Trever Furnish
8455 Woods Edge Drive
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Indianapolis, IN 46250
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Experienced Cisco / Microsoft / Unix / Linux Administrator

OBJECTIVE A challenging position where my skills will be both tested and increased, in an information technology / operations / development team.

TARGET JOB Desired Job Type: Employee, Contract, Temporary
Desired Status: Full-Time, Part-Time
Site Location: No Preference
Description of my perfect job:
Leverage experience in Windows, Unix, Linux, Macintosh, and voice systems administration, as well as web and conventional programming experience. I'm equally happy working as a member of a team or building the team from scratch.
Career Level: Management (Manager/Director of Staff)
Date of Availability: Less than 1 month

TARGET COMPANY Company Size: No Preference
Category: Internet/E-Commerce
Description of my ideal company:
My ideal company is one willing to invest in its employees by encouraging their continued development and constantly challenging them to do better. While I am most experienced in medium-to-large scale network operations, any challenging situation is ideal.

TARGET LOCATIONS Relocate: Yes
US-IN-Indianapolis US-IN-Lafayette US-KY-Louisville

WORK STATUS US I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

EXPERIENCE 1/2001 - Present --- Confidential --- Indianapolis, IN
Network Manager
Manager of operations for a startup in the online recruiting field. Responsibilities currently entail building an infrastructure and implementing systems and network management policies. Environment includes Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows NT, Linux, and Macintosh systems, as well as Cisco routers and switches, multi-homed via redundant WAN connections, all proactively monitored twenty-four hours per day.

9/1999 - 12/2000 Monster.com Indianapolis, IN
Senior Systems Administrator - Indy Support
Technical lead / senior systems administrator for 130-user LAN support team. Postmaster for a global company. Guided standards and policies for lan workstations globally. Worked extensively with other departments and teams, locally and globally. Level 3 user support. Created automaticly updated workstation inventory system with web interface. Project lead for global build-out and migration to Microsoft Exchange. Project lead for global fax server deployment and phone system integration.

2/1999 - 8/1999 Monster.com Indianapolis, IN
Network Engineer - Operations
Member of 10-person team responsible for all aspects of infrastructure, including network cabling, Cisco routers and switches, Windows NT and Linux / Unix servers - deployment, maintenance, monitoring, support. 24x7x365 production environment, rotating on-call shifts.

1/1998 - 2/1999 Online Career Center Indianapolis, IN
Network Engineer - Operations
Network infrastructure planning, deployment, and management. Sole LAN system administrator and primary tech support for 80 users. Postmaster. Software administration and DBA duties for Saleslogix sales automation software.

4/1997 - 12/1997 Online Career Center Indianapolis, IN
Contractor
Contracted to provide training of in-house technical staff, technical support, and other misc technical services. PERL programming, HTML coding. Wrote scripts to synchronize new in-house version of web site and databases with old ISP-hosted version of the site during development. Wrote web-based phone system reporting system.

8/1996 - 3/1997 Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System Indianapolis, IN
Network Engineer - Operations
Member of a four-person team responsible for the design, provisioning, implementation, troubleshooting, and operation of a statewide high-speed Internet backbone connecting more than 50 colleges and universities in Indiana to both SprintLink and InternetMCI. Special duties included Solaris/SunOS system administration, postmaster, dial-up services, web CGI programming, and DNS. (See http://www.ihets.org/ .)

8/1995 - 5/1996 Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System Indianapolis, IN
Technical Assistant - Operations
Assisted with day-to-day operations of IND.net. Designed and implemented a web-based database of information concerning the sites connected to INDnet. Created the Network Operations Center technical web server. Performed in-house / WAN wiring, LAN support, and Unix system administration tasks as needed.

8/1994 - 5/1995 IUPUI Indianapolis, IN
Learning Center Support Staff
Provided phone and in-lab support for student and public computing systems, including Unix, Vax, Windows (3.1/95), Macintosh, and CMS platforms.

EDUCATION 2/1998 IUPUI US-IN-Indianapolis
Associate Degree
2.5 years completed pursuing degrees in computer science and psychology.

3/1996 Purdue University US-IN-Lafayette
Associate Degree
2 years of mechanical engineering courses.

SKILLS Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience
Unix Systems Administration Expert Currently used 7 years
Windows 2000 / NT / 9x System Administration Expert Currently used 8 years
Local Area Network Design and Tuning Expert Currently used 6 years
Wide Area Network Design and Provisioning Expert Currently used 6 years
Lucent Definity / Audix Phone Switch Admin Intermediate 1 year ago 2 years
PERL Programming Intermediate Currently used 6 years
ANSI C Beginner 1 year ago 1 years
WAN / LAN Operations Management Expert Currently used 5 years
Cisco Routing and Switching Intermediate Currently used 6 years
Microsoft SQL Server Database Administration Intermediate 2 years ago 1 years
Tcl / TK Beginner Currently used 0 years
HTML Intermediate Currently used 6 years
PHP Beginner Currently 1 years
CGI web programming Intermediate Currently used 6 years
Linux Systems Administration Expert Currently used 6 years
Vax / CMS / Netware Beginner 3 years ago 1 years
Macintosh Expert Currently used 6 years
Microsoft Office, including Access Expert Currently used 6 years
Javascript Beginner Never 1 years
Java Beginner Never 1 years
Solaris System Administration Intermediate 2 years ago 4 years
Microsoft Exchange - Large scale implementation Expert Currently used 2 years

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION References available upon request.

Expect to obtain CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) certification in June, 2001. Pursuing CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer) certification. I'll pass the MCSE tests for you if required. :-)