Skills 1st

Directory Services - Systems Management - Network Management

We work mostly in the Thames Valley area of the UK but with some customers in other European countries. We take on consulting and teaching contracts ranging from one day upwards. The company name reflects our belief that developing and maintaining skills is a consultant's first priority.

Principal Consultants

Jane Curry BSc MBCS CEng

Zenoss, Tivoli and NetView design, installation, and training. Network Management with Open Source products.

• Jane Curry's CV (Resumé)
• CV in printable format
• List of papers and presentations by Jane Curry
• Tivoli Certified Consultant.
• Tivoli Certified Instructor.
• NetView expert.
• Keywords: Tivoli, NetView, NV6000, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Tivoli Distributed Monitoring, TME10, Tivoli Framework, network management, SNMP, DNS, MRTG, Zenoss, OpenNMS, Nagios, AIX, Linux, Windows.

Dr Andrew Findlay BSc PhD MIET CEng

Directory services, directory synchronisation, mail systems, large-scale systems and networks, DNS, security. IBM Certified Instructor.

• Andrew Findlay's CV (Resumé)
• CV in printable format
• List of papers and presentations by Andrew Findlay
• Andrew's personal web pages
• Keywords: LDAP, X.500, DNS, NIS, authentication and authorisation, web, security, firewalls, network management, Design of LDAP schemas. Design of mail systems. Unix, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenLDAP, IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Open Source software, Exim, Cyrus IMAP, BIND, TWiki, PAM/NSS, SNMP, MRTG, C, Perl, Shell, SQL.

News

We have a new workshop covering Zenoss event managment. Please let us know if you might be interested in attending or if you would like the course run at your own site.

We both presented papers at the UKUUG Spring Conference in London, 24-26 March 2009:

• Writing Access Control Policies for LDAP
• Managing networks and systems with Zenoss

Contact details

Phone: +44 1628 782565

E-mail:

• Jane.Curry@skills-1st.co.uk
• Andrew.Findlay@skills-1st.co.uk

Skills 1st is based in the Thames Valley between Slough and Maidenhead. We are within easy reach of London, High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Bracknell, Reading, Oxford, and Newbury. We are prepared to travel further afield, but obviously the costs will be greater. Where possible we work part of the time on client premises and part at our own home base to minimise travel expenses and maximise productivity.

Skills 1st Ltd is registered in England and Wales. Company number 3458854. 2 Cedar Chase, Taplow, SL6 0EU