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Alan

Consultant

East Tamaki,
New Zealand

Member Since: 2009/03/22

Industry: Consulting

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Points this month11,700

Total points1,208,689

Questions: 78

Solutions: 986

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Professional Background

Consultant - Strategy / Business / Financial / IT

March 2008 – Present

New Zealand

Education

University of Warwick

BSc (Hons)

Mathematics & Business

1990 – 1993

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Languages

English

Native or Bilingual Proficiency

Level Progress

Current: Level 24

Alan needs 41,311 points to level up.

LVL 25

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24

1,208,689
Microsoft Excel

12

333,534
Exchange

11

262,416
Microsoft Office

11

244,662
Outlook

8

144,216
Windows OS

8

135,258
Networking

7

113,867
Active Directory

6

95,944
DNS

6

86,910
Email Servers

5

69,858
Powershell

5

67,158
SBS

5

51,462
Windows 10

4

49,588
Office 365

4

45,389
Email Clients

4

44,278
Microsoft Applications

4

42,230
Windows Server 2012

4

37,905
Security

4

37,565
VBA

4

35,676
Spreadsheets

4

35,650
Linux

4

32,382
Google

3

31,163
Windows 7

3

23,844
Windows Server 2008

3

22,289
Windows Networking

3

20,316
Storage

3

20,096
Software

3

19,903
DHCP

3

19,724
Microsoft Server OS

3

19,625
Azure

3

19,395
Windows Server 2016

3

19,395
Windows

3

18,395
Microsoft Word

2

15,300
Remote Access

2

15,100
VB Script

2

15,080
PC

2

14,719
Email Protocols

2

14,482
Scripting Languages

2

14,430
SSL / HTTPS

2

13,700
Gmail

2

13,446
Google Apps

2

13,254
Email Software

2

11,346
Android

2

11,330
Network Management

2

10,952
Routers

2

10,780
Hardware Firewalls

2

10,406
Web Browsers

2

10,364
Encryption

2

10,268
Windows Server 2003

2

10,195
Office Productivity

2

9,300
Storage Software

2

9,238
Operating Systems

2

9,192
Network Security

2

8,770
IT Administration

2

8,025
File Sharing Software

2

8,002
iPhone

1

7,550
Microsoft Access

1

7,500
AntiSpam

1

7,400
VPN

1

7,400
Visual Basic Classic

1

6,856
Math / Science

1

6,800
Mobile

1

6,710
Internet / Email Software

1

6,400
Miscellaneous

1

6,308
Microsoft Legacy OS

1

6,150
Disaster Recovery

1

6,050
Virtualization

1

6,000
Linux Distributions

1

5,978
E-Commerce

1

5,930
Hyper-V

1

5,730
Installation

1

5,633
Printers and Scanners

1

5,550
Laptops Notebooks

1

5,526
Cyber Security

1

5,500
Desktops

1

5,500
Databases

1

5,450
Windows 8

1

5,432
Networking Protocols

1

5,400
Web Development

1

5,290
Wireless Networking

1

5,220
Programming

1

5,200
Linux Networking

1

5,122
TCP/IP

1

5,098
Microsoft IIS Web Server

1

5,000
Unix OS

1

4,978
Chat / IM

1

4,830
Web Servers

1

4,800
Web Applications

1

4,780
WSUS

1

4,598
Chrome

1

4,550
Citrix

1

4,500
Networking Hardware-Other

1

4,500
Peripherals

1

4,400
XML

1

4,400
Server Hardware

1

4,300
Shell Scripting

1

4,266
Network Operations

1

4,166
Network Analysis

1

4,110
HTML

1

4,100
Linux OS Dev

1

4,050
Adobe Acrobat

1

4,000
Apache Web Server

1

4,000
Cloud Services

1

4,000
FTP

1

4,000
Microsoft SharePoint

1

4,000
Productivity Apps

1

4,000
Visual Basic.NET

1

4,000
Internet Protocols

1

3,834
Cisco

1

3,620
Cloud Computing

1

3,600
OS Security

1

3,566
Images and Photos

1

3,560
Cell Phones

1

3,474
System Utilities

1

3,300
Hardware

1

3,295
Ubuntu

1

3,250
Microsoft SQL Server

1

3,100
Analytics

1

3,000
C#

1

3,000
Dell

1

3,000
Java

1

3,000
Microsoft Forefront ISA Server

1

3,000
Microsoft PowerPoint

1

3,000
Office Suites-Other

1

3,000
SCCM

1

3,000
Smartphones

1

2,912
Vulnerabilities

1

2,850
Internet Explorer (IE)

1

2,664
Golang

1

2,660
Telecommunications

1

2,502
Agile

1

2,400
Fonts Typography

1

2,400
Project Management

1

2,400
RAID

1

2,304
Network Architecture

1

2,288
Server Software

1

2,250
IP Telephony

1

2,070
Linux Security

1

2,068
Storage Hardware

1

2,008
.NET Programming

1

2,000
ASP.NET

1

2,000
AWS

1

2,000
Adobe Creative Suite CS

1

2,000
Content Management

1

2,000
Document Management

1

2,000
Home Security

1

2,000
InfoPath

1

2,000
Internet Explorer (IE)

1

2,000
Java EE

1

2,000
Programming Languages-Other

1

2,000
Tax / Financial Software

1

2,000

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