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Unix and / or Windows System Administrator
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US-Missouri-St. Louis
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RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SCOTTRADE INC., St. Louis, MO
Workstation Support Technician October 2004 to Present
Maintain 1800+ employee accounts in Active Directory. Streamlined creation, maintenance, and removal of accounts and domain privileges; resulting in a 30% increase in efficiency.
Support cross-functional teams with project management.
Provide Tier 2 hardware and software support for employees of nationwide online brokerage.
Instituted and supported Branch Office RAID (a.k.a. Ersatz) Server Project. Managed early phases of project.
Provided hardware maintenance on a variety of Dell Power Edge servers and Dell Workstations.
Provided hardware / software maintenance and updates on Dell laptops on an as needed basis
ILLUMINATED PANES ART GLASS,
St. Louis, MO
Co-Owner & Key Art Director / Glass Artisan September 2002 to Present
Founded art glass company, develop business and marketing plans, communicate with customers, trades-people, and suppliers.
Act as the sole designer of all pieces and collaborate with customers to create customized artwork.
Completely self-taught. Mastered a large variety of stained glass techniques, including hot glass working, painting on glass, etc.
WEBSTER UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, MO
Assistant Lab Coordinator, Academic Computing Svcs January 2003 to December 2004
Managed team of Tier 1 support staff for university home campus.
Provided specialized support for digital multimedia educational systems, 400 Macintosh, and approx. 1000 PCs.
Provided hardware updates and maintenance on all University owned PC loaner laptops.
WEBSTER UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, MO
School of Education Computer Lab Monitor, (Work Study) January 2002 to December 2002
Macintosh / PC Lab Monitor
Provided on-site hardware and software support for School of Education Staff.
LINUXMDS.COM, OFallon, MO
Linux Administration Consultant February 2001 to December 2002
Contractual Linux Administration Consultant for internet based start-up business in the St. Louis / St. Charles
Regions.
Provided on-site estimates of hardware and software requirements for seamless integration if Linux based
back-end server solutions into existing Windows environments for small to medium sized business clientele.
Supervised on-site installation and support of Linux based server solutions for common business tasks.
LINUXGRUVEN INC., St. Louis, MO
Linux Administration Instructor, Continuing Education June 2000 to January 2001
Taught 6 week Introductory and Intermediate Linux Administration courses for private, for-profit, firm.
Designed and implemented custom curriculum specifically for students versed in the Windows Server
environment seeking a transition into Unix-like systems.
Provided hands on laboratory and classroom experience to prepare students for eventual level 1 and 2 Linux
certifications.
Maintained office lab of RS6000 based rack mounted servers and X86 based student PCs.
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DATABASES: MySQL, Oracle (basic familiarity)
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: C++, Bourne Shell Scripting
OPERATING SYSTEMS: Linux (SuSE, RedHat, Debian / GNULinux), UNIX, IBM AIX (4.4x-5.1), Mac OS7.1-OSX, Windows (NT, XP Pro, 2000 Server, 2003 Server Enterprise Edition)
SOFTWARE: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Adobe Creative Suite CS2 (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro), VisualStudio.Net, Adobe Acrobat Professional, et. Al.
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WEBSTER UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, MO
M.S. Information Systems Management
Projected fall 2008
WEBSTER UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, MO
B.S. Computer Science May 2005
B.A. Media Communications: Photojourn. May 1994 RELEVANT COURSEWORK
2 years of C++ programming courses including Algorithms and Data Structures
Basic Object Oriented programming
Exposure to Extreme Programming Environment and Procedures
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
MCSA Windows 2000 Server
SAIR Certified Linux Professional (LCP)
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James has received 2 endorsements.
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James has endorsed 4 Members.
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I.T.PMP. MAC and PC Systems Administrator / Technical support |
US-New York-New York City |
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Systems Engineer and Project Manager |
US-Colorado-Denver |
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Project Manager, Trainer |
US-Missouri-St. Louis |
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Sr Systems Administrator |
US-California-Orange County |
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linux administrator |
US-Indiana |
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Director of IT / CIO / CTO |
US-Oregon-Portland |
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09.29.07 |
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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