Skills 1st

• Directory Services
• Systems Management
• Network Management

• Consulting and teaching.
• Contracts from one day to one year.
• UK base with customers across the whole of Europe.

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
• Zenoss Master.
• Tivoli Certified Consultant.
• Tivoli Certified Instructor.
• NetView expert.
• Keywords: Network management, Zenoss, OpenNMS, Nagios, SNMP, DNS, MRTG, NetView, NV6000, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Tivoli Distributed Monitoring, TME10, Tivoli Framework, AIX, Linux, Windows.

Dr Andrew Findlay BSc PhD MIET CEng

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

• 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/Foswiki, PAM/NSS, SNMP, MRTG, C, Perl, Shell, SQL.

Directory Services Courses

Tivoli Directory Integrator v7 Workshop

This 3-day workshop-based course will take you rapidly through the steep part of the learning-curve so that you can build useful directory-synchronisation solutions straight away.

This course is scheduled to run in Maidenhead from 22nd to 24th September 2010.

LDAP courses

We can tailor on-site LDAP courses to your exact requirements, from basics through schema design to access-control design and service design.

Hands-on courses are normally based on OpenLDAP, but can be tailored for other servers if you prefer.

Zenoss Courses

Zenoss Introduction and FastStart

This one-day workshop will get you started with Zenoss. Using a purpose-built virtual machine image, you will install Zenoss and set it up to monitor and manage devices on an emulated network. On returning home you will be able to use the same image in your own network.

Zenoss Event Managment Workshop

A hands-on 3-day workshop covering the Zenoss event management subsystem.

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