On-going administration of this small ISP's network. Almost all of this work is done remotely.

I am responsible for all of the core Internet functions - such as DNS, mail (SMTP, POP, IMAP) & web - which is done on Linux servers. I look after all aspects of their Linux computers.

They also have Windows computers which are mainly used as public web servers and the office's internal infra-structure. I help the on-site person who does most of the day to day management of these computers.

This is my business that supplies emergency cover and on-going support for the computers and small networks of various local businesses and individuals. Almost all of these are Windows sites of various flavours.

Testing of new Network Storage product and associated software.

Setting up and monitoring their external web server, including porting their web site to the new server.

Various small web programming jobs, such as the automatic generation of passwords from suitably qualified customers, and modifications and fixes to their existing administration Intranet written in PHP

I did the technical support for the Portmasters, and other equipment produced by Livingston, which was sold into most of the ISPs in the country.

This continued until Lucent (who had bought Livingston) killed off the product range. The portmasters are still going strong but they are such a solid product there is no need for any support.

I was one of the directors and founders of this company which produced software for storage devices such as Optical Disc jukeboxes. This software was written in C & C++. I wrote code for all parts of this system from device drivers to user interfaces, although my main work was user interfaces (using X Windows) . I also wrote the installation and upgrade software, mainly as bash shell scripts.

I was the System Administrator for the company's network of Solaris workstations with a few Windows computers.

In 1994 I left the company and set up Vine Software. From then until 2003 I continued to write code for them as a contractor. This was mainly the Command Line Interface code for the appliances they were working on. I also continued to remotely look after their network.

This arrangement was terminated when the company was taken over and the new owners did not want to use contractors.