Geological Data Network Specialist
CurrentFundamental to the success of virtually any technology endeavor is a core competency in infrastructure. I have worked closely with skilled infrastructure teams on virtually all of my projects and my experience with RCL has enhanced my understanding of the breadth of scope, the constraints and obstacles, and the technical complexity of that work - affording me both an opportunity to view the world from a new, informing perspective and a practical set of hands-on skills spanning a broad array of infrastructure management activities.RCL systems provides contracted IT infrastructure services – primarily in the energy sector – with a particular focus on networks supporting geological data management. Two distinguishing characteristics of this market are large data repositories with robust security, historical versioning, and recoverability requirements, and server-class workstations used for geological data exploration and interpretation. It is a fast paced customer-facing job requiring strong technical and problem solving abilities combined with excellent interpersonal and time management skills, and the ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical customers.Typical RCL service – the work which I perform - includes turnkey planning, installation, configuration, and management of networks. For large organizations, the supported network may be a secured geology sub-network. For smaller organizations with one or more locations, it is generally a firewall protected business domain with Windows domain controller(s), Exchange, IIS, SharePoint, Terminal and SQL servers, enterprise class anti-virus/malware/spam, backup/recovery, patch management, network monitoring products, and a suite of financial, ERP, and line-of-business applications – frequently leveraging Hyper-V for server virtualization and site-to-site VPNs for branch connectivity.
