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Systems Administrator
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US-Illinois-Chicago
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- Small/Home Office IT Consultant, Sept 1999 Present
Neolithic Technology, Chicago, IL and La Crosse, WI
Performed various duties for small and home office clients, including technical support, training, backup solutions and hardware repairs
- Research, assembly and configuration of multiple Intel based PC workstations for optimal performance in design and graphics intensive production environment
- Design and installation of small multi-platform, Windows XP/2000/2003, Linux and Macintosh, secured wired and wireless LANs
- Installed NAS appliances
- Information Services Manager, Jan 2006 Sept 2006
Facets Multi-Media, Chicago, IL
Performed network administration at nonprofit video distributor to ensure critical functionality as well as integration of commerce systems in a mixed Windows XP, Windows 2003, SCO OpenServer, SUSE Linux, CentOS Linux, Mac OS X and AIX environment
- Upgraded workstations to Windows XP from Windows 98
- Design and implementation of Windows Server 2003 environment, including Active Directory, SharePoint and Exchange Server 2003
- Implemented centralized administration and security for servers and workstations
- Design and implementation of LAMP (CentOS Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) web and database servers
- Created new and modified existing shell scripts for systems maintenance on installed platforms
- Designed and implemented Executone PBX phone system upgrade to include voice mail, increase capacity and allow for a VOIP migration
- Configured legacy hardware to perform as NAS appliances on both Linux and Windows platforms
- Network Administrator, Dec 2000 - Oct 2001
McDermott, Will and Emery, Chicago, IL
Worked with the Database Administration and Programming team to provide integration with and transition from legacy AIX 4.3 based systems to MS Windows 2000 based SQL 7 systems on a network with over 250 servers and 2000 users in local and worldwide law offices
- Coordinated server installation upgrades
- Implemented user and resource domain migration via Windows shell scripts and Windows Script Host
- Implemented MS SQL 7/2000 installations and upgrades
- Configured and managed DAS fiber channel, SAS and SCSI RAID storage on Windows and AIX platforms
- Managed local and remote backups with scripting and ARCserve
- Consulted developer team members to increase usability and manageability
- Consolidated MS SQL 7 servers into a single domain
- Created AIX and Windows shell scripts for platform transition
- Member of the team to evaluate SAN implementations for MS SQL servers
- Network Coordinator, March 2000 - Dec 2000
Rush North Shore Medical Center, Skokie, IL
Performed network administration at a medium sized hospital with 40 servers and 1000 users to ensure critical functionality as well as integration of healthcare systems in a mixed Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Netware and AIX environment with local and remote offices
- Coordinated server installation and upgrades
- Documented and diagrammed network resources with Visio
- Coordinated workstation and printer rollouts
- Performed troubleshooting for LAN/WAN connectivity over a T1/ATM/Ethernet TCP/IP and IPX/SPX network with mainframe (SNA/3270) connectivity
- Installed Windows NT DNS/DHCP servers with automatic fail-over process via shell scripting
- Configured and managed DAS SCSI RAID storage
- Managed backups on multiple platforms with ARCserve, agents and scripting combination
- Installed Red Hat Linux servers to backup DNS and other network services
- Network Administrator, Sept Oct 1999 via contract
QTI Group, Madison, WI
Provided support for Y2K software and hardware upgrades, transitions and training.
- Technical Support Administrator, March 1997 - Nov 1999
SITEL Technical Services, Madison, WI
Provided end-user technical support in person and over the phone. Provided training for over 3000 agents and curriculum development for a diverse set of operating systems and applications
- Restructured training curricula to reduce training time from three weeks to two
- Increased testing scores from 70% to 85% and increased real-time agent performance
- Provided internal corporate support
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Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003, Netware 4.11-6.5, Linux (Red Hat, SUSE, CentOS), UNIX (AIX 4.3.3/5.1, SCO OpenServer), CheckPoint FireWall 1/VPN 1, RSA Security Aceserver, Computer Associates ARCserve, ZENworks, Proxy Server 2.0/IIS 4/5/6/ISA 2000, TCP/IP, Exchange Server 5.5 - 2003, SQL Server 6.5-2005, MySQL, Windows/Linux/Unix Shell scripting, Training and Documentation, Change Management, PC Server Hardware, PC Workstation Hardware, Macintosh Hardware, Power Management, Racking Servers, Mac OS9/OS X, Customer Service, MS Office 95/97/2000/XP/2003
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- Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, Jan 2003- Jan 2005
On-line Information Technology Program
- Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI, May Aug 1999
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Oct 1992- May 1999
- MCSE, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer for Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000
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09.28.07 |
I would like to network with you regarding a position our executive search firm has been retained to fill. It is for a great company in Chicago.
Perhaps someone in your network might be interested in a Senior Exchange Messaging Engineer position. Please see the job description below. Im happy to answer any questions. Feel free to forward on to anyone you like.
Whether this is of interest to you or not, I encourage you to reply with a resume. It would be helpful for us in future searches that might be ideal for your background. Our firm has been in business for 30 years & is a pioneer in diversity. Thank you.
Don McCauley
dmccauley@dgai.com
Position Specification
Title: Senior Exchange Engineer
The Team
Technical Architecture The position is a part of the Research and Development department and fills a senior role in our messaging systems development group. The teams involved consist of managers/staff, Communications Department, Operations, Application Development, contractors, and vendors.
Position description
As a senior member of our messaging R&D department, the candidate will be responsible for maintaining and improving the companys state of the art global messaging environment with some cross platform (Microsoft/Cisco) unified messaging design and support.
The candidate will work with SMTP, Microsoft Exchange Server, Presence, SonicWall, and related email concepts, protocols and methods along with the opportunities to perform major upgrades to our messaging platforms. The candidate will work alongside our Communications department to help design and support our unified messaging environment.
Person
The candidate shall have a broad background in messaging technologies and shall have demonstrated proficiency in the following areas:
Exchange 2003\Exchange 2007
Live Communication server (LCS)\Office Communications Server (OCS)
Mobile Messaging Technologies (Active Sync, BlackBerry, Good Technologies)
Remote Messaging Technologies (OWA, RPC over HTTP)
Anti-Spam Technologies
Anti-Virus Technologies (messaging specific)
Messaging DR best practices
Storage technologies (SANs, FC Switches, HBAs)
Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007
Active Directory
Windows 2003 Server
DNS
SMTP
Understanding the principles of UM (Cisco\Exchange)
Job Responsibilities
The candidate will have the following responsibilities with the potential of expanding:
Researching and developing solutions to meet enterprise wide messaging needs.
Researching, architecting, testing and planning the integration of new messaging technologies and upgrades to existing platforms.
Staying current with new technologies, and industry best practices; particularly those dealing with messaging and storage.
High level maintenance and troubleshooting of the current Exchange 2003 messaging environment based on industry best practices. (Responsibilities include but are not limited to troubleshooting and resolving high level mail routing issues, public folder issues, mailbox issues, Exchange server\services issues; adding\removing messaging servers, configuring servers, services, routing policies, etc., establishing maintenance procedures based on current industry BP).
Maintaining and troubleshooting SMTP internet gateway issues (Currently SonicWall).
Maintaining and troubleshooting Live Communications server 2005.
Establishing DR procedures for all relevant messaging servers. (Exchange, LCS, Blackberry, Good etc).
Maintaining and troubleshooting BlackBerry and Good Technologies servers.
Maintaining and troubleshooting Outlook Web Access \ RPC over HTTP
Maintaining and Configuring EMC SANs and FC Switches.
Working with Communications group to troubleshoot Cisco Unity issues.
Keeping documentation up to date for the messaging environment.
Testing and deployment of upgrades, hot fixes and other updates.
Education and/or Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent 7 to 10 years of relevant experience.
Excellent problem solving, written and oral communication skills.
Deep knowledge of SMTP, Microsoft Exchange Server, and related email concepts, protocols and methods are required.
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dilip
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09.13.07 |
Hello Daniel ,
I have a Urgent requirement for A SAS system administrator , please send me your profile with contact details to dilip@omegacsi.com .
dilip |
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