Travis Beehler **** NE **th Court
Vancouver Wa. *8662
aca5r5@r.postjobfree.com
EXPERIENCE
IT Manager
February 2012 - October 2013
AirAdvice Portland, Or.
Lead technical manager overseeing all aspects of our small corporate
network
Rebuilt company's crumbing network infrastructure
Built a VMWare server farm to save costs in equipment
Migrated aging Exchange server to cloud hosted Google Apps
Supervised the company's move to a new facility with minimal downtime
Secured the network against repeated attacks
Consolidated and updated corporate Active Directory Group Policies
Reorganized the authentication methods on our production servers
Responsible for the office move from our old place to a new building.
Worked with customers, outside vendors, and others to insure smooth
operations
Created monitoring dashboard for servers and services
Created and maintained numerous virtual server's for testing and
production, both public and internal
Administered our Sonicwall firewalls
Maintained our VOIP phone setup
Moved forward, customer facing servers to the cloud
Built mixed Linux/Windows domain controllers for redundancy and to
shave costs
Setup and maintained Salesforce for the company
IT Manager
June 2010 - February 2012
Fort Vancouver Regional Library, Vancouver, Wa.
Lead Project Manager responsible for all technology needs in our new
$50M, 85,000 Sq. Ft. building.
Supervise staff of 7 members of the IT department.
Managed a $2 million dollar annual budget and 14 sites.
Responsible for moving staff and equipment over from our operations
center to the new library building, and reorganizing the office layout
in the operations center.
Developed IT roadmap for the next few years.
Improved staff performance by using results based metrics and tangible
goals not previously used at the library.
Automated migration from Office 2003/2007 to 2010 project
Identified critical areas and moved to reduce risk factors across the
entire company.
Managed Active Directory project reorganization
Created Desktop Authority server for additional Active Directory-type
features
Design and create an entirely new network infrastructure.
Research and replaced our aging wireless solution.
Implemented Microsoft Dynamics ERP system
Upgraded our Windows 2000 domain to Windows 2008R2.
Reorganize our Active Directory structure to fit with our increasing
needs.
Design an upgrade path for our clients from Windows XP, to Window 7 64
bit.
Reorganized our power infrastructure in our data center to balance the
load better.
Lead the upgrade team to move our existing collection management
software to an RFID based one for better tracking.
Moved staff from a reactive, to a proactive approach to solving IT
related problems.
Maintained open communications with clients, sub-contractors and
vendors to establish effective working relationship.
Implemented VMWare servers to consolidate servers
Created multiple servers/test environments for our web developers
Built monitoring solution for critical pieces of our infrastructure
IT Manager
November 2002 - June 2010
National Psoriasis Foundation, Portland, Or.
Supervise efforts of 3 staff members of the IT department including
being a technical lead, budgeting, yearly goals, policies, and
standards.
Create and implement strategic direction for the company.
Negotiate contracts with outside vendors.
Create, update, and maintain software, hardware, network and security
policies for the technology needs of the Psoriasis Foundation.
Coordinate with web designers, management and vendors for various
projects.
Virtualized multiple servers with VMWare
Create and maintain custom tools for managing network structure, data,
and flow of information.
Provide technical support for usability issues and critical problems.
Maintain an off-site, encrypted backup for our contingency plan.
Update or upgrade servers using various operating systems such as Linux
and Windows.
Educate users and field staff on software usage, network procedures,
and security practices.
Extensive experience using administrative tools in Linux and Windows to
create primary and backup domain controllers, network shares, print
servers, manage users and groups, and assigning rights/permissions.
Advanced Router/Switch knowledge such as managing and configuring boot
image files, creating and configuring VLANS, and writing Access Control
Lists for security purposes.
Created or assisted with proof-of-concept technologies and stress
testing.
Migrated existing Linux mail system to Exchange
Created and maintained our Business Continuity Plan
Administered our Mitel phone systems
Coordinated the physical structural move.
Responsible for fixing critical system outages, software upgrades, and
capacity planning.
Created and maintained email, web, file, monitoring, domain, testing,
chat, PBX, database, terminal servers and more.
Worked in testing and deployment of virtualization technologies.
Developed technologies and scripting to thwart attacks against our
publicly available servers.
Built numerous servers based upon Linux/Samba implementation
Senior Network Administrator
June 1994 - June 2002
Evergreen Healthcare, Vancouver, Wa.
Lead Administrator overseeing 2 network technicians and provide tier 2
support for issues.
Developed the network, workstations and laptop technologies within
Evergreen.
Instrumental in Evergreen's network downtime contingency plan.
Co-authored Evergreen's policies and procedures pertaining to the
network.
Assisted with the multiple domains that Evergreen owned and operated.
Lead administrator in data backup, retrieval and virus removal.
Authored or co-authored several customized programs and scripts
Tasks included resolving technical failures in a timely manner,
automating application monitoring tools, and providing technical
expertise for application upgrades.
Prepared technical training and process documentation for team, to aid
with day-to-day support issues.
Work to maintain HIPPA compliance with Network Manager.
Worked with a 700 node, 5,000 user, high pressure environment.
Skill Sets
EDUCATION
University of Washington,
Seattle, Wa.
1991 -1994
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Active Directory
Windows Server
2000-2008
Windows 98-7
Microsoft Office 97-2007
ERP
Workstation maintenance
Disaster planning and recovery
Telephone/VOIP Systems setup
DNS
DHCP
IMAP
POP3
SMTP
SNMP
TCP/IP
Shell scripting
MS SQL Server
MySQL
Linux- Centos/RedHat, Debian
VMware
Project Management
Budget planning
Apache
LAMP
Samba
Postfix
Dovecot
Spamassassin
Regex
Setting security/group
policies
Firewalls/Routers
Network switching
CAT 5 cabling