David Smiths Resume

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David Smith
dsmith@avitar.net :: www.Avitar.Net
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OBJECTIVE: To join your Information Technology team to enhance, empower and innovative your processes, policy, and staff capabilities with my skill set, experience, and common sense.

EXPERIENCE:
1/2004 4/2005 National Computers, CA Systems Administrator / Consultant
Primary function was to redesign, coordinate, and oversee implementation of an integrated and automated server farm of Linux and Windows Operating Systems for a mid-sized ISP with primary focus in server software configuration and integration. Responsibilities included development of redundant system configurations for high demand systems, overseeing and implementing unit testing and rollout of infrastructure. In addition staff training, documentation, and scripted automation scheduled tasks were critical success factors. Day to day responsibilities were monitoring via remote administration, global policy management, system optimization, and monitoring automated procedures (backups, vendor patches, etc.).

5/1999 1/2004 Idea International, Inc. Walnut, CA Systems Administrator
Server and staff monitoring metrics, systems automation, and ensuring reliable and secure network and internet services critical to day to day operations were of the greatest importance. In addition the position demanded developing requirements, budgets, and schedules information technology projects. Utilized delegation and collaboration to manage web based software projects from inception to conception. Supported executive decisions with specifically tailored software solutions and proactively troubleshoot systems for potential problems were secondary responsibilities.

EDUCATION:

• 2004 California State University, Los Angeles Advanced Information Systems Certified
  
• 2004 California State University, Los Angeles Computer Programming Certified
  
• 2005 California State University, Los Angeles BS Computer Information Systems
  

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Managerial:
Strategic Plan Development, Contingency Planning, Capability/Gap Assessment, Resource Acquisitions, Facilitation of Agendas, User Acceptance Testing, Multiple Project Resource Scheduling, Documentation, Benchmarking & Justification, Project Proposal and Presentation Methodologies, Hire/Fire/Orientation of Teams, JAD Supervision, Process Engineering, Gap Analysis, and Performance Assessment Methodologies.
Project Design:
DSS, SDLC/RAD, CRM, TQM, ERD, SWOT, UML, QA testing and various Flowcharting Practices.
Programming:
SQL, Perl, Java, JavaScript, C++ (console)
HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS

SOFTWARE SKILLS:
Office:
Microsoft Office 97 XP, Microsoft Visio 2000 2003, Microsoft Project 2000 - 2003
Microsoft Publisher 2000 2003, Word Perfect Office 97 2003, Star Office 5.x
Smart Draw 4.x 5.x
Database:
Oracle Suite 8i - 9i, MySQL 3.x 5.x, MySQL/MaxDB 7.x, Crystal Reports Enterprise 9.x
Web:
Apache 1.3x 2.x, Tomcat 4.x 5.x, Struts 1.x, BIND 9.x, IIS, Exchange 2000, Sendmail 8.x Citrix Enterprise Solutions, Webalizer 2.x, @Mail 3.x, Postfix 2.x, Qmail 1.x.
Network:
Windows 3.1 XP, Windows NT 4.0, 2000 Server, 2000 Adv. Server, FreeBSD 4.x Novel Server 5.x,
Mac OS-X, Red Hat (WS/ES/AS) 2.x, Mandrake 7.x-10.x, Debian 3.0
Communications:
PC Anywhere 9.x 10.x, VNC 3.x, Various FTP Clients/Servers, SSH Severs/Clients
Security:
Norton Antivirus Corp. 6.x 8.x, ISA 2000, VisNetic 1.x-2.x, Smoothwall 2.x, Snort 2.x, Check Point Solutions
Graphics:
Adobe Photoshop 5.x 8.x, Adobe Acrobat 4.x 6.x, Quark Xpress 5.x, PageMaker 6.x-7.x

PUBLICATIONS:
Site Promotion 101. Copyright 2004. http://www.smartads.info/articles/
Paid Spokesperson (in person & TV) for Acura Writing Instruments.

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