| LEIGH FINCH |
| 12/58 Bennelong Cr Macquarie, 2614 Australia 0428412843 (T) leigh@leighfinch.net |
| My Journal | ||
| OBJECTIVE: | ||
Seeking challenges in BSD, Linux and Windows implementation and administration. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| January 2001 to September 2001 |
SUMMERLAND TRAVEL | MERIMBULA, NSW Australia |
| Baggage Handler My role was to marshall aircraft, load, and unload baggage. |
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| EDUCATION: | ||
| 2006 | Zend | Canberra, ACT Australia |
| Zend Certified Engineer PHP - Web and general purpose scripting language |
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| 2006 | Charles Sturt University | Canberra, ACT Australia (Distance Education) |
| Bachelor of Information Technology Currently Studying. |
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| 2004 | University of Canberra | Canberra, ACT Australia |
| Business Informatics IT Communications, Introduction to IT, Database Design, Information Systems in Organisations, Accounting for Managers |
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| 2002 | Bega High School | Bega, NSW Australia |
| HSC Information Process and Technology, Music, English, Maths, Physics |
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| 2002 | Microsoft | Canberra, ACT Australia |
| Microsoft Certified Professional |
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| 2001 | Venturer Scouts of Australia | Batemans Bay, NSW Australia |
| Initiative course Course in leadership and initiative |
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| PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: | ||
Australian Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. |
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| KEYWORD SUMMARY: | ||
Unix Systems: |
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