Jakobie Vrandel Alexander *** N Congress Ave; West Palm Beach, FL 33401

abigp8@r.postjobfree.com 847-***-**** (Cell)

Article I. PROFILE

Senior Web Solution Engineer that is an analytical problem solver, known for ability to seek out challenges and

constantly streamline web solutions for efficiency, cost reduction, and client satisfaction.

Article II. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

15th Judicial Circuit of Florida, West Palm Beach, FL April 07-

Jan 15

Court Technology, Web Design Coordinator

• Design, Develop, publish, and maintain the 15th Circuit Web Portal using Liferay Portal/CMS and other open source application

• Film,edit and burn court related videos using Final Cut Studios Pro 5.

• Design and print brochures, binders, signs, logos and other judicial print matrials using Adobe Creative Suites

• Develop dynamic database judicial applications using XHTML,PHP, JQuery, AJAX, CSS3

• Design and Develop a High Available Open Source Infrastructure for the 15th Circuit Web Portal and other web application (physical

and virtual)

Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, FL Feb 06- April 07

Information System Services, Web Specialist

Design, create, publish, communicate and maintain all County Internet and Intranet websites using advanced technologies and methods to

give users a productive, trouble free and enjoyable web experience.

• Create site code and web applications using traditional XHTML principles, PERL, java script, and cascading style sheets

• Create site graphics/multimedia files using Macromedia Flash MX, Adobe Photoshop 7.0

• Perform performance and capacity analysis and troubleshoot problems on all web Infrastructure (windows 2000 and 2003 servers)

• Optimize web server configurations as needed (IIS5.0 and IIS 6.0)

• Sites created include http://www.pbcgov.com/parks and http://www.pbcgov.com/ocr

Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, IL June 99 – Jan 06

Senior Enterprise Server Infrastructure Engineer

Determines, plans, schedules the development, introduction, communication and maintenance of scalable, advanced technologies and

methods to integrate computing infrastructure with existing systems, enabling the creation of new infrastructure capabilities.

• Create, institutionalize, and continuously improve processes for systems monitoring, performance, capacity planning, and

troubleshooting.

• Oversees the engineering and implementation of the technical infrastructure which may support centralized, distributed, client-server

or web-based business applications, including interfaces to databases.

• Determines hardware requirements and communication bandwidth to support projected transaction volumes and response time and

system availability targets.

• Monitor, analyze, and report all Wintel (NT, Win 2000 and Win 2003), and UNIX(AIX,HP-UX, Solaris, and LINUX) servers for

performance and capacity issues

• Create web-based tools to automate the collection of performance and capacity metrics for S/390, UNIX, and Wintel systems.

• Prepares activity and progress reports regarding activities of the area.

• Coordinates the activities of the area with other IT areas.

• Acts as expert technical resource to develop staff in all phases of technical infrastructure engineering.

• Gathers performance statistics to assist in determining hardware requirements and communication bandwidth to support projected

transaction volumes and response time and system availability targets.

• Troubleshoot infrastructure functionality and performance issues including interfaces to databases.

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL Sept 97 – May 99

Student Network Engineer / Systems Administrator

• Installed Ethernet jacks as well as did network monitoring and repair

• Rewired school routers and switches to make diagnosing problems more efficient

• Served as local systems administrator supporting accounting offices

• Successfully migrated office onto MS Office product line

Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, IL June 98 – Sept 98

Transaction Systems Summer Intern

• Created web documentation of mainframe CICS systems and processes

Gateway Computers, Sioux City, SD June 97 – Aug 98

Supply Quality Engineering Summer Intern

• Help set up standard for all video components

• Ensured all systems complied with standard set by department

EDUCATION and CREDENTIALS

BS in Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

Certifications

• ITIL Process Improvement Certificate

• Software Training Institute’s Fundamental Configuration Management Certification

• Certified Internet Webmaster (CIWa),July 2009

Operating Systems:

Unix(HP-UX,AIX), Linux(Fedora, Unbuntu), BSD, MVS(OS/390), Sun Solaris, DOS, Mac OS X Server, Microsoft Windows (Win2003 and Win2008)

Server

Sub- Systems:

Virtualization: VMWare, Oracle Virtualbox

Database: MYSQL Server, MS SQL Server, HSQLDB

Web Portal: Liferay, Wordpress, Joomla

Web/App: Apache, Tomcat, IIS

Programming Languages:

JCL, JavaScript, XHTML/HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets(CSS3), PHP,JSP, Shell scripting, PERL5, 80x86 Assembly.

Software

Adobe Creative Suites (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Indesign, Flash, AfterEffects, and Premier), Apple Final Cut Studios Pro, MS

Office Suite, MS Viso, MS Project, Mercury Load Runner Analyzer, Hyperformix IPS Suite (Computer Systems Simulation Modeling Tool),

Mercury Winrunner, CA Unicenter TNG Agent Technologies,SAR (S/390)

Systems & LAN

Systems Monitoring, Systems Performance, Systems Capacity Planning, Systems Troubleshooting, Web Administration, Portal Administration,

Graphic Design, Video Production

ONLINE PORTFOLIO

Sites in which I have designed and/or developed

Enterprise work

• http://15thcircuit.com - 15th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida (Liferay Enterprise Portal/CMS)

• http://pbcgov.com – Palm Beach County (XHTML portal-like design)

Freelance work

• http://alexanderinsurancegroup.net – Alexander Insurance Group, Douglasville Georgia (Wordpress)

• http://digitalartsenterprises.com – Digital Arts Enterprises, West Palm Beach Florida ( XHTML/Javascript)

• http://keiarascakery.com – Keiara’s Cakery and Desserts, Port St Lucie, Florida (XHTML/PHP/Javascript)

• http://bouncebackbbq.com – Bounce Back BBQ, Belle Glades, Florida (XHTML/Javascript)

• http://luwigee.net – Luwigee Information Technology, West Palm Beach, Florida (XHTML/Javascript)

• http://allaboutsafety.org – K-S International, Atlanta, Georgia (HTML5 Responsive Design)

• http://jonesyart.com – Jonesyart – Art by William H Jones, Waldolf, Maryland (XHTML/Javascript)

• http://gibsongourmetpopcorn.com – Gibson Gourmet Popcorn, Gary Indiania (XHTML/AJAX/Jquery)

References available upon request

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