Alex Burrows Network Consultant Network Communications Telephone: (441) 294-3416

Previous Roles:

Feb 93 - July 97	Azlan PLC - Network Consultant
Sept 91 - Feb 93	Azlan PLC  - Help Desk Engineer
Apr 89 - Sept 91	Azlan PLC - Computer Engineer

Key Skill Set Areas:

• Cisco Network Products - Routers, Switches, Network Management
• 3Com Network Products - Routers, Switches, Network Management
• Network General Sniffers - Ethernet, Token-Ring, WAN
• Madge Token-Ring Products - All networking products
• Olicom Token-Ring Products - All network products
• Novell Netware - 2.x, 3.x, 4.x

Key Projects:

Cable and Wireless	Designed and installed an ISP to support the Caribbean and Bermuda using Cisco hardware.  This involved using BGP and OSPF with high end Cisco hardware
XL	Designed and installed a network to support XL's local and worldwide network.  Using EIGRP routed IP and IPX.  The network was also provisioned to support voice over IP.
Bank of Butterfield	Used Network General Sniffers to find faults on a large token-ring network.  After the faults were cleared redesigned the network to eliminate any of the problems occurring again.
Centre	Using Cisco hardware designed and implemented a high performance gigabit Ethernet network that was fully redundant.
Volvo	Using IP, EIGRP, IGRP, OSPF, IPX NSLP, and DLSW implement a network for Volvo trucks.  The reason for so many different protocols was due to the various offices configurations and WAN service providers requirements.
Ryder Trucks	Designed and install a large WAN network to support Ryder trucks network.  This routed IP and IPX using Cisco hardware.
Royal Navy	Using X.25 designed and installed a network using Retix routers to support various offices at the Royal Navy's head office in Portsmouth, England.
British Airways	Using DLSW designed and installed a network to support various IBM hardware using Cisco equipment. Cluster controllers would attach to the Cisco routers via a serial SDLC connection.
Schroders	Using Cisco hardware designed and installed a WAN network to support the Schroder Group in the UK.  This network used IP to tunnel the various IBM protocols, which could not be routed.
ITV Group	Designed and implement a WAN network to support the ITV group in the UK.  This was a fully redundant network which routed IP and IPX over Retix routers.
IBM, Scottish Power	Designed and implemented a large network to support all Scottish Powers offices and power stations.  This was a fully redundant, high performance network using Cisco routers and OSPF.