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November, 2005
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Greg E. Watson

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

Career Objective

Finding a position which has room for both personal and department growth. Being able to work with new technologies and to expand my experience. Also to be part of a team which accomplishes influential projects.

Professional Experience

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 intergration 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 and switches/hubs and cabling.
Setup and maintained security policy and procedures which included department wide reconfiguration of procedures
Responsible for new hardware acquisition and installation and 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

Maintain a LINUX & UNIX based systems for Distance Education and E-Mail services on central based server for Access-Arkansas and Arkansas State University Mountain Home
Wrote custom integration system for Windows NT that allowed the university system to handle creation and removal of 5000+ accounts a year that is completely automated.
Monitor security of servers and provide solutions to possible security holes
Train/support 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
Demonstrate 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), corporate computer systems Dell, Compaq, Tiger Direct, Lexmark, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Packard Bell, Gateway, MWM, AT&T, 3COM, Acer, AOpen, NetPlex, MXTX, Saber & World Span / ICOT, and others
Repair & setup of network servers Windows NT 4, & 5 (Windows 2000) and Linux
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, printers, etc.) and Year 2000 scanning / repairs (Y2K)

Hardware Specialist

1996 - 1997 O.U.R. Co-op Harrison, AR

Repair of all types of x86 based machines (PC)
Install & repair of all types of PC hardware (add-in cards, system boards, etc.)
Physical networking Fiber, 10/100Base-T & 10Base-2
CGI & Utilities programming using C++ on a Linux OS
Repairs to damaged operating systems

Other Experience

Experience with most major OS, MS-DOS, Dr. DOS, Win3.x - Win XP, WinNT/2000, WinCE, Linux (Red Hat, 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
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 using MySQL & PHP
Protocols TCP/IP TCP/UDP (SNMP, STMP, POP, HTTP, SSL, SSH, FTP, DNS, TELNET, etc.)
Network monitoring and security (restricted access/firewalls/etc.)
Load Balancing, Alteon & Cisco
Multi-platform network integration

Beta Testing

2003 - Many Open Source Software (OSS) Projects
2002 - Registered Electronic Arts tester for Earth & Beyond
2001 - Registered Microsoft Beta tester for Visual Studio.NET (C#)
2000 - Registered Blizzard Beta tester for Diablo 2

Education

2000 - Arkansas State University Mountain Home (CAD II)
1999 - Microsoft Tech Net Little Rock, AR (Win2000 & Office2000)
1998 - Microsoft Visual C++ 5 & 6 MFC / WinAPI
1997 - Windows NT Server 4 (MCPS) Microsoft Certified Product Specialist Training Course
1994 - 1996 North Arkansas College Harrison, AR
Core courses with emphasis on computer programming
Work study Computer lab administrator for college

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