Ryan Bertrand
Suwanee, Georgia, 30024
****.*.********@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Skilled IT professional with over 20 years international experience managing a wide range of hardware infrastructure including mainframe, mini, servers, personal computers, Wi-Fi and migration of the entire Navy Reserve from point-to-point circuit's onto the Internet.
Experience
Navy Air Logistics Office: Information Technology Chief – retired.
Supervised IT personnel in the performance of their duties.
Navy Reserve Professional Development Center: Information Technology Chief
New Orleans, La.
Daily management of the IT office, supervising up to eight personnel, training and management of the operations and hardware in the office.
• Training IT personnel in system management operations, maintenance and repair, also supervising and management of IT personnel with the ability to provide the command with complete IT support and operations. No viruses impacted the command operations during my time as the IT Department Chief.
• Managing 2 million dollar IT budgets 2 of 3 years, while implementing projects to directly impact training opportunities and noticeably increasing training levels.
• Training of up to 20 IT personnel per class in IT operations to support Navy Reserve tasks.
• Designing and implementation of the Navy Reserve's first authorized and funded wireless network at command. This provided an additional six classrooms for use by the command to meet its’ training requirements.
Readiness Command (Redcom) Nineteen: Information Technology Chief.
San Diego, Ca.
• Developing a training plan and training users on a PC-computer lab environment.
• Facilitating installation meetings in preparation for system implementation.
• Vastly improving Redcom 19 storage facility. Reorganizing, restoring and updating equipment.
USS George Philip FFG-12: Information Technology Chief.
San Diego, Ca.
• Supervising 1 Lieutenant and up to 8 Radiomen personnel in support of ship deployment
and operational commitments with 6 overseas commands.
• System Administrator installed and operated 15 node LAN.
• Managing all hardware/software related purchases, upgrades, configurations and training
of IT office equipment and personnel.
Naval Reserve Information Systems Office (NRISO) Data Processing CPO/ WAN Manager.
New Orleans, La.
• Managed and migrated Point-to-Point circuit network onto the Internet and impacting
the entire Navy Reserve.
• Assumed responsibilities of a naval officer and a GS-14 staff.
• Provided direct contact with Commander Naval Reserve LAN staff and our NRISO staff,
ensuring there were no problems with connectivity between the two LAN's.
Naval Reserve Center, Long Beach Data Processing Technician First Class P. O.
Long Beach, Ca.
• Managing the billet control office and providing jobs to personnel joining the
Naval Reserve.
• Installing, configuring and operating the Naval Reserve Commands first WAN/LAN.
• Managing IT shift-workers in running the entire computer system.
• Training the IT personnel in all aspects of keeping the WAN/LAN system up and running.
• Installing, configuring, operating and maintaining all PC's at the command.
• Promotion to Data Processing Chief Petty Officer at the end of my duties at
this command.
Navy Air Logistics Office (NALO) Data Processing Technician First Class P.O.
New Orleans La.
• Installed the Navy Air Logistics System South-West Asia IT computer system in support
Of Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
• Achieved Flight Writing Scheduler status and stood watches on the Air-OPS floor.
• Shift supervisor managing personnel in operations, maintenance and repair of the IT
computer equipment.
SKILL HIGHLIGHTS
Mainframe/Server
DNS/HTTP/SMTP
IEEE 802.3/5/11.x
Redhat 7, 6.x/Centos 7x, 6x
802.11 Wireless
Ethernet/Fast Ethernet/Gigabyte
Wireless
Desert Shield/Desert Storm
Global work environment
VM(KVM)
VOIP
Education
Associate degree in Arts April 1985 University of Maryland
Bachelor of Information Technology May 2008
American Intercontinental University
Linux Certification
Georgia Piedmont University Dec 2019