STATUS:

I am very happy at my current job at Broadcom Corporation as the Senior Director of IT Infrastructure and am not currently seeking full-time employment elsewhere. However, I am available for projects involving technical authoring, editing, and reviewing. My strengths are in Cisco Networking, Solaris Systems Administration, Information Security, and IT Infrastructure Management, but I am open to other topics as well. Please contact me if you have any books/projects that I could work on. Below, you can find snippets from my resume, listing my technical skills, certifications, publications, and educational background. Since this resume is for the purposes of technical work, I did not provide details on my primary career, which is in IT infrastructure management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Servers: Solaris, Windows, Citrix
• Network Equipment: Cisco routers and access servers. Cisco Catalyst stackable and chassis switches. Intel Netstructure VPN, Nortel Contivity VPN, Cisco 3000 series VPN. Cisco Aironet access points. Cisco PIX firewalls and Adaptive Security Appliances (ASAs).
• Network Services: NIS, NIS+, NFS, automount, DNS, WINS, RAS, Samba, firewalls, sendmail, RADIUS, TACACS+
• Network Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBIOS, NetBEUI, OSI, DHCP, BOOTP, ARP, RIPv1, RIPv2, OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP4, PPP, HDLC, CDP, 802.1d (spanning-tree), IGMP, CGMP, SNMP
• Other: Cisco IOS, Catalyst OS, VLANs, CIDR, DTP, VTP, ISL, 802.1q, Etherchannel, Frame Relay, T1/E1, ISDN BRI/PRI
• Software Applications: MS Office, MS Project, Lotus Notes, Visio, NAI Sniffer Distributed and Sniffer Pro, ethereal/Wireshark, MRTG/rrdtool, Norton Ghost, Whats Up Gold, CiscoSecure ACS, SolarWinds Toolkit
• Programming Languages: C/C++, PASCAL, BASIC, M68K & MIPS Assembly, Lotus Notes, SQL, HTML
• Object oriented programming in C++; understanding of the complete software development life cycle
• Scripting: PERL, ksh, awk, sed, find, grep. Regular expressions
• Typing speed: 138WPM with 99% accuracy

PATENTS:

• Two U.S. patents filed for and pending
• One U.S. patent currently being worked on

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
• Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet (MCP+I) on Windows NT 4.0
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows NT 4.0
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows 2000
• Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) for WinFrame 1.7
• Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) for MetaFrame 1.8
• Sun Certified Network Administrator (SCNA) for Solaris 7
• Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) for Solaris 7
• Certified Network Expert (CNX# 1154) - Ethernet
• Sniffer Certified Professional (SCP)
• Sniffer Certified Expert (SCE)
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
• Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA)
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
• Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
• Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE# 7410)
• Certification Transcript

PUBLICATIONS:

• Co-Author
  Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8 Study Guide
  McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, August 2001.
• Author
  Cramsession: NAI Sniffer - TCP/IP Network Analysis and Troubleshooting
  BrainBuzz.com, May 2002.
• Co-Author and Co-Reviewer
  Sniffer Pro: Network Optimization and Troubleshooting Handbook
  Syngress Publishing, July 2002.
• Technical Sponsor, Technical Editor, and Co-Author
  Cisco Security Specialist's Guide to PIX Firewalls
  Syngress Publishing, December 2002.
• Technical Reviewer
  CCSP Practical Studies: Virtual Private Networks
  Cisco Press, Not Printed.
• Co-Author
  The Best Damn Cisco Internetworking Book Period
  Syngress Publishing, July 2003.
• Technical Reviewer and Co-Author
  Cisco PIX Firewalls: Configure, Manage & Troubleshoot
  Syngress Publishing, June 2005.

EDUCATION:

• B.S. in Computer Engineering (Management Minor).
• Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.
• Cumulative GPA: 3.64 / 4.0. Merit-based scholarship and Dean's List throughout.