In my spare time I do some IT consultancy in the South West of England, UK, managing a few networks for small - medium sized companies, with 5 - 250 employees (although I have worked on networks with 2000+ users). I have many years experience in the deployment, maintenance and day-to-day administration of Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2008, Active Directory, Exchange Server 2003/2007, Windows XP/Vista, Small Business Server, plus deployment and maintenance of associated network and hardware infrastructure, PCs, laptops, servers, routers, switches, printers, VPN and Wi-Fi technologies.
I also undertake website design and development jobs for businesses and non-profit organizations. All websites are developed in accordance with the latest industry standards and practices, most notably the use of valid XHTML and CSS conforming to W3C standards. Where a dynamic, back-end processing interface is required (whether for processing user logins, eCommerce or any other appropriate purpose), PHP or ASP projects can be seen from beginning to end, using an appropriate RDBMS.
I predominantly use Experts-Exchange as an Expert by answering other users' questions. I have achieved ranks in many different zones, including Exchange Email Server and Windows 2003 Server. I was the first Expert to reach both 50 000 points (Master certification), 150 000 points (Guru certification) and 300 000 points (Wizard certification) in the Windows Server 2008 zone. Please remember that while I try to look at as many questions as I can, I am situated in the UK with a different time zone to most of our users - so if I do not respond immediately to a comment you posted, give it a few hours and I suspect I will return. If I will be away for extended periods of time, I will let you know by posting a comment at the top of my profile.
The majority of my "expertise" is simply from trial and error for about 10 years. I used to have the attitude of "Why not break it, then try to fix it?". On the odd occasion, this has gone horribly wrong. I am always willing to learn; and, not being perfect, you may see the odd question from me around the site!
On Experts Exchange, I can usually be found in the Microsoft Server and Desktop OS zones, although I am also beginning to expand my knowledge in the VBScript, Batch Scripting and general Scripting Languages zones. I am also a Cleanup Volunteer (CV) for a reasonable list of zones. As of June 2008, I've handled almost 2000 questions through Cleanup, but that figure is increasing all the time.
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You can email me about anything you need; if you want me to look at a question, please do include a direct link to the question from your browser. If you are emailing to discuss consultancy, please email to the same address below, which is (after removing my deliberate obfuscation!):
tigermatt (the 'at' sign here) btinternet (put a 'full stop' symbol here) com
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>>> "Can I hire you?"
YES! You can hire me. I can perform most server-related work remotely using Remote Desktop or VNC. For website related work, you can be anywhere in the United Kingdom. For new deployments or major work where I will need to visit you on-site, it is preferable if you are in the South West of England. For more information, please send an email to the address below and I will happily give you more information on my competitive pricing structure.
The first question I ever answered was on Wifi Hotspots and Remote Desktop at
http:Q_21794801.html back in 2006. I didn't really participate properly on the site until the early part of 2007, though.
