Daniel Kolb                      Curriculum Vitae
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Contact Details:
152 Cherry Tree Road
Beaconsfield
Bucks
HP9 1BD

Home: (+44) 1494 674129
Mobile: (+44) 7740 197650
Email: dankolb@ox.compsoc.net

Personal Information:
Marital status: Single
Nationality: British
Place of birth: High Wycombe, Bucks
Driving license: Clean - 3 years driving experience

Synopsis:

* Oxford Physics graduate from Corpus Christi College (high 2.2);
  graduation ceremony taking place in June 2003

* Extensive experience with all forms of computing, including Linux,
  OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, MacOS (X and Classic), Novell Netware,
  VMS, Solaris, NeXTStep, AOS/VS, and Windows (3.1, 9x and NT lines)

* Enthusiastic systems administrator with extensive experience of
  kernels and firewalls

* Personal collection of DEC, Sun, SGI and Data General mini computers
  and workstations, as well as desktop computers (including Apples and
  PCs)

* Former member of Corpus Christi College Computing Committee (JCR
  computing representative)

* Former President and Secretary of the Oxford University Computer
  Society

* Good team and communications skills

* Dedicated and hard working

* Ability to learn on the job

Specialisation:

1. Systems administration and firewalls

2. Network administration and management

3. Hardware installation, commissioning and repair

4. Programming languages - Pascal / Delphi, Visual Basic, Fortran,
   shell programming (sh, bash) and some limited experience of C.

5. PHP, HTML, Javascript, ASP and SQL (mainly with MySQL)

6. Use of computing to solve Physics problems

7. Use of LaTeX for formatting documents

Education:

1999-2002
Corpus Christi College, Oxford University
BA Physics degree (high 2.2); graduation ceremony taking place next
year

1993-1999
Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, Bucks

A Levels:
Subject		Grade

Maths		A
Further Maths	A
Physics		A
Computing	A
Chemistry	B

GCSEs:
Subject		Grade

Physics		    A*
Chemistry	    A*
Biology		    A
Maths		    A*
Additional Maths    B
Music		    A
French		    A*
German		    A*
Latin		    A
Information Systems A
History		    B
English Language    B
English Literature  B

1989-1993
Thorpe House School, Gerrards Cross, Bucks

1985-1989
Dair House School, Farnham Royal, Bucks

Languages:
Working knowledge of German, Polish and French.

Extracurricular achievements / positions of responsibility:

UKUUG Linux Developers Conference Helper	July 2002
Oxford University Computer Society President	March-June 2002
Corpus Christi College JCR (undergraduate)	October 2000 -
  computing representative			  June 2002
Oxford University Computer Society Secretary	2000-2001
School prefect					1998-1999
School network administrator			1998-1999
Piano Grade 8					1999
Saxophone (Tenor) Grade 8 Distinction		1999
Clarinet Advanced Certificate			1999
British Informatics Olympiad (BIO) Distinction	1998
Junior Maths Olympiad Silver			1995

Extracurricular activities:

* Involvement with planning and giving introductory talks about Linux,
  including installation, connecting it to the Internet, and use of
  the StarOffice word processor.

* Presented a talk to the Oxford University Computer Society about
  packet filtering and Network Address Translation with OpenBSD.

* Involvement with music - at school (Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Septet,
  Orchestra and Wind Band), at High Wycombe Music Centre (two wind
  bands, an orchestra and various chamber music groups, including
  being principal clarinet in the top music centre wind band
  [1998-1999]), at University (college orchestra, college jazz band,
  principal Tenor Sax in OUJO2, the second University Jazz Orchestra),
  and at county level (Bucks Youth Wind Orchestra and Bucks Symphonic
  Wind Ensemble); also playing in the bands in various musicals (Kiss
  Me Kate, Crazy For You, The Sound of Music, Chess, and a college
  pantomime).

* Membership of astronomical society at school.

* Collecting and maintaining classic computers.

* Hiking and climbing in the mountains.

Travel:

Visited various countries, including Australia, Canada, USA,
Singapore, Thailand and most of Europe.

Experience:

* Corpus Christi College - Writing a web-based Alumnus database system
  (contract work, August-September 2002)

* Instron Ltd. - ASP coding and general Windows 9x/NT/2000
  administration (July-August 2001)

* Oxiva and OMIA Ltd. (now called Mirada Solutions) - System and
  Network Administrator Consultant (part-time between January and
  October 2001)

* Causeway Technology Ltd. - System and Network Administrator
  (June-September 2000, 2 weeks in December 2000)

* Perkin Elmer Ltd. - Software Support Student - Year 2000 compliance
  checking (June - September 1999)

* Perkin Elmer Ltd. - Software testing (2 weeks in Summer 1997)

* Multilingual Technologies Ltd. - Shadowing a technical director (1
  week in Summer 1997)

References:

Please contact me if you need details of referees.



Date: September 3, 2002