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Michael A. Painter Jr.
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18705
michaelapainter@gmail.com

Work Experience

  • PC Data Centers of PA Inc.

    Systems Administrator August 16, 1999 - Present

Overview

  • A result oriented Systems Administrator with over 10 years of general computer experience
  • Extensive experience installing, updating, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Linux, and various other applications
  • Skilled in installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting computer hardware and various other electronic devices

Accomplishments

  • Install, configure, and administer a Linux server to host web, email, ftp, and secure ftp services
  • Redesign, install, and maintain new network infrastructure
  • Initiated and implemented the internal hosting of web services
  • Install, configure, and administer a Windows 2003 Server Domain
  • Install and configure secure executive file server
  • Install, configure, and administer a Snap Server 4200 NAS
  • Install, configure, and administer Captiva FormWare Server
  • Install, configure, and administer AnyDoc Servers
  • Administer a Novell Netware server and perform backups
  • Troubleshoot, upgrade, and administer 25 Windows XP workstations
  • Troubleshoot, upgrade, and administer 9 Windows 98SE workstations
  • Eliminated an unnecessary server
  • Standardized and redesigned company ID badges
  • Implemented mandatory password policies
  • Provide on location and on call help desk services
  • Configure VPN tunnels to clients to replace expensive leased lines
  • Created scripts to do mundane jobs reducing work load on supervisors
  • Upgraded company server hardware and implemented RAID
  • Implement and maintain server backups
  • Implemented a temporary Linux server to act as a Windows Primary Domain Controller
  • Implemented a test environment for the development team

Skills


Managerial
  • Collaborate with it manager to create documentation
  • Collaborate with programmer on special projects
  • Collaborate with it manager to implement procedural improvements
Programming
  • Visual Studio
  • Visual Basic
  • VBScript
  • Sharp Develop
  • PHP
  • Limited C/C++, JavaScript, SQL
  • HTML, CSS
  • BASH
Software
  • Microsoft Office 97/XP/2003
  • Outlook, Outlook Express
  • Thunderbird, Evolution
  • Open Office
  • MySQL, MS SQL, MS Access
  • Telnet, SSH (PuTTY, Open SSH)
  • GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), Inkscape
  • I.E., Fire Fox, Netscape Navigator, Opera, Lynx
  • Norton Antivirus, AVG Antivirus, McAfee Antivirus
  • Vsftpd, Apache, Sendmail, Samba, IMAPD, dhcpd, bind
  • VM Ware
  • VNC, RDP
  • IP Tables
  • PGP, GnuPG, GnuPT
  • Webmin
  • Drive Snapshot
  • TCP/IP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, IFCONFIG, IWCONFIG, etc.
Systems
  • MS DOS
  • Microsoft Windows 3.1/95/98/98SE/NT/2000/XP
  • Microsoft Windows Server NT/2000/2003
  • Red Hat 9.0, Fedora Core 4, Whitebox Enterprise Linux, Cent OS 5, Slackware, Debian, Suse, Trustix
  • Limited Novell Netware