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When your mission's success and outcome depends on the strength and reliability of your network; when you needed your servers back up and running two hours ago; when the security of your clients depends on it, you need the right man for the job. It's a good thing you've just found him.
   
Excellent communication and presentation skills. Able to relate, and work very well in competitive scenarios from simple, to extremely complex environments. Due to extensive experience, able to analyze business strategies, and unmask possible obstacles, in order to propose comprehensive technical solutions, and solve virtually any complications, with a focus on Microsoft related technologies.
   
Strong security oriented troubleshooting, design and configuration skill set, and have focused my training and certification goals along such a path.
Cisco 506, 515, 520, and 525 PIX, Cisco 800, 1600, 1700, 2500, 2600, 3600, 4000 series IOS routers, Cisco 1900, 2900, 3600, 5000, 6500 and 7200 series IOS and Set based switches, and Cisco AS4000 and AS5000 series access servers; using RIPv1 and 2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP routing protocols; 10baseX, 100baseTX/FX, 1000baseX, and Token Ring based LANs and WANs; running TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and NetBEUI; X25, frame relay, ISDN BRI and PRI connections; primarily on Microsoft (Windows 2003, 2000, XP, NT, 9x, and 3x) based networks.
   
Expert at high level design, configuration, and troubleshooting of turnkey Microsoft solutions. Involving network services, Windows NT, Windows 2000 Active Directory, and Windows 2003 Active Directory (AD 2.0) user authentication and resource management. SMS 2.0 and 2003, Group Policy, RIS and Altiris Domain Migration solutions for deploying workstation and software configurations. IIS 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 configuration and implementation for web solutions, both for Intranet and Internet environments, hosting multiple solutions, including ASP, PHP, and more. MS Proxy 1.0 and 2.0, ISA 2000 and 2004 firewall solution implementation, as well as the IAS service for RADIUS solutions. MS Terminal server 4.0 installs, as well as MS Terminal server service 2000 and 2003 implementations.
   
Expert at Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007 email solutions (as well as Windows 2003 POP3). Involving the design, installation and training of the administrators. Setup with, Front/Back End, Mobile (OMA), IPSec, SSL and Cluster design/configurations. Including, but not limited to: multi-domain, multi-site, multi-geographical, and multi-national/lingual rollouts.
   
McAfee IntruShield 3.1, Foundstone 5 and 4.2, ePO 3.6, Host IPS 6.0, & MPE installation, design & troubleshooting.
   
All Websense install & configurations up to 6.2, including their Network Agent, & CPM modules.
   
IAS RADIUS configuration. Specifically to support 802.1x implementation for a wired LAN environment.
   
Numerous Certificate Services architecture & rollout on Windows 2000 & 2003.
   
Extensive skills with Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, & Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 for LAB rollouts.
   
Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 for enterprise-class event and performance monitoring.
   
Blackberry 3.6 & 4.0 Configuration, troubleshooting, & user management for Exchange servers.
   
Microsoft Project 2003 for project planning, & resource management.
   
Have been teaching both experienced engineers, consultants, teachers and simple users a wide variety of technical subjects for quite some time. From complex Directory Service/OS management and troubleshooting methods, in-depth network configurations, and application support, to security methods and implementations with computer and network systems, and simple usage.
   
Extensive Server/Workstation hardware design, installation, maintenance, quality testing, troubleshooting, and verification with ISA, EISA, PCI 33/66, and AGP platforms; IDE, SCSI I,II,III, LVD, and SCA; RAID levels 0,1,5,10, and 0+1. Hotswappable arrays, and general fiberchannel knowledge; using tape drives, hard drives, MO drives, and CDROM drives; installation and management of backup systems, using DAT, DLT and LTO tape backup drives, hard drives, CDR and CDR/W; and inventory tracking.
   
Have installed, configured, upgraded, and fixed computer software, hardware, and related peripheral devices (DOS, Windows, UNIX and Macintosh) and electronic equipment for more than 17 years.
   
Very strong skill set at computer network design and implementation. Including load balancing, routing, switching, management, problem diagnosis and repair.
   
Network Observer & Sniffer troubleshooting capabilities.
   
Some Sun Solaris 8 (UNIX) training & certification.
   
My word processing abilities have primarily included WordPerfect, MS Word, and macro programming for approximately 18 years.
   
My spreadsheet capabilities have been concentrated on Lotus 123 and MS Excel.
   
I have worked with and set up different RDBMS for more than 6 years, particularly programming in MS Access.
   
Scripting; exceptional skills with VBScript, ADSI, and WMI programming.
   
Remedy usage for Change and Service Management.
   
System management with Tivoli, and LogCaster applications.
   
Multilingual! - Fluent in English and Spanish, and proficient in French.
   
   
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