General
Computing
Contact details
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| Name:
| John Riddoch
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| Address:
| Flat 1
255 George Street
Aberdeen
AB25 1ED
Scotland, UK
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| E-mail:
| john@riddoch.org
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Education
| Robert Gordon University | 1996-1997
| Aberdeen, Scotland
MSc Information Systems
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| University of Aberdeen | 1991-1995
| Aberdeen, Scotland
MA(Hons) Accountancy
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| Keith Grammar School | 1985-1991
| Keith, Banffshire, Scotland
6 Higher grades, 3 CSYS passes
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Work Experience
| Unix Project Engineer
| March 2001-Present
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Shell Information Technology International (formerly Shell Services International)
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Duties:
Delivering Unix based infrastructure to clients both within the Shell
group and to external customers. This includes project management and
negotiating with customers and other parties regarding project scope,
timelines and costs.
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| Senior Systems Administrator
| August 1997-March 2001
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School of Computer and Mathematical
Sciences, Robert Gordon University
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Duties:
Maintaining the Unix (Solaris
and IRIX), Novell and NT computing systems
of the department including:
- adding/removing user accounts
- installing/upgrading software packages
- maintaining security of the systems against intrusion
- running the web server including editting of pages and CGI scripts
- writing of scripts/programs to automate common tasks using perl,
shell and C programs
- fixing user problems and help desk support
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| Delivery Driver/Duty Manager
| September 1994-July 1997
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Snappy Tomato Pizza, Aberdeen
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Duties:
- making and delivering pizza
- running the store, including allocation of tasks
- counting money at end of the night and updating paperwork
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Special Skills
- Basic skills in French
- Full UK driving licence
Computing Skills
- Over 4 years experience of Solaris
on both x86 and SPARC hardware, versions 2.5.1 to 8
- AIX
- Backup services using Legato Networker
- Apache web server software and associated modules
- HTML, CGI, CSS
- Oracle (mainly 8i)
- Perl, both for task automation and CGI writing
- PHP 3 and 4
- Shell scripts (mainly bourne shell)
- Linux
- IRIX 6.x
- GPFS
(General Parallel File System) on AIX
- High availability clusters using
HACMP (High Availability Cluster
Multiprocessing) on AIX
- Websphere
Application Server
- Samba
- Email servers, including qmail and sendmail
- DNS using bind
- TCP/IP, including configuring switches, hubs and other network equipment as well as
debugging problems related to networking issues.
- Usenet news with Inn
- CUPS(Common Unix Printing
System) for Unix printing.
- C programming
- PostgreSQL
- Windows 95/98/NT/2000
- Novell
Netware (3.12, 4.11 and 5.0)
- Basic skills in Java
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