Over 30 years experience in the IT sector, from an underpaid overworked Cobol programmer through Assembly langauges (including NEAT 1,2 & 3 and Z86) , C, C+ and on to today's server side scripting. Extensive experience of Operating Systems including most Microsoft Variations and Linux,  Network protcols, Hardware (from early 70's Mainframes onwards) and a variety of applications. For the past 16 years I have been running my own consultancy together with some very talented colleagues, our specialities are IT Facilities Management and Web Based application integration. We have 3 remote data centers comprising of just over 70 servers operated on a colocation basis , in addition we have just under 200 servers under management.