Ben Ptacek Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Responsible for many areas in DevOps with middleware, cloud, observability and culture. Working with teams to help modernize into the DevOps world in both brownfield and greenfield settings.Passionate about culture, processes and using automation to solve solutions that allow teams to focus on the real problems vs the day to day activity.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for the Middle Tier functionality within IT Operations. I help design/architect the middleware solutions we use, as well as consult various teams on integration into overall solutions. This often involves working with many different areas of the integration - Database, Network, Security, Platform and Development.

SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle), Middleware - iPlanet, Weblogic, Tomcat, IIS, Development - scripting, Non Production and Production support

Eagan, MN

Management of internal network - Windows Domain, Active Directory, Workstations, Website - DNS, Development, Inventory system, Mobile devices

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Builds and deploys, Forte support, Non Production and Production support, Development - scripting

Burnsville, MN

Development - Created company website and web application using MySQL, Coldfusion and Java. Contributed to opensource projects: Hylafax, Pyrofusion-CFX_Java tags. Integrated web application into miscellaneous applications to provide faxes, routes and rates to the clients. Created/Maintained company's network/VPN and telephony system. Created/Maintained.

Mendota Heights, MN

 Installed business level Internet equipment and T-1/DS-3 connectivity. Configured and maintained CBX, Red Back, and Ascend equipment. Configured, installed, and maintained Lucent and Netopia routers. Handled all network maintenance and outages for the Twin Cities market. Consulted clients on internal network configurations. Administered the internal.

Pc/Lan, Pc/Lan

General, General