Christopher Murchison

Background

About Christopher Murchison

Over the years i have acquired experience in various sections of IT \ IS. I am driven on by a genuine enthusiasm for technology in general and love a challenge. I`d say my strongest ability is problem solving. I enjoy thoroughly analyzing a problem in order to implement a solution. My core experience lies with the below technologies (But isn`t limited to them): General Knowledge: PC And Server Hardware In General (Various manufacturers including Dell, HP, Quantum and Sun) Operating Systems: Microsoft Operating Systems (Workstation and Server level) Sun Operating Systems (Specifically Solaris 8,9 and 10) Cisco Switches And Operating Systems (CATOS and IOS) Cisco PIX Linux Operating Systems (Specifically CentOS, Debian based distributions and Red Hat Enterprise 5 and 6 experience) Cisco VPN Concentrators Cisco 11503 Content Switches (Load Balancers) BIG-IP F5 (Load Balancers) Smoothwall Network Guardian 2008 (Implementation and Administration) Server Level Applications: Microsft Active Directory (Implementation, Administration, Migration) Microsoft DNS And Unix Bind (Implementation and Administration) Microsoft Exchange Server (Version 5.5 through to Version 2003) Microsoft SQL Server (Implementation and Maintenance. Version to Version 2005) Microsoft Clustering System Kixtart Scripting Language (With VB integration using KixForms) WMI Scripting Unix Shell Scripting (ksh, sh, bash) CA Brightstor Arcserve Backup Server (Implementation and Administration. Version to Version r12.5) VMWare ESXi Server Microsft Windows Software Update Services (Implementation and Administration) Symantec EndPoint Protection \ Multitier Protection Suite (Antivirus Server \ Client Deployments) Symantec Data Leak Prevention (Formerly Vontu) Citrix Presentation Server 4 (XenServer) WhatsUp Gold Monitoring EHealth Monitoring Nagios Monitoring I am always willing and enthusiastic to learn about more technologies and am a very hands on person. Specialties: Problem Management, Server Architecture (Dell, HP, Sun), Workstation Architecture (Various), Server Grade Operating Systems (Microsoft, Sun, Linux), Infrastructure Networking (Cisco), Backup \ Data Recovery Architecture (Dell, Quantum, CA), Administrative Scripting (Kixtart, VB, WMI, Unix Shell Scripting)