John Cooper

Current

• Web Systems Administrator/Developer at University of York

Past

• Unix Systems Adminstrator at Computacenter
• Senior Unix Adminstrator at Thus Plc
• Senior Unix Adminstrator at Your Communications

• Unix Administrator at Anite
• RF Electronics Design Engineer at Global Communications

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Education

• The University of Manchester

Connections

8 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

John Cooper’s Summary

A Unix Adminstrator with nearly 10 years experiacnce on a variety of platforms. I have been involved with UNIX at all levels from small Linux PC's to large NUMA servers. Including the infrastructure such as LAN, WAN's, Storage, Windows Intergration and Internet protocols.

Going on I hope to extend my knowledge to include the latest Internet technology developing my programming and scripting skills in a job that has technical problems that challenge me.

John Cooper’s Specialties:

UNIX; Linux, Solaris, and SCO Openserver, also AIX, Dynix, and even VMS. Windows networking and services.
Networking; LAN, WAN, routing, firewalls, diagnostics, tools from ping to full packet analysis.
Scripting and programing in Shell, Python, php, javascript and Perl.
System and network security on a range of platforms.
Backups; rsync, tar, copy; OS tools; Networked using NetBackup or Amanda.
Wikis, bug trackers, system monitoring, mysql, postgres, nagios, git, subversion.

John Cooper’s Experience

• Web Systems Administrator/Developer

  University of York

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

• Unix Systems Adminstrator

  Computacenter

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 4 months)

  Unix Support for internal Systems and ISP hosting facitilies.
  Resonsiable for the maintiance of a number of Linux and Solaris servers throughout the business I am also involved in other Unix related projects around the Thus contract.

• Senior Unix Adminstrator

  Thus Plc

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2006 — July 2006 (6 months)

  Unix Adminstrator of Internal business systems and ISP hosting. Including support of Linux, Solaris and SCO Openserver.

• Senior Unix Adminstrator

  Your Communications

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2001 — February 2006 (5 years)

  Unix Admin dealing with internal business systems and also external ISP Systems.

• Unix Administrator

  Anite

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1999 — March 2001 (2 years 3 months)

  Management of Customer servers in a Datacenter. Solaris, Dynix and SCO Openserver.

• RF Electronics Design Engineer

  Global Communications

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  July 1995 — October 1997 (2 years 4 months)

  Responsiable for the complete design of Satelite TV distribution products. Taking inital ideas from R&D right through to mass production and testing.

John Cooper’s Education

• The University of Manchester

  B.Sc, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1992 — 1995

Additional Information

John Cooper’s Websites:

• My Website

John Cooper’s Interests:

I enjoy trying to surf, snowboard and bike, but it's mostly an excuse to meet up with friends! I am trying to develop my artistic side through photography with limited sucess!

John Cooper’s Groups:

•    maemo.org

John Cooper’s Contact Settings

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