Forensic Technician

Objective

A position as a Data Center Manager or Senior Systems Analyst that utilizes
my knowledge and experience plus provides me with challenging
responsibilities.


Summary

Proficient or familiar with a variety of operating systems, Internet
services, programming languages, technologies, including but not limited
to: enterprise Internet applications, Linux/Unix, application development
and design, Java, Perl, C, XHTML, SQL, databases, debugging, reporting and
optimization.

I have two year experience managing multiple redundant data centers with a
staff of five, ten years designing and supporting enterprise Internet
infrastructures and Unix systems administration and eight years security,
firewall and intrusion detection management.


Expertise

Datacenter Manager
Crossroads Wireless March ••••• - Present
Manage the companys Operations / Business Support Systems (OSS BSS) and
data mediation in two data centers, one in Oklahoma City and one in Memphis
Tennessee, with a team of five employees. Applications include Apache Open
for Business (ofBiz), Zimbra, MySQL, Pentaho, Zamanda, Cacti and
Groundworks monitoring systems all running on Dell M•••••e blade servers
with VMware ESX, Redhat Linux and EMC SANs.

Beside these management functions, I personally performed DBA and SAN
management duties.

Gold Technical Support Specialist
Dell Computers March ••••• - March •••••
Provided complex hardware and software troubleshooting to resolution for
Dell customers. This included managing RAID storage, networking and
installing VMware, Windows ••••• and Linux operating systems. After
diagnosing hardware issues, I managed the ordering, delivery and
installation of needed hardware by either the customer or a Dell
technician.

Security Administrator / Senior Systems Administrator
Hertz Corporation April ••••• - January •••••
My first position at Hertz was in information security. I maintained the
companies Checkpoint firewalls, email systems and audited for employee
Internet abuse.

As senior system administrator, I was responsible for maintaining the Hertz
public websites and infrastructure. I directed staff and maintained ••••• IBM
AIX and ••••• Redhat Linux systems. Applications included, Bind DNS, Apache
web servers, Websphere application servers, DB2 databases and proprietary
load balancing and monitoring systems.

Unix System Administrator
Fleming Companies, Inc. March ••••• - April •••••
Primary responsibility where managing Flemings Intranet service called
Visionet. I was also responsible for •••••+ AIX systems providing accounting
and communications services to Flemings warehouses. I maintained both
Websphere and JBoss middleware servers, customer email and account LDAP
systems. I also provided on-call support form Cronos time clock systems
and wireless communications systems.

Internet Administrator
American Floral Services, Inc. (Now Teleflora) March ••••• - March •••••
Designed and managed the development of the companys public web site with
a team of three employees and one contractor. It was a Java based
application using a Netdynamics application server and an Oracle database
to provide a complete online catalog.

Applications Specialist / Network Manager
Oklahoma Office of State Finance ••••• - March •••••
Provided application development and support to other state agencies and I
managed the States wide area network. As an Application Specialist I was
also responsible for the design and development of applications used by the
Department of Corrections, Office of State Finance, Oklahoma Horse Racing
Commission, the Oklahoma Department of Labor, the Oklahoma Ethics
Commission and the Governors Office.

As Network Manager, I was responsible for installing and managing backbone
routers used to provide interagency networks which connected Ethernet,
Token Ring, T1 and FDDI services. I installing and maintaining Novell,
Lantastic, StarLan, 3Com, and Corvis networks for other state agencies.

I also designed, installed and maintained the States first Internet
website and eMail systems.


Training

••••• - Microsoft Certified Windows XP Professional (•••••)
••••• - Dell PowerEdge blade server components, configuration and
troubleshooting
••••• - Brainbench Certified Computer Forensics (U.S.)
••••• - Brainbench Certified Network Security - Transcript ID#: •••••
••••• - Self training OWASP web application security
••••• - IBM WebSphere Developer Training
••••• - IBM WebSphere System Management Training
••••• - NetDynamics Training
••••• - 3Com Router Training
••••• - Lotus Notes Administrator Training


Publications

Linux Firewall HOWTO: The Linux Documentation Project -
••••• - published February •••••, •••••