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Philadelphia, PA, US

Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States

West Chester, PA

West Chester, PA

West Chester, PA

• Implemented and designed colocation center security procedures and policies for client 24/7 access via dual bio/RFID
• Managed data center power system including monitoring and building of StarLine 3 phase bus system and breakout boxes
• Provided support for colocation and ISP clients ranging from network/firewall infrastructure changes to hands on server/system support/repair/diagnosis
• Designed and built dedicated server hosting environment for additional line of revenue taking advantage of existing infrastructure
• Provided in house web design for clients and the redesign of the company website and SEO

West Chester, PA

• Maintained and managed companies web hosting infrastructure including email, database, and statistics servers
• Managed all new web design and maintenance projects with our web design teams including on site sales consultations
• Performed bench/service work when needed; including virus removal, laptop and desktop repair, and customer training
• Datacenter management; working with IBM blade centers, Cisco routers, and network provider relations

• Engineered and implemented data center and network infrastructure based on Cisco core routers
• Increased ROI on servers in the data center to an average of two and a half months (thirty percent decrease)
• Maintained lower data center cost by utilizing open source applications where available
• Maintained and managed partnerships with companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and Parallels
• Built and configured internal and customer servers
• Implemented a project to lower internal bandwidth cost over three hundred percent while maintaining existing contracts

We deal primarily with several vertical markets and small/home offices. Services offered range from network design and installation to custom built - systems integration.

• Created the company’s first in house configuration and hardware management center
• Increased corporate and education systems division’s IT Department’s turn around time for new and reconfigured work stations and laptops. The new configuration center would configure approximately fifty new laptops per.
• Planned, implemented, scheduled and supported the company’s conversion from static IP to dynamic address management. This project consisted of two buildings, three floors each, and about two hundred mobile users.
• Assisted in the management of dozens of Windows NT and Lotus Notes servers
• Diagnosing and troubleshooting of Shiva LAN rover dial-up pools for employees to gain access to Notes servers

• Implemented company’s standards for high quality hardware levels while maintaining lower overhead costs
• Provided on-site network, server, and hardware support
• Built systems and servers from component level
• Interacted with hardware vendors and performed the majority of purchasing

I was general manager of the Exton movie theater. This was a private company that bought older theaters and turned them into discount cinemas. In addition to running the Exton location I would also work part time at the Eden (Lancaster) location.

• Coordinated installation of multiple T1 services and multiple Centrex dial in groups
• Built systems and servers from component level average of twenty systems daily
• Assisted in the design and implementation of one of the first dial-up ISPs in Chester County
• Installation and configuration of ISP related servers running on RedHat Linux

The office that I worked in dealt specifically with homes above the 200K range. I would arrange and design all the print advertising for the homes we were selling at the time. These were mostly mailers and sheets to be sent out to neighboring real estate agents.

• Working directly under the districts technology director. I maintained and serviced the technology and computer labs throughout the entire school district.
• Performed maintenance and repairs on PC based and Apple based machines for fourteen schools