Richard Bannister

Current

Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems

Past

Senior Network Technician at Findel PLC
ICT Officer (Networks) at Blackpool Council

Education

Fylde Training
Accrington Moor Head High School

Connections

30 connections

Industry

Computer Networking

Websites

Richard Bannister’s Summary

Hello, and welcome to my LinkedIn profile.

My name is Richard Bannister, I am twenty three, and live in Lancashire (England). I live with my beautiful and very supportive wife Leanne-Ashley and we are proud parents to two children; a four year old girl named Carys, and a one year old girl named Bryony.

I am currently studying towards the CCIE R&S certification.

I have experience in the workplace of the following:
Firewall configuration – ASA, PIX (inc. Cisco FWSM for Cat6500), and Checkpoint
Router configuration - BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, Gateway Redundancy Protocols, IP SLA, and PBR
WAN installation and configuration – LES, Leased Line, Frame-Relay, and ATM
Multilayer switch configuration - VLAN's (VTP), Private VLAN's, Spanning Tree, and Port Security
Content switch management (Cisco CSS and Cisco CSM for Cat6500)
Packet shaper management (Packeteer)
QoS
AAA
Wireless networking
VPN – IPSec (GRE), SSL, and SSH
VOIP – Cisco CallManager and SIP proxies
Video Conferencing – Polycom and ClickToMeet
CCTV systems – Netwatch, LookC, and Pelco
Anti-virus + DoS prevention
IDS/IPS
Security testing/review
Linux & Unix
Virtualisation

Richard Bannister’s Specialties:

Network design, implementation, and support
Negotiating & Influencing
Customer Care
Project management

Richard Bannister’s Experience

Systems Engineer

Cisco Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

- Offer technical and sales support to customers
-- Consultation
-- Demonstrations and Technical presentations
--- Keep up-to-date with technologies and actively pursue Cisco qualifications
-- Proposals
- Participate in System Engineer Virtual Teams
Senior Network Technician

Findel PLC

(Retail industry)

August 2007 — July 2008 (1 year )

Network design and installation.
Network and service support/maintenance.

Responsibilities:
-Pro-active monitoring systems
--CiscoWorks
--Solarwinds Orion
--Paessler IPCheck
--Paessler PRTG
--Kiwi Syslogd
-Firewall/Access control policies
-IPsec VPN (Cisco VPN Concentrator and RSA server)
-Voice
--Cisco CallManager
--Cisco Voice Gateways (inc. SRST configuration)
-Network and service line documentation
-Content switch management (Cisco CSS)
-Packet shaper management
-TACACS (AAA)
-LAN/WAN hardware:
--Inc. Cisco Cat3750, Cat3560, Cat3500, Cat2960, Cat2950, Cat2900, 870ISR, 1700, 2600, 2800, 7200. HP 4100 range.
-Device auditing
--Kiwi CatTools
-Second and third line support
ICT Officer (Networks)

Blackpool Council

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)

December 2000 — August 2007 (6 years 9 months)

-Pro-active monitoring systems
--Castlerock SNMPc
--Paessler PRTG
--Kiwi Syslogd
-Firewall/Access control policies
-DHCP
--DNSOne inc. IPAM module
-DNS
--Microsoft
--BIND
-VPN
--SSL (Netilla)
--IPSec (S2S + EasyVPN)
-Voice
--Cisco CallManager
--Cisco Voice Gateways
-Network and service line documentation
-Content switch management
-TACACS (AAA)
-LAN/WAN hardware:
--Inc. Cisco Cat6500, Cat4500, Cat3750, Cat3560, Cat2960, Cat2950, 870ISR, 1600, 1700, 2600, 2800, 7200. 3Com Superstack range.
-Device auditing
--Kiwi CatTools
-Second and third line support

Richard Bannister’s Education

Fylde Training

NVQ Level 3 , Business Administration , 2000 — 2002
Accrington Moor Head High School

GCSE , The usual subjects , 1996 — 2000

Additional Information

Richard Bannister’s Websites:

Richard Bannister’s Interests:

I am a father of two wonderful children and thoroughly enjoy every minute I spend with them. I have a love for cinema (films) and music. When not reading Cisco press books I like to relax with a good book. I also enjoy being out in the open doing activities such as walking and bicycle riding