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Honeywell Inc. 2/1999 - 11/2001
Druid Hills, GA US
Network Administrator
Operated, maintained, monitored, and analyzing networks; analyzing and resolving second and/or third level problems for all network components; implementing, maintaining, and administering LAN and/or WAN systems. Responsible for the daily activities associated with the management and administration of all network servers, operating systems, PC applications, and desktop maintenance.
Including rolling out new equipment, as well as performing corrective and preventive measures on existing equipment over three location in Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia.
Teambuilders 8/1997 - 1/1999
Atlanta, GA US
Desktop Support
The service desk/help desk supports 250+ users with Microsoft technologies - XP, Outlook, Office, Citric, Notes. training, ensuring there is sufficient support cover at all times. Gathered and evaluated call stats, interview new staff, train new staff, set objectives for service desk staff, procure equipment, project/large task management, call queue management and other team leader duties.
CDI 12/1996 - 8/1997
Atlanta, GA US
NOC Operator
Detecting network issues and responding in accordance with organizational policies and procedures.
Troubleshooting network issues; configuring routers, communicating with carriers, and supporting network maintenance efforts.
Proactively responding to incidents and service requests to fulfill service requirements within Service Level Agreements, Operational Level Agreements, and Quality Standards
Managing activities using a variety of tools and reporting systems.
Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority
3/1993 - 9/1996
Buffalo, NY US
AS/400/Network Administrator
Submitted and monitored batch jobs on an AS/400 system, print and distribute reports, inventory and track various storage media types, and will be responsible for the successful and timely completion of regularly scheduled process as well as daily incremental saves and weekly full system backups. Responsible for logging and troubleshooting events occurring on the system, network, and facilities, escalating to appropriate support personnel when necessary, and tracking issues from reception to resolution.
Ellicott Drug Co. 10/1990 - 3/1993
Cheektowaga, NY
AS/400 Operator
Monitors computing environments, tape libraries, and peripheral equipment, adjust, manipulate, and respond to console requests, commands, workflow procedures, and job runs. Perform day-to-day maintenance of systems hardware, tape drives, and related equipment.
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Network performance issues and creates and maintains a disaster recovery plan. Recommends upgrades, patches, and new applications and equipment. Provides technical support and guidance to users.
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EDUCATION
Present DeVry University
Naperville, IL US
Bachelor's Degree - 1/2009
Major: Network Communications
GPA: 3.5
8/2004 University of Maryland
Kitzingen, GE Germany
Some College Coursework Completed -
2 Semester Hours
Major: Information Technology
GPA: 4.00 out of 4.00
9/1990 Bryant & Stratton Business Institute
Williamsville, NY US
Some College Coursework Completed -
63 Quarter Hours
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Cynthia has received 6 endorsements.
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I.T.PMP. MAC and PC Systems Administrator / Technical support |
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Network Administrator |
US-California-Los Angeles |
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Network Engineer |
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Network Administrator/systems engineer. CCNA. MCP |
US-Kentucky |
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Network Technician/Administrator |
US-Illinois-Chicago |
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Desktop Support Specialist |
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Acuity Infosystems Inc. |
10.10.07 |
Interviews as early as today!
Title: SM Sr Network Engineer
Environment: Corporate
Sponsorship Available: No
Location: NY, New York
Pay : $130,000 /Annum
Please contact me @ 630-445-1788 or email me @ ivy.george@acuityinfosystems.com
Minimum Requirements:
Skills and Knowledge:
Competencies/Skills:
Good consultative and communications skills, design skills, analytical ability, judgment, and the ability to work effectively with client and other Information Technology staff, consultants, and vendors.
Supervision Received: Receives general supervision and is competent to work on own at the highest level of all technical phases of projects.
Supervision Exercised: Assists and helps lower level engineers. Act as project leader on many projects.
Knowledge:
Requires a broad knowledge of data communications technology
Education and Experience:
Education:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
Experience:
At least five, typically seven or more years experience in data communications fundamentals, telecommunications, network design, implementation, and support in state of the art data communications networks or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
The applicant is required to have a strong understanding of TCP/IP, switching technologies (VLANs, STP, RSTP, VTP, 802.1x), Routing (RIP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, Redistribution, Summarization), IP (subnets, CIDR, NAT, ACLs, DNS, DHCP, WINS), VoIP, multicast protocols (PIM, IGMP, CGMP), QoS (CBWFQ, PQ, CQ), Cisco IOS (12.2), general knowledge around NTP, SNMP, Netflow, CEF, Security Protocols, network management packages including CiscoWorks, Concord, QIP, Cisco NAM.
Have a broad understanding of network security and firewalls.
Description:
SR NETWORK ENGINEER
Position Objective:
Under limited supervision, performs analytical, technical and administrative work in planning, design, installation and maintenance of complex enterprise-wide networks.
Major Opportunities and Decisions:
Provides primary operational support for The COMPANY Data Communications networks and all its components throughout the enterprise.
Principal Accountabilities
Activity
Purpose
Configuring and managing Cisco routing and switching products including the Content Switch Module
Ensure that the network devices are configured optimally.
Monitors and tunes networks and system performance. Establishes capacity performance monitoring.
Monitoring and tuning the network ensure that the network is performing at optimal level.
Work with vendors and common carriers during problem analysis/resolution as required.
Working with vendors is needed to resolve outage as quickly as possible.
Prepares and maintains standard operating procedures for network, technical specifications and documents, drawings, system documentation including operations management.
Following operating procedures and documentation is essential to having a well run network.
Responsible for the evaluation of vendor proposals and benefits of changes in hardware, communications protocols, switching methods, access methods, and tariffs, and in the procurement of software and hardware.
New technologies must be evaluated and implemented to continually improve the network efficiency and reliability.
Participates and consults in the planning, design and integration of new networks.
Planning and integrating new network must be done carefully not to effect production network.
Provides technical guidance and assists in the training of less experienced Network Engineers.
Assist in training Junior Engineers to do routine configurations will allow Sr. Network Engineers time to learn new technologies.
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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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