Charlie Harvey http://charlieharvey.org.uk/

A talented systems administrator, with GNU/Linux and Windows expertise, seeking to build on his solid technology, project management, support, training and development skills for a charity, NGO or business comitted to social and environmental justice. Administration and support for Windows (3.1, 95, 98, NT4, 2000, XP) Sysadmin and support of GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Mandrake, RedHat) Programming including Java, perl, php, bash scripting, DOS batch, C/C++. Networking - including TCP/IP, cabling, security, configuration. High quality application support and training. W3C compliant (X)HTML and CSS. XML, XSLT, and JavaScript. Project management experience and planning. Excellent time management and work prioritisation. Outstanding communication skills. IT Manager People & Planet, Oxford June 2002 Built and maintained 3 GNU/Linux servers to provide mail, web, file, NAT, and firewall services, furthering knowledge of Apache, Samba, iptables, postfix, and cyrus-imapd. Wrote and maintained organizational intranet using perl, php, Java, css, MySQL and xml/xsl. Later migrated this to a Ruby on Rails application, using agile methodologies. Built and administered Apache server for organizational website, this included administering DNS and Exim SMTP and developing MySQL driven RSS news feeds which integrated with existing php news pages. Wrote a fully featured Java/MySQL image database application. With support for 50 users, using postfix, clamav, spamassasin, squirrelmail, cyrus-imapd and self-written perl code. With perl, php, ruby and bash scripts. Including a comprehensive set of howtos, training materials and a full operations manual. Managed and trained data-entry staff and prioritized data entry workloads. For a network of 25 Windows 95/98/2000 boxes. For 25 users Managed IT budget, developed and oversaw organizational IT strategy. Including telecomms support, health and safety management, and purchasing. IT Systems Manager The Hot Group London 2000 2002 Of 3 NT4 servers, and assisting systems administration of GNU/LInux servers. Of 35 Windows 98/2000 machines. Of internal website and IIS webserver. Including establishing and maintaining CVS repository. Twice oversaw logistics of webserver moves, including assisting with setup. Coded various applets and applications, such as an automatic email from voicemail generator. Built NT4 and GNU/Linux web/mail/file servers from scratch (including hardware). Of Infinite Interchange mail/webmail server Supervised all IT spending, licencing requirements and stock control. Extended departmental Access database to simplify the task. Volunteer IT Consultant Oxfam Development Education London 1999 2000 Redesigned several Access databases. For users of NT network. at the University of Hertfordshire. City and Guilds Level 3 Oxford College of Further Education 2003 City and Guilds Level 3 Barnet College 2001 Developers Certificate MicroTech Training Services, London 1999 A-Levels 1991 Colchester VIth Form College A A B C C Seven GCSEs, including A A Perl, ruby, php development - whole product lifecycle and project management experience. Fluent, accessible and standards compliant (x)html, css, xml, xslt, rss, JavaScript, Java Applets. Dynamic websites using databases - MySQL, postgresql and SQL Server backends with perl, ruby, php and ASP frontends. Database administration - professionally responsible for deployment and administration of MySQL and SQL Server servers. Webserver deployment, configuration and administration of Apache on Windows and GNU/Linux platforms. RSS feeds - created feed generator, and XSLT documents for People & Planet news services, using php/xml/MySQL/xslt/html/css knowledge. wiki administration - Deployed and administer Oxford Action Resource Centre wiki. Java including J2EE. Highlights include 10,000 line image database; voicemail to email converter for Argent Branch PBX. Perl including many CPAN modules. Highlights include web based budget management tool; multiple customized system administration utilities; organizational intranet making extensive use of CGI.pm and HTML::Template . php including configuration of apache. Highlights include xml/xslt based meeting scheduler; RSS feed generator (http://peopleandplanet.org/rss/news.xml ); various web tools. Ruby including Rails. Highlights include a version of CPAN's Lingua::EN::Fathom; Rails based organizational intranet with full CMS. Bash scripting. Highlights include various tools for samba administration. DOS batch. Highlights include various system administration tools, login scripts. Other languages worked with include C, C++, Pascal, Ada, Assembler (NASM), Scheme and dBase IV. Version control using CVS and subversion including setting up repository, branching, merging, svn+ssh, as well as having been responsible for release management at hotrecruit. Apache: Building from scratch; configuration; modules including mod_perl, mod_ruby, mod_fastcgi, mod_rewrite; security; deployment. Email: installation, configuration and management of postfix, cyrus-imapd, squirrelmail, mercury, exim, clamav, spamassassin, amavis, Infinite InterChange. Windows 3.1-XP: Administration, configuration, installation, troubleshooting. Free Software as DIY culture University of Gothenberg, Sweden Including Local Indymedia and the Oxford Action Resource Centre (whose XHTML1.1 compliant website I built and maintain). I'm currently studying philosophy part time at the University of Oxford. December 2005