. My clients have included Airsys ATM (Siemens/Thomson CF now Thales ATM) Reuters, The NHS, The Royal Mint, ICL, Siemens Nixdorf, Thorn, Cubic, Nedlloyd (Rotterdam), Johnson & Johnson (Belgium) and Nuon ICT Amsterdam. The projects in which I have played an important and sometimes critical role have included: Lantau Airport Light Railway Transit System - Hong Kong. Kuala Lumpur Light Railway System – Malaysia Manchester Light Railway system. Commissioning of two Air Traffic Control systems – LFV Sweden. Shipping System – Nedlloyd BV. The Netherlands. Ministry of employment – Madrid, Spain. Operator emergency services – British Telecom. Colt Telecom – HP Openview network Monitoring system. Nuon ICT Amsterdam – Network head office redesign. Customer and Internet line monitoring system.
With some twelve years experience as the technical director of my own company and ten years of contracting I am able to undertake all aspects of a major project including feasibility studies, system design and implementation including System specifications and programming. I have a very broad understanding of all types open systems and the platforms on which they run. I have also followed formal project management courses (International Computers Limited). I possess considerable skills in network design and programming and have a successful track record producing mission and safety critical systems in this area and for that reason I have chosen to specialise in this particular field. More recently I have become more involved with the testing and qualification of networked systems in the light of increasing regulations in this area. I have good documentation skills in particular test protocols and procedures. I operate through reputable agencies specialising in the supply of professionals in Information Technology to business and industry.
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