Collin Boyce
Marquette, MI
currently: Job hunting
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Work history
Network Manager
tags:
windows
• management
• unix
• cisco
• project management
How would you describe your time at RYLA Teleservices?
Assisted in building and managing an IT team to maintain the infrastructure of a mid-size call center. Engineered cost effective solutions to increase productivity and reduce monthly spending. Provided consulting services for affiliate companies throughout the United States and Africa. Perform presentations to various levels of management inter and intra company, which provided an overview of the network infrastructure and future growth. Documented and managed various major projects to increase security, stability, scalability, and business continuity including:
* Network monitoring and design
* Wrote various scripts to manage and maintain windows infrastructure
* Deployed Hitachi AS200 SAN.
* Web filtering utilizing Websense
* Spam filtering utilizing proof point
* Virtualization -VMWARE
* Rebuilt Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange environments
* Devised backup and restore strategy
* PBX upgrades
* Deployed and upgraded various Cisco products.
* DS3 / circuit consolidation
* Build redundancy to remote locations
* Monitoring applications
* Security Audits
* Planned and implemented cross training to increase departmental knowledge and awareness
* Network Design in Kenya utilizing Cisco equipment connecting back to the commodity Internet using VSAT... 
Network Manager
tags:
networking
• unix
• cisco
• windows
• security
How would you describe your time at Morehouse School of Medicine?
Managed team that maintained infrastructure for 1500 + users that resided at 7 sites. Designed infrastructure to increase productivity by increasing the amount of automation throughout the enterprise (this included a design model for a build system and MSI deployment scripts). Planned and implemented departmental employee incentive programs, which included internal training. Wrote evaluation and developed career path for personnel. Diffused inter-personnel issues that occurred periodically. Managed customer satisfaction for various help desk issues and projects. Devised policy to make enterprise HIPPA compliant.
* Worked as liaison between upper management (CIO and Director of Operations) and LAN administrators to resolve conflicts.
* Kept up to date with new technology and served as project lead for LAN/WAN projects.
* Redesign network to 2 central server rooms, which included upgrades to power, switching, consolidation of services and redundancy.
* Enable enterprise VOIP, Multicast, and QOS.
* Upgrade IT power infrastructure Campus wide.
* Managed Video conferencing infrastructure Tandberg, Polycom, and Cisco IPVC 3500.
* Managed network infrastructure with over 100 devices including: Cisco wireless access point 1200/350, various Catalyst switches 6500, 4500, 3500, VPN 3000 Concentrator
* Upgrade and secured Network infrastructure for HIPPA compliance included adding a true DMZ.
* Designed VMPS infrastructure and management application (which was written in PHP)
* Generated scripts to do various tasks in the enterprise utilizing Perl and Shell scripts.
* Managed Project manager that migrated from GroupWise to Exchange 2003
* Deployed anti-virus/spam filtering software that was able to handle above 60k messages per day
* Used the combination of Blue socket and WPA to implement wireless security
* Implemented open source software to monitoring networking infrastructure
* Secured and maintained PA RISC server running version HP-UX 11.11
* Implemented Websense (on Solaris 10 platform) to save cost of bandwidth utilization
* Maintained Software RAID and patches on several production Solaris/HP UNIX servers.
* Upgraded and deployed several BSD type operating systems including Redhat, Debian, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD
* Troubleshoot and assisted in VMWARE deployment
* Configure MBGP/MSDP, which enabled Multicast internal and external the enterprise.
* Installed and deployed several Apache servers and deployed CMS for the enterprise.
* Wrote employee performance evaluations....
UPOC
January 2001 to January 2004
SENIOR NETWORK/SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
tags:
security
• san
• network
• windows
• unix
How would you describe your time at UPOC?
Deploy IPSEC for corporate vpn solution between co-location faculty and office network and redesigned mail system to help improve efficiency. Researched and implemented full network redesign to more cost effective hardware. Enhanced corporate network infrastructure security model and deployed various open source utilities to monitor logs. Tested various load balancer solutions and migrated production environment from Local director to Resonate Central Dispatch manager.
* Upgraded machines from Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 to Solaris 9
* Managed ~ 120 sun servers include E4500 and v210
* Worked with a team to upgrade production SAN to EMC san
* Build packaging server to make and deploy custom sun packages.
* Wrote scripts (which utilized sh, m4, awk, sed, expect and perl) to automate many day-to-day tasks.
* Configured the PIX firewall and Cisco Local director in a redundant configuration.
* Designed the production build system, which depended heavily on CVS and shell scripting.
* Worked with Veritas Backup Exec to facilitate corporate backups.
* Worked with Veritas VCS and Volume Manager for production file systems.
* Configuration changes on production load balancing devices.
* Configured Office and Internet Cisco switches and routers.
* Research on current network attacks and devising possible solutions.
* Function as "build" manager taking responsibility of corporate build system
* Managed log rotation and stats production for various log files
* Served as backup Veritas BackupExec administrator.
* Used EIGRP to provide dynamic traffic failover for encrypted tunnels to Production Collocation facilities
* Successfully upgraded Solaris 2.x operating systems to Solaris 10
* Built out several SUN boxes ranging from E4500 to X1
* Deployed and upgraded from Solaris 2.7/2.8 to 2.9
* Managed and deployed patches on Sun environment
* Deployed and upgraded NFS in production/development environment....
NETWORK /SYSTEM ENGINEER
tags:
unix
• network
• programming
• security
How would you describe your time at About.com?
Responsibilities included administering of UNIX based servers (Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux). Worked on a team of administrators to deploy IPSEC for corporate vpn solution. Organized team and helped redesign of the corporate mail system utilizing qmail, exchange and custom code. Help devise security policy and roll out procedure for corporate servers and multiple network environments. Worked on various models of Cisco routers and switches resolving multiple issues.
* Administered routers running multiple routing protocols between various sites.
* Configured corporate access-list to secure web environment.
* Configured various routing protocols.
* Configured the PIX firewall in a redundant configuration.
* Configured syslog for production web servers and network infrastructure device.
* Configuration changes on production load balancing devices.
* Configured Office and Internet Cisco switches and routers.
* Security scans of production website and" tightening" of access-lists.
* Research on current network attacks and devising possible solutions.
* Configured qmail and pop with SMTP authentication.
* Utilized internal BGP ASN number to accept routes from ISP.
* Maintained Solaris Servers with Netscape Fast track Server...
SYSTEM ENGINEER
tags:
security
• networking
• windows
• linux
• unix
How would you describe your time at theglobe.com?
Primary purpose was research for future upgrades. Implemented upgrades and maintain on existing server hardware. Functioned as a System Engineer in an environment that contained several operating system platforms Linux, Mac OS 9.1, Sun Solaris x86 and Sparc, and Windows NT and over 150 business machines. Worked on and configured various network technologies including switched Ethernet, Local Director, and Cisco 7206, 7500 series, 2900 routers. Configured and installed various Cisco switches including 5500, 2916xl, 2924xl 2900, and 1900.
* Worked in environment that contained BGP 4 and ATM over OC-3 on distribution level and EIGRP on core level.
* Troubleshoot and upgrade network bottlenecks; did research for future upgrades to remove current and future bottlenecks.
* Configured and installed servers from various major manufactures on several platforms including NT, Solaris, and BSDI.
* Installed various Cisco switches and troubleshoot various networking issues.
* Evaluated terabyte solutions from specific corporations including Clarion, MTI, NetApp, and Winchester.
* Worked with various network technologies for load balancing NetCache, NetApp, Big IP, and Resonate.
* Monitored servers nightly with pager and occasionally came in to fix down servers.
* Worked on backups on servers to prevent data losses using Backup Exec and Cheyenne Arcserve....
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