Any IT People on here

[dum1983]

I know there is i just wonderd who at what you do. Plus there is a very good chance i will be hiring someone to help me out at my job as i am f**king snowed under and i was told im getting more work soon. so i would like to see what over IT people are up to and if there is any usefull contact on here.

just a brief bit on what i do.

I am an IT superintendant for a ship management company (part of the largest shipping company in the world). Basically I’m a one man IT department. Each ship has a Network (domain) with one server 10 pc’s for admin. We have 10 ships another 5 by april and another 6 new ones confirmed over the next 3 years.
My budget (I have full control) is $300K for just the admin network this year for the ten ships.
I also intend to virtualize the ships network towards the end of the year hopefully for multiple reasons.
I have a separate budget for comm’s around $4k per month per ship. I have remote access to two of the ships hopefully will get another 5 on this year.

 

[Andy.]

Application Manager and of absolutely no use to you what so ever.

Good luck though.

 

[Tom]

i have an iPhone

 

[Gally]

I have a Dell.

 

[dum1983]

You would probably be surprised we use a lot of bespoke software so most people would have to be trained to do the job no matter what thier previous role was.

 

[Cookie]

I'll do it \o/

I've broken and fixed radar before

 

[PinkoCommie]

I'm a senior escalation engineer for a networking security management company.

Upwards of 500+ firewalls and other devices (proxies, load balancers, routers, the occasional switch), look after worldwide VPNs etc.

 

[Adam]

I like flashing lights :clap:

 

[martynh]

I can switch things on and off!

 

[Cookie]

Out of interest dum1983, which port are you in? Southampton?

 

[BatFastard]

I am a current C++ programmer with a Computer Science degree. However only network experience is a Cisco Module in my degree

 

[@Spoonie]

What is an IT superintendent?

 

[Cliotoby]

I am CCNA certified (not that that means s**t) and ill be taking the CCNP ROUTE this summer, I have just finished studying SWITCH but intend to get ROUTE out the way with first, as thats the real big boy. I will pass it, even if it takes 4 times. Other than that not much experience lol. I will be studying Server 03 next semester but I dont expect it will be in depth, mainly about Active Directory. Keen to lean about server virtualisation and I have looked into it for assignment work when making reccomendations, Vsphere and ESXi for example but I couldnt set it all up.

 

[welshname]

Another 1 man IT department. i like it.

my experience is of no use what so ever to you. but good luck, sounds like you have your hands full. i only manage a small network running 2 servers, 1 domain, 21 client workstations and 20 retards.

 

[iain187]

i am the computer janitor in a prison \/


but yea, where are you

 

[Longy]

I look after 20+ Domains, 30+ Servers, all network components including IP based comms (by my self). Plus I do site audits, network design and do full network installs including cabling, cabinets, servers, switches, routers, firewalls, PCs and PBX phones systems.

 

[dum1983]

I work in London. The ships i deal with rarely come to the uk they are LNG Carriers so only visit the Dragon terminal in Wales and Isle of grain very rarely. i have to fly out to the ships generally normally in UEA, Singapore, or Egypt.

 

[dum1983]

What is an IT superintendent?

An IT Manager with no one to pass the buck down too. lol

 

[dum1983]

I look after 20+ Domains, 30+ Servers, all network components including IP based comms (by my self). Plus I do site audits, network design and do full network installs including cabling, cabinets, servers, switches, routers, firewalls, PCs and PBX phones systems.

Sounds like you have your hands full too!!

 

[dum1983]

I am CCNA certified (not that that means s**t) and ill be taking the CCNP ROUTE this summer, I have just finished studying SWITCH but intend to get ROUTE out the way with first, as thats the real big boy. I will pass it, even if it takes 4 times. Other than that not much experience lol. I will be studying Server 03 next semester but I dont expect it will be in depth, mainly about Active Directory. Keen to lean about server virtualisation and I have looked into it for assignment work when making reccomendations, Vsphere and ESXi for example but I couldnt set it all up.

I think you would be pleasntly suprised with esxi it is alot easier then i thought. CCNA and CCNP are well worth it stick with them. unfortunatly all the server course i have been on cover the basics and dont give you enough in depth, best thing to do there is try and get a job with an old IT guy who has spent the last 20 years in IT they, thats the best way of learning all the tricks. Thankfully i fell into a job previous to this one with just such a person. doubled my pay after a year with him.

 

[dum1983]

I like flashing lights :clap:

The whole reason i am int IT

 

[dum1983]

I'm a senior escalation engineer for a networking security management company.

Upwards of 500+ firewalls and other devices (proxies, load balancers, routers, the occasional switch), look after worldwide VPNs etc.

Intresting this was what i want to do for my next job!

 

[dum1983]

I'll do it \o/

I've broken and fixed radar before

I used to do radar and intergrated systems. i found it incredible annoying.

 

[PinkoCommie]

Intresting this was what i want to do for my next job!

It's an interesting field. Even if you have some pretty decent networking experience, it's a bit of a major change.

I went from working for the network team for a fairly large company (7-8 european sites, MPLS/VPN etc) doing switching, routing and firewalls to my current place and I spent the first 6 weeks or so thinking that I was totally and utterly out of my depth. Managing other peoples networks is so much harder as you don't have a decent overview of their system, and you are hamstrung a lot of the time about what changes you can make and what troubleshooting you can do.

For example, at my old place, if we had an issue with the firewall, we could quite easily reboot one of the cluster members or failover from one to the other in the middle of the day with no notice or anything. If I did that to one of my customers firewall clusters I would get crucified.

 

[Cookie]

I used to do radar and intergrated systems. i found it incredible annoying.

I worked in IT for http://www.kelvinhughes.com/, I just used to break things every now and then to 'help out'

I am looking for a new job though, want my CV?

 

[Clart]

Systems Analyst for a large global car interior manufacturer - Shop floor systems integration and general IT boringness....

 

[Dafthead]

I once tripped over the power cable for a C6509 chassis and took a full office of 350 people down @ work.

Do I get the job?

 

[dum1983]

I worked in IT for http://www.kelvinhughes.com/, I just used to break things every now and then to 'help out'

I am looking for a new job though, want my CV?

Meet a guy the other day who worked for them too. can't remeber his name. In my old company we used there ECDIS. Always good to have a few CV's in my files.

 

[dum1983]

I once tripped over the power cable for a C6509 chassis and took a full office of 350 people down @ work.

Do I get the job?

My first week in IT the exchange server had issues looked like a memory leak and my boss told me to "fix it" i saw store.exe using up all the meomory and killed the thread through task manager (thankfully i didnt corrupt exchange). Yep didn't do that again. boss just laughed.
The week after he was working on a Cisco pix and changed the password then instantly forgot what he put in. of course the mangment where told it it failed and wouldn even turn on.

 

[Cookie]

Meet a guy the other day who worked for them too. can't remeber his name. In my old company we used there ECDIS. Always good to have a few CV's in my files.

Small world heh

I might not recognise the name even if you did know it, I haven't worked there for nearly 3 years

 

[dum1983]

It's an interesting field. Even if you have some pretty decent networking experience, it's a bit of a major change.

I went from working for the network team for a fairly large company (7-8 european sites, MPLS/VPN etc) doing switching, routing and firewalls to my current place and I spent the first 6 weeks or so thinking that I was totally and utterly out of my depth. Managing other peoples networks is so much harder as you don't have a decent overview of their system, and you are hamstrung a lot of the time about what changes you can make and what troubleshooting you can do.

For example, at my old place, if we had an issue with the firewall, we could quite easily reboot one of the cluster members or failover from one to the other in the middle of the day with no notice or anything. If I did that to one of my customers firewall clusters I would get crucified.

I am looking to do a few security course this year, just need to be more carefull with my money. This is a major problem for me.

Every job i have had i have been out of my depth, i think it is the best way to learn. lol
I have some basic cisco firewall experience, even got an old pix sitting at home.
I have just spent the last two years clearing out old networks set up by, what can only be described as a complete tit (was hired on recomendation of main IT guy in our sister company). he didn't document anything and left before i started. The IT department (3 people) in our sister company work a floor above they had no idea how to set up a domain, they came down and asked me to show them how to do it, havent laughed so much in years.

 

[Cliotoby]

Thing is right now, I couldnt do any of that without going on google and reminding myself how to do it, ive done things like that before various times but things just dont stick especially when your trying to learn so many things at once. I know I need to start at the bottom making coffee, and itll take a long time before i get anywhere near the wages I want to earn. Sure I could configure a network and get it up and running, but only to CCNA level which is useless especially at layer 3, I'd also struggle to confidently define the requirements of a business when it comes to networking at this stage too. Im more concerned about getting on the ladder than where im going to end up. Utter frustration, I just want to finish this degree, get my CCNP and get my foot on the ladder.

 

[PinkoCommie]

My first week in IT the exchange server had issues looked like a memory leak and my boss told me to "fix it" i saw store.exe using up all the meomory and killed the thread through task manager (thankfully i didnt corrupt exchange). Yep didn't do that again. boss just laughed.
The week after he was working on a Cisco pix and changed the password then instantly forgot what he put in. of course the mangment where told it it failed and wouldn even turn on.

A while ago, I was clearing some space on a firewall. I sort of accidently ran "rm * -r" on the wrong directory . For those that don't know Unix commands that basically says "delete everything in this directory and everything in every subdirectory under it", it turns out I wasn't in the /tmp directory at all, I was somewhere important (imagine deleting c:\windows\system32, a bit like that). Luckily I had a remote serial console connection to it so I could rebuild it from scratch telling the customer that it had crashed, but that it was lucky I was around as I could rebuild it quick to get it working again (was part of a cluster thank f**k)

 

[k1ano]

I know there is i just wonderd who at what you do. Plus there is a very good chance i will be hiring someone to help me out at my job as i am f**king snowed under and i was told im getting more work soon. so i would like to see what over IT people are up to and if there is any usefull contact on here.

just a brief bit on what i do.

I am an IT superintendant for a ship management company (part of the largest shipping company in the world). Basically I’m a one man IT department. Each ship has a Network (domain) with one server 10 pc’s for admin. We have 10 ships another 5 by april and another 6 new ones confirmed over the next 3 years.
My budget (I have full control) is $300K for just the admin network this year for the ten ships.
I also intend to virtualize the ships network towards the end of the year hopefully for multiple reasons.
I have a separate budget for comm’s around $4k per month per ship. I have remote access to two of the ships hopefully will get another 5 on this year.

Not trying to be too cynical but ... Be careful this doesn't turn into someone seeing a great job opportunity for them ...

 

[Cookie]

A while ago, I was clearing some space on a firewall. I sort of accidently ran "rm * -r" on the wrong directory . For those that don't know Unix commands that basically says "delete everything in this directory and everything in every subdirectory under it", it turns out I wasn't in the /tmp directory at all, I was somewhere important (imagine deleting c:\windows\system32, a bit like that). Luckily I had a remote serial console connection to it so I could rebuild it from scratch telling the customer that it had crashed, but that it was lucky I was around as I could rebuild it quick to get it working again (was part of a cluster thank f**k)

It's even more fun if you put an f after the r

 

[dum1983]

A while ago, I was clearing some space on a firewall. I sort of accidently ran "rm * -r" on the wrong directory . For those that don't know Unix commands that basically says "delete everything in this directory and everything in every subdirectory under it", it turns out I wasn't in the /tmp directory at all, I was somewhere important (imagine deleting c:\windows\system32, a bit like that). Luckily I had a remote serial console connection to it so I could rebuild it from scratch telling the customer that it had crashed, but that it was lucky I was around as I could rebuild it quick to get it working again (was part of a cluster thank f**k)

rm * -r also known to unix admins as the paddy virus. lol no offense meant to any irish on here

 

[dum1983]

Not trying to be too cynical but ... Be careful this doesn't turn into someone seeing a great job opportunity for them ...

good luck to them. They may be better equiped to deal with the crap i get.

 

[@Spoonie]

The IT department (3 people) in our sister company work a floor above they had no idea how to set up a domain, they came down and asked me to show them how to do it, havent laughed so much in years.

I remember when I started adding new servers to our first domain (NT 3.51) that I had no clue the role of the server. We had two other servers, a PDC and BDC, didn't know what these were but as it wouldn't let me add a PDC I guessed it should be a BDC, we ended up with 5 BDCs for 150 users. Logon was very efficient

 

[ChrisR]

Work in an infrastructure team as a 'security and software management specialist'.

Naff-ish title, basically I 'do' security with one hat on, and with my other hat on I do software asset/configuration management/software packaging with a speciality of SCCM and some other SAM tools.

Sadly I don't get given 2 actual hats to wear, or even just the one

Systems Analyst for a large global car interior manufacturer - Shop floor systems integration and general IT boringness....

Can't remember if I've asked before, but that's not for Johnson Controls is it?

 

[SamP]

Manage WAN's with 10,000 nodes. Biggest customer at the moment is Cemex. Tis a bit of a pain fixing monotonous faults all day, but some times interesting stuff pops up its brilliant fun. Recently had a device which was issuing DHCP addresses and causing chaos.