OBJECTIVE

I am a reliable, hardworking individual with over ten years computer experience, looking for an opportunity to put my strengths into networking, server management, design and implementation.

HIGHLIGHTS OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

General Experience:

15+ years of practical experience with Windows platform. (Win3.11 to Win10)

High level of proficiency in all major office suites/packages

7+ years of experience troubleshooting software and hardware issues, various platforms

3+ years of experience with various Network Operating Systems (Cisco IOS, JunOS, PF and Quagga)

6+ years of experience in Network design and implementation

14+ years of Linux and BSD experience including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Gentoo, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora

4+ years of experience with various virtualization platforms including VMWARE, Virtuozzo and Xen

10+ years of experience with various bash, perl, python, and TCL scripts

Network and Server Experience:

5+ years of experience working with Cisco switches and routers

Administration, troubleshooting, and setup of network servers including Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008R2, Windows 2012, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Installation, configuration and management of network layer 1-4 devices from 3com, Cisco, HP, Extreme, Fortigate, FORCE10, Dell, Motorola and Sonic Wall networking equipment

Configuration and setup of firewall, VPN, POP3, SMTP/MTA’s, IMAP4, Web, ISC DNS and DHCP software

Have used and configured RAID levels 0,1,5,6 and 10 in production servers.

High proficiency in setup and configuration of applications including: Qmail, Sendmail, Postfix, high speed NFS, SNMP, vsftpd, ProFTPd, Apache1-2.4, nginx, djbdns(tinydns), BIND 8 and 9, Courier-IMAP, Samba, Squid, MySQL, Spamassassin, ClamAV, Postgrey, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Exhange 2003 and 2007, and much more.

Expert understanding of various internet protocols and technologies (TCP/IP, FTP, SSH, LDAP, AD, HTTP, SSL, VPN, PKI, SNMP, SMTP, IMAP, SMB, RADIUS, POP, TFTP, TELNET etc.)

Expert knowledge of VMware ESXi and vCenter

Expert understanding of server hardware from vendors including Sun, HP, IBM and Dell

Have used Puppet a fair bit at every job I’ve had

Participation in Corporate Beta Programs:

Ongoing contributions to Gentoo Linux Project and CentOS

Windows 10 technical preview

Windows 8 beta program

Windows 7 Beta Program

Windows XP Beta Program

Windows 2000 Professional and Server Beta Programs

Windows Millennium Edition Beta Program

Windows 98 Beta Program

Security Experience:

Security appliances I’ve configured and used include: Cisco ASA, IPCOP, PfSense, Opnsense, Sonicwall, Fortigate, Shorewall, Juniper, OpenBSD, FreeBSD,and Watchguard. As well as many custom built servers

Security software I have configured in the past include; ClamAV, Snort IDS, iptables, pf, Postini, OpenSSL, PRTG, Observium, Cacti, logwatch, rkhunter, nmap, Nessus, McAffee IDS, Symantec Antivirus, Bit Defender, AVG, and Microsoft ISA.

Software on these devices has provided most and sometimes all services including Firewall, DMZ, Email antivirus, computer antivirus, NAT, DNS, DHCP, SNMP monitoring, Interface graphing as well as notifying me/the network team via email, and/or SMS/pager if there’s a problem.

VPN daemons I have configured include OpenVPN, Microsoft Windows PPTP, Cisco AnyConnect as well as all of the proprietary ones on the above appliances

I subscribe to a select few RSS feeds so I can keep up to date on what’s going on on the Internet as far as security issues, patches, exploits, 0day releases, global routing issues/fibre cuts, and virus alerts

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Network Analyst (Contract) 02/2016 –present

Alberta Justice Courts Technology Services and Solicitor General Edmonton, Alberta

Upgrading and replacement of Cisco 2950 and 3550 switches with Cisco 3650 and 3850 switches to facilitate Evergreen policy

Installation and creation of ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Stack implementation for new central logging server to log all switch, firewall, IDS, router, VPN and wireless access from multiple vendor environment.

IT Administrator 03/2013 –03/2015

INVIDI Technologies Corporation Edmonton, Alberta

Responsible for four International locations networking hardware and firmware, and computers/servers for a software development company

Upgraded all four locations to ESXi 5.5 and implemented high availability clusters in all locations

Replaced poorly configured vCenter VM with new vCenter 5.5 and dedicated MS SQL server

Upgraded all virtual hosts to ESXi 5.5 on HP and Dell hardware

Created and applied switch template to 50+ HP Enterprise class gigE switches implementing SSH, LACP, and rapid spanning tree network wide

Upgraded all four locations redundant OpenBSD servers to OpenBSD 5.5-current

Implemented IPSEC tunnels between locations, replacing GRE tunnels

Created monitoring platform to monitor all switches and core networking gear using Cacti and RANCID

Functioned as the internal Linux guru; used to brainstorming ideas with remote employees.

Fixed broken custom scripts post upgrade of OS and underlying software

Standardized passwords network wide.

Responsible for software on all EMC VNXE/VNX equipment and VMWARE hosts

Implemented new VMWARE ESXi server standard company wide. (Dell R620)

Performed Windows 2008 Active Directory 2003 tasks

Migrated BIND9 off of seven servers to four newly created Ubuntu VM’s in four different physical locations. Streamlined DNS changes to all 4 servers

Maintained DFS to all four locations

Responsible for moving company web server to the cloud

Migrated 20 employees from Nortel to Avaya phone system

Created and administered redundant company IRC service for employees to share ideas

Built and deployed 20 high end developer workstations to local office

Administrated 300+ local virtual machines as well as 500+ remote virtual machines, running everything from OpenBSD to Windows Server 2012R2

Administrated and configured various EMC, Dell and StorageFlex SANs

Administrated local Git repositories

Administrated Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 server hosted at Rackspace.com

Administrated local Atlassian products including Jira, Confluence and FishEye

Administrated large number of physical servers, most were running RHEL5+

Worked with various database technologies. Primarily Microsoft SQL, Percona, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Maria DB

Configured numerous Git servers and Git repositories for optimal performance and availability (gitlab and gitorious)

Quadrupled primary SAN performance by configuring it as per vendor recommendations

Upgraded Internet to an unmetered connection

Performed Moves, Adds and Changes on Exchange server hosted in the cloud

Implemented Jumbo frames for iSCSI VLAN at all four locations

Responsible for continuous operation and maintenance schedule of one 5 tonne Liebert HVAC system

Responsible for public and private Enterprise Wi-Fi system on HP hardware, in total;12 Access Points

Managed and maintained bacula based tape backup service

Senior Systems Engineer/Network Services Manager 03/2012 – 02/2013

Kihew Technologies LP (Contract) Alexander, Alberta

Design and configuration of Tier3 data center including Network and Power systems

Design and configuration of multi-homed Internet connections utilizing BGP and OSPF on Cisco 7606 core routers and Cisco 6513 core switches; setup in a VSS.

Configuration and initial setup of VMWARE 5.1 cluster utilizing DELL and INTEL hardware

Configuration of CORAID SAN and supporting switches

Configuration of 250+ APC devices including UPSes, PDUs and Netbotz sensors

Configuration of PELCO security DVR and PELCO PTZ cameras.

Configuration of HID security access system

Initial setup and configuration of Asterisk based PBX

Setup ~30 Critical Infrastructure virtual machines for datacenter customer support (DHCPD,DNS,NTPD,SMTP, SNMP monitoring, configuration management of all network devices, TFTP, syslog) all on CentOS or Windows 2008R2

Setup Active Directory and IPSEC secured remote access to office LAN.

Created IP utilization schema for /23 of IPv4 space and /32 of ipv6 space.

Performed monthly testing of 1MW diesel generator

Configuration of second data center in Eastern Canada for Disaster Recovery

Migration and creation of VMWARE Zimbra email server

Creation of cPanel based web hosting platform

Created configuration for two Cisco ASA5500 firewalls in Active/Passive setup

Migration of ISC BIND & DHCP to Bluecoat product

Senior Network Engineer 06/2011 – 12/2011

Able IT Inc. Leduc, Alberta

Responsible for VMWARE based projects from everything to hardware burn in to software setup for 100+ clients using vmware ESX 4.1 and 5.0

Performed migration and creation of servers, mostly Windows 2008 R2 all based on vmware

Coached and supervised other employees from helpdesk to management

Setup new hardware including switches, routers, servers (Dell) for optimal availability

Network Administrator 06/2010 – 06/2011

4WEB.CA Edmonton, Alberta

Administrated all datacenter activities for Cisco/Linksys based network for 300+ customers including network hardware and software, iSCSI SAN, Security (network and physical), server hardware and software (Dell), Linux infrastructure (CentOS) and Windows servers.

Performed network and server upgrades

Performed physical to virtual conversions of entire infrastructure to the same physical infrastructure plus one server using vCenter 4.1 and ESXi 4.1

Planned and implemented datacenter expansion including HVAC, power upgrades, rack installation and core router upgrade

Performed installation and migration to new Exchange 2010 SP1 hosting based setup

Performed Parallels upgrades.

Automated Linux daily tasks and email notifications

Created 6509 router configuration for multiple fibre connections including QoS of those connections.

Setup VLANs and sub netted IP space for new customers

Maintained BIND name servers for all types of records including PTR of two /22 of IPv4 subnets

IT Specialist (Multiple contracts) 01/2007 – 03/2015

Baxter IT Inc. Alberta

Designed, installed and maintained VOIP solution utilizing Trixbox and Polycom SIP phones for Doctors Eyecare. Redesigned initial network layout spanning 2 offices utilizing Cisco 1811w router, Cisco 3560 POE switches and WPA2 wireless encryption

Network design and install for various small/medium businesses

Support, diagnostics and repair of networks, servers and workstations

Troubleshoot Motorola Canopy and standard 802.11a/b/g/N wireless hardware and software

Troubleshooting of Alberta Super Net

Implementation of new office and school network solutions for a range of companies

Creation of custom multi-domain anti-spam and anti-virus mail server

Designed, provisioned, and created monitoring system for a 45 node, independent network utilizing the Alberta Super Net, HP Procurve switches and HP Proliant servers for Health Canada

Created all services for 45 node private network including recursive and authoritative DNS, DHCP, TFTP, SMTP, SNMP, Backup Solution, Syslog and Wiki for all network documentation

Deployed Avaya Media Gateways and Cisco switches based VOIP using private network for Health Canada

Deployed Polycom based Video Conferencing units to 45 locations using private network built with Axia for Health Canada

Deployed and configured Ubuntu based school computer network

Creation and management of web hosting and DNS services utilizing ServerBeach/PEER1 resources. Utilized Autotask.net for time keeping

Support and implementation of Exchange, Symantec Information Foundation, Symantec Endpoint Security, Symantec Brightmail, Veritas Backup Exec. Active Directory, and HP Proliant Servers

Responsible for the upgrade of 80+ Linksys and D-link consumer level routers to Cisco 851w, 871w or 1811w routers

Installation and setup of many SolarWinds products

System Administrator - Network 04/2007 – 10/2007

Access Communications Co-operative Ltd. Regina, Saskatchewan

Monitoring, diagnostics and troubleshooting of multi-homed Gigabit Ethernet Internet on two Cisco 7606 core routers and Cisco 4507R metro fibre switch

Maintained and updated MRV media converter software

Responsible for management of day to day internet and VOIP issues and upgrades for Cisco and Motorola hardware in Regina, plus 30 remote locations on hardware such as Cisco 2924XL, 2970G, 3550, 3560, 4507R, ME3400 switches; 2611XM, 3620/40, 7206 (SaskTel LANSpan), 7606 routers and UBR7100 and UBR7200 series CMTSes. Also responsible for maintaining one Motorola BSR 64000 servicing 40,000 customers in Saskatchewan

Followed ITIL processes

Creation and management of services including Cacti, Cisco view, RANCID(Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ), and Smokeping

Worked exclusively with Sun X series server hardware

Arranged and set up all peering and transit agreements

Worked with customers on acquiring ASNs and IP ranges from ARIN

Network Administrator 08/2005 – 04/2007

Venture Communications Ltd. Calgary, Alberta

Creation and management of services including Cacti, Nagios (including web GUI front end), AWStats, NetTracker, Maximizer, authoritative and recursive DNS servers

Management and support of day to day internet, intranet and telephone issues and upgrades for offices in Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton and Ottawa

Support and implementation of approximately 120 Windows 98, 2000, XP, Gentoo, FreeBSD, and Mac OS 9/X OSes for clients and servers

Created security hardened linux server for Subway Canada for one million dollar giveaway on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 co-located at Q9 Networks

Supported First Class mail server

Maintenance and monitoring of four gateways/firewalls ranging from IPCOP to SonicWall appliances

Datacenter Technician / Network Analyst 06/2003 – 06/2005

Tera-Byte Dot Com Inc. Edmonton, Alberta

Monitoring, diagnostics and troubleshooting of multi-homed Gigabit Ethernet Internet connections

Linux, FreeBSD, Windows server troubleshooting and repair, hardware and software (600+ servers)

Web hosting troubleshooting and repair, including MySQL, PHP, Apache, and Mail services, HTML and PHP code, bash, minor perl support

Used and configured applications such as MRTG, RRDTool, SNMP, Cacti, Netsaint/Nagios and Cisco Netflow

Created mirrors.tera-byte.com

Monitor and respond to security events ranging from server compromise to network attacks

Maintain a large population of Virtualized and Shared accounts as well as basic clustering and failover for critical hosting and database services

Maintained security via iptables, ipfw,pf and ACLs

NISS Helpdesk 03/2002 – 06/2003

TELUS Corporation Edmonton, Alberta

Phone support of home and business customers ADSL/ADSL2 Internet

HP Pavilion helpdesk 06/2001 – 03/2002

Convergys Edmonton, Alberta

Phone support of Windows 98 and Windows XP based HP Pavilion based hardware

FORMAL EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

VMware Certified Professional (4.0) 2010

Cisco CCNA 2009

Microsoft Certified Professional Certification 2002

Microsoft Windows XP (Exam # 070-270)

A+ Certification 2002

CompTIA

Computer Network Administration Diploma -with honours 01/2001 – 10/2001

NAIT – Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Edmonton, Alberta

1st year Bachelor of Computer Science 2000

Red Deer College Red Deer, Alberta

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Hunting Hills High School Network Administrator

Volunteered for two years

Gained experience in network design, hardware/software maintenance and upgrading, troubleshooting various problems from malfunction to security and lockdown procedures of internal network and WAN link, Mac OS9 and NT4 labs

Fragapalooza 2000-2005 - Edmonton

Volunteered for network setup and teardown of Canada’s largest LAN party

Setup Mayfield Trade Center for temporary network of roughly 850 people.

Configuration of 8-15 layer 3 switches (Cisco, Extreme and DLink) and core OpenBSD router with consumer level internet load balancing for the 4 day event

Lanageddon 2006-2007 – Calgary

Creation and management of OpenBSD 3.8 internet gateway, load balancing 10 Shaw Cable provided docsis cable modems for the 3 day LAN party.

HOBBIES

Swimming, computers and cars, nothing else.

Have a VMWARE lab at home consisting of a few Dell Poweredge 1950's and a managed Layer 3 HP switch, dedicated to learning new things. Also maintain a home file server running Ubuntu 14.04.LTS containing 12TB of disk storage on ZFS

Have co-located a Linux based server at a datacenter for the last 12 years. Currently running CentOS 7 with cPanel for offsite web hosting duties and offsite backup

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