Sam Fourman Email & Phone Number

United States

Trempealeau, Wisconsin

-Lead company to yearly revenues of over $800,000.-Developed a Edge Network appliance based on FreeBSD for use in municipal environments.-Managed a small team of 3 people to be IT support for independent tax assessors and small cities in western Wisconsin.-Maintained all stored tax assessment data to be Wisconsin DOR compliant based on state guidelines in a PostgreSQL database.-Implemented and maintained Asterisk phone system with 106 lines.-Developed a python control panel for Xen for municipal cloud instances.-Admin for 27 FreeBSD Servers (private cloud) across many small cities.-Lead contact for municipal Metro Ethernet/DSL/Cable installs.-Developed a municipal email solution using postfix, roundcube and PostgreSQL.-Developed /setup/maintained an OpenBSD WIFI appliance to provide WIFI at the street level of Galesville and Trempealeau WI.-Presented cities and schools with hardware and Open source recommendations.-Coordinated various vendor arrangements for maximum benefit to clients(Eg Dell Lease).-Built every in house server from scratch with supermicro parts and built the desktops with Asus parts.-Used Centurylink to establish a private ethernet connection to 350 Cermack Street Chicago.-Negotiated a working agreement with Steadfast Networks in Chicago to backhaul Wisconsin municipal internet traffic.

Appleton, Wi

-Started and sold two webhosting startups in Appleton WI.-Managed both investor and client expectations, at crystalnet we focused Web Design for small business and later at Infinet Hosting we focused on web hosting solutions based on Microsoft products Eg. Microsoft Exchange, IIS, MSSQL.-Managed / Developed a Training CD for Jjkeller and managed the subcontractor Digital Magic. -Sold CrystalNet to Athenet in April 2000.-Sold Infinet Hosting to Northnet/NTD in 2004.

Menasha, Wi

-Was the 4th employee in a small Engineering company -Converted their DOS 6.0 / Novell Netware network to WindowsNT-Provided day to day IT support for a 40 employee office -Built all servers and workstations (white boxes) -Installed and managed the phone system-Managed a 3 person IT department and also did billable IT consulting for clients of the engineering group(Eg Menasha Corp,JJ Keller,Prism Etc...)

Appleton, Wi

-Involved from the inception of a PCBoard based BBS service (Dataex.com) that would become-Wisconsin’s largest ISP. (Athenet.net)-Built terminal servers to handle incoming modem connections.-Upgraded 14.4 modems to 28.8 then 56k.-Used Visual Basic to write a Winsock installer for Windows 95.-Tech support and Lead go-to person for any business client installs anything from routing a dialup modem with a linux box... to a T1 and a cisco 2501 router.-Everything from bind DNS servers to sendmail mail servers.-Wrote shell scripts on a weekly basis to keep a small ISP startup from breaking.