Shannon Shane Horn
Canyon Lake, TX – 78133
******@*****.***
Objective:
It is my intent to find employment where I feel I can make a difference, support my family and
generally enjoy work.
Summary of Qualifications:
I am a network engineer with special focus on the following technologies. Windows Server
administration, Enterprise Netbackup (BMR), Citrix Administration, Datacenter Administration
including NOC, VMWare (Motion, V2P, P2V, backup hooks, Imaging) IBM Blade Chassis,
NAS/SAN, IBM Tape Libraries, Overland Storage Robots, Iron Mountain relationships (including
Tape rotation), Tier2/3 support, Ethereal, Redline, Bluecoat, What's Up Gold (WUG), CISCO LAN
switching, CISCO Core Switch, Technical Process Documentation, User Documentation, Remote
Control, VPN.
Education:
Boyne City High School Boyne City, MI 1990
Richland Community College (Core, CIS) Garland, TX
Dallas Baptist University Dallas, TX 440hr Command Authority Law Enforcement Academy
TCLEOSE; PEACE OFFICER
St. Edwards University Austin, TX. Citrix/XenApp Implementation / Support Engineer
Symantec Mountain View, CA Enterprise Netbackup Engineer (on 6.5 w/ BMR)
Employment History:
MXPLATE Owner/Operator (2011 Current) Canyon Lake, TX
Grass Roots Start up to Design and Produce a raw materials product for the Motocross Industry.
MXPLATE has been successful and has taught me all aspects of business. Including, but not
limited to, funding, marketing, development and management.
DoubleT Cable Contractor (2010 2011) Lubbock, TX
All aspects of residential commercial cable service installation, Terminate / Splice/ Route /
troubleshooting and resolution.
URS Corporation IT Systems Engineer (2005 2010) Austin, TX
Managed 200+ Windows 2000/03/08 servers in a 3200 SqFt Datacenter. Windows VMWare
Infrastructure running on IBM Blade Chassis attached to IBM SAN fabric for data housing.
Managed various applications Citrix Metaframe (XenApp) All applications delivered via
web/NFuse/CAG to AD/Netscaler to balance the load. Netbackup (NT&AIX using BMR) Managed
backup infrastructure for 200 wintel servers and 3 LPARs through Netbackup for Windows.
Across three environments; Development, Prototype (test) and Production. Utilized IBM 3584 and
Overland Storage technologies to manage real tape and VTL solutions using Iron Mountain.
Managed the DR documentation for the recovery of business critical systems as well as
participating in 2 events each year at the SunGard facilities in Denver, CO. Vertical support
knowledge of Oracle/SQL/PeopleSoft (E1) Cisco Routers (Cat and IOS). Managed to the DMZ
Shannon Shane Horn
1779 Live Oak Drive
Canyon Lake, TX – 78133
******@*****.***
and handed off to our WAN group. Managed Bluecoat Coat Proxy, Redline Compression
appliances and Cisco Core Switch (6509); Closet Switches (2360) using CAT and IOS.
Shates Internet Café Owner/Operator (2003 2005) Boyne City, MI Built 5 location WAN on
Win2k to support Half Life gaming solution. Performed small and medium sized network
consulting.
Learned and established retail environment to serve various coffee based drinks. Custom drink
was customer choice and subsequently featured in a national food critic magazine.
HWWE Computer Solutions Sr. Network Engineer (2001 2003) Petoskey, MI
Built, maintained and upgraded several network environments including a SQUID routing
environment and wireless point to point solution. Developed and maintained client relationships
through SLA agreements. Featuring Web Development, SQL migrations, topology development,
cost saving analysis, security documentation and Handoff consulting.
Arbor Associates, Inc. Data Analyst / Network Administrator (1997 2001) Petoskey, MI
Transformed Coax network to CAT3 and later CAT5 environment. Moved from a Lantastic
environment to Windows NT. Migrated to SQL server backend and Exchange server solution.
Installed and supported an ISDN.
Charlevoix Scientific Center Network Development Engineer (1994 1997) Charlevoix, MI
Conceived, built and supported communication solution for a clean room, Micro optics R&D
environment (MOD). TQL and TQM Training. As part of the “MODSQUAD” I engineered and built
custom measuring tools to assist in the development of custom parts. Worked in Charlevoix
Michigan and commuted to Newark New Jersey frequently. This was a joint effort between
Lexalite International and Allied Signal (Bendix). A 3 year project completed successfully with a
16,000 part run of a full clean room operated mini collimation sheet. This experience gave me
great insight as to they way corporate entities “invent” technology based on an idea. All primary
job functions were complete in a DOE (Design on Experiment) environment.