Bio

IT networking and systems professional with a wide range of experience specifying, automating and supporting complex IT infrastructures to support thousands of users. Proponent of Infrastructure as Code approaches and large-scale automation. Also experienced with managing teams and budgets. Interested in IT in all its applications, and as such a wide range of secondary IT skills. Cisco qualifications (lapsed): CCNP, CCDA, CCNA, CCNA Data Center, CCNA Wireless, Advanced R&S, Nexus, UCS, Meraki CMNA, WAAS, Ironport Web & Email. Other qualifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) [course only, not exam], Tigera Certified Calico Operator: Level 1, Tigera Certified Calico Operator: AWS Expert, Tigera Certified Calico Operator: eBPF, Juniper JNCIS-ENT (lapsed), JNCIA-Junos (lapsed), Brocade Certified Ethernet Fabric Professional, VMware VCP5-DCV, Microsoft MCP. Specialities: Kubernetes with Calico, Converged Datacenter, Large-Scale Automation (Ansible/Puppet/others), Advanced R&S, VXLAN/EVPN, SDN, Advanced VPN architectures.