Engineer Project

LEROY TENNISON

Lewisville, TX ac1w9r@r.postjobfree.com

Home: 972-***-**** Cell: 214-***-****

SUMMARY

Analytical, creative, resourceful, bottom line-driven Project Implementer and System Administrator. Reconfigures and relocates large technical environments, integrate acquisitions. Performs NOS upgrades and conversions. Provides cross-platform connectivity and software distribution. Finds solutions to problems.

SIGNIFICANT TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS/Network Infrastructure Administration Scripting Programming

CAREER EXPERIENCE

dataVoice International. (McKinney, TX) March 2015 to present

Network and Information Cyber Security Specialist

Used Linux skills and resourcefulness to implement a required PCI compliant environment.

Introduced different technologies to solve business problems: non-interface-based routing to internal resources, IPMI. KVM shapshots, dynamic CD usage, image editing.

Performed complex system upgrades previously delayed for years.

Configured Nagios and Puppet, wrote a Nagios plugin and Puppet scripts

THE ASSOCIATES/CITIGROUP/HP (Irving, TX) 1996 to November 2014

Project and Network Adviser/Implementer, Technology Consultant (2007 to 2014)

Reviewed the network aspect of project plans and provided feedback about issues and opportunities. Gave direction concerning implementation. Coordinated improvement efforts. Managed network capacity. Reviewed network implementation plans pointing out errors. Troubleshot network issues. Automated compliance tasks.

Applied knowledge of the local network configuration to avoid one-month lead times for firewall changes which would have negatively impacted an aggressive project.

Recognized and eliminated or re-purposed unused Cisco equipment. Realized cost savings of approximately $10,000. Made pervasive network changes for VOIP with minimal business impact.

Located and used various scripting programs and techniques to automate laborious tasks saving 10 hours of labor.

Found a way to locate a rogue DHCP server in 15 minutes instead of an hour or more thus decreasing the time required to restore business functionality by this amount.

Found a way to troubleshoot enterprise Wi-Fi leading to successful implementation.

Network Administrator (1996 to 2007)

Designed strategies to simplify technical migrations such as from older network operating systems to Windows 2000 and later to EMC NAS. Made business presentations to explain and "translate" technical concepts into meaningful implications for them. Provided a simple solution to a significant network problem during an acquisition conversion. Investigated, tested and implemented cross-platform and automation solutions to solve business problems.

Increased efficiency 50% or more by writing scripts and software to automate the installation of 400 PC's and assign static TCP/IP addresses during a building move.

Automated software distribution to the PCs - the only available solution at the time.

Developed a data copy method for a NAS migration allowing the project to be completed in an aggressive time frame.

CYBERTEK (Dallas, TX) 1994 to 1996

Consultant

Enhanced client business productivity by installing and supporting client-server software on Windows and other OSes. Found solutions to obstacles preventing customer adoption of Cybertek products. Provided alternative processing methods to solve customer problems with Cybertek programs.

Resolved server failures and performance issues. Used a packet capture program to identify and resolve a client software problem contributing to a ‘win’ valued at approximately $10,000.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

MICROSOFT (Irving, TX) Network Support Engineer

COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION (Dallas, TX) LAN Administrator, programmer

EARLY CAREER: Facilities engineer, programmer, organizational representative, researcher

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Science, Mechanical Engineering UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Austin, TX

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Capabilities IP telephonny configuration

Environment Configuration: Drupal, ejabberd, Nagios/Icinga, Puppet, Virtualization (KVM/QEMU), Zimbra

Project administration, management and implementation

Cisco: hardware, install software, read and analyze configurations

Some MySQL and PostgreSQL

Apache/NGINX familiarity

Cross-Platform Communication Various 3270 products, Windows/Linux ftp server and ftps

ssh(d), Samba

Certifications IT Project+, older NOS and MCSE

Network Technologies DHCP, (D)DNS, WINS,

LDAP, Cisco ACLs, Iptables, Shorewall, ipSec, OpenVPN

Operating Systems Windows (client and server), CentOS, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu

Programming Languages C, Cobol, PL1

Scripting Languages awk, bash, ksh tcl/expect, rexx, iMacros

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