| But enough of that as it is getting
late and I have something warm to curl up with (okay !!......Cadburys will have to do at
the moment !) ........... here is Darren's Resume (edited for Webvision) that was written
by himself and Rob Smith over a few pints as a laugh in the vain attempt that it would get
him another job !!......... ironically, Sandersons didn't raise an eyebrow !!!
Professional Resume
Darren Harris
Tel/Fax:
Mobile: 0973 xxxxxx
E-mail: dharris@totalise.co.uk
An excellent communicator with a wealth of knowledge in all areas of IT
equipment, software, getting back from Thailand on a budget !!
Confident either working alone or as part of a team.
Professional in both manner and appearance with the ability to become an
asset to any company or relationship.
Career History
Aug2000-July 2001
Infrastructure Technician (Project Work) Contract AXA Plc
Main Duties
To provide technical skills to the AXA Shared Service Project. Working with the Tools
Team.
To provide emotional and physical exercise regime to females on the AXA SSL Service
Desk.
Building of Live and Development Infrastructures for the Tools Team,
Spending lots of capital on cars, clothes, boxes of chocolate for girls who work in
sandwich shops, generally being creepy to any female with nice teeth as I have a fetish to
do dentistry.
Peregrine ServiceCenter 3 environment and software deployment, including CTI integration
into Peregrine ServiceCenter 3.
Integration of a SDA into the AXA house and another relationship at weekends.
Peregrine Rollout to approx. 15000 users across 5 companies, excluding Third Parties.
Spoofing Rob Smith into thinking that he's 'One of the Lads' (see Rob Smith Page!!)
Keeping the tools team entertained for a 12 month period.
Feb 2000-July 2000
IT Systems Support Specialist Contracted to PPP Lifetime Care PLC (Stratford Office)
Main Duties
- To provide support for the Technology Manger during integration with AXA Sunlife.
- Continue systems support, as detailed below.
- Integration of PPP Ltcs IS systems to AXA Sunlife PLC
- Securing of data and systems before closedown.
Nov 1998 Feb 2000 PC Net Solutions Limited, Telford
Systems Administrator
Main duties:
- At present I have been outsourced to PPP Lifetime Care PLC for the foreseeable future.
My responsibilities included the general day to day running and administration of Novell
3.12 files servers and various NT application servers IE Exchange5.5, SQL, DHCP and DNS.
Writing of bespoke batch files for maintenance tasks. General running of 15 live and
development servers. PC Desktop support, HP printers and software support on WIN95/98/NT,
MS Office95/97, Outlook98.
- Machine design and architecture, installation, hardware and software maintenance,
Configuration of workstation and RAID servers.
- 2nd and 3Rd line support on Novell NetWare, Windows 95/98/NT and
NT server, MS Exchange, support on major office applications such MS Office
4.3/95/97/2000, MS Works/ Lotus SmartSuite, and Disaster Recover Situations.
1996 - Nov 1998 Wrekin Office Equipment, Shifnal
IT Manager
Main duties:
- To build a department from scratch that would compliment the rest of the company.
- Consultation, Sales, Support, Installation and Repair of all IT equipment including
Windows 3.11/95 and NT networks
- Training customers onsite and in house training for all staff
- Researching the future in-vitro needs of all customers
1990 1996 Oyster Communications, Telford
Field Engineer
Main duties:
- Servicing fax machines in the Shropshire and surrounding area
- Training external clients, such as National Rivers Authority, Inland Revenue, Sharp UK,
NEC UK and Birmingham University (First year maths students only of the female variety)
Education and Training
1-2000
Intershop E-commerce Software
Completed training on set-up, design and administration of an Intershop based e-commerce
website
1990 1992 Telford ITEC
City & Guilds 7261 Micro Electronics and Electronics
- Analogue Electronics
- Digital Electronics
- Electronic Systems
- Computer Servicing
- Copier and Computing Principles
- Mechanical Principles
- Penile Neuorosurgery
1984 1990 William Brookes School, Much Wenlock
- 11 GCSEs (Paid in full with cash)
Achievements
Peregrine Software Rollout to 5 AXA Operating Companies approx 9000 users (none of
which are happy)
Build of AXA Service Desk Software Toolset, encompassing all 5 Operating Companies (God
help them!)
Implementing a CTI Server for the AXA SSL
Gaining the contract at PPP lifetime through my knowledge and personal skills
Resource Centre Project
Providing the PPP web site with an automatic SQL mail link through Outlook (still in
UAT after 8 Months)
Interests
- Power Kiting
- Tightrope walking emotional variety.
- Playing golf and tennis badly
- Standing in front of a mirror and modelling a boof haircut.
- Playing football for a charity football team
- Keeping up to date with IT issues - Analytical Engines a speciality
- Multi tasking the latest fasion designs with various females who can be bothered to
listen..
Other Information
- Excellent References available on request (when I buy a new colour cartridge for the
printer)
- Date of Birth: 12 October 1952
- Full Driving Licence covered in convictions
Software Knowledge base
Environmental Knowledge
Windows NT Networks/ Novell Networks/ Aspect CTI
Server solutions/ Peregrine CallCenter Software/ E-mail to SMS Text Messaging Services/
SMS Software deployment/ Internet Servers IIS, Netscape and iPlanet/ WINS/ Xnet
Interactive Orgasmatron
Windows based
Windows 3.1x/95/98/NT Workstation and Server/ NT Small Business Server/
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5/ Proxy Server/ Microsoft Mail/ Publisher 95/97/98/2000
Microsoft Office 4.3/ 95/ 97/ 2000/ FrontPage 97/98/2000/ Outlook 97/98/2000
Lotus SmartSuite 96/97/ Lotus Notes/Corel Perfect Office/ Seagate Backup Exec/ARC
serve/ Norton AV/ Dr Solomons AV/ Sophos Sweep AV/ PC Anywhere/ Network Faxing
solutions/ HP Jet Admin and TCP/IP Printing.
Novell Based
Novell NetWare 3.1x/ 4.1x/ 4.2 Small Business/ 5/ GroupWise/ Zen Works/ Seagate Backup
Exec/ ARCserve/ Sophos Sweep/ FAXserve.
Hardware Knowledge base
Motherboard Architectures, 386 to multiple PIII/
Xeon based servers
Daughterboard Architectures, multiple orgasmic abilities preferred
Sun Servers, Ultra Sparc, and sun disk arrays
IDE, SCSI and RAID storage interface systems
Intel/ AMD/ IBM/ Cyrix CPU architecture.
Video card performance and user relationships IE CAD, Design Station Architecture.
PC Design and Network Architecture.
CD-ROM R & RW/ Hard disk repairs.
Network Hubs and Topologies (females if possible)
ISDN Router, 10-10/100 & 100Mb hubs and switches.
Fax and communication devices.
HP Printing and scanning devices, digital copying system.
CAT 5 cabling techniques
TCP/IP Protocol
IPX/SPX Protocol
S&M Protocol at no extra charge
NetBEUI and NetBIOS Protocol
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