Benjamin Ladd

Current

• Systems Support Engineer at University of Portsmouth

Past

• IS Trainee at University of Portsmouth
• IT Technician at Springfield Local Schools
• Computing Engineer at Scott Wilson

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Education

• University of Portsmouth
• University of Portsmouth

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Connections

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Industry

Education Management

Websites

• Facebook Page

Benjamin Ladd’s Summary

CMS work, Active Directory, Desktop Support, Server Support in Windows, Linux and Solaris, Computer Forensics.

Benjamin Ladd’s Specialties:

Linux & Digital Forensics

Benjamin Ladd’s Experience

• Systems Support Engineer

  University of Portsmouth

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  July 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Working with Solaris and Linux systems, administering mail systems, DHCP, DNS, webspace and web sub-domain names. I also help with setting up new SPARC based Sun installations, including zones and logical domains.

• IS Trainee

  University of Portsmouth

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  November 2007 — July 2009 (1 year 9 months)

  Service Desk: First line support helping users and progressing calls.
  
  Site Team: Second line support helping users on a one-to-one basis and giving more time directly to each problem.
  
  Desktop Team: Novell Application Delivery, created and maintain software on a Novell system.
  
  Systems team: Working with Solaris and Linux systems, administering mail systems, DHCP, DNS, webspace and web sub-domain names. I also helped with setting up new SPARC based Sun installations. This is my favourite work so far - I look forward to doing more *nix based work.
  
  Project Office: Being the project management department, I go an insight into how IS projects are managed through to fruitition, also how information is gathered and how projects are selected.

• IT Technician

  Springfield Local Schools

  (Educational Institution; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

  January 2007 — November 2007 (11 months)

  Worked on the website mainly, setting up and populating the Content Management System (Joomla).
  
  Secondary responsibilities included first and second line support for computer and network problems, I also supported academics with curriculum content for Computing.

• Computing Engineer

  Scott Wilson

  (Public Company; Civil Engineering industry)

  June 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 4 months)

  I helped to manage a Windows 2000 domain with all related servers and workstations.
  
  I helped to maintain the desktops on a day to day basis, but I also worked with Active Directory too.
  
  This was my first venture into corporate computing, where I learned about DNS, DHCP, Domains, Windows functionality as a desktop and a server, Corporate Antivirus Systems, Structured Networking, Corporate Software Management.

Benjamin Ladd’s Education

• University of Portsmouth

  MSc , Forensic IT , 2006 — 2007

  Units included: Digital Foresics, Network Security, White Collar Crime, Offender Profiling, Strategic Risk Management. My project involved a study of Microsofts Bitlocker Encryption Implementation and it's effects on Digital Forensics.

  Activities and Societies:

  Ultimate Frisbee

• University of Portsmouth

  BSc , Computing , 2003 — 2006

  Activities and Societies:

  Ultimate Frisbee, Paintball, Rugby

Additional Information

Benjamin Ladd’s Websites:

• Facebook Page

Benjamin Ladd’s Interests:

Ultimate Frisbee and Computing / IT

Benjamin Ladd’s Groups:

Ultimate Frisbee

•    Ubuntu Users ( 10.000+ members ) Official Group
•    Digital Forensics Association (DFA)
•    Open Source Universe
•    University of Portsmouth

Benjamin Ladd’s Honors:

Colours for Service to Ultimate from the University of Portsmouth Students Union

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