Matthew Walster

Current

• Managing Director at Elemental Hosting Ltd

Past

• Network Architect at Gyron Internet Ltd
• AssemblyTV Live Reporter / Editor at Assembly Organizing / Livecrew
• Property Manager at Aldergate Property Group

• Part-time Systems Administrator at Aldergate Property Group

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Education

• Loughborough University

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Industry

Computer Networking

Matthew Walster’s Summary

A graduate of Computer Science and e-Business, previously working in residential and commercial lettings, now concentrating on Computer Networking, mainly with Juniper Networks and HP Procurve/Proliant equipment.

Matthew Walster’s Specialties:

Juniper, HP, Linux, Ethernet, BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, 10GE, IPv6, MPLS, Optics, Network Architecture

Matthew Walster’s Experience

• Managing Director

  Elemental Hosting Ltd

  (Telecommunications industry)

  May 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Elemental Hosting Ltd was started in order to provide web-hosting and VPS services to a variety of local groups and businesses.
  
  As of February 2010, it will be reshaped into a consulting platform for network-based tasks, and will relaunch with an eye towards the service market.

• Network Architect

  Gyron Internet Ltd

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2008 — December 2009 (1 year 6 months)

  Responsible for maintaining and updating the network infrastructure at six sites, covering more than 200 racks. Involved with designing, simulating, implementing and testing a custom-built datacentre network for eventual deployment of 500 racks, along with the office networking and VoIP setup.
  
  Heavy user of multiprotocol BGP, OSPFv2/3, VRRP and sanitised RSTP. Juniper J/M/MX/EX routing is used, and I successfully managed a team to upgrade the core routing infrastructure from single LX fiber with M7i to 802.3ad bonded links on an MX240 backbone with BGP Multipath on Tier-1 NSPs - with zero downtime.
  
  Additionally, I designed and implemented an RSVP-signalled MPLS pseudowire backhaul service for our clients from our datacentre in Hemel Hempstead to various London sites, with geographically diverse connectivity.
  
  I also implemented a converged monitoring system that monitors everything from power and environmental monitoring units to BGP sessions and system health.

• AssemblyTV Live Reporter / Editor

  Assembly Organizing / Livecrew

  (Non-Profit; Events Services industry)

  August 2003 — August 2008 (5 years 1 month)

  During each August, I was a part of a small team that produce (mostly) live content for broadcast to the Finnish nation (1.2 million households) and the internet.
  
  The content is very technical in nature, and is related to the "demoscene" where programmers produce non-interactive works of audio/visual art for a big screen viewed by >5000 people at the event and countless others around the globe.
  
  The live features usually involve interviews with little preparation, requiring "on-the-spot" thinking, in addition to thoroughly pre-researched inserts with sponsors, detailing their experiences and offers etc.
  
  As of 2005, I started taking on a larger role, and now stand as an "unofficial" team leader due to my experience in the role.

• Property Manager

  Aldergate Property Group

  (Real Estate industry)

  July 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  In charge of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire residential and commercial lettings, including contractor negotiations, maintenance and rentals.

• Part-time Systems Administrator

  Aldergate Property Group

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)

  July 2001 — July 2007 (6 years 1 month)

  Designed and installed a PBX system based on the Panasonic 206, created a Linux based server system with 3-tier backups for e-mail and file storage, and networked together 6 workstations in a Peer-to-Peer Windows XP setup.

Matthew Walster’s Education

• Loughborough University

  2003 — 2007

Additional Information

Matthew Walster’s Groups:

Debian-UK, LUGRadio, LSUCS, Ubuntu, Assembly Organizing, Alternative Party

•    FOSDEM Visitor
•    RIPE community
•    Demoscene
•    Loughborough University Alumni
•    JUNOS Professionals
•    Juniper Network Specialists
•    UKNoT
•    Peering
•    UK Network Operators Forum
•    The Nottingham & Derby Networking Group
•    LINX Network Community
•    IP / MPLS Traffic Engineering and Capacity Planning

Matthew Walster’s Honors:

Honorary Life Membership of the Loughborough Students Union.
Honorary Life Membership of the Loughborough Students Union Computer Society.
Winner of "Most ethically and environmentally friendly society" under my role as chairman in 2005.

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