CURRICULUM VITAE - NICOLA WORTHINGTON

   22-Oct-2008

PERSONAL DETAILS

      Name:    Nicola Elizabeth Worthington
    Address:   Watford, Hertfordshire
   Telephone:  <witheld>                                   DOB:       February 1979
     Mobile:   <witheld>                               Nationality:   British passport holder
     Email:    nicolaw@tfb.net                       Driving License: Full UK License (clean)
   Current CV: http://perlgirl.org.uk
               http://www.linkedin.com/in/perlgirl

PERSONAL SUMMARY

   I am an experienced Linux system administrator (RHCE, VCP) and Perl programmer, working in the ISP and software  development
   industries. I enjoy writing Perl software, much  of which I have released publicly  as open source software on CPAN.  PSMON,
   RRD::Simple and iNagios are used  by system administrators around the  world. I am also currently  a silent director of  TFB
   Technology Ltd.

   I am a highly  motivated individual and pride  myself on completing tasks  to the highest possible  standard the first  time
   around. As such I find designing, planning and improving  networks and other systems' infrastructure very rewarding, and  is
   an area that I would like to continue to work in  and develop. I am specifically interested in continuing my career in  LAMP
   System Administration and monitoring (in or out of a NOC environment), and related areas.

   I prefer to  work within 1  hour's drive of  Watford outside  the North Circular  / A406, or  close to London  Euston. I  am
   currently passively seeking and interested in full-time permanent opportunities.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

  2006 - McAfee International Ltd, Senior Infrastructure Engineer

   Core Roles/Skills: Linux system administration, monitoring (Nagios/SNMP/RRD), VMware ESX VI3 virtualisation, automated
   infrastructure deployment & consolidation, backend LAMP software development, ad-hoc automation scripting, out of hours
   on-call cover.

   The AVERT  (Anti-Virus  Emergency Response  Team)  division of  McAfee  is the  core  of McAfee's  product  development  and
   back-office service delivery. I worked on all back-end  services and infrastructure in the ASE (Anti-Spam Engineering)  team
   within AVERT. I  implemented and maintain  comprehensive monitoring  of the ASE  & AVERT infrastructure  (>500 hosts,  >2000
   services) using Nagios  and a  custom installation  of my  open source RRD  monitoring software.  For my  RRD software,  see
   rrd.me.uk & RRD::Simple. I have recently migrated to a scalable distributed Nagios configuration to allow monitoring of more
   hosts and services throughout the company, worldwide.

   I have worked continuously to consolidate and improve  the building, installation and continuing maintenance of servers  and
   services within the AVERT organisation. I have done this, where possible, through standardisation of hardware and  automated
   unattended OS installations using PXE network boot servers and Kickstart with RHEL & CentOS. I have played a central role in
   further consolidating existing physical infrastructure through VMware ESX VI 3.5 cluster and NetApp SAN and NAS storage, and
   have since achieved VMware Certified Professional certification. My  experience and knowledge of Nagios, RRD, SNMP and  Perl
   have enabled me to provide valuable tools to monitor virtualized service availability and capacity utilization, enabling  us
   to better plan and budget for future infrastructure requirements.

  2005 - BBC Technology, Internet Operations, UNIX Engineer

   Core Roles/Skills: Perl software auditing, participating in Perl coding standards guidelines working group and Internet
   Operations steering meetings, system administration, monitoring (in-house solution/RRD), ad-hoc automation scripting.

   BBCT (now SIS/Siemens IT Solutions & Services) provide and manage the BBC's online internet presence. I worked in a team  of
   nine UNIX engineers who managed a large farm of Solaris Apache web servers, mod_perl application servers and Real  streaming
   servers at multiple locations throughout the UK and US. These provide all dynamic and streaming content to www.bbc.co.uk and
   news.bbc.co.uk. My primary responsibilities were  managing the core mod_perl application  server farm and their hosted  Perl
   applications. This included auditing Perl code before installing it  in the live production environment, to ensure that  the
   code was secure, efficient, and would not adversely effect the smooth operation of the mod_perl server pool.

   Other projects I managed include the migration of mod_perl instances from legacy Perl 5.004 and 5.6.1 installations to  Perl
   5.8.7, and development and  implementation of automated mod_perl  server performance monitoring and  analysis tools. I  also
   rewrote and  optimised the  in-house Perl  monitoring software  suite "statuschk"  (used to  monitor all  servers,  devices,
   services and  network circuits),  to  be multi-threaded  for faster  performance  and better  fault diagnosis  through  it's
   comprehensive scoreboard.

  2004 - BBC, Interactive Factual & Learning, Software Engineer

   Core Roles/Skills: Linux, Solaris & Windows system administration, database administration and development, monitoring
   (Nagios/RRD), backend CMS and customer facing LAMP software development for www.bbc.co.uk, software peer-review, ad-hoc
   automation scripting.

   Working within a team of six  other software engineers responsible for maintaining  the CMS and development servers  (Linux,
   Windows and  Solaris), developing  new Perl  applications and  reusable development  tools for  the department,  webmasters,
   technical project managers and client-side developers. Primary technologies were Perl, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL and Oracle  8
   and 9.  Examples of  iF&Ls  work were  the integration  of  interactive technologies  for "Test  The  Nation" and  "The  Big
   Challenge".

  2001 - Frontier Internet Services Ltd, Network Operations Engineer

   Core Roles/Skills: Linux system administration, building core and customer managed server hardware, on-site customer
   leased-line installations, network administration, administraton of all online customer services (Exim, Apache, BIND,
   QPopper, ProFTPD etc.), monitoring (in-house solution/MRTG/RRD), ad-hoc automation scripting, out of hours on-call cover.

   I worked in the core Network Operations Centre team of six in London Docklands, managing and maintaining all aspects of core
   servers, services and network infrastructure. We exclusively used Linux  on our servers (primarily, but not limited to,  Red
   Hat 6.0 through to Red  Hat 8.0), which helped me  develop strong Linux administration skills.  I also learned to  configure
   Lucent/Ascend NAS (Network Access Server) hardware and Cisco 1600 & 3600 series routers. My Cisco router knowledge played an
   essential role during configuration of leased line installations while visiting customer offices. During my time at Frontier
   I developed an appreciation of the Exim MTA and MySQL, and  how to integrate them in to highly flexible and performant  mail
   routing and delivery farm. Other responsibilities included server provisioning (from building server hardware, to installing
   and configuring both operating systems  and hosted applications and services),  CGI application development, ad-hoc  systems
   automation programming in Perl + shell scripting, and 24 hour out of hours on-call for network emergencies.

  2000 - Optio Software UK Ltd, Technical Consultant

   Core Roles/Skills: Designing and programming business documents for customers in OptioDCS DCL, teaching customers DCL
   scripting language, on-site software installation and troubleshooting, project management, on-site customer support.

   I worked in a  small team for  UK and European operations  (four in the  UK, ten in France),  primarily focused on  customer
   specified programming  rojects.  My  responsibilities included  managing  projects  from initial  concept  to  installation,
   programming, through  to  final user  acceptance  testing, documentation  and  project completion.  Also  included  training
   customers OptioDCS DCL programming  language and general  product support for  all Optio Software  products. I was  frequent
   required to  visit customer  sites throughout  the  UK and  Europe which  required  a high  degree of  profressionalism  and
   self-confidence. My last  major projects  inclued writing  document generation code  for Dell  EMEA and  HJ Heinz  including
   invoicing, statements  and  order acknowledgments.  Troubleshooting  and integration  with  various host  UNIX  and  Windows
   operating systems and often  unfamiliar customer software installations  was an integral part  of my duties, which  required
   good analytical skills and the ability to quickly adapt and learn on the job.

  1996 - Interactive (UK) Ltd, Software Integration Programmer

   Core Roles/Skills: Customisation programming in UniData and SB+ of the Infoflo and Avante ERP products to customer
   specification, telephone and on-site customer support, teaching OptioDCS DCL training courses, integrating a host of third
   party products in to the Infoflo and Avante ERP products.

   Responsibilities included on-site  installation and  integration of  third party  products in  to the  Avante ERP  database.
   Including custom development, sales demonstrations and training with COGNOS ODBC, Smart Forecasting, BACSTEL, UniData RDBMS,
   OptioDCS and OptioFAX. I gained  experience with many flavours  of UNIX during this time,  including HPUX, AIX, DG-UX,  SCO,
   Solaris and Linux.

QUALIFICATIONS & COURSES

     * Aug/2008 - ExpertRating Unix Test (Expert Level) GPA 3.3 (Transcript #1817269)
     * Feb/2008 - VCP310 / VMware Certified Professional on VI3 (VCP #22953)
     * Feb/2008 - TVD-901-LVW / Live Virus Workshop (2 day)
     * Jan/2008 - VMware Infrastructure 3: Fast Track Program (5 day extended hours)
     * Dec/2006 - MySQL 5 Cluster for High Availability (3 day)
     * Apr/2006 - ExpertRating Perl 5 Test (Expert Level) GPA 3.6 (Transcript #1031056)
     * Feb/2006 - Red Hat Certified Engineer (100% exam pass mark) #804006064719004
     * Apr/2005 - ITIL foundation course (1 day)
     * Nov/2004 - Learning Tree Course 590, Oracle9i: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction (5 day)

SKILLS

     Programming                                       Experience Key

     * Perl (X, 8yrs)                                The following is a brief guide to  indicate my level of knowledge in  each
     * UNIX shell scripting; mainly BASH (X, 7yrs)   of my key skills. Some technologies that I may not have used in some  time
     * mod_perl 1.x, 1.99 & 2.x (X, 6yrs)            are marked with H to indicate historical use, in addition to the level  of
     * HTML::Mason (X, 5yrs)                         understanding and experience I demonstrated in the past.
     * CGI application development (X, 8yrs)
     * HTML, XHTML & CSS (X, 13yrs)                    * X - expert / highly proficient
     * JavaScript (B, 7yrs)                            * P - used professionally / competent and confident knowledge
     * Learning ANSI C (basic understanding of)        * B - basic to intermediate understanding / confident to develop skill
     * OptioDCS DCL (XH, 4yrs)                           further
     * R83 DataBasic & PICK RDBMS (PH, 4yrs)           * H - historical skill no longer actively using / need to "brush up"
     * SystemBuilder SB+ 4GL (PH, 4yrs)                  knowledge

     Hardware                                          Software

     * NetApp FAS (P, 2yrs)                            * Perl DBI (X, 7yrs)
     * Dell PowerEdge 7, 8 & 9 Series servers (P,      * Apache 1.3, 2.0 & 2.2 (X, 8yrs)
       4yrs)                                           * Red Hat's Kickstart & PXELinux (X, 3yrs)
     * Dell PERC 4/5 RAID controllers & software       * MRTG, RRD & Nagios (X, 4yrs)
       (P, 4yrs)                                       * Linux Virtual Server / LVS HA Load Balancing (P, 1yr)
     * IPMI & BMC remote access cards; DRAC / ILOM     * ipchains & iptables (X, 7yrs)
       / ILO (P, 4yrs)                                 * Linux software RAID & LVM (X, 7yrs)
     * Sun Fire X Series & Netra X Series servers      * MySQL 3, 4, 5 and MySQL Cluster 5 (P, 7yrs)
       (B, 1yr)                                        * BIND 8 & 9 (w/SQL hooks) (P, 7yrs)
     * IBM PC / x86 hardware & maintenance (X,         * Exim (w/SQL, TLS & PAM hooks) (P, 7yrs)
       15yrs)                                          * CVS & SVN / Subversion RCS (P, 7yrs)
     * Cisco 1600 & 3600 series routers (P, 3yrs)      * ProFTPD (P, 3yrs)
     * Ascend/Lucent Pipeline routers & NAS (PH,       * SpamAssassin
       3yrs)                                           * OpenSSH
     * LAN cabling                                     * OptioDCS, OptioFAX, e.ComPresent (XH, 4yrs)
                                                       * UniData & UniVerse RDBMS (PH, 4yrs)
     Systems                                           * Hybrid & Bahamut IRC Daemons (PH, 6yrs)
                                                       * Adobe Photoshop 4, 5, 6, 7 & CS
     * Linux (various distibutions) (X, 12yrs)         * Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, NeoOffice
     * Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHCE qualified)
       (X, 4yrs)                                       Publicly Released Software
     * VMware Server & Virtual Infrastructure 3 /
       VI3 / ESX3                                      * Psmon - Process monitoring script
       (VCP qualified) (X, 1yr)                        * iNagios - iPhone interface to Nagios
     * Apple OS X Leopard 10.5 (P, 1yr)                * RRD::Simple, rrd.me.uk - System performance graphing
     * Some SunOS, Solaris & OpenSolaris (SPARC &      * Nagios Check Plugins
       Intel) (B, 10yrs)                               * Parse::DMIDecode
     * Windows 9x, ME, NT 4, 2000, 2003 & XP (P,       * Apache2::AutoIndex::XSLT
       13yrs)                                          * WWW::FleXtel
     * Cisco IOS (PH, 3yrs)                            * Sys::Filesystem
     * OS/2 2.1 (BH, 1yr)                              * Util::SelfDestruct
     * MS-DOS 3-6.22 (XH, 6yrs)                        * Colloquy::Data, Colloquy::Bot::Simple,
                                                         Parse::Colloquy::Bot, Apache2::AuthColloquy
     Experience                                        * Proc::DaemonLite
                                                       * Tie::TinyURL
     * Excellent Linux administrative experience       * WWW::Dilbert, WWW::VenusEnvy,
     * NOC & SysAdmin emergency on-call cover            WWW::Comic
     * Frequently worked abroard throughout Europe
       vising customer sites while at Interactive
       (UK) Ltd and Optio Software
     * Excellent diagnostic and analytical skills
     * Experienced Perl programmer & CPAN author
     * Confident and experienced in mod_perl &
       HTML::Mason
     * 4 years teaching OptioDCS classes
     * Experience of MRP and ERP software
     * Operated a 3 node FidoNet NetMail dial-up
       BBS for 5 years
     * Pre-sales & customer facing technical
       support experience
     * Integrating software with BACSTEL
     * Web design

   PERSONAL INTERESTS

   I have a keen interest  in British and American  politics, and international current  affairs. I enjoy amateur  photography,
   watching international tennis events and am a regular BBC Radio 4 listener. In my spare time I write and release open source
   Perl software, am an active member of CPAN, and have been a member of the Free Software Foundation since 2004.