George Linford
Communications Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Linford is a seasoned Communications Engineer based in London with over 30 years of experience designing, operating and supporting large-scale voice and data networks across enterprise, media and government sectors. He has deep hands-on expertise in Cisco IP telephony, Avaya/Nortel systems, SIP and data centre integrations, and has provided 24/7 field commissioning and out-of-hours change control for critical installations. His career spans technical leadership roles including Head of Communications for an international bank and regional telecommunications head for a global news agency, reflecting strong operational and cross-border coordination skills. Known for maintaining complex mission-critical systems—from biometric border-agency deployments to international news feeds—he combines engineering rigor with practical troubleshooting under pressure. Trained with a Higher National Diploma in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, he pairs decades of legacy telephony knowledge with modern IP telephony practices. Colleagues value him for institutional memory and a pragmatic, service-focused approach to keeping communications infrastructure resilient.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Higher National Diploma, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Polytechnic of Central London(University of Westminster)O & A level study, Physics,Chemistry, Maths, English, Geography, History, French & Latin, B/C, O & A level study, Physics,Chemistry, Maths, English, Geography, History, French & Latin, B/C at Beal GrammarBsc, Engineering, Bsc, Engineering at Enfield College of Technology
french & dutch.
Github Skills (73)
testing10
truncate10
automation10
linux10
chromium10
desktop-application10
ellipsis10
firefox10
api10
developer-tools10
application10
js-api10
node-module10
aws-lambda10
router10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
glinford/ellipsis.js
Sep 2016 - Dec 2019
Ellipsis.js - Pure Javascript Library to handle complex multilines ellipsis
Contributions:50 commits, 11 PRs, 39 pushes in 3 years 3 months
ellipsisjavascript-librarytruncatejavascriptpure-javascript
glinford/wkhtmltopdf
Nov 2016 - Nov 2023
Install wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage with NPM or YARN on Linux/OSX Distro
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes in 7 years 1 month
osxwkhtmltoimageyarnwkhtmltopdflinux
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