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I'm Steve Goodman, and I'm happily married to my wife Lisa, have a baby girl Isabelle, and live in Warwickshire, UK.

Currently working at a University in Birmingham, UK as the Senior Server Engineer in the University IT department's Network and Server Team. My role involves designing and leading the implementation of infrastructure systems, working as a technical lead on IT projects, managing the work of a small team of IT professionals and occasionally developing software.

I have over 12 years worth of commercial experience and hold industry certifications including Microsoft MCITP (EMA Exchange 2007 and 2010), MCSE, MCSA, MCTS, VMware VCP, Sun Solaris SCSA and HP APS.

The technologies I work with and have extensive experience with include Windows, Unix and Linux servers, EMC SANs/NAS, HP SANs, MS SQL, Oracle, AD and I currently specialise in Microsoft Exchange and VMware vSphere. At Aston a few of the major systems I've been responsible for the design implementation of include Microsoft Exchange , Celerra Filestore and VMware Internal Cloud along with major migrations, most recently of student email from Dovecot IMAP on Linux to hosted Exchange 2010.

I also write software in C#, Java, C++ and PHP on Windows and Unix platforms, typically for system infrastructure automation and management but venture into web apps and desktop apps - occasionally both for my current employer and as a freelance programmer.

Outside of the day job I'm passionate about technology and unashamed to be a bit of a geek. In the past I've been featured in a number of UK magazines (Custom PC, Computer Shopper, Gigaherz Magazine) for my work in Car Computing and at the time helped to organise the first nationwide Car PC shows. Although I don't have as much spare time these days I'm currently studying for a MSc in Distributed Network Computing, and hope to use my research project as an opportunity to work on emerging technologies.

If you'd like to contact me my email address is steve@goodman.net and you can find me on Twitter as stevegoodman