Owner, founder, lead instructor, course creator, social media marketing, and website developer. Being the leader of a startup I wear many hats.Led organization from a new startup to appealing to a global audience. We have students from Every continent and almost every country in the world. Led the organization from $0 in revenue to the point where it is self sufficient and can now generate enough revenue to cover all operational costs.Worked on the front end design and back end development of the website.Created a following and email list of visitors and followers.Created courses on topics such as Computer Networking, Cybersecurity, Computer Hardware, TCP/IP, Business Management, and Leadership Development.Communicate with students and potential Students to assess their needs and create or procure courses and materials to meet their needs.Communicated with 3rd party content creators such as MIT OCW, Harvard University, Stanford University, and NIST to obtain content and permission to use content in online courses.Create and procure online courses in Information Technology, Computer Programming, Cybersecurity, IT Project Management and Leadership. Our mission is to keep technology education costs low so that everyone can have access to quality educational materials. Many of our courses, webinars and tutorials are free to everyone.https://netinstruct.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/netinstruct-com/

Support clinical applications.MIS team lead for Meditech EMR upgrade project.Manage projects such as joining to practices to the hospital network and upgrading Software hospital wide.Help support GE Centricity EMR and Migrate from GE to Medent for remote hospital clinics.perform upgrades on systems and troubleshoot issues with clinical applications. Teach classes on end user security.Perform Security Audit / Analysis on internal applications for compliance and security.Suggest changes to be made to make systems and applications more secure.Implementation of Imprivata Single sign-on application with card reader and thumb print.

IT Leadership role reporting to the Director of Information Technology.Evaluate, implement and manage Microsoft data center solutions. Redesign Data center to reduce footprint, create resilience to failures and security issues and improve uptime.Troubleshoot issue with Allscripts EMR.Responsible for network security and disaster recoveryUse network monitoring tools to monitor performance and issues with servers and networkBuild Server 2008 R2 and a 2012 R2 Hyper-V clusters Hyper-v management. VMware managementMS Exchange installs, migration and management. Upgrade current infrastructure to Server 2012 R2Configured Cisco ASA firewallsEvaluate disaster recovery plan, made recommendations and upgradesInstalled disk encryption software on mobile devices and configured network access protection (NAP) to allow only authorized systems that meet all requirements to have access to our internal network.Reviewed and established email and web security standards.Reviewed and recommended security products for the organizationInstalled and managed web filter and spam filter.Install and manage Imprivata Single Sing On.Accomplishments: Designed and built one of the largest Hyper-V cluster deployments in a healthcare system in the northeastern US.Designed a disaster recovery model that includes replication to an off site data center and a backup and restore mechanism that cuts the downtime during a disaster from days to just hours.

Installed VMware Hypervisor and VMware hosted servers (both Microsoft Windows and Linux). Installed Cisco and HP switches as well as Cisco and Sonic Wall firewalls. Traveled to customer sites all over the northeastern US to perform server installs and upgrades.Designed networks and systems using HP servers and HP Storage.Designed and installed backup and disaster recovery solutions.Sold and installed Symantec security solutions.Performed network audits and made recommendations to improve performance and security.

Lead a small team of technicians and and network engineersBuild the team and lead them to meet corporate goals and customer needsRecommend and sell cyber-security and disaster recovery solutions.Sales of Cisco and Barracuda security products.Perform regular system audits and network monitoring for customers.Meet with clients to discuss organizational IT needs. Worked closely with Microsoft, Cisco and Barracuda networks to provide server and security solutions to customersPerform assessments. Create and manage project plans. Audit customer networks and generate audit reports for customers.Work with sales on sales leads to create solutions for customers that fall within the customers scope and budget. Meet with vendors to discuss products and capabilities. Present with vendors at educational seminars. Make recommendations to improve network security, performance and reduce costs for customers.Recommended new hardware and applications to sell to improve our offerings to clients.Accomplishments:Set up a real time remote monitoring and alert system to monitor customers networks for a fee creating a new revenue stream for the organization. This also allowed for faster turn around time for systems issues and better customer support.Developed an Auditing process to audit customer networks and create audit reports with monthly follow up for customers under support contracts.Created a design for a secure WAN using fail-over VPN tunnels and complete fail-over between multiple ISPs using Barracuda Link Balancer products. The design created an extremely highly available WAN. The company asked to use my design in the literature. The design proved a capability that the company did not realize could be done and had never performed before.

Managed the internal network and connections to remote offices. Installed Windows and Linux servers. Managed IBM RS6000 / AIX servers. Installed HP procurve switches and and Cisco routers and ASA firewalls. Managed Exchange email environment. Performed system upgrades and data migrations. Managed network security, backup and disaster recovery.

Small Information Technology company helping customers in the medical and dental field with their information technology needs. Microsoft shop installing Microsoft solutions and also helping to install and support medical and dental software as needed. I started this company when I was laid off by IDX prior to their sale to GE. I was the only employee until I was hired to work at MyWebGrocer as their Network Admin. At that point I hired 2 employees to take care of the day to day tasks while I gave guidance on technical and customer issues. I took care of all of the customer relationships, sales and billing. I provided technical training and guidance to staff. Sold the company in 2005.

Part time weekend instructor and supervisorAssess student ability and assign to appropriate levelAssign instructors to groupsSupervise staff of up to thirty instructors on the mountainMeet with instructors to check up on groups and assist or reassign students to other levels if necessaryTeach one on one private lessonsConducted training for staff members including pre season training

Installed and managed the data center to run their on line shopping application.Hired and directed electricians to install a backup generator and wiring to meet the data center needsInstalled all cable management for the data center and server racksPurchased and installed anti-static flooring for the data center floorConfigured Windows Load Balancing service across multiple web serversConfigured SQL Clustering for SQL fail-over. The system allowed for high availability and fail over to online customersInstalled Cisco Switches and PIX firewalls. Created a redundant network by implementing BGP4 between two top tier internet service providers.Managed phone systems

Traveled all over the US to hospitals in various locations performing network upgrades and integrations and installing EMR software. Managed small to very large projects. The largest of which was a single hospital with 33 remote sites.