To obtain a challenging position as a Systems Administrator where I can utilize my training and experience as an MCP+I and MCSE.  For the past six months I have been upgrading my NT 4.0 MCSE to 2000 and have over 800 hours of classroom instruction on the latest Microsoft Technologies by attending classes at Quickstart a Microsoft CTEC. I have taken Exchange 2000 design, Active Directory Design, SQL 2000 DBA, SQL 2000 Programming, Clustering on 2000 server, Domain Security on 2000 and several other Microsoft 2000 MCSE courses.

 May 2001 – July 2001   Force10Networks Inc.   www.force10networks.com         Milpitas , CA

Sr. NT Systems Administrator  (Consultant)

§         Force10 networks was a fast paced startup with 300 employees, my projects consisted of Implementing and configuration of a Blackberry Wireless Application Protocol Gateway  (WAP)  (PRE Release) on Exchange 2000.  Working  with RSA Security support engineers, I Implemented and configured an RSA Secure ID Web Client (PRE Release) for Exchange 2000. This product adds a second layer of authentication to Outlook Web Access and improves Internet based Security.

§         Installed and configured a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain and performed a migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 on our test system. I did not complete the installation on the production Exchange 5.5 server, do to a failed Dell RAID controller, downing first Exchange 2000 server in a site, as per Microsoft’s Support Engineer’s instructions using LDP tool , I was forced to remove the Exchange attributes and extensions in the LDAP Schema, which required an Active Directory Authoritative restore.


October 2000 – March 2001  Mirapoint Inc.   www.mirapoint.com                  Mountain View , CA

Sr. NT Systems Administrator

§         Mirapoint was a fast paced startup where I supported 300 IT customers. I Documented the network and server Infrastructure in a network Diagram, renamed the NT domain to Mirapoint to prepare it for Active Directory, Installed and configured HRMS for HR.

§         Supported the Cisco / Altiga VPN concentrator and participated in Cisco’s beta program for the latest release. Implemented the Wireless Avaya Network. Assisted the Director of IT with the implementation of Sales / Support Logix 2000. Installed and configured new Compaq ML-530 with 5304 ADG raid controller, DL-380 and ML-370 servers, Installed Windows 2000 server, configured Terminal Services with Citrix Metframe 1.8. Installed and configured Insight Manager. Supported the NT Infrastructure and created new images for desktop builds.

 
September 2000 – August 2001   San Jose City College                           San Jose , CA

Part-time Instructor Computer Science Department

§         Taught on the weekends, Saturday and Sunday’s for 16 hours a week while working full time. My curriculum consisted of Windows 2000 professional, Windows 2000 server, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, Windows NT Workstation 4.0.,and I was responsible for creating my  syllabi, quizzes, finals, and grading.
 

June 2000 – August 2000      City of San Jose    www.ci.sj.ca.us/mayor           San Jose , CA

Technology Advisor (Contract)

§         Reviewed the City of San Jose’s IT master plan for the Mayor’s staff, proposed restructuring of the IT department and centralizing core IT services as well as implement a help desk database such as Remedy AR or Clarify to track trouble tickets and automate responses to internal IT customers.

§         Redesigning the look and feel of the site and I proposed to staff that I configure a list server for constituent subscription to email announcements and to secure posting’s sent out by the Mayor’s office and the City of San Jose.

November 1999 - April 200       Cisco Systems Inc.     www.cisco.com                    San Jose , CA

Sr. NT Systems Administrator 

§         Supported the Small to Medium Business division (SMB) 700 IT customers as a level three Systems Administrator. Worked on NT server builds for the Gershwin Project team using NT server 4.0 Enterprise and Windows 2000 advance server, IIS 4.0 and 5.0, SQL 7.0 Enterprise Kings Server Project, Migrated 500 clients from an NT server to a NETAPP Filer.  First person to Document the Cisco NT Domain Trust‘s in a Visio diagram for all of ECS and its 180 trusting domains. 

§         Project team technical lead for Engineering Computer Services  (ECS) on the Calendar Team Project.  Installed and configured a CS&T / Steltor test calendar server on a HP LPR Server  (Xeon 4 way), and evaluated calendar functionality on Linux, MAC, Solaris and Windows  clients as  well as configured E-page notifications for meeting additions and reminder’s.

§         Aironet Wireless acquisition project in Akron , Ohio . Migrated Aironets NT domain and servers as a resource domain to the Cisco Engineering master domain. 

June 1999 - November 1999     Intel Online Services     www.intelonline.com    Santa Clara , CA

Sr. Systems Engineer

§         Worked as a level three systems engineer and lead on the setup and implementation of the new division of Intel (IDS01).

§         Worked as a lead on NT server builds for E-Commerce hosting on NT server 4.0 enterprise, IIS 4.0, SQL 7.0 Enterprise and Site Server 3.0.   Assisted level 4 engineers with verification of build scripts and prototype E-commerce server builds.

§         Installed and configured Dell 6350  (Xeon 4 way) and Dell 4350  (Intel PIII 2 way) Servers, configured RAID 5 and 10 (0+1) drive arrays using a PERC2 (Adaptec 4 Channel) RAID controller. Trouble shot network connectivity issues, Database connectivity issues, IBM ADSM backup failures. 

April 1999 - May 1999       Va Linux Systems   www.valinux.com  Sunnyvale , CA

Sr. Systems Administrator  (Contract)

§         VA Research was a fast paced startup that grew from 20 people when I started to 200 employees at the time of my departure. I assisted the IT team at VaResearch with the company's network design and implementation during their relocation from their Mountain View facility to their current Sunnyvale location.

§         Implemented a Windows  4.0 Terminal server with Citrix Metaframe 1.0 for the finance department and configured Linux desktops using an ICA client allowing them to export Peachtree Accounting Software to their local desktops. Daily duties consited of  Linux desktop installs running Redhat 5.2 and NT Terminal server  support, backups and Samba integration issues. 

Aug 1998 - April 1999     FlowWise Networks Inc.  www.flowwise.com              San Jose , CA

Sr. Systems Administrator

§         Responsible for all IT support as the sole IT person in this fast paced startup supporting 50 engineers at corporate headquarters and remote sales offices. Documented the Network and server Infrastructure in a Network Diagram.

§         Implemented Clarify Front Office 98 and Clear Express, a customer support software package running on an Oracle 7.3.4 database. Implemented a new server for the finance and manufacturing group running Great Plains Dynamics 4.0 on Btrieve database engine.

§         Responsible for Sun Solaris Unix server and NT server support, Maintained the Apache and IIS Web server, Sendmail server  (SMTP, POP3, IMAP4), Unix based DNS servers and Sun NIS , IP’s allocation, backup’s for servers on Unix and NT, NFS, Samba, Synopsis Synthesis tools support. Installed and configured new Solaris X86, and Sparc workstations running 2.51, 2.6, version 7 OS.  Upgraded and or repaired hardware as needed. Upgraded the Cisco 2514 WAN router to Cisco Router IOS 11.2.

§         Implemented a  Windows Terminal server with Citrix Metaframe 1.0 and configured Unix and MAC clients with a Solaris ICA client allowing them to run PC applications from there desktops. Responsible for Remote Access support on the server and clients, upgraded server modems to v.90 and developed Web Based dial in procedures for IT customers. Implemented the company’s Internet access upgrade from ISDN to 1.1mb SDSL and web site relocation.

Feb 1998 - July 1998 LSI LOGIC INC.   www.lsilogic.com                              Milpitas , CA

Global IT Operations as an NT / SMS Systems Administrator.

§         Global Operations NT server support in all of North America supporting 5000 IT customers. General IT support. Installed and configured Quota Manager 4.5 on all NT servers (about 35) in the North America domain configured automated SMTP notifications to clients for quota lockout messages. Upgraded Compaq 1500, 2500 and 6000 servers to 100mb NIC’s full duplex, expanded RAID arrays, increased installed server RAM.

§         Responsible for all server backups and restores using Backup Exec 6.11 Enterprise and later upgrading all servers to IBM ADSM 3.103 client on all 35 NT servers in the North America domain. Team technical representative during the SAP rollout for NT server support.

Jan 1997- Feb 1998                                                 IBM Global Services Inc.                                   San Jose , CA

Assigned to the SSD Division of IBM as an NT / Lotus Notes Systems Administrator.

§         Technical lead on the Citrix Winframe 1.6 and 1.7 server rollout. Installed, configured and managed 20 new NT 4.0 servers running Lotus Notes Domino 4.52 and 4.6, on IBM PC 320, 330, 520 and 704 using 2 way and 4 way symmetrical processing (SMP).  Servers  with IBM PC server RAID controllers.

§         Developed build process and documentation for all new NT servers. ITCS 201 and 301 security procedures. Implemented  the master WINS server for the SSD division.

Assigned to the LSI LOGIC account as an NT Systems Administrator: Jan 97 - Sept 97

§         NT server support. Maintained 34 NT servers throughout the North America Domain for LSI Logic using SMS 1.2 for remote administration. Created and managed all new NT user accounts during the Windows 95 Roll out, created and managed shares and group permissions for 2,000 NT users, managed trust relationships between the North America , European and the Asia Domain.

§         Troubleshoot Network connectivity and logon problems for customers. Managed the DHCP, WINS and Docs Open for the legal dept., running on a SQL 6.5 backend. Installed and configured network printers,  (HP, QMS, Xerox and Tektronix’s), using TCP/IP, AppleTalk, and LPD. Configured servers for Mac file and print services.

§         Maintained and upgraded hardware on Compaq 1500 Proliant servers running smart RAID array controllers as raid 5. Managed disk space quota for users on NT shares with Quota Manager 2.1c for NT. Responsible for the full and Incremental tape backup's of all local and remote NT servers using Backup Exec 6.1 on to a central Compaq 6 DLT tape unit server. Configured NT servers for FTP, to automate data transfer from the MVS Main Frame too finance and payroll department shares. Installed and configured a test Intranet Web server running NT 4.0, Internet Information Server 3.0 with Web based administration.

§         Migrated the tax, legal, payroll, finance and facility engineering departments, from NetWare 3.11 and 4.1 to NT 3.51 servers. Created and Managed user accounts on NetWare 3.11 and 4.1.

Sept 1996 - DEC 1996            Compucom assigned to Cisco Systems     San Jose , CA

Systems Administrator (Contract)  

§         Stratacom Acquisition project, migrated customers from  “First Class” mail servers to POP3 mail servers, installed Eudora Pro 3.0 on PC and MAC clients, configured, POP 3, SMTP, and instructed users on the use of Eudora Pro for Mac’s, Win 3.11, Win 95 and NT 3.51 workstations.

§         Cisco Systems, Tasman Campus, trouble shot and repaired e-mail server time-outs on clients, installed and configured new Workstations for end users, using WINS, DNS, DHCP, and TCP/IP. 

§         Data migration project, retrieved data from clients NT server’s to Windows 95 clients, corrected shortcuts, paths, installed backup application and scheduled automatic data backup from clients to their NT server’s home directories.

 

1996                       Online Technical Services                                      San Jose , CA

Systems Administrator ( Contract )

§         Contracted to Softbank Forums, IT department.  Desktop and phone support for clients.

§         Trouble shot and repaired various PC desktops, laptops, Macintosh PC’s and Apple PowerBook's. Onsite field engineer for clients. Troubleshooting on Network’s running Novell NetWare 3.12.

1995 – Present        Saint John Vianney   www.sjvsj.org                                     San Jose , CA

Systems Administrator  ( Non Paid  )

§         Documented the Network and Server Infrastructure in a Network Diagram. Installed new Compaq ML-370 and DL-380 server’s, rebuilt the Proxy 2.0 server, Exchange 5.5 server, configured external and internal DNS, WINS, Insight Manager for event notifications, migrated all data and home directories and decommissioned the existing server’s.

§         Recently installed a multi-user version of the PDS database, Parish Facilities and Religious Education Program. Upgraded network to 100 TX. Ongoing IT support as needed. Upgraded computer hardware and software installed Windows 95, Office 95, McAfee Virus Scan, Publisher 95, Parish Data System, and Quick Books.

§         Configured LAN installed Network Printers, RAS, POP, SMTP, TCP/IP, PPP, DHCP, DNS, and NetBEUI. Trained the staff on the use of Windows 95 and Microsoft Office for Win 95.

Quick Start Technologies (Microsoft CTEC), 2000- 2001  
Microsoft Certified Trainer Course, Upgrading NT to Windows 2000, Exchange2000, SQL 2000 Programming, Front page 2000, Clustering 2000, Active Directory, IIS 5.0, ISA server.  
Cisco Network Academy Training for Instructors, SCCOE 2000
CCNA Training, Semester 1 and 2  
San Jose State University, 1997-Present  
Networking Technologies Certification, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, ATM, Client Server.  
Teknowlogy Education Centers ,  (Microsoft ATEC) 1996 –1998  
MCSE Program, Microsoft Windows 95, NT workstation 3.51, NT server 3.51, NT workstation 4.0, Internet Information server 3.0, SQL 6.5, Proxy server 1.0, TCP/IP for NT 3.51, Exchange server 4.0 and 5.0

Institute for Business and Community Development, 1995-1996                

DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, Excel 5.0, Access 2.0 and MS Word 6.0.

Mission College , 1992-1994                                                                    

Fire Science Technology, General ED                              

Central County Occupational Center, 1992-1993

HVAC and Electronic Controls

Mt. Pleasant High School, 1978-1982

Electronics, Technical Drawing

 

 

 

Web Development:      FrontPage 1.0, 97, 98, 2000, Dream weaver 3.0

Spreadsheets:              Excel 5.0, Excel 7.0 and Excel 97,

Databases:                   Access 2.0, Access 7.0, Parish Data System, and Lotus Notes 3.12, 4.52 and 4.6, MS SQL 6.5.

Word Processors:        MS Word 6.0, MS Word 7.0, 97, Lotus AmiPro, and Word Pro.

Operating Systems:    DOS 6.22, Windows 3.1 Windows 3.11, Windows 95,                    

                                           Windows 98 Beta, NT Workstation 3.51, NT 4.0 Workstation, OS2 WARP 2 & 3,         MAC OS 7.0, 7.1, 7.5, 7.6 and 8.1, Profs on a 3270 terminal emulator. Sun Solaris 2.6, 7.0, x86 and Sparc.

Server Operating       NetWare 3.12 and 4.1, NT server 3.51, NT server 4.0, NT Server 5.0 Beta,

Systems:                     Windows 2000 server, Solaris X86, Sparc 2.51, 2.6, 7, Open Linux 1.2, 1.3, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 Redhat 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2

Hardware:                   Video Cards, Hard Drives, SCSI devices, Sound Cards, Ethernet Cards, Modems, Ram Upgrades, System Boards, EIDE I/O cards with on board BIOS, Motherboard Upgrades displays, Cache Upgrades, Printer scanners, DAC controller cards, and Fusers, HP Jet Direct cards, CD-ROM Writers.

Web Server’s:                      MS Internet Information Server 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and some Apache.

Networking Equipment:   10 Base T, 100 TX, Crossover, BNC and Coaxial Cabling, RJ-45, RJ-11, RS-232, Allantec  Powerhubs, FlowWise 1600, Arescom ISDN router, Web ramp
ISDN router, Cisco 762, 2514 routers, Cisco Catalyst 2924 switches.

Test Equipment:         Fluke 77 Multi-Meter, Patch Cable Tester, and troubleshooter software.

 

 

 

ADSM 2.0, 3.0 client: Backup Exec 6.1 Enterprise server: Adaptec Ez-SCSI, Ez-Cd Creator, Ez-Cd Pro, IBM Raid Configuration Utility, Eudora Pro 3.0, Pro Comp Plus; McAfee Virus Scan 2.29 for Win 3.1, 95, NT 3.51,4.0 and Virex for Macs; Norton's Utilities and Anti Virus for Mac and Win 3.1, 95, NT 3.51, 4.0; System Commander 2.0; Partition Magic 2.0 and 3.0; Lap link 5.0 & 7.0; Corex Cardscan; MS Publisher 3.0 and 97; Lotus Notes 3.12, 4.52, 4.6l; Printshop Deluxe; Win Fax Pro, FaxWorks; Quick Link II; Corel Draw 4.0; Quarterdeck Magna Ram 2.0 and Clean Sweep 2.0; Modem Doctor 6.0; Logitech’s Scan Ware 2.2 and Mouseware 7.0; Netscape 2.0, 3.0 Gold and Communicator 4.0. Diamond In-control tools, Front Page 1.0, 97 and 98, MS Internet Mail & News 1.0 and Outlook Express; Net Meeting; MS Service Pack Updates, MS Kernel toys and Power toys; MS Office 4.2 & 7.0 and 97; Profs on a 3270 terminal Emulator. Adaptec Ez-SCSI; Eudora Pro 3.0 beta, Pro Comp Plus; Focal Point; McAfee Virus Scan 2.29 for Win 3.1, 95, NT 3.51,4.0 and Virex for Macs; Norton's Utilities and Anti Virus for Mac and Win 3.1, 95, NT 3.51, 4.0; System Commander 2.0; Partition Magic 2.0 and 3.0; Laplink 5.0 & 7.0; Reflections; Corex Cardscan; MS Publisher 3.0 and 97; Lotus CC Mail; Printshop Deluxe; Win Fax Pro; FaxWorks; Quick Link II; Corel Draw 4.0; Quarterdeck Magna Ram 2.0 and Clean Sweep 2.0; Modem Doctor 6.0; Logitech's Scan Ware 2.2 and Mouseware 7.0; Netscape 2.0, 3.0 Gold and Communicator 4.0,  Diamond Incontrol tools, Front Page 1.0 and 97, MS Information Server 2, 3.0 and 4.0 beta, MS Internet Explorer 3.0, 3.2 and 4.0 beta,  MS Internet Mail & News 1.0 and Outlook Express beta;  Net Meeting; MS Service Pack Updates, MS Kernel toys and Power toys; MS Office 4.2 & 7.0 and Office 97; Software

 

   

§         Installed and Configured Active Directory on an IBM Netfinity Server at Resources for Teachers www.raft.net and volunteered in the computer resources area,  2001

§         Developed the web site for Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley, www.hispanicfoundation-sv.org, and Steering Committee member,  2001

§         Co founded the Latino association at Intel‘s Santa Clara campus and at Cisco Systems, San Jose Campus .

§         Vice President of Technology for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Silicon Valley www..shpe-sv.org, Former Bylaws committee chair (1999). Led the design team on the Mexican Heritage Plaza Gardens network, let the team on the installation of the network for the American GI-Forum. Implemented an NT Web Server, with IMAIL as a list server, later upgraded the server to Redhat Linux 7.1, installed a Cobalt Cube for the Region One web server and Installed and compiled SSH. Member of the NTCC 2000 committee. I was also involved with NET DAY 2, at the Franklin McKinley School District (1996) and NET DAY 3, NET DAY 4, (1997). I worked on the Patch Panel Wiring Team at Hillsdale School , in 1996 and Installed NT 4.0 Servers at Meadows, Santé, Franklin , McKinley, Los Arobas, and Seven Trees Schools . Configured DHCP, NetWare Gateway services, Internet Information server 2.0, 3.0, 4.0. Web based administration, Mac file and print services, TCP/IP, and network printing for each schools site. 1996-Present.

§         Vice President, Web Master, Post Master and former Director of Membership for the Windows NT Engineering Association of Silicon Valley www.ntea.net, installed and configured the NT web server, DNS and an IPSWITCH mail server / list server (Imail v6.0). Designed and developed their current web site and Developed and managed the membership Database. 1998-Present, member since 1996.

§         Implemented the web site and Former President of the Berryessa Citizens Advisory Council  www.bcac.org ,  1997-Present

§         Former Board Member and Web Master for United Neighborhoods of Santa Clara County, www.unscc.org.

§         Technology committee member for the Franklin McKinley School District, 1997-2000.

§         Technology committee member for St. John Vianney, 1999-2001.

§         Youth group facilitator at St. John Vianney, 1991-1997.

References available upon request