BSc Hons Computer Science with a Year in Industry graduate from Queen's University Belfast. Currently working full time as IT Support at Andras House Hotels, working towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Cyber Security with Open University. To help gain more knowledge in Cyber Security sector.

During my own time, I am running a Home Lab with an HP Microserver Gen8 and a Dell Precision 5820. The Precision 5820 workstation is running Ubuntu 22.04 with the following hardware Xeon W-2155 10 Cores and 20 Threads, 32GB DDR4 EEC RAM, MegaRAID SAS 9440-8i 12Gb/s PCIe SATA/SAS Controller, Nvidia Quadro P4000-8GB GPU, 4x HGST SAS 10TB HDD running in hardware RAID 5 and 2x 256GB Toshiba NVMe on a NVMe PCIe Card running in software raid 1 for a boot drive. These are currently plugged into a CyberPower VP1600 UPS to allow safe shutdown during a power cut.

The precision 5820 is currently running Plex Media Server that is shared with family both inside and outside the network, Samba Windows Network File Share for local access to the server files, internal SSH & RDP connection to manage the headless machine, FTPES on FileZilla Server for external file access, NGINX and CertBot to host my websites and remote consoles for the game servers like Multicraft that controls all my Minecraft servers while having an HTTPS connection. Lastly, it is running Duplicati 2.0 for encrypted backups to a 6TB and 8TB external Seagate HDD that is synced to Mega cloud using Mega-CMD to clone it to an 8TB Cloud Storage. I have enabled automatic updates to ensure all security patches are installed.