CURRICULUM VITAE – NICOLA WORTHINGTON
PERSONAL DETAILS
| Name: | Nicola Elizabeth Worthington | ||||
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| Address: | Watford, Hertfordshire | ||||
| Telephone: | <witheld> | DOB: | February 1979 | ||
| Mobile: | <witheld> | Nationality: | British passport holder | ||
| Email: | nicolaw@tfb.net | Driving License: | Full UK License (clean) | ||
| Current CV: | http://perlgirl.org.uk http://www.linkedin.com/in/perlgirl |
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PERSONAL SUMMARY
I am an experienced Linux system administrator (RHCE, VCP) and Perl programmer, working in the ISP and software development industries. I enjoy writing Perl software, much of which I have released publicly as open source software on CPAN. PSMON and RRD::Simple are used by system administrators around the world. I am also currently a silent director of TFB Technology Ltd.
I am a highly motivated individual and pride myself on completing tasks to the highest possible standard the first time around. As such I find designing, planning and improving networks and other systems' infrastructure very rewarding, and is an area that I would like to continue to work in and develop. I am specifically interested in continuing my career in LAMP System Administration and monitoring (in or out of a NOC environment), and related areas.
I prefer to work within 1 hour's drive of Watford outside the North Circular / A406, or close to London Euston.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2006 - McAfee International Ltd, Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Core Roles/Skills: Linux system administration, monitoring (Nagios/SNMP/RRD), VMware ESX VI3 virtualisation, automated infrastructure deployment & consolidation, backend LAMP software development, ad-hoc automation scripting, out of hours on-call cover.
The AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team) division of McAfee is the core of McAfee's product development and back-office service delivery. I worked on all back-end services and infrastructure in the ASE (Anti-Spam Engineering) team within AVERT. I implemented and maintain comprehensive monitoring of the ASE & AVERT infrastructure (>500 hosts, >2000 services) using Nagios and a custom installation of my open source RRD monitoring software. For my RRD software, see rrd.me.uk & RRD::Simple. I am currently migrating to scalable distributed Nagios configuration to allow monitoring of more hosts and services throughout the company, worldwide. I have worked continuously to consolidate and improve the building, installation and continuing maintenance of servers and services within the AVERT organisation. I have done this, where possible, through standardisation of hardware and automated unattended OS installations using PXE network boot servers and Kickstart with RHEL & CentOS.
2005 - BBC Technology, Internet Operations, UNIX Engineer
Core Roles/Skills: Perl software auditing, participating in Perl coding standards guidelines working group and Internet Operations steering meetings, system administration, monitoring (in-house solution/RRD), ad-hoc automation scripting, out of hours on-call cover.
BBCT (now SIS/Siemens IT Solutions & Services) provide and manage the BBC's online internet presence. I worked in a team of nine UNIX engineers who managed a large farm of Solaris Apache web servers, mod_perl application servers and Real streaming servers at multiple locations throughout the UK and US. These provide all dynamic and streaming content to www.bbc.co.uk and news.bbc.co.uk. My primary responsibilities were managing the core mod_perl application server farm and their hosted Perl applications. This included auditing Perl code before installing it in the live production environment, to ensure that the code was secure, efficient, and would not adversely effect the smooth operation of the mod_perl server pool. Other projects I managed include the migration of mod_perl instances from legacy Perl 5.004 and 5.6.1 installs to Perl 5.8.7, and development and implementation of automated mod_perl server performance monitoring and analysis tools.
2004 - BBC, Interactive Factual & Learning, Software Engineer
Core Roles/Skills: Linux, Solaris & Windows system administration, database administration and development, monitoring (Nagios/RRD), backend CMS and customer facing LAMP software development for www.bbc.co.uk, software peer-review, ad-hoc automation scripting.
Working within a team of six other software engineers responsible for maintaining the CMS and development servers (Linux, Windows and Solaris), developing new Perl applications and reusable development tools for the department, webmasters, technical project managers and client-side developers. Primary technologies were Perl, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL and Oracle 8 and 9. Examples of iF&Ls work were the integration of interactive technologies for "Test The Nation" and "The Big Challenge".
2001 - Frontier Internet Services Ltd, Network Operations Engineer
Core Roles/Skills: Linux system administration, building core and customer managed server hardware, on-site customer leased-line installations, network administration, administraton of all online customer services (Exim, Apache, BIND, QPopper, ProFTPD etc.), monitoring (in-house solution/MRTG/RRD), ad-hoc automation scripting, out of hours on-call cover.
Working in the core Network Operations Centre team of six in London Docklands, managing and maintaining all aspects of all core servers and network infrastructure. Extensive use of Linux servers (primarily, but not limited to, RedHat 6.0 through to RedHat 8.0), Lucent/Ascend and Cisco hardware. Responsibilities included leased line installations, server provisioning (from building server hardware to installing and configuring both operating systems and hosted applications and services), CGI application development, ad-hoc systems automation programming in Perl + shell scripting, and 24 hour out of hours on-call for network emergencies.
2000 - Optio Software UK Ltd, Technical Consultant
Core Roles/Skills: Designing and programming business documents for customers in OptioDCS DCL, teaching customers DCL scripting language, on-site software installation and troubleshooting, project management, on-site customer support.
I worked in a small team for UK and European operations (four in the UK, ten in France), primarily focused on customer specified programming rojects. My responsibilities included managing projects from initial concept to installation, programming, through to final user acceptance testing, documentation and project completion. Also included training customers OptioDCS DCL programming language and general product support for all Optio Software products. I was frequent required to visit customer sites throughout the UK and Europe which required a high degree of profressionalism and self-confidence. My last major projects inclued writing document generation code for Dell EMEA and HJ Heinz including invoicing, statements and order acknowledgments. Troubleshooting and integration with various host UNIX and Windows operating systems and often unfamiliar customer software installations was an integral part of my duties, which required good analytical skills and the ability to quickly adapt and learn on the job.
1996 - Interactive (UK) Ltd, Software Integration Programmer
Core Roles/Skills: Customisation programming in UniData and SB+ of the Infoflo and Avanté ERP products to customer specification, telephone and on-site customer support, teaching OptioDCS DCL training courses, integrating a host of third party products in to the Infoflo and Avanté ERP products.
Responsibilities included on-site installation and integration of third party products in to the Avanté ERP database. Including custom development, sales demonstrations and training with COGNOS ODBC, Smart Forecasting, BACSTEL, UniData RDBMS, OptioDCS and OptioFAX. I gained experience with many flavours of UNIX during this time, including HPUX, AIX, DG-UX, SCO, Solaris and Linux.
QUALIFICATIONS & COURSES
- Feb/2008 - VCP310 / VMware Certified Professional on VI3
- Feb/2008 - TVD-901-LVW / Live Virus Workshop (2 day)
- Jan/2008 - VMware Infrastructure 3: Fast Track Program (5 day extended hours)
- Dec/2006 - MySQL 5 Cluster for High Availability (3 day)
- Feb/2006 - RedHat Certified Engineer (100% exam pass mark)
- Apr/2005 - ITIL foundation course (1 day)
- Nov/2004 - Learning Tree Course 590, Oracle9i: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction (5 day)
SKILLS
Programming
Hardware
Systems
Publicly Released Software
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Experience KeyThe following is a brief guide to indicate my level of knowledge in each of my key skills. Some technologies that I may not have used in some time are marked with H to indicate historical use, in addition to the level of understanding and experience I demonstrated in the past.
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PERSONAL INTERESTSI have a keen interest in British and American politics, and international current affairs. I enjoy amateur photography, watching international tennis events and am a regular BBC Radio 4 listener. In my spare time I write and release open source Perl software, am an active member of CPAN, and have been a member of the Free Software Foundation since 2004. |
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