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Network Engineer / Programmer, 15+ Years Experience, Extensive Skills Set
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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:
- Long term experience with all common network, server, workstation hardware and software.
- Thorough understanding of networks: protocols, security, routers, firewalls, managed switches, wireless.
- Ability to quickly formulate and visualize troubleshooting trees to solve complex problems.
- Experience servicing a wide range of business types with various industry specific hardware and software.
- Capable of quickly learning any new hardware / software platform, or programming syntax.
- Years of system migration planning, life cycle management, capacity planning experience.
- Disaster recovery and data retention planning, tape libraries, remote backup, near-line and off-site storage.
- Programming, debugging, and database design skills. Multithreading. Cross platform coding and porting.
- Understanding of analog and digital circuit design and repair, ability to read and create complex schematics.
- Sales / Consulting / Marketing experience, ability to asses customer needs and propose custom tailored solutions.
- Deployment of wired copper / optical and wireless networks, understanding of cabling and signaling standards.
- Management skills: Team Lead, Customer Service, Budget Planning, Purchasing, Inventory Control
- Excellent communication skills, over 15 years experience interacting directly with customers and end users.
TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE / PRODUCT EXAMPLES:
- Operating Systems: Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, NT 4. Windows Server 2008, 2003, 2000, NT 4. VMware ESXi.
CentOS, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora Core. FreeBSD. Mac OS X. SCO UnixWare. Windows ME, 98, 95, 3.11. DOS.
- Computer Hardware: Servers, Blade Systems, Workstations, Laptops from: HP, Dell, IBM, Sony, Apple, Tyan,
SuperMicro, Asus. White box systems based on ATX / EPS12V, BTX, Mini ATX, and Mini ITX standards.
- Networking: Cisco IOS Routers, Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls, SonicWALL, Cisco Catalyst switches. Routers,
Firewalls, Managed Switches, Hubs, Wireless Access Points. Software firewalls such as: pfSense, DD-WRT,
IPCop, ISA. Ethernet, ATM, Frame Relay, HDLC, PPP encapsulation. IPv4, IPv6, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI protocol
suites. PPTP, IPSec, VPN, WAN, configurations. SSL/TLS encryption. VoIP, SIP phones. PoE. Route propagation
using RIP, OSPF, BGP, EGP, EIGRP. NetFlow and SNMP router monitoring. Cacti, MRTG network monitoring.
- Storage Devices: Solid State Disks. HBA and RAID cards from: LSI, Adaptec, 3Ware. SAS, SCSI, SATA, IDE
interfaces. NAS, SAN, and iSCSI. Tape Library / Autoloader / Stand-alone drives from: HP, Quantum, Sony,
Tandberg. LTO, AIT, VXA, DAT, DLT tape formats. Interface adapters from: Addonics, StarTech, Rosewill.
- Other Hardware: Digital KVM switches and KVM-Over-IP. Workstation CAD/CAM GPUs. Robotic CD/DVD
burners and printers. Pen / Puck Tablets. Cable tuner cards / video capture boards. Digital Cameras. LCD
Projectors. Polycom video conferencing. Networked printer, plotter, copier, document scanner products from: HP,
Canon, Sharp, Xerox, Brother, Konica. Familiar with most print servers: HP JetDirect, Axis, and Fiery boards.
- Server Software: Active Directory, Samba, Exchange Server, Kerio Connect, BIND / MS DNS, Apache HTTPd,
IIS, AWStats, WSUS, Terminal Server, Citrix, Backup Exec Server + Agents, network anti-virus suites from Trend
Micro and ESET, ActiveFax, Adaptec Storage Manager, MegaRAID Storage Manager, APC PowerChute. Spam
filtering technologies such as Greylisting, DNSBL, SPF, Sender ID, DomainKeys. FreeNAS.
- Programming And Databases: C/C++, Win32 API, OpenGL, Code::Blocks, gcc, PHP, Perl, Java, HTML, SQL.
- Applications: MS Office, OpenOffice. QuickBooks, Peachtree. Acrobat, Photoshop. AutoCAD, 3DS Max. Adobe
Premier, Sony Vegas Video. FireFox, IE, Thunderbird, Outlook. CakeWalk. SageTV Media Center. Notepad++.
- Utilities: VMware Workstation. Acronis TrueImage, Clonezilla. RealVNC, Remote Desktop, PuTTY. Diskeeper,
O&O Defrag, Defraggler. MemTest86+, Prime95. SeaTools. HDTune. SiSoft Sandra. 7Zip, WinRAR.
- Test Equipment: Network cable tester, certifier. Packet analyzer. Loopback plug. Tone and probe kit. Lineman set.
ATX power supply tester. Digital multimeter. Oscilloscope. Function generator. Transistor and diode tester.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
| April 2010 - Present | RCS Technical Services, Inc. | West Allis, WI |
Systems Engineer
- Responsible for design, deployment, and maintenance of business computer networks and Internet Servers.
- Deploy Cisco / SonicWALL routers and firewalls to secure various types of dedicated Internet connections.
- Perform numerous migrations from Windows Server 2003 to Server 2008 R2 and Small Business Server 2011.
- Consult with clients to determine current and future needs, growth and upgrade path planning.
- Establish site-to-site VPNs using customized pfSense or DD-WRT firewalls running OpenVPN.
- Support legacy FreeBSD systems acting as firewalls, smart hosts, spam filters, and VPN end-points.
- Setup private Instant Messaging servers using Openfire with MySQL and LDAP Active Directory integration.
- Develop custom software, example: Console app to spool text files thru a USB serial port at a controlled rate, with
proper handshaking. Used for showing demos of court reporter software. (developed in Code::Blocks, C++)
- Web site design and programming, example: Industrial supply web site with online warehouse, proposal request
form (PHP with MySQL backend). Imported inventory from Quickbooks. Custom CMS for posting articles to site.
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| January 2005 - April 2010 | Efficient Technologies LLC | West Allis, WI |
Co-Owner / Network Engineer / Software Developer
- Responsible for training and managing technical staff, assigning tasks, scheduling service calls, purchasing and
inventory management. Design and maintenance of internal network and servers.
- Design, deployment, and maintenance of business computer networks and Internet Servers.
- Deploy Cisco routers and firewalls to secure various types of dedicated Internet connections.
- Planned and rolled out numerous server migrations. Transitioning to new hardware, seamless server OS upgrades.
- Hand assemble and repair hundreds of house branded servers and workstations (AMD and Intel based).
- Specialized in seamless workstation migrations, transparent to the end user, through the use of hare drive cloning.
- Performed extremely complex server migrations, example: Moving old install of SCO UnixWare 5 from 486 to
modern server hardware. Updated shell tools using SCO SkunkWare (bash / tar / bzip2 / pico). Implemented shell
script to tar database, store on Windows Server for inclusion in nightly tape backup.
- Developed an in-house Customer Relations Manager database, web based, powered by PHP and MySQL.
- Web site design and programming, example: Real Estate web site with email subscription system. Downloads
latest MLS data via FTP, sends property updates to user base every night, and updates dynamic content on the site.
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| September 1996 - December 2004 | TEAM Work | Milwaukee, WI |
Network Engineer / Software Developer
- Responsible for design, deployment, and maintenance of business computer networks and Internet Servers.
- Deploy Cisco routers and firewalls to secure various types of dedicated Internet connections.
- Hand assemble and repair hundreds of house branded servers and workstations (AMD and Intel based).
- Planned and rolled out numerous migrations, network wide server and workstation upgrades.
- Developed custom software, example: Perl script allowing client to directly import proposal requests into Lotus
Approach from a web site form, using DBF formatted import files.
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