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• Fifteen years experience in technical support and eight years in IT design and development.
• Expertise in customer needs assessment and client communication.
• Detailed knowledge and experience with system migrations, improving security and reliability.
• Proactive and structured approach to projects.
• Accustomed to delivering and supporting quality development in a fast-paced, sales-driven atmosphere.
• Strong belief in openness and honesty in all personal and business interactions.
• Dedication to continual self-driven improvement of professional skills including achieving and maintaining the RHCE, NCLP, CISSP, and GIAC-GSLC certifications.

• Worked with third parties and partners to line up resources for integrating development.
• Designed and managed development of web-based file transfer system.
• Designed system upgrade and deployment strategy for growing Internet-based service business involving:
  • Clustering for reliability and scalability
  • Low initial investment which only increases with increased revenues
  • Low cost and scalable NAS connectivity
  • Migration to supported operating system and databases, for improved performance and security
• Deprecated, standardized and implemented existing and new technologies to better support developers.
• Designed and implemented version control systems for both documentation and code management.
• Extended internally-developed Linux appliance to support traffic routing and advertising opportunities.
• Designed basic web service for large multi-national technology company.
• Designed source control, bug tracking and inline-documentation system for local development firm.
• Completely overhauled unsynchronized dev/test/prod systems to force future synchronization.

• Taught students the ten domains of Information Security to prepare them for the CISSP exam.
• Placed emphasis on practical security concerns within their respective professional environments.
• Added additional teaching of test taking, studying and memorization techniques.

• Novell Cluster Services for Linux and NetWare
• FreeBSD 6 Unleashed
• X Power Tools

• Migrated workstations to open standards, then to Linux systems, thereby reducing licensing liability.
• Designed, implemented and administered Linux based products and solutions, providing:
  • Web interfaces for the on-line viewing, editing, and printing of statements and letters.
  • Web-based interface to third party command-line based systems.
  • Ability to pay on-line via existing e-commerce vendors.
  • Optional inclusion of content-aware banner advertisements.
  • Extensive customizations to allow clients and clients' customers to re-brand systems.
  • Simple creation of buttons and banners for system branding.
  • Web-based management console.
• Dramatically improved security via strong authentication and seamless logins.
• Designed websites for Clement Claibourne, Mail Services and various clients.

• Host and run meetings as President of the local Linux Users' Group.
• Host and run meetings as President of the local Virtualization Users' Group.
• Attend monthly Iowa Blogging meetings as a security and technical community representative.
• Involved with Homeland Security through InfraGard - an FBI-vetted business/government collaboration.

• February 2008 - Presentation on Security Policy to Information Systems Audit and Control Association
• February 2008 - Interviewed on Workplace Productivity by The Juice
• January 2008 - Presentation on OSX Security to the Des Moines Mac Users Group
• January 2008 - Presentation on SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting to the Iowa Ruby Users Group
• January 2008 - Presentation on Certification and Information Warfare to Infragard.
• May 2007 - Presentation on Web 2.0 in Business to the Iowa IT Legal Administrators
• November 2006 - Guest-lectured at DMACC Linux Administration Class
• August 2006 - Presentation on Technology for Entrepreneurs for Transition Capital Management
• June 2006 - Presentation on wiki at the Central Iowa Linux Users Group
• June 2005 - Presentation on Certifications at the Central Iowa Linux Users Group
• April 2005 - Presentation on Linux in Schools at Iowa Training Days

• Limited free technology and security consulting for community entrepreneurs.
• Designed and maintained a server which provided web, database and email functions for nonprofits.
• Created, designed and managed various community driven projects and websites:
  • Theater Management - atatk.sf.net ('04).
  • Convention Planning - www.demicon.org (website '00-'03, codebase '00-present)
  • Training for Unix Administrators - trouble-maker.sf.net ('04)
• Designed and implemented a kiosk system with speech synthesis to aid visually-impaired attendees.
• Designed multi-user convention management system including kiosk and Palm (PDA) operation modes.
• Migrated associates from Windows to Linux for improved stability, security and performance.

• Analyzed applications for network inclusion, with a focus on stability and security.
• Audited existing applications for adherence to security requirements.
• Secured Windows and Macintosh systems against unauthorized users and malicious applications.

• Programmed system to aid high-energy particle analysis.
• Trained other interns in the use of the Unix operating systems.

• GIAC-GSLC - GIAC Security Leadership Certification
• NCLP10 - Novell Certified Linux Professional 10
• RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer
• CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional

• December 2007 - Attended Compellent SAN Administration Class
• February 2007 - Attended SANS 512 Management class
• December 2005 - Attended N-Able Advanced Administration Class

• Bachelors degree in Physics, conferred by Grinnell College
• High Energy Physics Internship, University of Notre Dame