Matthew Mairs

(China) (22) 13920191293

mmairs at mairs dot net

SUMMARY

A knowledgable and diverse IT professional with over fifteen years of experience.  Qualifications range from network design to systems administration, and professional experience varies from solo consulting to departmental directorship.

SKILLS

Networking Hardware

ADC/Kentrox, Apple, BAT, Bay, Black Box, CAC, Cisco, 3Com, Digital, EZ, Hewlett Packard, Nortel, PC-compatible, RS-6000, SUN and Tylink - Arcnet, Ethernet (10 MB, 100MB and GB), Serial (IEEE-1394, USB, RS-232, RS-449 and V.35) and Token Ring (4MB and 16MB)

Networking Software

AIX, Cisco IOS, LANtastic, Novell NetWare, UNIX (C)SLIP, PPP, UUCP, SMTP, NFS, NNTP, NTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, bind (4x, 8x and 9x)and DNS nameservice, Solaris NIS+, Windows (3.x, 9x ,ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003) and X-Windows

Enterprise Applications

Apache SSL Web Server and Tomcat Application Server, AIX Web Server, BEA WebLogic, Checkpoint Firewall-1, CiscoWorks, F5 BigIP, Hewlett-Packard OpenView, IIS, iPlanet, Legato Networker, Lucent QIP, Netegrity SiteMinder, Netsaint, Netscape Enterprise, FastTrack and LDAP Servers, Novell BorderManager, and DirXML, Oracle, PostgresSQL, SiteMinder and Sybase

EXPERIENCE

7/2005-present

iPhoNetics International

New York, NY - Tianjin, China

Partner, Consultant

•     Responsible for business tasks including articles of organization, accounting structure, publicity and banking relationships.

•     Negotiate with other consultants over appropriate resourcing by skill set and financial considerations.

•     Staff engagements from UNIX, network and systems architecture and implementation to SiteMinder troubleshooting and training.


5/2004-7/2005

Credit Suisse First Boston

New York, NY

Assistant Vice President

•     Responsible for the global enterprise SiteMinder upgrade, from project planning and documentation to serving as a resource in the implementaion.

•     Implement and administer enterprise web infrastructure, including WebLogic, iPlanet and LDAP.

•     Configure and support SSL VPNs globally.

 

7/2003-4/2004

IBM Global Services

New York, NY

Systems Integrator

•     Responsible for the separation of Mount Sinai and NYU Medical Center UNIX web, middle-ware and back-end infrastructures as part of the outsourcing of their IT functionality.

•     Assisting with planning for division of all other UNIX based services, including QIP, Firewalls, network monitoring, DNS and the F5s.

•     Still responsible for most of the below, but in an outsourced relationship.

 

1/2001-6/2003
Mount Sinai Hospital/NYU Medical School
New York, NY

UNIX Engineer

•     Configure and document Legato Networker enterprise backup system.

•     Configure and administer redundant Checkpoint Firewall-1 clusters.

•     Administer, configure and troubleshoot numerous (2.5-2.8) Solaris systems.

•     Configure and support Oracle 8i servers, including JDBC interfaces to WebLogic.

•     Responsible for Lucent QIP (DNS and DHCP) infrastructure.

•     Administer, configure and troubleshoot the F5 BigIP cluster.

 

10/2000-1/2001
Technology Alliance Group
Phoenix, AZ

Senior  Engineer

•     Design and implement Cisco Based LANs, MANs and WANs, including IPSec.

•     Administer InterShop Apache SSL E-commerce web-servers on Solaris.

•     Consult with clients regarding company missions as regard Internet presence and corporate interconnectivity and enable these goals.

 

2/2000-10/2000
InfiNetways Incorporated
Tucson, AZ
Director of Data Center Services

•     Design and implement Cisco Routed and Switched LANs, MANs and WANs.

•     Regularly meet with other senior management regarding strategic direction of corporation and relay pertinent goals to my group.

•     Consult with clients regarding company missions as regard Internet presence and enable these goals.

 

5/1997-2/2000
MicroAge Advanced Systems Group
Tucson, AZ
Managing Engineer

•     Participate in strategic technological decisions and delegate systems engineering tasks.

Determine technical staff training requirements and aptitudes.

•     Consult with marketing regarding both strategic direction and day to day needs analases and implementations

•     Maintain vendor relationships.

 

6/1995-4/1997
National Lightning Detection Network
Tucson, AZ
Archive Specialist

•     Administer Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, Windows and DOS systems.

•     Troubleshoot X.25 VSAT network and coordinate repair with field service and site managers.

•     Use a combination of UNIX and proprietary software to create Lightning Strike Reports in several formats for numerous clients.

 

EDUCATION

 

•     Course work in Music (1/1989-6/1991), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. GPA 4.00

•     Degree with Honors in Music Theory and Composition: 6/1992, Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona.

•     Course work in Computer Science including: UNIX Operations, NOVELL NetWare and Advanced C Programming (8/1992-5/1994), Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona. GPA 3.72

•     Course work in Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert track including Advanced Cisco Router Configuration, Cisco Internetwork Design and Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting (3/1997-5/1997), Protocol Interface Inc., San Mateo, California.  Have passed CCIE written exam.

•     Course work in SUN Solaris workstation and network administration and Competency 2000 workgroup (4/2000-9/2000). Have passed Competency 2000 workgroup, Solaris workstation administration and Solaris network administration exams

•     Course work in DirXML (9/2001-11/2001).  Have passed ‘Directory and Database Integration Using DirXML’ exam.

•     Course work in Project Management (5/2005), Learning Tree International, New York, New York.

•     Course work in Computer Security MSc (1/2010-present), University of Liverpool, Liverpool.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

 

•     Certified NetWare 4.x Engineer

•     Certified Solaris 2.x Workstation Administrator

•     Certified Solaris 2.x Network Administrator

•     Cisco Certified Design Associate

•     Cisco Certified Network Associate

•     IBM Certified Solutions Expert-AIX Firewall

•     IBM Certified Specialist-AIX Version 4.X Support

•     IBM Certified Specialist-Web Server for RS/6000

•     SUN Competency 2000, Workgroup