Curriculum Vitae for Richard Burley

E-mail: me@richardburley.com
Nationality: British / Chilean.       
Date of Birth: 1st of June 1977.


Employment History 

Lerch, Bates & Associates Ltd.: IT Manager. -         - from  November ’00
Working as EMEA IT Manager, it is my responsibility to oversee the running of all IT, including telecoms, for the EMEA Offices and their 40 users in London, Manchester, Stirling, Bristol, Paris, Dusseldorf, and Dubai. My responsibilities include;

Management: Management of all aspects of the department, from IT placement students to budgeting and management reports.
Network Administration: Design, implementation (inc. procurement) and management of all office and mobile IT services for 40 users, including 35 workstations, 7 laptops, and 10 servers (Windows 2000, XP and 2003) across 6 European sites and the Dubai office.
Webmaster: Management of the corporate website. (inc. full remote working capability to the associates within the company.)
DBA: Design, implementation & maintenance of critical databases (including systems for Marks & Spencer).
LAN/WAN: Implementation & support of corporate Intranet / Extranet.
Misc: Training, procurement, project management, fire marshalling.
Projects;
- Planning and execution of move of all above systems from separate rooms of a shared office to a new dedicated facility 20 miles away.
- Design and project manage the move from paper based systems to a fully online, internationally available, web based business system.
- Engineer, cost and implement move from a workstation environment to a laptop based approach for all users.
- Research, design and implement remote working facilities for all users using latest VPN technologies and systems.
- Setup of new satellite offices, in the UK and internationally, including specification and implementation of all required facilities.
- Meet with and draw up strategy for integration with management team of AAA (Americas, Asia and Africa) operation.
- Design, implementation and management of the corporate website.

thefmcompany.com Ltd.:            IT Manager. -          - from  April ‘02
Alongside my main responsibilities within Lerch, Bates & Associates Ltd. (above) I also hold the position of IT Manager within this company, and as such I have the following day-to-day / project related responsibilities;

Network Administration: Implementation & support of corporate Intranet / Extranet. (inc. procurement / management of 8 workstations, 3 laptops and 4 servers (1 x Windows NT, 2 x Windows 2000 and 1x Red Hat Linux AS 2.1).
Misc: Supervision of 1 TCS associate, and 7 MSc project students. Design and commissioning of business cards. Managing relationships with various clients (Including Marks & Spencer, HSBC, Hilton, Canary Wharf, etc)
Projects:
- Design, project management, implementation & maintenance of cutting edge Oracle 9(i) / Sun Solaris clustered database web application. (Responsible specifically for the design, implementation and maintenance of the infrastructure and platform).
- Design, project management, testing and on-site support of innovative touch screen Linux 'site terminal' device.
- Design, implementation and management of the corporate website.

E92 Plus Ltd.: Support Executive / Consultant.        - June ’98 to September ’99
Industrial Placement for degree, for further details please see details of degree (below).


Education

Kingston University                                                    - September ‘96 to July ’00 
BSc (Hons) Computer Science Sandwich Degree (2:1)
As well as programming in a number of languages, the degree looked in depth at project management methodologies, and covered Data Communications, Database Systems, Electronics (Logic) and Mathematics. The two most relevant aspects of the course were;
 
1. Industrial Placement: (3rd Year)
E92 Plus Ltd.: Support Executive / Consultant.               - June ’98 to September ’99
The Industrial Placement for my degree was spent at E92 Plus, a leading supplier of Enterprise Security and Connectivity Software, with clients ranging from the M.O.D. to NTL. Due to the small number of employees, my responsibilities included;

Webmaster - Day to day administration of corporate Web / FTP site.
Consultant - Meeting with / advising corporate clients on current technologies.
Support - Providing telephone / on-site support for all company products.
DBA - Design, implementation & maintenance of critical Access Database.
LAN/WAN – Implementation and support of corporate Intranet.
Misc. - Design of the corporate CD-ROM and staff training (on and off site). 

2. Dissertation: (Final / 4th Year)
‘Design and Implementation of a Web Enabled Database System’
For my dissertation I chose to create a commercial grade database system, which was fully accessible from the Internet. For this project I received a 2:1 grading.

The Holy Trinity School                                                - September ‘90 to June ‘95
2 A-Levels (inc. Physics) and 11 GCSEs (inc. Math and English)


Information Technology Knowledge Summary

Infrastructure: Specification, procurement, project management, licensing, installation, testing and maintenance of;
- Site Setup; Enterprise UPS, under-floor cabling, power distribution, floor planning, coms room (inc. cooling / ventilation), etc.
- Networking;  Routers, switches, hubs, firewalls, patch cabinets / panels, etc.
- Servers; Rackmount and standalone Windows / Linux. (inc File, Email, Internet (HTTP / FTP) and 'Utility' servers).
- Desktop / User Systems; PC / Workstation / Laptop hardware and software. (inc, specialist CAD, DTP, and 'Presentation')
- Datacoms; LAN / WAN, Leased Line, ADSL, ISDN and VPN, both nationally and internationally.
- Telecoms; Switches, cabling, handsets, ISDN 30, Fibre, VOIP, fax and video conference.
Networking Management: All aspects of LAN / WAN administration. Including design, implementation and maintenance of Active Directory, DNS (Internal and external), DHCP, WINS, Domains, Systems Security, VPN etc (for further details of technologies see below).
Server Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows (NT 3.1 to 2003 Server), Linux ( RedHat 9 (inc. AS 2.1)), and Novell NetWare.
Desktop Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows (from 3.1 to XP Professional), Linux (to RedHat 9).
Networking / Security: McAfee AVD Suite including; VirusScan, NetShield, GroupShield, WebShield (inc. WebShield Hardware Appliance), and ePolicy Orchestrator, Trend Micro Anti-Virus Suite, CheckPoint FireWall-1, CA eTrust, Tumbleweed MMS, ISS (inc. RealSecure), Cisco, and NetScreen.
Backup Software: Veritas and ArcServe (Multi-server / Site-wide Enterprise Editions).
Communications Software: Exchange (5.5 & 2000), Outlook (up to 2003), MSN Messenger, ICQ, Winnov Videum, NetMeeting.
Productivity Software: MS Office (up to 2002 / XP), AutoCAD (up to 2004), Select Case Tools, Lotus Suite, Macromedia, Adobe, Jasc, and Xara Suites.
Internet Software: Microsoft IIS (up to 6.0), ServU FTP Server (up to 4.1), Frontpage (up to 2002 / XP), Internet Explorer (up to 6).
Database Technologies: SQL Server (up to 2000), Access (up to 2003), Oracle Suite (up to 9(i)), Structured Query Language.
Programming Languages: BASIC, Modula-2, Pascal, C/C++, Java, LISP, HTML, JavaScript, ASP(VB Script & CGI(Perl)), XML.
Miscellaneous: Project management (internal and of third parties), Procurement / supplier management (for all the above), meeting facilitation, requirement analysis and feasibility studies.


Other Notes

- Spoken and written Spanish. (Having lived in South America for 7 years).
- First aid and emergency procedures training. (Airport and Public buildings)
- Qualified / Licensed Door Supervisor. (Kingston-upon-Thames)
- Full clean UK driving license.


Interests and Hobbies

Sport: I enjoy participating in a number of sports, and have competed at county level in Hockey and Athletics.
Arts: Trustee / Director of local theatre / community center. Also involved in performing, writing and directing.
Religion: Regular church goer and past member / leader of Sunday school / youth group (7-18 year olds).
Reading: Tolkien, Asimov, Pratchett, and Hawking, along with a number of science books and journals.
Writing: A number of fiction projects, poetry, song, drama and family history documents.
Travel: I spent seven years of my childhood in Chile and a further 2 years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

 
Referees

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