Nickelby Thane

Current

• IT Communications and Security Engineer at Wilhelmsen Maritime Services

Past

• Access Administrator at ExxonMobil Malaysia
• Technical Consultant at Datacom Asia Sdn. Bhd. (Symantec account)

Education

• Staffordshire University
• Asia Pacific University College of Technology and Innovation
• Informatics College

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Industry

Computer Networking

Nickelby Thane’s Summary

Linux, kernel hacking, IT communication and security, open compositing, Cisco, etc.

My immediate goal is to achieve my CCIE before 2012 and to specialized in the fields of routing/switching and security for the future. I would also like to see myself in a technical or non-technical management role in the near future.

Nickelby Thane’s Specialties:

Still learning in the vast realm of Cisco networking but currently focusing on routing and switching. Interests in Linux including kernel hacking and security. Other skills like sleeping in more than 10 positions do not count I think ...

Nickelby Thane’s Experience

• IT Communications and Security Engineer

  Wilhelmsen Maritime Services

  (Privately Held; Maritime industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

  The only communication personnel to deal with the WAN, LAN and network infrastructure/security mainly for the Asia Pacific and Oceania region. Platforms are not limited to the following:-
  
  Routers : 1700/1800/2600/2800/3600 series.
  Switches : Catalyst 2940/2950/2960/3560/6500 series.
  Firewall : PIX 506E/515E/520/525 series
  ASA : ASA 5505/5510 series.
  IDS : IDSM-2 series.
  Management : Ciscoworks, Statseeker, MRTG
  
  Also played the role of the project lead for the relocation of the company's global datacenter (global for the Wilhelmsen Ship Management business and regional for the Wilhelmsen Ship Service business) affecting more than 350 offices in over 83 countries. This was done in a span of 48 hours whereby the relocation included over 60 servers and over 10 Cisco equipments.

• Access Administrator

  ExxonMobil Malaysia

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Oil & Energy industry)

  November 2004 — February 2005 (4 months)

  Active Directory (AD) administration, assist helpdesk agents to resolve cases that concerns with the AD. Customers are generally in-house.

• Technical Consultant

  Datacom Asia Sdn. Bhd. (Symantec account)

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  2003 — 2004 (1 year )

  Provide 1st level and sometimes 2nd level support to Symantec home customers and in some cases, corporate customers. Mainly handling customers from the South East Asia region.

Nickelby Thane’s Education

• Staffordshire University

  2nd upper class , Internet Technology , 2001 — 2001

  - Did a download manager project in C language (Linux) for the final year project
  - Did a thesis on IT Security

  Activities and Societies:

  Member of a debate group

• Asia Pacific University College of Technology and Innovation

  Higher National Diploma , Software Engineering , 1999 — 2000

  - Did a gaming project in the Visual Basic language (team effort) and also played the role of project lead.
  - Did a security auditing program in the C language under the Linux platform (team effort) and also played the role of project lead.

  Activities and Societies:

  Members of a basketball team

• Informatics College

  Diploma , Computer Science , 1997 — 1998

  - Did a ticket booking system in the Pascal language.
  - Did a telephone directory system in the dBase4 language.

  Activities and Societies:

  Member of the college basketball team, member of the college debate team and first place winner in the 'go green nature' competition held by the college.

Additional Information

Nickelby Thane’s Interests:

Meeting people, testing new technologies, console/handheld gaming, traveling, anything Japanese, gardening, fishing, reading books/magazines/comics, sleeping, etc.

Nickelby Thane’s Honors:

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) - 2003/2008
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) - 2008

Scheduled : Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Routing & Switching Written
Pending : Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Routing & Switching Lab
Pending : Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) - 2002
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) - 2003
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) - 2003

Nickelby Thane’s Contact Settings

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