Contact
Phone : 618.203.0367
E-mail : joe.strusz@gmail.com
Objective
I am seeking a network management position within the Information Technology industry. I do well in high paced and challenging environments. I have a wide variety of hardware and software experience, and expect to be challenged, and presented with goals that will improve business and workflow operations.
Key Skills
I am very proficient and familiar with a vast array of programming languages, concepts and technologies, and hardware including but not limited to:
- Installation, Setup, Administration, and Diagnosis of Microsoft Windows ME, NT, XP, 2003, VISTA and all Server distributions.
- Wireless Access Points, Wireless Security, VPNs, Tunneling, and Radio Technologies
- Installation, Setup, Administration, and Diagnosis of Unix/Linux related Operating Systems and Server Systems. Specifically FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Slackware, RedHat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Fedora, and OSX. Mac OSX Experience with all versions, as well as most Apple software.
- SAMBA shares, CUPS printing, Apple backup systems, and BSD subsystems.
- Experience with networks as large as 1,000 workstations. SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle database experience with all operating systems.
- Experienced application languages include but are not limited to PHP, HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Flash, ASP, CGI, Perl, C, GTK, and Visual Basic.
Work Experience
MERS/Goodwill - Carbondale, IL
Sales Associate (Full Time Employee) June, 20011 to January, 2012
- Processed, appraised, and priced all sorts of merchandise. Electronics, antiques, and much more.
- Maintained the dock area for safe functionality.
- Loading and unloading of semi-trucks on an almost daily basis.
Brehm Preparatory School Inc. - Carbondale, IL
Sr. Network Administrator (Contract Employee) May, 2008 to November 2010
- Setup and maintained fiber connectivity, switches.
- 300+ Mac/PC Network
- Used imaging to deploy, manage, and repair all machines both PC and Mac. Regardless of OS.
- Reduced department workload by 80% using imaging.
- Developed and maintained project code for a $250,000 US Dept. Of Education grant for a Behavioral Database System. Designed, implemented, managed, and coded the beginning stages of the project.
- Mentor for Team Megahurts #2219 (First Robotics Championship)
- Organized high school level Robotics Team for meetings and events.
- Mentored and traveled with the team.
- Taught safe and disciplined use of shop equipment such as welding rigs, saws, mills, and other tools.
- Programmed TI cRIO hardware components, sidecars, and custom I/O’s.
- Educated students with LabView, C, and AutoCAD.
Oxford Publishing Incorporated - Oxford, MS
IT Assistant (Full Time Employee) February, 2005 to March 2007
- Improved customer registration for our Las Vegas, Florida, and New Jersey
- shows by 30% using online advertising and analyst tools such as the Google
- AdSense API, Alexa, and using it to classify and throttle our own advertising applications.
- Migrated legacy flat file archives of all magazines to Mambo CMS, XML, and MySQL deposits.
- Managed/Setup a foolproof Linux SPAM system.
- Maintained/upgraded/patched over 40 workstations weekly.
- Managed the backup system for clients and servers.
Computer Warehouse - Carbondale, IL
Programmer/Consultant (Full Time Employee) June, 2004 to January, 2005
- Developed “shellconnector” software.
- Developed wiki server side applications and management systems in C, C++,
- bash, PHP, and PERL.
- Wrote user scripts, and developed PHP frontends to retrieve database information.
- Developed PHP/MySQL based point of sale system.
- Client ordered custom installs of Asterisk VOIP Systems
- Installed/secured 2 Gentoo AMD64 linux servers.
- PHP hardened install, phpMyAdmin, webmail systems, traffic monitoring,
- Ethernet sniffing, rootkits protection, etc…
Computer Warehouse - Carbondale, IL
Technician/Consultant (Full Time Employee) August, 2003 to May, 2004
- Customer Computer Repairs.
- Server installs and setup.
- Ordering, RMA, Stock.
- Customer desk assistance.
- Server maintenance, networking, routing, firewalls.
- PHP, Perl, Linux programming.
- SQL database administration.
Web Design Boutique - Carbondale, IL
Head Designer (Part Time Employee) January, 2003 to August, 2003
- Hosted designed and implemented several websites.
- Shopping carts, databases, etc..
Global Eyes Internet - Carbondale, IL
Technical Support (Full Time Employee) July, 2002 to January, 2003
- Handled Business Subscription technical support calls.
- On-Site repair and diagnosis of DSL signals and throughput.
- VOIP Systems Support and Repair.
Midwest Internet - Carbondale, IL
Network Operations Center (Full Time Employee) January 2001, to July, 2002
- Maintained and monitored dial-up routers both on-site and in regional locations.
- Serviced DSL customer hardware and software.
- Helped create and maintain the customer web interface, and OpenBSD accounting system.
- Helped create procedural manuals and backup systems.
InfoQuest Computers - Carbondale, IL
Technician (Internship, Part Time Employee) September, 1998 to December, 2000
- Designed, implemented and tested Intranet software.
- Serviced customer hardware.
- Performed upgrades and custom builds.
- Setup and maintained a LAN with servers and clients running Slackware Linux.
- Linux, Windows NT, Windows 9x, BSD, SCO.