Jo Booth

Current

CARD SG&I System Administrator at Intergraph
Director at CAB 79 Limited
Twitterer at Twitter

Network Facilitator / Social Media Co-ordinator at Unlimited Potential ICT Professionals' Network Incorporated
Network Facilitator at Mesh|net
Trustee and Entrant Liaison at MovieFest Charitable Trust
Development Engineer / Webmaster at Mangee|net

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Past

Attendee at Kiwicon
Support Analyst – Retail systems at Foodstuffs (Wellington) Co-operative Society Ltd
Design Engineer at Airlab Ltd

Senior Diagnostic Technician at Project Services Ltd
Diagnostic Technician at Project Services Ltd
Technician at Able Air Conditioning Services Ltd

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Education

Victoria University of Wellington

Connections

129 connections

Industry

Computer Networking

Websites

Jo Booth’s Summary

A flexible, creative, widely skilled person who quickly assimilates and analyses ideas to resourcefully find an answer to any challenge.

Jo Booth’s Specialties:

Connectivity, Network Facilitation, Analytics

Jo Booth’s Experience

CARD SG&I System Administrator

Intergraph

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Working maintaining the New Zealand communication and resource deployment system. "Better work stories"
Director

CAB 79 Limited

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Computers and Babies. A great combination to do business with.
Twitterer

Twitter

(Computer Networking industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )

Tweeting it UP since then
Network Facilitator / Social Media Co-ordinator

Unlimited Potential ICT Professionals' Network Incorporated

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2004 — Present (5 years 10 months)

UP is a ICT Network in Wellington NZ

I joined UP back in March 2004 after attending an UPstart with Mark Blumsky. I'd just been an a previous non-UP event and someone invited me along for the free beer and pizza. I had a thoroughly enjoyable evening and soon got hooked on the networking potential with UP. At the time I had hobbies and interests that kept me quite involved in the ICT scene, but was working in the AEC industry as a design engineer.
I joined the UP Executive Committee in July 2005 after a spectacular Apple Event because I was impressed by the events UP put on and inspired by the opportunities for making UP even better.
5+ years later I'm still on the Executive Committee, and we've grown to a network of closing on 2000 people
Network Facilitator

Mesh|net

(Computer Networking industry)

March 2004 — Present (5 years 10 months)

Mesh|net is a community connectivity project, a brand of CAB 79 Ltd, for which Jo has undertaken:
• Planning, implementation, & maintenance of network infrastructures in multiple locations.
• Education, training, support & liaison with new customers and existing clients.
• Development of business & community strategies & vision.
• Development of staff & node-manager support / training
• Proxy/cache admin
• Customer security consultation & installation on Windows, Linux & Mac platforms.
• Local firewall implementation, management & support.
• Set-up & maintenance of networked file systems & services using protocols and technologie: SMB, AppleShare, NFS, http, AFS, QTSS & DSS, local torrent tracking, Wiki & collaborative servers, FTP servers, Remote backup, networked web & security cameras, “whiteboard” server, Jabber (Instant Messaging) servers, Database servers, local imap/pop mail services on Linux, BSD, Mac and Windows platforms.
More at http://mesh.net.nz/jo#linkedin
Trustee and Entrant Liaison

MovieFest Charitable Trust

(Motion Pictures and Film industry)

2003 — Present (6 years )

MovieFest is a nation-wide digital short movie competition and festival run by a charitable trust. Jo has filled a
variety of founding roles in the formation and operation of this nationwide charitable trust, being involved in the competition and subsequently the setting up of the charitable trust since 2002. Roles include:
o Database designer
o Entrant liaison
o Publicity co-ordinator
o Master of ceremonies
o Stage hand
o Web developer
o National strategy developer
o Multimedia adviser
o Server admin
o Trustee
Development Engineer / Webmaster

Mangee|net

(Internet industry)

May 2002 — Present (7 years 8 months)

Development Engineer / Webmaster

• Design and development of dynamic, interactive websites for clients
• Management of hosting packages
• Development of sales material for agents
• Ongoing service and support of mail, web, ftp, ssh and other hosted services utilising Linux, Mac and Windows server software.
• Remote setup and support on behalf of clients of CentOS based control panel software.
• Remote management and maintenance of streaming servers.
• General webmaster duties for a number of corporate and community clients.
• Web application development using PHP/MySQL/PostgreSQL/JavaScript/Java/Flash

Mangee|net is a subsidiary brand of CAB79 Ltd
Attendee

Kiwicon

(Computer Networking industry)

2007 — 2009 (2 years )
Support Analyst – Retail systems

Foodstuffs (Wellington) Co-operative Society Ltd

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Retail industry)

February 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 1 month)

• Provision of customer facing support for Foodstuffs in-house retail application suite
• Commissioning of new computers into the head office environment from build to installation.
• Daily database maintenance.
• Managerial support as required.
• Installation / upgrading of software applications. Ensuring licensing policies are enforced.
• After hours pager support / callout on a rotational shift. Sole support from 6am – 7:30 am.
• Proactive monitoring of helpdesk calls and identifying procedures that could reduce call volumes.
• Intranet and team web application design
• Network monitoring and analysis
• Web and Mail Marshall – email and web filter admin for the region, stores and offices.
Design Engineer

Airlab Ltd

(Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

April 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 6 months)

• Design, specification, pricing, integration, supervision of build, testing and commissioning of
custom turn-key solutions to environmental control problems in health-care, production,
dairy, industrial, food, computing, pharmaceutical and other industries requiring critical
control of environmental factors.
• Prototype work for Government and Military projects.
Senior Diagnostic Technician

Project Services Ltd

(Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

May 2002 — April 2005 (3 years )

Former company bought by Airlab
• Programming and scheduling workloads and responsibilities for three technicians.
• Project management internally and externally for local, national and international clients.
• Review and revision of reports from technicians for Quality Assurance.
• Assisting in the maintaining of IANZ accreditation as an ISO 17025 compliant testing laboratory.
• Achieving status as a signatory to IANZ accreditation.
• Specialist projects such as diagnosis of Sick Building Syndrome, and work with Tuberculin, Legionella, SARS and other projects requiring life-critical environmental projection.
• Purchasing, set-up, maintenance and support of company-wide LAN, WAN, File, Print, Web and Mail servers and other IT infrastructure.
• Desktop support for Mac, Linux and Windows workstations and laptops.
• Operation of 2D and 3D parametric computer-aided design and drafting tools.
• General tasks as a Diagnostic Technician
Diagnostic Technician

Project Services Ltd

(Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

May 2001 — May 2002 (1 year 1 month)

• Testing, balancing and commissioning of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment to maintain precisely controlled environmental limits.
• Spec work to client requirements and specifications.
• Compliance testing of general, critical and life-safety systems to AS/NZS and international standards.
• Programming and commissioning of bms's.
• O&M manuals for buildings, systems and equipment.
• Preparation of documentation for procedures and processes for internal and external use.
• Detailed interpretation of technical specifications for internal and client use.
• Diagnostics and fault tracing on faulty equipment and systems.
• Preparation and revision of reporting templates for use by other technicians.
• Trial design and implementation of database driven reporting systems.
• Successful implementation and maintenance of web-based, database driven, client facing reporting systems.
• Onsite supervision and support of teams of maintenance hands
Technician

Able Air Conditioning Services Ltd

(Environmental Services industry)

January 1998 — May 2001 (3 years 5 months)

• Implemented building management, process controls and energy management systems.
• Programmed, tested and implemented computer routines on Programmable Logic Controllers for precise control of environmental, laboratory and building processes.
• Worked in a team successfully re-engineering laboratory HVAC systems to achieve stringent international guidelines for atmospheric control.
• Provided service, support and maintenance for large research institute with over 300 scientists.
• Serviced and supported specialist HVAC systems for large fermentation, containment, and clean room suites.

Jo Booth’s Education

Victoria University of Wellington

BSc , Computer Science , 1998 — 2001

Activities and Societies:

VUW Civil Defense Light Rescue Squad,SciFi Movie Club

Additional Information

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Jo Booth’s Interests:

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