Introduction
I’m Bradley Falzon, I’m 24, from Adelaide Australia. Have a look here to see what I want in an employer. Contact me via email at brad@teambrad.net.
Jenna and I (I'm on the left) in Hawaii
Skill Overview
I am a typical geek, enjoy the IT industry, orientated onto the LAMP stacks. I am a Systems Engineer for a local ISP, which bring together my favorite skill sets:
- High Availability and Scalable Architectures
- These sort of come in hand in hand, I’ve worked heavily with Linux Heartbeat / Pacemaker Projects
- FreeBSD CARP System, although only briefly
- Proprietary SIP Session Border Controllers
- Security Engineering
- MySQL DBA
- SIP Engineer (I do enjoy playing around with Phone Systems, check out some of my projects)
- Network Layers (I know enough to be dangerous, but I know some really good Network Engineers)
- Process Management (process asin following processes, not processes asin running programs / threads)
My sister and I, we're a little older now though.
Non IT Interests
- My Partner Jenna
- Cooking – I’m a big fan
- I get most of that from my step father, and the Maltese side of my fathers family
- I have a deal with Jenna, I cook she cleans. She doesn’t like cooking and I don’t like cleaning
- It works well, we eat well and have a clean house
- Vegetable Gardening
- Mainly because I enjoy cooking, and don’t enjoy not having the ingredients
- Thus, it seemed logical to grow my own
- I don’t do this for the organic benefits, but I do follow the organic growing processes
- Photography
- I have a Canon 450D, couple kit lenses, speedlite and my Canon 24-70 2.8
- I keeps me entertained
Main IT Skill Set
A summary where I have spent some time;
- Linux, specifically;
- CentOS
- FreeBSD, specifically;
- 5.x and 6.x amd64 SMP, but it has been awhile since I’ve standardised on Linux
- Hardware, specifically;
- Dell Rack Mount-ables and Blades
- Storage, specifically;
- NetApp (in an administration capacity)
- Dell (in an administration capacity)
- NFS / iSCSI / SAMBA / CIFS
- Virtualisation; specifcally;
- Xen Source (not extensive work with Xen Enterprise)
- VMWare (Server mainly, however, have began working with vSphere)
- Databases, specifically;
- MySQL, InnoDB, MyISAM and extensive knowledge in ndbcluster
- Web Servers, specifically;
- Apache / httpd
- Website Performance
- High Availability, specifically;
- AnyCast (in an administration capacity)
- Linux Heartbeat
- VoIP, specifically;
- Slipper
- Asterisk
- OpenSER / OpenSIPS
- SIP RFC 3261
- RADIUS, specifically;
- Authentication for PPP Networks
- Accounting for PPP Networks
- DNS, specically;
- named / bind as a Name Server and Cache
- Minor theory of DNSSEC, but interested in
- Other;
- Netflow
- Syslog / rsyslogd