Leon Stringer MSc IEng MBCS
CITP
Personal Details
| Name: |
Leon Stringer |
Date of Birth: |
10 August 1972 |
| Email: |
leon.stringer@ntlworld.com |
Place of Birth: |
Crewe, Cheshire |
| Driving License: |
Full |
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Summary
An experienced IT engineer with excellent problem solving skills having
worked in development and support roles.
- Windows: 2003/2008 server, Active Directory, Exchange, IIS, Clusters,
Scripting (WSH), SQL Server
- Linux: Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE, Apache, MySQL, Samba, CUPS
- Citrix: Presentation Server/XenApp published applications, web interface,
MFCOM scripting
- Web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, XSLT, PHP
- Networking: TCP/IP, netfilter/iptables, SmoothWall UTM, Wireshark
Employment
2008 - Current: Intel Services Engineer
ACS IT UK (Telford, Shropshire)
- Server support engineer for hosting and outsourcing company
- Providing remote support to customers via Lotus Notes case management
with on-call role
- Administration of customer Citrix servers, Active Directory, Group Policy
and Exchange
- Supporting WebMarshal and MailMarshal
- Supervision and troubleshooting of Backup Exec and ARCserve
- Maintenance of Linux EXIM based POP3 service
- Development and support of Crystal Reports/Crystal Reports Server-based
reporting system
2000 - 2008: IT Engineer
West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Stafford, Staffordshire)
- Local lead engineer for emergency, non-emergency and administrative
operations
- Provided network & systems support in a high pressure environment
(including on-call cover)
- Managed Active Directory-based networks with Windows, Linux and Citrix
servers and clients
- Implementated, supported & monitored emergency control room
services
- Supported fault-tolerant server systems (Stratus ftServer, Marathon
Endurance)
- Maintained 3Com switch infrastructure, SonicWall and Netfilter (iptables)
firewalls
- Administered Microsoft Exchange 2003 email server
- Implemented and maintained eGroupWare helpdesk system
- Support and maintenance of Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL databases
- Developed in-house systems using PHP, RRDtool, C# and Java
- Mentored team members for skills development
1992 - 1998: Software Developer
Metascybe Systems Ltd. (Wimbledon, London)
- Developed software in Visual Basic, ASP (VBScript) and C
- Provided telephone support of developer-oriented products
- Gave on-site training to customers
- Co-ordinated cross-company software development
Education, Training and Certifications
January 2009: Novell Accelerated Certified Linux Professional 10
- 5-day course at QA Training, Reading
December 2008: Linux Professional Institute Level 1 Certification
(LPIC-1)
April 2008: PRINCE2 Practitioner
- 5-day course and passed exam at New Horizons, Birmingham
October 2007: Implementing, Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 Network Infrastructure (M2277)
- 5-day course at QA-IQ, Birmingham
July 2007: Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
(M2275)
- 3-day course at QA-IQ, Birmingham
2005-2007: MSc Computer Science, Staffordshire University
- MSc Computer Science course during 12-month career break and part-time
study
- Modules in networking, forensics, web database applications (Oracle), 3D
graphics (Java), OOP (C++)
February 2004: Linux and Unix Fundamentals
- 5-day course with GBdirect, London
March 2003: Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows Administration with FR 2
(CTX-1222)
- 4-day course at Interquad, Birmingham
April 2002: Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional & Server
(2152)
- 5-day course at IT-IQ, Oldbury, West Midlands
September 2001: VisiCAD Command System Administration
- 3-day course at TriTech Software Systems, San Diego, California
- Studied maintenance of SQLServer 2000-based Computer Aided Dispatch
system
1998-2000: BSc (Hons) Computing Science, Staffordshire University
- Upper second class honours (2:1) degree
1983-1990: Greenshaw High School, Sutton, Surrey
- A-levels in Computer Science and Physics
Published Papers
International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information & Systems
Sciences, & Engineering
- L. Stringer, F. Dudek & C. Bauer, 2007, Location Information Discovery for IP
Telephony
Interests
I have a general interest in computers and contribute to several Free/Open
Source software projects. I run, cycle and swim regularly.
Referees
Available on request.