Christopher K. Curtiss
8 Farley St
Milford, NH 03055
(603) 557-5295
chris@xrayspx.com
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Objective:
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To secure a challenging position that will strengthen my problem-solving and technical administration skills in a high-growth environment.
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Hardware Experience:
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I have experience with the following hardware:
- HP/Compaq Proliant Servers
- IBM Bladecenter chassis
- Apple Macintosh Laptops and desktops
- Network Appliance storage arrays:
- F760 Filer
- F820 Filer
- F840 Filer
- FC8/FC9/DS14 Disk Shelves
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EMC VNXe 3300 SAN
- Cisco Routers, Switches, Firewalls
- PIX 520, 515E, 535, Firewall Switching Module for 6509
- CSS11503 Load Balancers
- 2950, 3548, 3508, 4506, 6509 switches
- Cisco Routers
- Linecards and configuration for the following:
- T1 (MLPPP, Private Line, PRI circuits), DS3 (ATM), upstream ethernet handoffs to 1Gb/sec
- Juniper SA-4500 SSL VPN Server
- Nortel Contivity VPN servers (300, 1700)
- F5 BigIP load balancers (+custom shell scripts)
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Software Experience:
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I have experience with the following software:
- Operating Systems
- Microsoft Windows through 2008 R2
- Linux: Centos, OpenSuSE, Ubuntu flavors
- Cisco IOS
- MacOS X
- Microsoft IIS web, mail and FTP server
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Apache Webserver
- MySQL SQL Server
- Sendmail MTA
- Postfix MTA
- Server monitoring packages (What's up Gold, Servers Alive, Big Brother, Nagios, Syslog)
- Remote administration software (SSH, VNC, Terminal Server, Citrix, RDP, Remote X)
- X Windows and various WMs, GNOME, KDE
- Various IPSEC Implementations
- Linux to Linux with FreeSWAN
- Linux to Cisco with FreeSWAN, link goes to HOWTO
- Cisco to Cisco
- Nortel Contivity Branch Tunneling and end user
- Juniper SA-4500
- Scripting, mainly small tools and web utilities:
- BASH
- Windows CMD
- Perl
- HTML
- Expect
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Employment:
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PatientKeeper, Inc (www.PatientKeeper.com)
- 01-08 - Present
Senior Network Engineer
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- Implementation of IPSEC VPN for secure employee access to the office and production networks
- Test our web application and backend architecture for security holes
- Design internal domains and apply security policy
- Administration of Production web and internal user networks consisting of the following:
- Windows 2003 Servers
- Microsoft DNS and Active Directory
- HP Intel servers - DL360, DL380, DL585
- IBM Intel Servers - 330, 336, 3550
- IBM PPC Server - P6
- Custom Linux-based load balancing solution
- Cisco VPN Concentrator 3000
- Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls
- Linux Servers - CentOS 4 & 5, OpenSuse 10 & 11
- Unix Server - AIX 5.1
- Nagios
- OTRS Ticketing System
- Security model design and implementation
- Hardware/software installation, HP, Microsoft, Linux, DataDomain, Equallogic
- Writing technical documentation, installation/config guides
Vistaprint, Inc (www.VistaPrint.com)
- 08-01 - 04-07
Senior Network Engineer
- Maintain current NT/IIS Patchlevels
- Implementation of IPSEC VPN for secure employee access to the office and production networks
- Test our web application and backend architecture for security holes
- Design internal domains and apply security policy
- Security sweeps of employee network, coordinate patch rollout and service inventory
- Administration of Production web network consisting of the following:
- Windows Servers, NT, 2000, 2003
- IIS versions 4, 5 and 6
- Microsoft DNS and Active Directory
- HP/Compaq Intel servers - DL360, DL380, 8500r
- IBM Bladecenter chassis
- Nortel Contivity IPSEC VPN gateways (600/1700)
- F5 BigIP load balancers
- Cisco Content Switch (load balancers)
- Cisco PIX Firewall
- Network Appliance F820 NAS Filers and DS14 shelves (clustered)
- Linux Redhat 6.2->9, Suse 8->10.2
- Postfix
- Nagios
- Apache + Scoop weblog
- Security model design and implementation
- Hardware/software installation, Compaq, Microsoft, Linux
- Writing technical documentation, installation/config guides
- Release management, from Development, through test and production
- Maintain rollout plans for bi-weekly code release schedule
- Package and maintain code patches
- Design process for code releases to production
- Coordination with QA engineers and developers to manage releases and patches
- Writing tools to help in various administrative tasks, mainly in Linux BASH/Perl, good ones:
- Web based tools to monitor and add/remove servers from Cisco Load Balancer
- Cisco hardware configuration change monitor with pager alerting
- Web Based SpamAssassin content rating tool
- Various filesystem checks and ACL checks
Softlock Services, dba DigitalGoods.com
- 3/01-7/01
- Administration of Production web network consisting of the following:
- Windows NT server 4.0
- IIS4
- MS SQL Server 7.0
- MS SiteServer Commerce Edition 3.0
- Compaq 1850r and 6400r servers
- RedHat linux, Qmail and DJB-DNS
- Release management to Production
- Coordination with QA engineers and QA release engineers for daily patches
- Consultation and coordination with vendors to facilitate corporate winddown
Web-sites.com
- 7/99-7/00
Server-Administrator, Dept. Head
- Windows NT, IIS4 Webserver Administration
- Linux / Apache (Redhat 4.2-5.1-6.1-6.2)
- Hyperseek Search Engine
- SLMail Mailserver/Listserver
- Rockliffe Mailsite Enterprise level Mail/Listserver
- MacOS 8.5/Windows 95/98/NTWkstn. Desktop support
- Customer Support in FTP/Mail/Web-access
- Various Monitoring/Uptime Packages (WebTrends, What's UP Gold, MRTG)
- 24x7 on-call support (pager)
- Hosting 80+ web-sites
- Managed networks of custom built webservers and internal employee workstations
- 20 web, mail and administrative servers
- 25 clients, including NT Workstation 4.0 and Mac G3 (OS 8.5)
- Design and rollout of multi-phase network move during relocation
New Hampshire Computer Outlet, Derry, NH
- 3/97-6/99
- Assembly of custom PC's and servers, PC/Network repair and
trouble-shooting
- Customer support both onsite and via telephone
- Support for dial-up internet access
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Education:
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- CompTIA A+ Certification
- CompTIA Network+ Certification
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Assets:
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- Excellent communications skills
- Aggressive work ethic
- Willing to take outside training to enhance skills
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