Resume

General Qualifications | Education | Professional Certifications | Professional Experience | Project Listing

General Qualifications

Over twenty years of proven performance in the Information Technology field, including networking, systems integration, application development, hardware and software support, training, and troubleshooting, with consistently increasing levels of responsibility and leadership roles.

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Education

B.S., Computer Information Systems (Cum Laude)
College of Saint Rose, 432 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12203

A.A.S., Business Administration
Hudson Valley Community College, 80 Vandenburgh Avenue, Troy, NY 12180

NYS Regents Diploma
Columbia High School, 962 Luther Road, East Greenbush, NY 12061

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Professional Certifications

MCSE - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer w/ Messaging Specialization

MCT - Microsoft Certified Trainer

CCA - Citrix Certified Administrator

CCDA - Cisco Certified Design Associate

CUSE - Cisco Unity System Engineer

CCSA – CheckPoint Certified Security Administrator

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Professional Experience

2007 - Present
Consultant / Owner
Self-employed

Created business plan, recruited partners, obtained startup financing to launch network integration firm providing IT professional services and managed services to small & medium business, government, and enterprise clients.

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2003 - 2007
Network Engineer
IPLogic, Inc.
17 British American Blvd, Latham, NY  12110

As an IT consultant specializing in systems integration on the Windows Server platform, IP Telephony, and network security, served as technical lead for pre-sales design and post-sales implementation of solutions of varying scope and complexity for both public and private sector organizations. In this capacity I directed the efforts of junior engineers on a project basis, and interacted with and advised staff from all levels of client organizations from senior management to first level IT support.

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1999 - 2001
Network Computing Engineer
UNIFIED Technologies, Inc.
105 Jordan Road, Troy, NY 12180

As an IT consultant specializing on the Windows Server platform, I served as the technical lead for design and implementation on various large scale initiatives for government agencies, requiring interaction with staff from all levels of client organizations.

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1999
Network Administrator
Empire Corporate Federal Credit Union
1021 Watervliet-Shaker Road, Albany, NY 12205

As network administrator, my responsibility was to maintain and enhance the network and computing infrastructure, including participation in a cross-functional team to design and test disaster recovery plan.

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1996 - 1999
Systems Manager
InfoEd International, Inc.
2301 Western Avenue, Guilderland, NY 12084

Performed all functions normally associated with an IT Department for a software company serving the academic research community worldwide via the internet, while supporting legacy applications for DOS, Windows, and MacIntosh platforms.

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1988 - 1996
Senior Computer Programmer / Analyst
New York State Education Department
84 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12234

While with NYSED, I was involved in a number of different projects requiring application development, networking, and customer support, most notably serving as the lead for development and implementation of a client/server case management application for vocational rehabilitation staff at 28 sites statewide, using CS/ADS (Convergent Solutions Application Development System - a 4GL) and CTOS ISAM server.

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1987 - 1988
Computer Programmer
Northland Data Corporation
2301 Western Avenue, Guilderland, NY 12084

Responsibilities included customer support and troubleshooting of construction accounting systems running on Wang 2200 mini-computers, MS-DOS, and Unix.

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Partial Project Listing

• MS Exchange Projects
  Designed, implemented and supported many MS Exchange messaging environments, including versions 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, 2000, 2003, and 2007, including:
   
  • 3,000 + seats for MS Exchange 2003 w/ high availability via Microsoft Clustering
     
  • Designed messaging environment to achieve 99.999% availability for multinational enterprise leveraging MS Exchange 2003, including layered security, multiple front-end servers w/ load balancing, multiple back-end servers w/ MS clustering, and replication to redundant data center
     
  • 20+ sites for MS Exchange 5.5 environment
     
  • Many smaller MS Exchange projects
     
• Other Messaging Projects
   
  • Multiple unified messaging projects leveraging Cisco Unity / MS Exchange
     
  • Enterprise Instant Messaging via Microsoft Live Communications Server
     
• Network Security / Integrity Projects
  Designed and implemented many network security solutions leveraging a layered approach to achieve defense-in-depth
   
  • Perimeter firewalls, including CheckPoint, SonicWALL
     
  • SMTP Relay w/ anti-virus, spam filtering
     
  • Inbound / outbound proxy via MS Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) 2000, 2004, 2006, and MS Proxy Server 4.0
     
  • Web filtering via WebSense, SurfControl, SonicWALL
     
  • Multi-tier antivirus
     
  • Patch management via Microsoft SUS, WSUS, System Center
     
  • Monitoring / alerting via IPSwitch WhatsUp Gold, MS System Center Essentials
     
  • SSL encryption
     
• Thin Client Projects
  Designed and implemented thin-client computing solutions, including:
   
  • Microsoft Terminal Services w/ load balancing via MS Network Load Balancing
     
  • Citrix Metaframe, Presentation Server, XenApp
     
• Active Directory Projects
  • Design and implementation to consolidate 30+ Windows NT 4.0 domains into a single Active Directory forest / domain for a large New York State agency
     
  • Designed and implemented many Windows NT to Active Directory domain migrations varying widely in size and complexity.
     
• Virtualization Projects
   
  • Leveraged Microsoft Hyper-V / Virtual Server to facilitate server consolidation, rapid deployment and rapid recovery
     
  • Designed enterprise class virtualization environment for a financial institution leveraging VMWare Infrastructure / iSCSI SAN environment
     
• High Availability Projects
   
  • Microsoft Clustering for MS Exchange 2003, MS SQL Server, and File Shares
     
  • Microsoft Network Load Balancing for Internet Information Service and Terminal Services
     
• VPN Solutions
   
  •  Persistent site-to-site VPN via CheckPoint, SonicWALL
     
  • Remote access via VPN, including Microsoft RRAS / PPTP, CheckPoint, SonicWALL, and Nortel Contivity
     
  • Integrated Remote Access VPN technology w/ Active Directory via RADIUS
     

  Miscellaneous
   

  • Backup solutions via BackupExec, hosted backup solutions
     
  • Network services: DNS, DHCP, WINS, RADIUS

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