## BIO
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science
Telecommunications Management
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois
Graduated May 2008
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
**IT Consultant**
**February 2010 - Present**
**Dantech Information Technology**
**Oak Brook****, IL**
Independent IT Consultant serving small and medium sized businesses.
**Network / System Administrator**
**November 2008 – February 2010**
**American Finco Financial Services**
**Schaumburg****, IL**
System / Network Administrator in charge of managing the IT needs of an office and call center with 70 users and 15 Servers. Duties Included:
* Management of Exchange Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, IIS 7.0, SQL, VMware ESX
* IT Support for office employees and call center using Windows XP machines with custom .NET applications
* Administration of WSUS, Windows Firewall, Symantec SEP, Cisco VPN, Exchange IMF
* Daily administration and maintenance of Symantec Backup Exec using backup tapes
* Installation of physical hardware such as Servers, Firewall, Managed Switches, Routers, SAN, Avaya VM
* Primary point of contact for vendors, In charge of purchasing IT equipment
* Project Manager of office relocation project, sole employee in charge of relocation entire server room
* Interim Vice President of IT for 3 months
**System Administrator / Level II Field Technician**
**January 2008 – July 2008 **
**Mavidea Technology Group**
**Bloomington****, IL**
System Administrator / Field Technician at a managed services company with over 30 small business clients. Duties included:
* Local/Domain administrator with duties involving Active Directory, Exchange, Group Policy, Exchange
* Provide phone based help desk Support to business clients
* Conduct in-house and on call break/fix work for business clients
* Administration of Windows SBS 2003 Server and Windows XP/Vista workstations
* Management of anti virus solutions using Kaspersky and AVG antivirus software
* Management of Backup and Data/Disaster Recovery (NTBackup, UltraBac, SBS Backup, Acronis, Online Backup, BDR, Spinrite)
* Various duties using administration tools such as ConnectWise, Kaseya, Zenith, VNC, RDP
**IT Security Analyst (Internship) **
**January 2006- September 2006**
**COUNTRY Insurance & Financial Services**
**Bloomington****, IL**
IT Security Analyst at an Insurance and Financial Services company with a large IT environment. Duties included:
* Main point of contact for VPN related issues including implementation, troubleshooting and administering accounts
* Active member of the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) implementation team
* Junior Project Manager of the Antivirus implementation team
* Participated in other security areas including LDAP Administration, Intrusion Detection, Firewall Administration (Cisco PIX), Whole Disk Encryption (McAfee SafeBoot)
* Member of the SSL VPN investigation team tasked with researching viable SSL options
* Member of a Call Center Expansion team that managed the set up of a new call center in Atlanta, Georgia
* Other various duties such as investigation of various technologies, Information risk and Compliance, using Microsoft Visio to map existing network
**Information Systems Coordinator**
**June 2000 - December 2002**
**Marine** **Corps War College****,**
**Quantico****, VA**
Sole IT contact for the Marine Corps War College, the senior department of Marine Corps University. Duties included:
* Network Analyst, Webmaster, and Help Desk Support
* Administration of user accounts using NT Directory Service and Active Directory
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* Installed and maintained LAN equipment for the college
* Replace/repair faulty hardware
* Webmaster for the college web site. Duties included the construction, weekly maintenance , and DOD compliance tasks
* IT Support for high ranking officers attending the college
**Officer Candidate School Communications Platoon Sergeant
May 2001 – September 2001
U.S. Marine Corps Officer** **Candidate School** **(OCS)**
**Quantico****, VA**
Platoon Sergeant of the communications platoon supporting OCS
## Area of Expertise
Windows, Networking, Web Development and Design
