My name is Larkin Cunningham. I am an IT Consultant with 12 years of solid experience specialising in a wide range of technologies.
I have a 1st class honours BSc(hons) in Computer Services Management from Cork Institute of Technology. My training and business experience (5 years as Chief Operations Officer for an Internet services company I co-founded) have skilled me in strategic IT management, many areas of IT services management and day to day operations management.
Some of my other areas of expertise include:
Managed Services
- Email and Groupware Servers (Windows and Linux)
- Database Servers
- Web Servers
Linux SysAdmin
- Linux OS Hardening
- Software Patching and Maintenance
- Firewalls
- Disaster Recovery
Database Administration and Development - Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL
- Database Design
- SQL Optimisation
- Stored Procedures, Triggers and Views - T-SQL, PL-SQL
- Day to Day Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
- Backups - Hot and Cold
E-Commerce
- Web Development with PHP, Coldfusion MX, .NET, and Java
- Security
- Payment Gateways
- Order Fulfilment
- Catalogue Management
Java programming
- Spring Framework
- Struts
- JDBC with Oracle and MySQL
Low-level C programming - Batch Applications, Networked Applications
I write in-depth IT articles. I have had several feature articles published in Linux Magazine, a respected world-wide publication for Linux users, developers and sysadmins. See my Writing page for more information as well as PDFs of some of my articles.