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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Columbia Southern University
Systems Administrator
Orange Beach, Alabama
January 2011 - Present

Stepping into the challenging world of Windows administration.  Wish me luck!

Webslingerz, Inc.
Chief Technical Officer/Network and Systems Administrator
Foley, Alabama
October 2000– January 2011

Provided full-time 24x7 support for networks, servers, and client computers for challenging web development and hosting environment for 10 years.  Realized thousands of dollars in savings annually for an extremely budget challenged environment.  Advocate for pragmatic approaches to many technical and business solutions.  My experience at Webslingerz has been extremely broad.

• Support clients' web site maintenance and information technology needs by translating complex technical issues into understandable language and implementing as expected and on time.
• Negotiate contracts and interaction with vendors providing hardware, network, and colocation services.
• Transitioned to remote management of environment successfully for eight years via VPN and SSH.
• Migrated company from physical servers to consolidated VMware virtualized servers.
• Orchestrated custom backup solution with AMANDA and system to synchronize sites and databases from Durham to Charlotte hosting facilities located on redundant synchronized NFS servers.
• Monitor and document systems utilizing Zenoss, SNMP, TRAC, and newly implemented Splunk.
• Engineer the Information Technology components of custom solutions for clients involving Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Drupal, DNS, email, Subversion, TRAC, and custom scripting.
• Implemented office file server with Bonjour, Samba, and LDAP integration.  
• Installed custom fax to PDF server utilizing Hylafax.
• Created VPN branch tunnels with Linksys routers running OpenWRT firmware and pfSense redundant firewalls between satellite office in Carrboro, Charlotte hosting facility, and Durham hosting facility.
• Lead technical resource supporting large medical company in development of Drupal-based equipment disbursement system with stringent documentation meeting FDA guidelines.
• Mentored several programmers in systems and network administration tasks.
• Developed wiki-based documentation for employees providing guidelines on acceptable systems and network use, security requirements, and recommended software configurations. 

VASCO
Technical Consultant                    
Weehawken, New Jersey
March 2000 - September 2000

Provided support for product enabling single sign-on line of security products that work in conjunction with web servers and Distributed Computing Environment security services on IBM AIX and Sun Solaris platforms at a large-scale financial firm.

Computer Associates
Senior Systems Engineer                                                
Matthews, North Carolina
January 2000 - March 2000

Remote administered Sun Solaris systems providing a large web-hosting environment for large retail company.  Responsible for maintaining Apache web server and security services.  Provided backup support for small Windows NT environment.

Piedmont Technology Group
Senior Systems Engineer                                            
Charlotte, North Carolina
October 1999 - January 2000

Assigned several short-term engagements supporting clients needing IBM AIX and Netbackup.  Responsible for uptime of redundant firewalls at large bank's location during Year 2000 event.

Computer Sciences Corporation
Member of the Technical Staff                                            
Hampton, Virginia
January 1997 - October 1999

Provided support for mid-range computing at NASA's Langley Research Center.  Support users in environment utilizing AIX, Solaris, Linux, Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), and Distributed Filesystems(DFS).  Responsibilities include troubleshooting system and user problems, backups of both the AIX and DFS environments, system performance monitoring, installation of software, maintaining security, and maintenance of web pages describing system configurations and troubleshooting measures.

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility    
Web Programmer                            
Newport News, Virginia
December 1995 - January 1998

Designed and controlled web content as a member of a team. Developed CGI linking database, mailing programs, and sharable calendars. Implemented a commercial search engine. Created small graphics used in Web pages and animations.  Consulted on the selection of a search engine.

United States Army
Systems Analyst                            
Newport News, Virginia (Final Station)
November 1989 - August 1994

Provided customer support through onsite technical assistance in a personal computer environment. Managed Helpdesk operations utilizing dBase programming. Helped reduce contracting jobs from 75 to 25 percent outgoing in six months. Trained military and civilian users in the use of personal computers and MS-DOS.  Administered large logistics database tracking equipment leaving Mogadishu, Somalia, in support of Operation Continue Hope. Supported Xenix operating system's e-mail configuration and methods delivering mail via network to PCs.

EDUCATION

Masters of Science
Systems Management                                                    
Florida Institute of Technology
December 2004

Bachelors of Science    
Information Sciences: Communications and Networking                            
Christopher Newport University
May 1998

Associates of Arts
General Studies                                                    
University of Maryland
January 1994

AFFILIATIONS

Extra Life Charity

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