• Microsoft MediaRoom 2.0 (Microsoft's IPTV solution) installation and maintenance.• Installation, integration and maintenance of Cisco UCS 5108 chassis(s), B200M* series blade servers, running any and all OS's.• In detail, documentation of MS MediaRoom 2.0 system services and its day to day operations.• Install and setup of Network Operations Center monitoring systems. SCOM, Nagios, Cacti and Rancid.• Installation and maintenance of Juniper SRX240 firewall routers, 3200 and 4200 series L2/L3 switches.• Setup and maintenance of critical IPTV system services in fault tolerant and fail-over scenarios using Linux offering services such as DHCP, DNS, etc. Significant cost savings realized by building rather than buying.• Cost savings realized by solving integration issues with internal and external billing systems by creating software solutions using a combination of both Python and Bash programming languages.• Administration of Microsoft SQL 2008 databases, as well as, maintenance and reports.

• Network Engineer responsible for implementing, maintaining and expanding of ISP and intra-net data networks for local and remote Alaskan villages as well as the ASTAC corporate network co-locations and headquarters. The network currently consists of Cisco, Brocade and ImageStream routers, switches and firewalls in 9 remote locations on the north slope of Alaska.• Design, maintenance and implementation of GSM cellular, GPRS/Edge data networks.• Design and conversion from L3 point-to-point serial network connections to TLS L2 Ethernet network.• Design, document and implementation of pay-per-view wireless Internet “hot spots” for hotels and camps.• Install and maintain performance monitoring and diagnostic software to aid in troubleshooting of inter and intra nets. “Toolboxes” using Ubuntu Linux, used to monitor, troubleshoot and track usage in remote networks.• Acquired and implemented a /21 from ARIN, replacing upstream providers assigned range allowing upstream provider “shopping”.• Cacti and Nagios used for monitoring and reporting of network outages as well as throughput(bandwidth) of ISP Internet and customer connections.• Use of Linux where possible to reduce operating costs. Familiar with CentOS, Ubuntu, Gentoo, RHEL4.• Use of open source software where possible, Nagios, Cacti, Squid, FreeRADIUS, Apache for example.

• Provide assistance in the research, development and documentation of LAN/WAN network infrastructure for local and remote Alaska.• Provide support for WAN Internet provisioning in remote Alaska.• Create and document topologies and topology changes.• Provide customer application, hardware and network support to 100+ local and remote employees.• Provide support for day-to-day operations of network operating center, including Linux and Windows servers.