LEIGH FINCH
12/58 Bennelong Cr
Macquarie, 2614 Australia
0428412843 (T)
leigh@leighfinch.net

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OBJECTIVE:
 

Seeking challenges in BSD, Linux and Windows implementation and administration.

 
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS:
 

As an Australian Youth Ambassidor for Development working in China, I worked on developing new systems, and enhancing infrastructure by utilizing my skills as a BSD administrator. We acheived all the goals set by Ausaid 3 months early, and began working on new ways to help the organisation achieve more from the web.

 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
September 2004
to
September 2005
BEIJING THIS MONTH PUBLICATIONS - BEIJING FOREIGN CULTURES EXCHANGES CENTER BEIJING, Beijing China, People's Republic of
Australian Youth Ambassidor for Development / Manager of the web department

I worked on developing systems to help increase the awareness of our organisation through the web, as well as maintain the infrastructure, and suggest new pathways for our organisation.

 
November 2003
to
Present
THE KRAKEN TEAM CANBERRA, ACT Australia
Head Engineer

I designed this software to fill a gap in windows based log analysis for proxy servers, due to popular demand I have added new features, increased user friendlyness, and added log formats to the application.

This software is used all over the world, and is currently freely available on the internet at http://www.krakenreports.com

 
May 2003
to
Present
AUSTRALIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION CANBERRA, ACT Australia
BSD administrator / PHP and C# developer

Developed a BSD development system for developing and testing web applications.

Designed a BSD/Mailman based Mailing list server that handles all the mailing lists for the organisation with stability, speed, and security, scanning all email for viruses using open source software.

I am currently maintaining all of the above systems.

Architected and designed 2 Web Applications for the 2004 and 2005 National General Assemly, which ran hundreds of online registrations and purchases.

Designed contact management software for transfer of contacts from an Exchange server, to a MySQL server.

 
June 2002
to
Present
FISK & NAGLE FIRST NATIONAL MERIMBULA, NSW Australia
IT contractor

Developed BSD and Windows servers for 8 offices. These servers provide file sharing, DNS, Internet access, proxy cache, Database, Terminal Services, VPN, firewall, backup, offsite backup.

I am currently maintaing the above systems remotely.

 
July 2004
to
July 2004
CRAFT AUSTRALIA CANBERRA, ACT Australia
IT contractor

Developed a BSD based mailing list server. This allowed the organisation to have as many mailing lists as they required without costing them any money.

 
March 2004
to
July 2004
ONE PLANET SOLUTIONS CANBERRA, ACT Australia
Systems Engineer / Administrator

Maintained all of the internal and the organisations clients whilst the head engineer took long service leave for 2 months.

 
October 2003
to
November 2003
SOUTHERN AREA HEALTH SERVICE QUEANBEYAN, NSW Australia
IT Contractor

Developed a high performance proxy cache server based on Linux, to complement their Novell System.

 
September 2001
to
September 2002
PARK LANE PC'S MERIMBULA, NSW Australia
Technician

Maintained internal and clients computers, focussing mostly on computer hardware and printers.

 
February 2000
to
September 2002
MERIMBULA SUPERSTORE MERIMBULA, NSW Australia
Junior Duty Manager

My role in the orgnisation was to relieve the managers durning the evenings and on the weekends, this involved knowledge of how the organisation worked, and knowledge of all the roles of people in the department, and helping various departments during busy periods.

 
January 2001
to
September 2001
SUMMERLAND TRAVEL MERIMBULA, NSW Australia
Baggage Handler

My role was to marshall aircraft, load, and unload baggage.

 
EDUCATION:
2006 Zend Canberra, ACT Australia
Zend Certified Engineer

PHP - Web and general purpose scripting language

 
2006 Charles Sturt University Canberra, ACT Australia (Distance Education)
Bachelor of Information Technology

Currently Studying.

 
2004 University of Canberra Canberra, ACT Australia
Business Informatics

IT Communications, Introduction to IT, Database Design, Information Systems in Organisations, Accounting for Managers

Partial completion, deferred due to work in China.

 
2002 Bega High School Bega, NSW Australia
HSC

Information Process and Technology, Music, English, Maths, Physics

 
2002 Microsoft Canberra, ACT Australia
Microsoft Certified Professional
 
2001 Venturer Scouts of Australia Batemans Bay, NSW Australia
Initiative course

Course in leadership and initiative

 
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
 

Australian Chamber of Commerce in Beijing.

 
KEYWORD SUMMARY:
 

Unix Systems:
FreeBSD,
Freesbie,
Linux,
Samba,
Squid,
Bind,
Sendmail,
Postfix,
SSH,
Rsync,
Apache,
PHP,
Python,
Zope / Plone,
Mailman,
MySQL,
NAT,
IPFW,
IPTables,

Windows Systems:
Windows (3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98se, me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003),
MS Exchange (5, 2000, 2003),
MS SQL,
Firebird SQL,
MS IIS,
MS ISA,
MS RRAS,
Netware Client,
Active Directory,
Terminal Services

 

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