"Go To" asset and solutions oriented IT specialist with notable success in providing technical assistance and outstanding customer support.
• Key support for installation and rollout operations.
• Demonstrated capacity for desktop and network business solutions.
• Hands on experience in leading all stages of deployment efforts including requirement definitions, procurement, testing and support.
• Outstanding leadership abilities: able to coordinate and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating and leading teams.
• Adept at developing effective policies and procedures, project documentation, benchmarking and technical/business specifications.
Specialties: DevOps • System Engineer • Research and Development of new and emerging technologies • Documentation • Cost Benefit/ROI Analysis • Data Integrity & Recovery • Security • Critical Application Support • Open Source Software Solutions • Cellular Communications • Training • HIPAA\FERPA\CIPA\PCI Compliance • Network Administration and Infrastructure support: DNS • DHCP • LDAP • Active Directory & EDirectory • Windows • Linux • Apache •TomCat • Amazon AWS • VMware • Installation \ upgrade of hardware and software •
DevOps Engineer @ Consulting Lead Engineer for Covestic, supporting the build environment for the Developers at RealNetworks. Duties include upgrading all components of a custom written compile and deliver system called "Ribosome" to use VC10 on Windows 7\8 build clients. Reconfigured the systems storage and networking components which optimized the system to deliver a complete build every 3+ hours. These upgrades also provide HA stability to the build components by recreating 90% of the components in a VMWare environment.
Lead Engineer supporting the conversion\migration of the build systems custom written QA components and testing software to newer OS's as well as virtualizing many of the systems.
Lead Engineer supporting the conversion of the companies opensource project "The Helix Community" from physical to virtual while upgrading the components to the latest versions.
These components include : GForge AS , postgres, cvs, viewcvs, doxygen, and fckeditor.
Supporting Engineer working with the companies customer side applications. Assisting with modernization, homogenization and consolidation. From February 2014 to Present (1 year 9 months) Greater Seattle AreaEntrepreneur \ Linux Contractor @ General solutions provider to Small and Medium Sized Businesses, as well as, Municipal and Academic institutions with expertise in server\desktop deployment, configuration, identity\ resource management and security with experience in providing assurance and expertise managing PCI, HIPAA,FERPA,CIPA projects.
• Product specialist and design consultant on the openSIS project.
• Community founder and spokesperson for Novell\openSUSE’s education software project.
• Advocate for open source software solutions. From January 2009 to Present (6 years 10 months) Hiltn Head Island, SCopenSuSE Linux Community Member @ Using, enhancing and critiquing software and operating systems geared toward education environments, founder of the openSUSE for Education project. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e From 2007 to Present (8 years) Network Administrator \ Linux Administrator @ Team Lead during Migration of a Novell GroupWise System to Google Apps which included: 7800+ mailboxes in 16 Post offices, 19 Domains, 2 Webaccess servers, 2 GW Internet Agents
Administrator of an Arcmail e-mail Backup with Nexic discovery system including all legal discovery tasks.
Team lead upgrading CommVault backup storage for 87 sites and 300 servers from direct to tape system to a D2D2T system utilizing Robocopy to stage data on two DAS's before offloading to tape.
Team Lead Migrating VMWare VCenter 4 to VCenter 5 while upgrading 200 VM's and 20 ESXI 4 hosts to version 5.
Team Lead upgrading the Novell Access Manager installation which provides federated services with several off site vendors 12 application connections and 130 plus surveillance camera servers.
Team Lead upgrading Novell Identity Manager services so that users from 3 different data stores could log into local workstations\ Google \ and 15 SAML Federated systems.
Direct manager of a Dell Compellent 24 tb SAN including all maintenance of the systems software and all LUNS associated with the VMWare configuration.
Maintain and Secure 4 SUSE Linux Servers which provide staging and production information for the Districts Intranet \ Extra-net and Internet web and application presences.
Team Lead re-configuring and upgrading 87 Zenworks Imaging servers to provide a simple menu based system for re-imaging both Windows XP and Windows 7 using only 4 base images including Win 7 32 and 64 bit, XP desktop and laptop while overseeing the configuration of both operating systems to be able to work with over 20 versions of Dell hardware.
Team Lead Migrating 20 Data Center servers from Dell to HP hardware including installation and configuration of HP's Insight Manager and Insight Remote Support.
Administrator of network services :DNS• DHCP• LDAP• CA\Certificate Management From September 2011 to February 2014 (2 years 6 months) Charleston, South Carolina AreaNetwork Administrator \ Linux Administrator @ · General Network Administrator for 200+ PC’s, 22 Servers in 3 states
· Application deployment and desktop integration specialist during roll-out of new ERP (SPI-Orange).
· Spiceworks Helpdesk Manager , Linux Open-Xchange Email System Admin , Cell Phone Administrator
· Redeployed WAN to include PCI compliant security and continued assurance using Astaro Linux appliances as both firewall and remote connectivity management.
· Administrator of Network Services: Active Directory · DNS · DHCP · LDAP · Printing · Certificate Management · Intranet Web Services. From January 2010 to June 2011 (1 year 6 months) Director of Technology @ • Systems Administrator for 1300 users ,480 pc’s and 18 servers in three buildings
• Developing and executing the technology plan,
• Designing and Building data network infrastructure from ground up at three School buildings
• Designing and Implementing Fiber Optic Network for School and Town infrastructure
• Assisting the Academic Team in the area of classroom integration of instructional technology by selecting and integrating appropriate equipment and applications
• Supervising of the Technology Department Staff
• Designing and Managing the Districts Electronic HIPAA\FERPA\CIPA compliance plans and Electronic Security Plan
• Overseeing the school website and other web-based communication platforms
• Responsible for all technological resources supporting the educational, communications, processing and record keeping functions of the school
• Managing the Technology Training for the Faculty, Staff & Administration
• Designing and Implementing, the Districts e-learning & distance learning initiatives
• IT Departments Public Relations Administrator
• Developing and executing the technology plan
• Developing and overseeing the Schools acceptable use policies, procedures and protocols for technology use
• Developing and managing the IT budget
• Developing State of New Hampshire approved Education Technology Plans (2002 - 2008)
• Technologies used include: Novell Netware, BorderManager, ZenWorks, Groupwise, Grouplink, Windows 2003 and XP, Microsoft Office , Visio Networks 2000, OpenOffice, McAfee Enterprise Anti-Virus Suite, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop , LTSP (Linux thin client solution), Apache2, MySQL , PHP web services, Joomla, Moodle, openBiblio, openSIS, IBM Servers and Desktops, HP Procurve switches, Cisco 2600 routers and wireless access points, Netgear switches and wireless access points.
• Administrator of Network Services: Novell EDirectory · DNS · DHCP · LDAP · Printing · Certificate Management · Web Services & Remote Access. From June 2001 to August 2009 (8 years 3 months) Network Manager @ • Systems Administrator , 7300 users, 1500 pc’s , 28 servers in 11 buildings
• Designing and Building data network infrastructure from ground up at all School buildings
• Administrator of Network Services: Novell EDirectory · DNS · DHCP · LDAP · Printing · Certificate Management · Web Services & Remote Access.
• Assisting the academic team in the area of classroom integration of instructional technology by selecting and integrating appropriate equipment and applications
• Webmaster for the district
• Overseeing the school website and other web-based communication platforms
• Network Projects Management
• Responsible for all technological resources supporting the educational, communications, processing and record keeping functions of the school
• Technologies used include: Novell Netware, BorderManager, ZenWorks, Groupwise, Windows NT4 and 98, Microsoft Office , Visio, McAfee Enterprise Anti-Virus Suite, IBM Servers and Desktops, Nortel switches , routers and DOCSIS 1.0 cable modem equipment. From July 1996 to July 2001 (5 years 1 month) Lead Installer @ • Lead product installer and implementation engineer supporting IBM software for Academic environments. Specializing in "SchoolVista"
• Lead Sales Engineer charged with Design and Implementation of Novell Networks Solutions in K-12 Environments.
• Administrator of Network Services: Novell EDirectory · DNS · DHCP · LDAP · Printing · Certificate Management · Web Services & Remote Access. From June 1994 to July 1996 (2 years 2 months) Exeter, New Hamphsire
Certificate, Networking Technologies @ NHVTC From 1992 to 1993 James Tremblay is skilled in: MySQL, Active Directory, Windows 7, Linux Server, TCP/IP, Certified Novell..., Novell, VMware Server, Linux Desktop, Computer Hardware, Laptops, eDirectory, Dhcpd, Google Apps, Windows Server 2008, Spiceworks, Network Security, Routing Protocols, OpenVPN, Asterisk, Squid, Iptables, Rsync, Wireless Routers, PXE, phpMyAdmin, Zenworks, OpenLDAP, Groupwise, Linux server..., Firewall Administration, LAN management, LAN Switching, DNS administration, Student Information..., Cron, WinPE, NTFS, OpenSSH, Webmin, XAMPP, MySQL 4/5, PC Networking, MCP, Amazon Web Services..., Tortoise SVN, Apache, Tomcat, IT Operations, Shell Scripting
Websites:
http://en.opensuse.org/education,
http://www.openschoolware.com,
http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/jasujt/