Computer Consultant, Owner Resume Simpsonville, SC - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

18+ years Systems Administration and Networking, including routing, switching, systems processing, and NAS, for Windows and Linux - based systems.
5+ years with AWS, GCE, Azure, VMWare ESXi, HyperV.
12+ years WAN support/ firewalls, as well as IT Security

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Windows 3.11/ 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ XP/ Vista/ 7, Windows NT Server, Windows 2000/ 2003/ 2008/ 2012 Server, Mac, Linux (RedHat/Fedora, Slackware, Ubuntu, SuSE, CentOS, Fedora, RHEL)
Web Hosting/Design, Email Hosting, Firewall Management, Apache
Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail, Amavisd-new, Spamassassin, Clamav, Samba, Shorewall, LTSP, Snort-IDS, Nessus, PacketFence, Joomla, MySQL, DSPAM Filtering, LDAP/ OpenLDAP/ FreeIPA, Puppet, Chef
Touchscreens, RFID readers, Kiosks, VOIP, NoMachine NX, XEN, AWS, EC2, OPENCA
PHP, HTML, Monit, Munin, IPtables, MailScanner
VMware, ESXi, Hyper-V, Win4Lin/e, Console, SVN/GIT, BASH scripting
IIS, MS-SQL, Exchange Server, Terminal Server, Active Directory, DNS Server, DHCP Server, Batch scripting, Deployment Services, Policy Manager, NAS (iSCSI, FreeNAS, SofNAS)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Computer Consultant, Owner

Confidential, Simpsonville, SC

Responsibilities:

Consulting for a variety of clients including SunTrust, WalMart, BB&T, Michelin, Toy-R-Us, Doctors offices, other banks, Chik-Fil-A, McDonalds, and Taco Bell
Install and maintain servers, workstations, and all other aspects of a network.
Installing, configuring and maintaining VOIP based phone systems (Cisco, Asterisk, Trixbox)
Install, configure and troubleshoot Cisco and Nortel routers and Baystack switches.
POE for WiFi and VOIP.
DSL/T1 installs, demarc extensions and support
Setting up and working VMWare VSphere ESXi for datacenters and Vmware Fusion for the desktop. Began using VMWare. Installed it on Linux and Windows as the host(s
Created many VM's both Linux and Windows and managed the VM's for development and in production requiring very strict configurations involving PCI Compliance for extremely tight security and specific routing setups, LDAP restrictions for access control, etc.
AWS, Azure, Rackspace, Digital Ocean and many other online platforms for creating virtual networks in the cloud.
Give advice on improving a client's network setup
Maintain positive company/client relationships
Some scripting, PHP, HTML, SQL, etc.

Computer Technician

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Responsibilities:

Built custom computers (approximately 1200)
Analyzed and corrected computer problems, such as driver conflicts, hardware and software conflicts, bad parts, etc.
Helped Confidential, as a new business, implement more efficient ways of producing computers and reducing system returns.

Computer Technician

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Responsibilities:

Computer Technician

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Responsibilities: