Skills and Training

Qualification, Skills and Training

QUALIFICATIONS

Qualification	Institution / Notes	Year
Matric	Rondebosch Boys High School, Cape Town, South Africa	1980
B.Sc. (Computer Science) including Mathematics, Physics, Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering	University of Cape Town (U.C.T.), South Africa	1986
MCSE Windows NT 4.0		1999
MCSE Windows 2000 / Active Directory	Received acknowledgement from Microsoft for being a “Charter Member” – amongst the first 2000 people in the world to obtain this qualification	2000

SKILLS

Consulting:

Project Management
Pre-sales and Presentations
Business Analysis and Business Case Development
Infrastructure Architecture
IT strategic planning

Operating Systems:

SuSE, Ubuntu and Redhat Linux
Solaris 9 and 10
Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2008 Server
Windows XP, Windows Vista
Legacy Windows (Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95 / 98)
VAX/VMS, OpenVMS (versions 4 to 6.2), VAX / VMS Clusters

Directories:

Microsoft Active Directory
Novell eDirectory
LDAP (Sun and IBM/Tivoli)

RDBMS and Languages:

Sybase System 11
Ingres
Oracle RDB
Microsoft SQL Server

Pascal, 'C', FORTRAN, Ingres and Sybase ESQL.
Windows Scripting (Visual Basic), Windows PowerShell

Email and Collaboration Systems:

Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2007
Novell GroupWise
Lotus Notes
X.400 especially P7, P2, ASN-1 and OSI-abstracts
Internet (SMTP) e-mail servers and clients

TRAINING

Course	Year
DECnet/OSI	1993
Unix Fundamentals	1995
Unix System Administration	1995
Microsoft Exchange 5 Core Technologies	1997
Microsoft Windows NT 4 Core Technologies	1998
Sybase FastTrack to Adaptive Server Enterprize	1999
Sybase Database Administration	1999
Microsoft Accelerated Training for Windows 2000	1999
Microsoft Windows 2000 Airlift II	2000
Novell Identity Manager 2.0	2004
Novell eDirectory Fundamentals	2004
SuSE Advanced Linux Administration	2005
Sun Identity Manager	2005
Tivoli Identity Manager and Tivoli Directory Integrator	2007
Microsoft Forefront	2007
XEN Enterprise Administration	2008