Greg E. Watson
8526 Willows Place, Parker, CO 80134
Email: gwresume@linuxlogin.com

Career Objective
	Acquiring a position with significant opportunity for growth.  Ability to work with new technologies and thereby expand my experience.  Become an integral member of a team responsible for successful completion of influential projects.

Security and Technology Manager
2002 - Current Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (State of Colorado)

* Cyber Security SME (Subject Matter Expert) for the SAC (Senior Advisory Committee) on All Hazards for The Department of Homeland Security in Colorado
* Cyber Security Task Force Founding Member
* Interface with Federal Agencies such a Air Force, Army and Air National Guard to help provide integration and security to critical systems
* Help develop policies and procedures for State wide and National Scope
* Performed security audits of networks and systems to ensure compliance with policies
* Research, test, recommend, and install hardware and software to meet the needs of the department both internal and external
* Created a content management system to allow for different departments to update content on websites while allowing site administrators to control style and theme of pages
* Supported department IT needs, along with joint agencies such as Army/Air
* National Guard, Air Force, Office of Emergency Management, and others.
* Created, monitored, and updated firewalls from host based to network level
* Integrated network servers and workstations using Open Source Software (OSS) such as LDAP,Samba,NFS and others

Senior Systems Administrator 
2001 - 2002 Rand McNally, Inc.
* Maintained all development, staging, and production servers for core operations (data-center and local development office).
* Created entire custom statistics system with database logging and lookup, custom charting, and detailed reports from ground up.
* Responsible for backup of CVS code repository, site-wide statistics, and other mission critical software/data.
* Maintained all Internet services (Mail, WWW, DNS, Chat, VPN, etc.).
* Created and setup server health check, self-repair, and security scripts.
* Firewall and load balancer management for data-center and local office.
* Desktop support, including networked printers, switches/hubs, and cabling.
* Setup and maintained security policy and procedures including department-wide reconfiguration of procedures. 
* Responsible for new hardware acquisition and installation as well as maintained current hardware systems.
* Worked with ISPs and hardware providers on different OSI levels to determine failures and implementations of services provided for improvements.
* Created and monitored procedures and policies for out-sourced monitoring and provided tier 3 & 4 support.
* Systems Administrator 
* 1999 - 2001 Access Arkansas / Arkansas State University Mountain Home
* Maintained LINUX & UNIX based systems for Distance Education and E-Mail services on central based server for Access-Arkansas / Arkansas State University Mountain Home. 
* Wrote custom integration system for Windows NT that allowed the university system to handle creation and removal of 5,000+ accounts a year (now completely automated).
* Trained/supported all of Arkansas' two-year college system administrators for custom distance education web based software.
* Entire website design - Graphics, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, custom data warehouse CGI for online searches, secured areas, statistics, and custom online server management.
* Custom programmed applications - Database conversion, converting from non-standard unspecified formatted files to standard format. 
* Custom Win32 database front end with search and user displays.
* Demonstrated a "walk-through" of the proposed buildings added to the campus in 3D Graphics using CAD software from a 2D picture.
* Troubleshoot and repair miscellaneous problems at the University (hardware and software).

Computer Systems Specialist
1996 - 1999 A Plus Computers, Inc. Harrison, AR
* Decision One Field Engineer - service on all state and federal offices (DHS, DMV, SSI, DCS) and corporate computer systems such as Dell, Compaq, Tiger Direct, Lexmark, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Packard Bell, Gateway, MWM, AT&T, 3COM, Acer, AOpen, NetPlex, MXTX, and Saber & World Span / ICOT.   
* TCP/IP and Internet (Domain setup, DNS, DHCP / PROXY, WWW IIS3- IIS5). 
* MS-Exchange Server 5.5 Setup and administration with Outlook 97-2000. 
* Microsoft Access 97 Database programming (both MDB and MDE formats). 
* Web site design and setup - HTML/ASP and FrontPage 98-2000. 
* Hardware and software installation and troubleshooting / repairs to computers and peripherals (scanners and printers) as well as Year 2000 scanning / repairs (Y2K). 
* Other Experience
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* Experience with most major OS, MS-DOS, Dr. DOS, Win3.x - Win XP, WinNT/2000, WinCE, Linux (Gentoo, RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware), UNIX (Solaris & HPUX), OS/2
* CAD/3D Software experience, 3D Studio Max R1 - R4, True Space 1 - 3, Bryce 4, etc.
* 2D Graphics - Adobe Photoshop 4 - 7.0 & Adobe Image Ready, The Gimp
* ADSL, T1-T3, ISDN, and other dedicated Internet connections
* Microsoft Visual C++/C# including MFC, ISAPI, DAO, ODBC, DirectX, COM/DCOM
* UNIX skills Vi, Vim, Pico, sh/bash, Python, PHP, X Windows, working with Perl and other shell scripts
* Dynamic websites MySQL, PHP, and CGIs
* Protocols TCP/IP TCP/UDP/ICMP (SNMP, STMP, POP, IMAP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, SSH, FTP, DNS, TELNET, etc.)
* Network monitoring and security (restricted access/firewalls - iptables & ipchains/etc.)

Education
* 2001 - Registered Microsoft Beta tester for Visual Studio.NET (C#).
* 2000 - Registered Blizzard Beta tester for Diablo 2.
* 2000 - Arkansas State University Mountain Home (CAD II).
* 1999 - Microsoft Tech Net Little Rock, AR (Win2000 & Office2000).
* 1998 - Microsoft Visual C++ 5 & 6 MFC / Windows API.

1997 - Windows NT Server 4 - Custom Micro Harrison, AR
* (MCPS) Microsoft Certified Product Specialist Training Course.

1994 - 1996 North Arkansas College Harrison, AR
* Core courses with emphasis on computer programming.

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