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\section*{Personal Details}

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Name: 	& Conall O'Brien		&	&	Email: 				& conall@conall.net 	  	\\	
			&							&	&							&								\\
Address:	& 21 Meadow Close, 	&	&	Phone (PSTN):		& 01 6535148\\
			& Blackrock,			&	&	Phone (VoIP):		& sip:31313@blueface.ie	\\
			& Co Dublin, 		 	&  &	Personal Website:	& http://www.conall.net	\\
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\section*{Education}

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October 2001 - June 2006	& Computer Science BA(Mod)	&	&	Dublin University, Trinity College \\
							&									&	&	\\
September 1996 - June 2001	& Secondary Education	&	&	Blackrock College	\\
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\section*{Awards}

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1997:	& Blackrock College	 & 	Computer Studies Award 		\\
1999:	& Blackrock College 	 & 	Construction Studies Award	\\
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\section*{Qualifications}

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1999: 	& 	&	European Computer Driver's License (ECDL) 		\\
2001:		& 	&	Leaving Certificate 										\\
2006:		& 	&	BA (Mod) Hons												\\
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\section*{Affiliations}

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Committee Member	&	&	System Administrators Guild of Ireland (SAGE-IE)	 \\
Member				&	&	Irish Network Operaters Group (IE-nog) 				 \\
Member				&	&	Irish Linux User Group (ILUG)								 \\
Student Member 	&	& 	Irish Computer Society (ICS)								 \\
Student Member 	&	& 	USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association	 \\
Student Member 	&	& 	System Administrators Guild (SAGE)						 \\
Student Member 	&	& 	League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA)\\
Package Maintainer&	& 	Debian Project													 \\
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\section*{Objective}

I intend to continue to increase and expand my computer knowledge and
skills, in addition to using my problem solving abilities to full 
effect. I also intend to obtain IT networking qualifications, starting 
with a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification and to 
actively contribute to the Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu Linux and FreeBSD 
Open Source projects.

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\section*{Professional Experience}

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March 1998 - 		&	InfoCAD Data LTD	& Systems and Network Administrator	&	\hspace{10mm}	\\
June 2006  			&			&              &            			\\
      				&			&              &            			\\
Responsibilities:	& \multicolumn{3}{l}{Administration of Office and Client IT Infrastructure; User and Client} 	\\
						& \multicolumn{3}{l}{Support; IT Equipment Purchasing; IT Security Duties.} 	\\
      				&              						&  &	\\
March 1998 -		& 	Room 205 Computer Room			&	Systems Administrator	& \hspace{10mm}	\\
August 2002:		&  Ballinteer Community School	&	&	\\
						& 		&	\\
Responsibilities:	& \multicolumn{3}{l}{Administration of IT Systems for Special Needs Resource Centre;} 	\\
						& \multicolumn{3}{l}{IT Equipment Purchasing.} 	\\
						& 											&	&	\\
July 2004 -			& IT Dept								&	Systems and Network Engineer	& \hspace{10mm}\\
August 2004:		& Critical Path						& (Temporary)	&	\\
						& 											&	&	\\
Responsibilities:	& \multicolumn{3}{l}{Administration of IT Infrastructure; Migration of Critical Servers;}	\\ 
						& \multicolumn{3}{l}{500+ User Support.} 	\\
						&												&\\
July 2004 -			& 	School of Mathematics	&	Systems and Network Administrator &	\\
June 2006:			& 	Dublin University			&	&	\\
						& 	Trinity College			&	&	\\
						& 									&	&	\\
Responsibilities:	& \multicolumn{3}{l}{Administration of IT Infrastructure; Liaising with IT Staff}	\\ 
						& \multicolumn{3}{l}{from other College Depts; User Support for 2000+ Dept Staff}	\\
						& \multicolumn{3}{l}{and Students; IT Security Duties.} 	\\
						& 									&	&	\\
June 2006 - 		&	Google Ireland	&	 Systems Administrator		&	\hspace{10mm}	\\
Current  			&	Gordon House	&              &            			\\
      				&	Barrow St		&              &            			\\
      				&	Dublin 4			&              &            			\\
Responsibilities:	& \multicolumn{3}{l}{Administration of internal systems, Technical interviewing} 	\\
						& \multicolumn{3}{l}{Technical Documenting, PolicyWriting, Service and Process}		\\ 
						& \multicolumn{3}{l}{Design, On call and user support duties.} 	\\
      				&              						&  &	\\
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\section*{References}

References also available upon request.

\section*{Interests}

Architecture; Open Source Software; Innovative Technology; 
Mobile Communications;  Networking; Voice over IP (VoIP); 
Computer Security; Multimedia; Furniture Making.

\section*{Computer Experience}

\subsection*{Operating Systems}

Familiar with administration of Microsoft Windows (3.1x, 9x, 
ME, XP, NT, 2000, XP, 2003), MS-DOS O/S, GNU/Linux Distributions 
(Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat/Fedora,Ensim, Mandrake), Mac OS X, various
flavours of Unix (FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Solaris x86, HP-UX), 
Palm OS 5 and Cisco IOS.

\subsection*{Hardware}

Experience working with ATA, Serial ATA and SCSI based disk systems, 
copper and fibre optic networking, and Fibre Channel connected SANs. 
Familiar with x86, AMD64/EM64T, PowerPC, Sparc and Alpha architectures. 
Experience working with Cisco switches, Cisco 25xx access routers and 
Cisco 79xx series IP phones.

\subsection*{Networking}

Experience using Apache, BIND, Squid, Samba, NFS, Postfix, Dovecot,
Asterisk PBX, MySQL, Active  Directory, Firewalls, 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless 
networking, Nagios monitoring, routing and subnetting, IPv4 and IPv6 
unicast and multicast networking.
 

\subsection*{Programming and Markup Languages}

Experience with Java (J2EE, WFC, Swing) PHP, Motorola 68000 Assembly, QBASIC,
C, C++ (STL, MFC, Qt), JavaScript, VHDL, Eiffel (SmartEiffel and 
SmallEiffel), Python, Perl and Shell Scripting (Bash). \\

Able to write validating HTML (up to 4.01) and XHTML (up 
to 1.1 Strict) - conforming to accessibility guidelines (WCAG), CSS (up to 
CSS 2), XML, LaTeX, SQL (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL) and Web Services 
(SOAP and XMLRPC).

\section*{Legal}

This CV is copyright Conall O'Brien, 2005 - 2006. You may not modify 
this CV. You may not distribute this CV to other parties without my 
express, written permission. In particular, I do not wish to be 
represented by any agency or third party and consent only to the use 
and distribution of this CV for the purposes of the immediate 
position(s) for which I have applied. If you have received this CV from 
an agent purporting to represent me, please contact me at the above 
email address or phone number.

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