My Profile

Hi My name is Al Napp.

I am:

• A knowledgeable IT professional with strong technical skills and extensive experience of planning, implementation and maintenance of hardware, software and networks.
• A good team member or leader, with excellent communication and presentations skills.
• A problem solver with an ability to understand and support corporate strategy and business needs through the use of IT.

Technical Skills

• Detailed knowledge and experience of Microsoft technologies including:
  • MS Server: NT/2000/2003/2008
  • Exchange: 5.5/2003/2007
  • Web Hosting: IIS6/IIS7/MSdeploy
  • Expert user of Office products
  • Active Directory
  • Terminal Services
  • Sharepoint
  • MCSE NT/2000
• IT evangelist - great enthusiasm for the effective use of existing & emerging technologies.
• VMWare, installation, configuration maintenance and use.
• Autonomy IDOL servers, support and maintenance.
• Zeus Load-balancers.
• Web Technologies - HTML, CSS, ASP, PHP, VBscript and Javascript.
• Remote Access technologies: VPNs, PDAs, Smartphones, Blackberry, Citrix etc.
• Training - writing and conducting 1 to 1, class based or online training.
• Disaster Recovery - DR planning and testing.
• User Support - hardware and software.
• Networks (WAN and LAN) - administration, monitoring and maintenance.
• databases - SQL Server, MSAccess, MySQL, design, implementation and administration.

For further details, please contact me or request a CV. For Personal Interests etceteras, please see the personal page