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The Personal Pages of Scott Taylor

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Objectives

A position as my System administrator/Network Administrator that will let me use my extensive administrative experience and allow me to continue growing professionally.

 

Summary

Systems and network administration are my true passions but I have extensive experience with almost everything IT related.  I started on the helpdesk and have an outstanding sense of customer service.  I was MCSE NT4.0 and CCNA certified at one point but neither certification is active.  I am an avid open source software user and have over 11 years of experience with Linux and *BSD both as a desktop and as a server with some light Solaris experience.  I have been designing and implementing a continually growing VMWare ESX environment for over a year running on an EMC/Dell SAN.

I enjoy learning new things and working in a varied complex environment and while I enjoy working in as part of a team I generally work better alone with little supervision.

 

Employment History

 09/2006-Present

McAfee, Inc.                                         

Lab Manager: Manage a 200 node network consisting of a Windows 2000 AD network, Windows 2003, Linux and FreeBSD member servers. Manage and support the lab networks used for software development and testing consisting of almost every version of Windows, Solaris, AIX, HPUX and Linux, Cisco switches and routers. Project management for major upgrades and migrations for lab reoganization and domain migration from 2000 to 2003.  Built and managed a VMWare ESX 3.0.2 server farm.

 

03/2006-09/06

Preventsys and Breach Security                                                    

Network and Systems Administrator: Windows 2003 Domain management including account creations, email server and accounts, backup with BRU backup software, LAN and WAN management including Firewall and VPN. PBX managment using 3Com and Asterisk. End user support. Printers and most other office equipment upkeep. Both companies mobile phone account.  Time was spent equally between the two companies.

 

 08/2005-03/2006

KForce Staffing/Fidelity Hansen Quality Loans

HelpDesk Engineer: Assist internal customers with all aspects of their computers and network.  Windows 2003 Active directory, Exchange Admin, VNC, GPO's, TrackIT! ticketing system, phone/desktop support, and remote access.  Maintenance and upkeep of an existing Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server environment.  Image/configure Windows XP workstations/laptops for local and remote access via VPN.

 

06/2005-08/2005

TEKServices/Tapestry Solutions

IT Support: Assist internal customers with all aspects of their computers and network.  Install, configure and troubleshoot Windows and Linux based workstations, laptops and servers.  Troubleshoot network and systems security issues in an active directory environment comprised of approximately 300 workstations and servers.  MS Sharepoint, Exchange 2003 administration.  Participate with IT management in the development of information technology and infrastructure projects.

 

05/2000-02/2005

Internap Network Services                                                             

Field Engineer: Managed and maintained the Dallas/Fort Worth Metro POP. Managed and implemented all projects.  Installation of servers, switches routers and ancillary equipment including software and hardware upgrades, site augmentations and system migrations.  Provisioned, implemented and troubleshot CISCO routers, Catalyst switches, LINUX-based servers, CSU/DSU/IDSU’s and OCX/DSX panels.  Implemented and installed DS1/DS3/OC3/ OC12/Fast-E/Gigabit Ethernet network connectivity per customer driven requirement.  Provided technical assistance to customers and internal organizations.

 

09/1988 – 12/1996

US Navy Nuclear Power Program              

Machinist’s Mate First Class/E-6: Served as a Nuclear Mechanic/Engineering Laboratory Technician aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Number one reactor plant leading petty officer for radiological and chemistry control.

Networking:

· TCP/IPv4, UDP and ICMP

· DHCP

· DNS

· VLAN

· Troubleshooting

Software:

· VMWare VirtualCenter

· Bind 9

· NTP

· Samba

· WSUS

· MSSQL 2000 and 2005

Operating Systems:

· 11 years with Linux (Slackware,Redhat/Fedora/Centos,Ubuntu)

· 9 years FreeBSD

· 2 years OpenBSD

· 2  years Solaris

· 12 years Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 98, XP, Vista

· 2 years VMWare ESX 3.x

· 5 years Cisco IOS

· 2 years ExtremeIOS

Technical Skills