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Hello everyone,<br>
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I know, that's not really a good moment (after Kristen Eisenberg
cloned Ottavio's post) but my post is not supposed to be spam
even if I am located in West Midlands too. I am trying to find
proper job in UK for about 2 months. I am registered on most of
the UK jobs sites and I am after three interviews now - but I am
still waiting for official message that they want to hire me. It
takes so much time to get any official decisions - I am patient
but I just want to do some progress. Currently I am working in
industrial, in warehouse and I am stock controller - that's not
my dream to work with labels and packages. My team leader is
waiting for kind of promotion in that company and I was asked If
I am going to stay there as a stock controller. If they give me
that position and I quit - he could be downgraded from his dream
position to be stock controller again. I had to answer my
employer, that I am not going to stay for longer time and now I
am going to loose that job soon. That makes me forced to find my
target job faster that I planned - I am on edge of the knife.
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I am System Administrator looking for a full time job. Recently
I made the decision to move to United Kingdom - I live in
Birmingham now. I am an experienced person in the matter of
networking services. My duties included direct contact,
supervision and development of network infrastructure for large
and demanding clients. They are well-known companies in Poland
but, some of them are known in United Kingdom too (for example
TUI Travel and JMD). I have graduated BA on the faculty of
administration of computer networks. I am easygoing and nice
person, responsible, I learn quickly, easily solving problems
and doing well in group work. My strongest point is the ability
to integrate various computer systems and planning /
implementation of advanced solutions, tailored to customer
needs.
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I would like to add something personal, it is not very official
but very honest. I am extremely motivated and determined person.
I hope, that this will not sound like a brag - I write it to
advertise myself. As an employee, I am ready to do everything
what my position requires and much, much more. In my previous
job, I was working for about 4+ hours not paid extra time every
day. Sometimes, I sacrificed all my spare time for solving
current problems or improving various solutions. In 3 years time
I was *always* on call for customers and for my employer - that
phone number was available at company website as emergency
number. The most challenging situation for me was to convince my
bosses in that work, that upgrading the whole system base is a
priority. They were using FreeBSD 6.2 with many system scripts
from very old FreeBSD versions. They were not using advantages
of ports system, security lists - everything was compiled
separately. Much of services, deamons were working at very old
versions and because of that - nobody wanted to touch those
custom installations without any standard patches, locations or
whatever. I knew that changing the whole <acronym
title="Operating System">OS</acronym> was necessary, so I
wanted to show them advantages of sophisticated alternatives of
Linux operating system, which I prefer. It was hard, because I
had to prove them that my alternative is better, more stable
with better performance. Every time my solution failed, my
chances of migration were drastically decreasing. Two of my
bosses were ex Unix FreeBSD administrators as well and they
really wanted everything to stay in the old way - it was really
hard to convince them. They were using and administrating those
servers too from time to time. When I started to work there, 18
servers were running FreeBSD only. Now there are only 2 servers
left with some old services, which could not be upgraded. The
rest and 8 new ones are working on Linux now. My first machine
on Linux launched three years ago is almost nine hundred days of
uptime now. I have to mention another important example. I was
working from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM of my normal work time, then
from 5:00 PM preparations for migration to 1:00 AM, 1:00 AM to
7:00 AM migration and then I was receiving many calls from
clients and from work colleagues until 5:00 PM after every
little bug was fixed and all clients and my bosses where happy.
It gives 32 hours of working. It was very difficult and
time-consuming operation because I was migrating many very old
services to new structure and it was very stressful. Everything
went just great, without any big problems. On that example I
want to show that I am very responsible person and if something
has to be done, it has to be done perfectly no matter what. I
think that this shows me as heavy duty and determined employee
and that is the most important point for employer. I could
mention hundreds of examples like installing <acronym
title="Hypertext Preprocessor">PHP</acronym> extensions, which
customer needed, when I was on vacation, on the beach with my
Android telephone and <acronym title="Secure Shell">SSH</acronym>
session opened. My employer never forced me to work this way, he
could not - because it was against the law. I was doing
everything what was needed to satisfy customers and to get best
SLA of services - because I wanted to do my job, the best I
could. I love satisfaction which comes from responsible and
difficult work like this.
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I know I can be very valuable employee and I am perfect person
for System Administrator position. Feel free to ask me any
questions by call [after 2:30] or email. If You need any more
details about me, please visit <a href="http://cv.linuxtech.pl"
class="urlextern" title="http://cv.linuxtech.pl"
rel="nofollow">http://cv.linuxtech.pl</a> website.
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Kind Regards,<br>
Pawel Brzozowski<br>
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