Wireless Network Engineer, June 2004 - Present

While maintaining my Systems Administrator role, I am also responsible for the configuration, installation, and maintenance of a variety of 900mhz, 2.4ghz, 5.3ghz, and 5.8ghz wireless networking equipment in a multi county wide implemenation.

Systems Administrator, August 1999 - Present

ISP environment based on FreeBSD Unix. Responsible for configuring and maintaining World Wide Web services and servers for a customer base of 15,000 people.

Software Install Technician, November 1995 - August 1999

Configured Intel X86 Servers for Production Monitoring Software based on Unixware 2.1, Windows NT, and QNX operating systems. Responsibilities also include in-house MIS Administration, software and firmware production, QA Testing, software installation, and light duty programming.

COBOL Programmer, May 1995 - November 1995
Systems Operator, February 1991 - May 1995

Originally hired as warehouse dock worker, was promoted to Systems Operator after six months of employment. Duties as operator include data entry, batch processing, report distribution, and help desk. Promoted to COBOL programmer in May of 1995. Responsible for programming data entry and report generating programs on a Wang VS300 mini in a distribution environment. Also responsible for administrating an IBM AS/400 RS6000 based purchasing system, desktop publishing in a Macintosh environment, and in-house MIS administration (Dos/Win3.1).

Extensive use of FreeBSD. Broad experience with SYSV forms of UNIX, including Linux and SCO Unixware. Broad experience with various Microsoft operating systems, including DOS, Windows 3.1-XP, and Windows NT4-2003 Server. Familiar with AS400, OS2/Warp, Wang VS, and Citrix (3.51 based) operating systems.

Electronic mail administration, security tightening, end-user management, system backup and recovery, performance tuning, HTTP services, as well as troubleshooting and many other administrative duties and functions.

Sendmail, Cucipop, Apache, XFree86, NIS and NFS, SAMBA, Hylafax, Firewalls and NATs, MySQL and Postgres Databases, VNC, Secure Shell, Microsoft Office, IIS and FrontPage, and more.

Custom design and builds of high-profile, high-availability web, mail, shell and file servers. Proficient in hardware selection, configuration, installation, networking, and troubleshooting for projects of small to medium scale.

Unix shell scripting, COBOL, ANSI C (in Unix environment), SQL, and Microsoft batch file scripting.

Configuration and installation of Airspan WipLL radios in the 900mhz and 2.4ghz bands in a point to multi point implementation. Alvarion radio systems in the 2.4ghz, 5.3ghz, and 5.8ghz bands in both point to point and point to multi point implementations. Redline 5.8ghz point to point radio systems.

ComTrain Certified Tower Climbing Safety and Rescue, Jun 2007
Alvarion Certified Wireless Network Engineer, Mar 2004

Airspan Wireless Training, March 2005
MCSE Certification Training, April 1999 - November 1999
TCP/IP Protocol Training, March 1995

Graduated Madeira High School, 1990