Jason Ruel Email & Phone Number

Halifax, Ns, Ca

Halifax, Canada Area

Primarily responsible for managing network infrastructure (Cisco switches/routers, HP switches, Peplink routers and Pepwave VPN devices, RSA SecurID, and CheckPoint firewalls) and Cisco CUC VoIP systems across seven sites (Canada, Bermuda, and the Caribbean Islands). Networking experience also includes CheckPoint Capsule Cloud, CheckPoint Identity Awareness, Azure CheckPoint HA gateways, Fortimail appliances, Quagga (virtualized BGP router), and Oxidized (RANCID-type network configuration backups).Also responsible for management of Hyper-V virtual infrastructure running 400+ VMs comprising a mix of Windows 2008+, RedHat/CentOS 6.0+, and some FreeBSD/SUSE. Experience administering HP 3PAR storage systems (StoreServ 7200/8400) and HPE BladeSystem enclosures (including newer HP Primera and Synergy units).Acting as secondary on applications such as Carbon Black Protection, Citrix XenApp, Graylog logging, RSA Securid Access Manager, SCCM, Exchange, Skype for Business 2013 and Zabbix.Most recently I've been studying Azure Administration and have an interest in building on my security experience going forward.

Halifax, Canada Area

Responsible for leading the technical team, guiding decision making, performing cost analysis,implementation, and administration of the organization's entire technical infrastructure. I liaise between members of the executive team to help bridge the gap between IT and other departments and help to drive IT as a valuable resource within the organization.I also act as the PCI-DSS compliance lead, writing and implementing over 600 pages of documentation and organizational security policies, as well as creating and enforcing security policies for end-users. In this role I also act as security administrator, responsible for network and data security, Symantec Data Loss Prevention management, Symantec Endpoint antivirus, Tripwire Enterprise configuration control, and grey-box internal penetration testing for PCI-DSS purposes.Added responsibilities of network administration (Cisco-based network switches, firewalls, and routers, as well as the VoIP network with CallManager [4.x through to 10.5], Unity [7.x through to 10.5], and Unified Contact Center Express [7.x through to 10.5] including SocialMiner and Workforce Manager), and administrator of our virtualized environments (x86 Oracle VM, vSphere [3.5 through to 6.5], and virtualized desktops with VMware Horizon View 6.x through 7.x).Responsible for administering all public Web server infrastructure (including Amazon Web Services and co-location hosting services), cost management, security, and managing migration of infrastructure to new virtualized co-location servers.Recently lead the technical team in migrating 28 newly acquired newspaper publications onto an enterprise network across Atlantic Canada, directly lead onboarding of industry specific applications (Newzware, PBS, Adtrac) to our main datacenter while maintaining access across sites for 24/7 operations.

Halifax, Canada Area

System administration of all Windows 2003-2012 & AD-DS and Linux CentOS/Redhat 4.0-7.0 systems and applications on them varying from proprietary applications (such as Layout 8000 and CCI AdDesk Sales/Production systems) to 3rd-party applications on Weblogic.Lead management of existing VMware vSphere environment and worked with network administration team on Cisco-based network.Worked with executives and managers one-on-one to design and implement sales, revenue, and commission reports using a combination of Oracle Reports, Perl and Java programs, & Oracle andMySQL databases.Programmed and maintained C++ credit card implementation for our sales system, updating it for tokenization during the company's move toward PCI-DSS compliance.Maintained mixed environment of HP Proliant and mainly IBM x3250/x3650 servers and IBM Storwize v7000 and DS3524 SANs.

Responsible for managing distribution reports and initializing system for nightly printing press.

Saint John, Nb

Wrote online courseware for beginner and intermediate Java students, IBM WebSphere administrators and developers (both general application and Portlet [JSR-168] development), Tivoli administrators, & provided online training for students of all skill levels.

Bcs, Computer Science

Enterprise Java Development Program, Java Programming, A+

Intensive one year Java programming curriculum, including certifications in Java Web and Enterprise development and UML design.