Resume of Chris Walker

18229 E. Mainstreet

#9-206

Parker, CO 80134

Email: cwalker@devnetonline.net

Cell Phone: 720-620-4705

Current Work Phone: 1-866-701-4101 X114

* please use email as primary contact. Cell phone intermitent, Work phone only until 4pm



Education

  • ITT Technical Institute, Denver, CO & Sylmar, CA - June 2007-July 2009

  • Associates of Applied Science, Computer Networks Systems

  • Graduated with 3.8% GPA

  • Multiple Attendance awards and Deans List/Honor Roll awards



Work History

Company

Job Title

Dates Employed

City, State

Address

Duties

Icelab Networks

Tier 2/3 Support - Data Migrations and Client Acquisition migrations, Systems and Network administrator.

October 2009 - Current

Englewood, CO

393 Inverness Parkway

  • Full Support for 400+ clients on multiple shared webhosting platforms, primarily using PLESK panel

  • Phone and Email support ticketing system

  • DNS Changes, Email Client (all platforms) support, Domain name registration, ftp access, database, mail, and web connectivity problems.

  • Domain Renewal initiation, Client hosting suspensions, Manual Payment initiation handling (taking down information for processing)

  • Client Acquisitions, migrating client data from acquired companies to companies hosting platform. Database, mail, and web, ensuring client data functions the same on new systems.

  • Moving clients from PEM Hosting platform to Plesk, Plesk to Plesk, and Hosting Accelerator to Plesk via ssh and rdp

  • Created bash script to automate process, including getting the data, unpacking, repacking, giving mail user passwords, and restoring the data to the proper directories

  • Schedule, Process and Move 15-23 clients per week.

  • minor OpenVZ management for quota management for PEM, located on 4 OpenVZ systems, with 20-25 virtual nodes

  • Working directly with bind in a production environment, updating ip addresses, creating domains, managing ptr records

  • Education in RFC compliance by hands on experience for mail and dns

  • Technical support, and guidance for clients both for post migration handling and existing client handling.

  • Directly working with Linux, FreeBSD, UNIX and, Redhat systems via ssh

  • Interfaced with windows 2000 and 2003 servers via remote desktop

  • Assisted in IP Addressing Allocation

  • Software firewall management

  • Minor Switch Management via TELNET

  • DNS Management (Bind)

  • Identified and Removed spam threats and spam attacks on multiple platforms in both web and mail

  • POP, IMAP, and SMTP Configuration, Debugging, and Management (QMail). Log tracking to identify Spammers, and rejected messages. Interfaced with external ISP's and Other Companies to resolve blacklistings, rejected mail messages and mail problems.

  • Initiated and followed up on Colocation Reboot Requests, Datacenter Access Requests

  • Interfaced with Datacenter NOC technicians to resolve trouble tickets for Colocation and Shared Hosting servers

  • System Audits for DNS, mail accounts, password strength, disk usage.

  • MSSQL and MySQL Database backups and restores.

International Computer Services

Computer Repair Technician

August 2009 - October 2009

Aurora, CO

10 S Havana St # 117F

  • Enter, Diagnose, Repair, and Replace parts, software, etc on all desktops and laptops ranging from mfg date 2000-2009, mac and pc

  • Interfaced with customers to get base information on computer problems, showing user how to access new features of software, answering technical questions

  • Interfaced with distributors as needed for parts, and warranty

  • Technical troubleshooting in tandem with manufacturer technical support for top tier problems.

  • Self taught diagnoses steps taken for lower level problems

  • Virus Removal, OS Repair, Upgrades, Tecaching, Website Design, Document Template Creation

InkMedia USA

Senior IT Developer

January 2009 - June 2009

Denver, CO

P.O. Box 372308, Denver, CO, 80237

  • Major problem solving for Network Layout, Developer Systems, Logistics and Taskflow

  • Created a solution to provide InkMedia's developers with smooth streamlined work flow and an easy to use design

  • Administered Server for both development and Live site. Design Decision Support

  • Aided in decisions for site task flow, design and, administration

Private Company

Lead Web Developer

October 2008 - May 2009

Denver, CO

N/A

  • Lead 2 other developers in creation of E-commerce and Bidding Site

  • Server Administration

    • Administered Server for both development and live site, provided solutions for developers to communicate and manage work flow.

  • Design Decision Support

    • Aided in decisions for site task flow, design and administration

Personal Business Venture

Owner/Consultant

June 2004 - Current

Denver, Aurora, Parker, Englewood

N/A

  • Self managed, freelance owner.

    • Management of multiple OpenVZ/Virtuozzo and standalone Systems, for use as mail, web, chat, backups and network monitoring

    • System and Network Monitoring with Zabbix and Nagios

  • Web Developer and Designer

    • Provided clients with customized solution to their web application needs by utilizing PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Photoshop, Delopment IDE's and, other applications as needed.

  • System and Network Maintenance and Upgrades

    • Repair, upgrade and, perform regular maintenance on client systems, generally Microsoft based operating systems

  • Developing multiple solutins, ranging from scheduling calendar to payment processign and Design

  • Backend and Task Flow design

    • Designed task flow diagrams for projects, ranging from taskflow to database flow

Materials Handling Equipment Co.

IT Administrator

April 2004 - Oct 2004

Denver, CO

1740 W. 13th Ave.

  • Provided technical support to users within work place, as well as off-site for technical forklift systems. Network management and cabling. Support for roughly 100+ desktop and laptop users via phone, email and in person.