curiculum vitae
- name
- Rob Lacey
- location
- London, UK
- contact [at] robl [dot] me
profile / aims
I am a conscientious worker who enjoys meeting and dealing with new challenges. I work well with a team, but have the motivation to work alone if required. I am always willing and capable of learning new skills / technologies quickly and able to work under pressure. I love coding and keeping abreast of new technologies.
My ideal job would be to work in a team that I both contribute to and learn from, in a role that constantly challenges my skills and allows me to develop in new directions and one that involves subject matter that I feel passionate about.
work experience / history
Advantage Interactive
- Senior Developer / Systems Architect (July 2006 - current)
- I currently work a small team of developers maintaining three of the company's core web sites and provisioning systems. Programming primarily in Ruby / Ruby On Rails and working in sprints using a combination of Scrum and XP methodologies to incrementally roll out new functionality and new products whilst maintaining the core code base. The role involves constant interation with other team members to plan and deliver solutions, communications with all departments within the company and mentoring junior members of staff. The role requires me to use my sys admin skills, pick up new ideas and react quickly to resolve issues.
- Hosting Engineer (November 2005 - July 2006)
- I worked in a small Operations Team maintaining the network, domain registration, web hosting and mail platforms and acted as an escalation point for the Support Teams. The role required me to solve problems using a number of different skills and learning to prioritise tasks.
Mistral Internet (formerly Frontier Internet)
- 3rd Line Technical Support Engineer / ISP / Systems Engineer (July 2005 - November 2005)
- I worked in a busy Support Department, managing internal and customer tickets on a variety of services including: managed servers, connectivity, firewalls, MySQL / MSSQL Databases, IIS / Apache Web Services. I acted as the escalation point for 1st and 2nd Line Support Teams. My duties varied on a daily basis because of the range of services that were offered and involved communication between multiple departments as well as direct contact with customers. Other duties include some coding projects and consolidating several different hosting platforms into one single new platform.
- Network Operations Engineer (August 2002 - July 2005)
- I worked in a small Network Operations team maintaining the core web, mail and data systems. The role involved sys-admin, configuring and installing Leased Lines at customer sites, network monitoring, DNS, MySQL. I used our internal ticketing systems to resolve internal and customer problems. Web development in PHP / MySQL for internal systems.
- Hostmaster (November 2000 - August 2002)
- I worked in a small team dealing with processing customers orders from initial set-up internet services. e.g. web hosting, mailboxes, dial-up, ADSL, etc. The role primarily involved domain maintainance and general office administration but also had scope to get involved in all technical aspects of the business, DNS management and programming in PHP / MySQL. It required interaction between sales, admin and Network Operations departments across two company sites and pre-sales enquiries from customers.
technical skills
- Programming Languages
- Ruby (& Ruby on Rails, Merb), Bash, PHP, (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl
- Operating Systems
- Linux RedHat 6.0 - RHEL4, Fedora, CentOS, WhiteBox, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows (2k / 2k3 Server, XP, Vista)
- Server Applications
- Apache, ProFTPd, Exim, Zope, Plesk, IIS
- Databases
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, LDAP
- Version Control
- Subversion, Darcs, Git, CVS
- Virtualisation
- VMware, OpenVZ (Virtuozzo), Xen
- Firewalls
- iptables, ipchains, Fortigate, Netscreen
- Networking
- Cisco, Ascend routers, ServerIron load balancers
education / qualifications
BSc Honours Musical Instrument Technology
A Level Physics
A Level Maths
A Level Electronics
AS-Level Music Technology
10 GCSEs
other information
Interests include; online gaming (MarioKart, Guitar Hero, World of Warcraft),
horribly noisy music, film, coding, gigs, playing guitar, socialising, cats,
zombies
Married
Non-smoker
Full clean driving license