1.As a CTO / Network manager my duties involved looking after a small team for a local Internet Service Provider. Providing Internet and VoIP solutions to the rural communities.My department and I look after a wide area network covering 500 square miles, with approximately 8500 customers. Project / network design and planning including cost savings, reporting to the board on productivity and financial expansion plans.Providing a fully routable (Public and Private IP’s) on a backbone via 1Gb to 10Gb fibre links and or licensed and unlicensed wireless links to 125 different tower sites. Setting up and troubleshooting Mikrotik routers / switches with full BGP and OSPF links between each of the tower sites. The network consisted of four main locations (pops) with multiple 10Gb Internet feeds from Level 3, AT&T, Fiberlight and Spectrum delivering a total of 40Gb of bandwidth.2.Look into development and expansion of the network to keep up with the forefront of technology.3.Install, configure and set up Gtek’s internal linux and windows 2003, 2016 infrastructure running on Dell servers and Supermicro servers using XCP-ng hypervisor technology and sofware including Bind dns servers, customer relationship management, network monitoring, WhatsUp Gold, Calix, IPPlan, DDos solutions, Preseem monitoring, internal Voip phone systems for residential and business customers, Unraid, and Sandvine Deep Packet Inspection.4.Install and set up equipment for employees, laptops / desktops, printers, remote access. Access rights and set up roles for each department for their relevant business needs.5.Aid in troubleshooting tier 3 technical support to business customers, setting up their equipment to be able to connect to the Internet securely with a variety of different router manufacturers.6.Admin on call duties for after hour network support.7.DMCA and F.B.I investigation reports.

1.As an I.T. Manager / Director, my duties involved looking over the local and wide area networks, cost savings, project design and planning, implementing a Help Desk System, migrating to Hosted Exchange email system, and upgrading the website to incorporate in-house changes and recruitment systems, future proposals and budgeting.2.As an Server Administrator / TSS, my duties involved implementing a new virtualized network structure, setting up new servers, and VPN access using a SonicWall. 3.As a TSS, I looked after the Health Division of CACOST including levels 1, 2, and 3 of helpdesk calls regarding a multitude of hardware and software vendors. I set up each of the offices on a network to incorporate file and printer sharing, access to the remote servers using Remote Desktop, maintained inventory, and ordered new computers / printers / parts using a bid process.

My duties involved running a Wireless Internet Service Provider in Kingsville to supply Internet to the rural communities. I planned, designed, and implemented wireless networks to cover a large area with the ability to expand exponentially. In addition to supplying this service, I set up, configured, and installed new computers / servers and wireless access point (point to point and point to multi point), and peripherals for residential and businesses. I also wired offices and homes with cat 5 cabling, repaired and maintained computer equipment, advised customers and businesses on software and ways to secure and help prevent hackers, viruses, and Trojans using free or paid software, taught basic computer skills to customers and set up voice over IP telephone systems.I also provided 24-hour technical support of hardware and software to all of our customers. I accessed troubleshooting problems in networks, printers, servers and routers using tools and logs. I analyzed the data accumulated from the computer / server logs as well as historical data to determine and rectify weak or problematic area in the local and wide area networks.Other duties involved managing the department I assigned tasks and projects to engineers and clerical administrative staff in addition to monitoring their progress and performance to ensure high standards. I promptly responded to and addressed employee issues and concerns as they arose. Also, I screened and interviewed prospective employees for various job positions within the company as needed.I created and scrutinized reports for higher management on a daily / weekly basis. I also conducted weekly and monthly meetings to monitor business goals, review policies, and discuss future company projects.In summary, I am able to design, build and commission systems from conception to installation, which includes testing and launching system software.

Relocated from the UK to Texas and I volunteered at the First Baptist Church in Falfurrias, where I helped with maintenance of the church’s grounds, sound systems and projectors for church services, and the building. I also helped with the church services by setting up pertinent audiovisual equipment for the Powerpoint presentation so they could run smoothly during the services. I helped with the weekly food drives by storing, labelling and distributing the food to the needy. In addition, I set up an identification card system by photographing the individuals to speed up the process of the entire event. In addition, I set up local area network and printers at the church’s computer lab. At this time, I could not work since I had relocated from the United Kingdom to the USA and had to wait for work permits and registration paperwork from the government

At C & V, my day-to-day duties involved looking after the computer department that overlooked the C & V local and wide area networks, building and designing networks and computer systems to client specifications (bespoke and Compaq), maintaining client systems with on site or dial in support maintenance on a 4 hr or 8 hr response, troubleshooting network and computer problems and provide solutions as well as providing the clients with an upgrade path of hardware or software as required.

I led and managed a large project team which involved the configuration and installation of hardware and software specifically on Intel Platforms, using both Novel 3.12 - 4.11, Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 and NT 4 Server / workstations. The main system running Unix version 10:20 is based on a HP9000 k250 series server with a HP3000 server running mpe / ix version 5:00 for the accounting packages from Lawson and Multiview. I have gained considerable knowledge and experience of Unix systems and hardware from the prospective of both the system administrator and system developer. I have also been involved in planning the departmental relocation of approximately 200 staff (60 Compaq laptops and 140 desktops) from around the country, to the new offices based in Leicester. This involved setting up NT4 Servers running Microsoft exchange, Microsoft mail, Rightfax and print sharing using jet direct internal and external cards, the Windows 98 based computer systems are running Outlook 98, IE5 & proxy software, Microsoft Office Professional, Lotus 123, Lawson financial database software and applications.This project has required crucial strategic analysis of customer requirements, thus enabling the provision of a customer driven management information system, capable of focusing on several levels of key business activities. This has been achieved and First Leisure has gone live with this system.I was also personally involved in the planning and migration of existing systems and technologies, which has involved a large amount of systems management. One of the prime objectives of the project was the user friendliness of the completed system. This required my involvement in trouble shooting at management and end user level. As a Technical Systems Analyst my duties involve looking after Local and Wide area networks supporting Novell 3.12 – 4.11, Unix 10.20, Microsoft NT4 servers. Running Windows for workgroups, Windows 95, windows 98 and NT4.