Lawrence Truitt

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Spokane, WA ****6

509-***-****

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Summary Qualifications

• 15 years experience Network Engineer emphasis in Windows 2003 / 2000 / Novell networking.

• 4 years experience Windows LAN Administration 2008 / 2003 servers.

• 15 years experience Novell LAN Administration.

• 17 year experience Network Engineer with extensive HP / Compaq / Dell / Cisco hardware.

• Excellent organizational, team working, and communication skills

• Federal Secret Security Clearance. Federal Aviation Administration 2002-2007

Technical Proficiency

Hardware:

File Servers : HP / Compaq * Dell * IBM

Network Devices : Cisco routers * Switches / Hub * Ethernet devices * Token-Ring * AppleTalk * ADSL routers

DLT / DAT Devices * UPS * Modem * Print and Terminal Servers *

Workstations : Dell, HP, IBM and compatibles * Apple * Network Cards * SCSI Devices *

Hard/Floppy Drives * Memory * Video Cards * Modems * CD-ROM’s * Tape Devices * Scanners

Portable : Dell, Toshiba, Sony

Printers : Hewlett Packard * Lexmark * IBM * Apple * DEC * Xerox * Canon * Epson * Panasonic * Okidata

Wireless : Routers, Access points

Software:

Network OS : Windows 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT, Novell 5.x, 4.X, 3.XX, * TCP/IP * 802.X * Appletalk / Localtalk

Workstations OS : Windows Window 7 / Vista / XP / 2000 / NT 4.0, ME, 98, 95, 3.11,* DOS 2.11 through 6.0 Applications : MS Office 2010 / 2007 / 2003 / XP / 2000 / 98, Word, Excel, Project, Access, Internet Explorer,

Citrix * Visio * Adobe * Product Studio * Norton Utilities * Symantec Ghost * VMWare *

AntiVirus : Norton Anti-Virus * McAfee Anti-Virus*

Backup : Veritas Backup Exec Server * CA ArcServe *

Mail Services : Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, Outlook Express * Lotus Notes 6.5 / CC: Mail * Novell GroupWise

Professional Experience

Independent Computer Consultant, Seattle, WA 2009 – Current

Provide services to clients including: network or desktop engineering and administration; training, help desk support.

Volt Technical, Redmond, WA 2008 – 2009

XBOX Tier 1 Support Analyst, Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft XBOX/ZUNE Operation Center monitored over 2500 Microsoft enterprise servers to maintain the highest availability to the 5 million users that use XBOX / ZUNE devices with Microsoft Live experience 24x7 networks.

• Proactively handle troubleshooting and resolution of issues that affect dev/test/operations teams, Xbox Live/Xbox.com/Zune customers, and external 3rd party partners.

• Identify and drive root cause of environment issues and implement effective solutions.

• Network troubleshooting, including VLANs, routing, interpreting network captures, etc.

• Establish or improved operational procedures.

• Be able to effectively manage and prioritize multiple tasks in accordance with high level projects/objectives.

• Sound issue identification, resolution, judgment, and decision making skills.

• Create & interpreted performance monitoring and advocating change where necessary.

• Solid experience working with W2K3, Longhorn, IIS, SQL, XML, networking, and scripting.

• Intensive Product Studio usage to maintain all MOM / SCOM incidences both hardware and network issues

• Develop productive scripts using VB, Powershell, CMD line or batch language, WMIC tools.

• VMware used in testing various SQL operations to maintain compliancy in the XBOX environment.

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Independent Computer Consultant, Seattle, WA 2007 – 2008

• Provide services to clients including: network or desktop engineering and administration; training, help desk support.

Advance Management Technology Inc., Auburn, WA 2002 – 2007

System Network Engineer, Federal Aviation Administration Contractor

• System Engineer in (3) primary facilities in the regional migration from 175 Novell servers to Windows 2003 servers. This project required extensive engineering to migrate all workstations, clients, data, applications, printers, scripts, groups’ security requirements, and network devices into Microsoft Active Directory. Project completed in six month period.

• McAfee EPO administrator with duties to administer 500 clients and 25 servers support area on a 50000+ clients supporting XP windows workstation and 5000+ Dell Windows 2003 servers.

• McAfee antivirus implementation for local servers, workstations, this included maintaining updates as soon as released, and pushing updates to clients to insure server and workstation protection. Random query of local workstation to insure current compliancy.

• Engineered the consolidation of (16) Novell 4.x-5.x servers into (3) primary Novell 5.x dedicated servers while providing service to over 300 clients, 20 print servers, and increasing bandwidth by reducing multiple protocols to industry standard TCP/IP.

• Implemented and administered the 17 regional offices Disaster Recovery program using CA Arc serve backup program. Standardized procedures to insure data integrity and effective recovery strategies, thus increasing data recovery reliability, and reducing clients down time.

• Engineered and deployed 9 Novell 5.x replacement server throughout 3 state locations within 3 month period

• Provided extensive System Engineer services throughout Washington, Oregon, and Idaho facilities to resolve network, workstation, and printer problems.

System Engineer Contractor, Seattle, WA 2000 – 2002

Alpine Insurance Company, Seattle, WA Novell Engineer 2002 - 2002

• Managed small business LAN move to new facility and system upgrades

Rome-Aero Incorporation, Seattle, WA Lead Senior Engineer 2001 – 2002

• Highly instrumental in helping an $86 million rollout project to implement 1100 self checkout lanes when the 9 / 11 incidences put the project into critical failure. With one day training took over the northwest responsibilities and finished all the rollout, engineering and training on time.

Classic Computer Inc, Miami, FL System Field Engineer 2000 - 2001

• Provided Administration and Engineering solutions too multiple small business and ad hoc customers for networks, desktop, system repairs, upgrades, and maintenance.

Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 1996 – 2000

LAN Administrator

Novell Engineer and Administration duties, with significant emphasis on developing long term corporate objectives, specifically in the area of cost reduction, server/workstation standardization, disaster recovery planning, capacity planning, inventory / obsolescence planning.

• Administered 6 Novell File Servers on an Ethernet WAN network, supporting 400 Novell servers and 15,000 workstations, on 30 sites.

• Provided Engineering expertise in implementing new servers, server programs, Novell System patches, and resolving network and server hardware issues.

• Designed, implemented strategies for disaster recovery programs using Arcserve software.

• Develop strategies to migrate Novell 3.1X and Novell 4.1X server to Novell 5.X.

• Team member of the GroupWise 4.xx migration to 5.xx client and server capacity planning project

• Provided extensive Customer Service via 24 hour by 7 days a week support

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Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA 1994 - 1996

Novell Network Engineer

Novell Engineer and Administration duties, with significant emphasis on developing long term corporate objectives, specifically in the area of cost reduction, server/workstation standardization, disaster recovery planning, capacity planning, inventory / obsolescence planning.

• Administered 33 Novell File Servers on a Token-Ring WAN network, supporting 2000 workstations,

• Designed, planned and incorporated new Novell enterprise backup solution, utilizing Arcade Backup Exec software, HP Autoloader, Tec mar DAT drives.

• Develop long term strategy to reduce Swedish Novell Servers from 33 to 18 over a 3 year period

• Develop strategies to migrate Novell 3.1X servers to Novell 4.1

• Develop Novell security and server standardization

Education

Licenses and Certifications

• Pursuing Microsoft Certified System Engineer, MCSE * courses

• Pursuing Cisco Network Engineer courses

• Novell Engineer, CNE * Certified Novell Administrator, CNA *

• IBM Technician * Apple Technician

Strategy Computers, Bellevue, WA

• Microsoft Certified System Engineer, MCSE 2000 course

Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA

• Computer Science and Mathematics

Spokane Community College, Spokane, WA

• Associates in Arts, Major in Computer Science and Mathematics

Military

United States Navy

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