Dave Richie

657 Mellowood Drive

Indianapolis, In 46217

Home 317-888-2224

Cellular 317-430-2650

E-mail dave@netrichie.com

Functional summary	Searching for an opportunity to work and focus on building and maintaining core network and communications infrastructure
Employment	2002 – Present Cohesant Technologies Indianapolis, IN Director – Information Systems § Design and Implement Microsoft Active directory and Services § Networking Services, WWW, DNS, FTP, IIS, DHCP, Routing, etc. § Desktop standardization, Imaging with Ghost and Powerquest products § Implementation of Microsoft Exchange Organization including replication and information exchange, multiple sites and servers, enterprise § Design and Implement Wide Area Network Services via public transport using VPN protocols § Manager all network routing and issues. Use of Sniffer products and packet analyzers. Packet shaping and traffic flow control and prioritization. § Backups, Veritas, CA Arcserve, and others § Network Infrastructure rebuild. Installed Cisco Catalyst switching and clustering, and 3COM switching products. § Install, configure and maintain 3 Cisco PIX firewalls § VPN / IPSEC Connections via PIX Firewall and several other PTP devices. Integration of meshed VPN and routing § Delegate duties and tasks to subordinates § Manage direction of Desktop by delegation of tasks and implementation of domain security policies. § Specify hardware requirements, purchase and build both Dell Poweredge, IBM Netfinity and HP / Proliant servers including OS installs and configuration § Telephony/PBX implementation / corporate wide. Unified messaging/dialing. Multiple site implementation
	1998 - 2002 SMC Pneumatics Indianapolis, IN Network Engineer § Implementation and administration of NT/Netware client/server network consisting of 50+ file servers and 1000 clients. § Client troubleshooting, software installations § Design and install entire LAN and WAN infrastructure including Bay Networks and Cisco switches and hubs, routers and Firewalls. Gigabit Ethernet implementation. Catalyst OS from 2900 through 6500 series layer3 switching and routing § Installation and maintenance, and security of Gauntlet Firewall on Windows NT server and PIX firewall installation and Administration § Network SNMP management using HP Openview and Bay Networks Optivity § FTP, SMTP and Web services § Networked AutoCad, MS Office, Visio, Lotus Notes, etc… § NT Terminal Server Setup with Citrix Metaframe overlay § Bandwidth Management using Packeteer products § Packet analysis using Sniffer DS Pro (NAI, Network General) § Layer2 analysis and troubleshooting skills – CCNA certified § Cellular research project – Analyze various cellular services for QOS and cost comparison § Implementation of Network Attached Storage § Compaq hardware maintenance – Design, configure, implement and maintain Compaq server hardware, RAID, Storage and backup hardware. § Arcserve and Veritas backup software § Various network license services for metering (Autocad, Solidworks, Katia and Orcad) § Web design and implementation. Basic HTML skills § VPN network installation using Cisco IOS and Red Creek client – DES and DES3. IPSEC experience, hardware and software based implementations. § DNS Service configuration and maintenance on WindowsNT / Microsoft DNS Services. Experience with BIND, PTR records and zoning. § Basic skills with Sun Solaris / x86,FBSD, Linux and AIX § Nortel Accelar OS and Layer3 IP routing
Employment	1995 - 1998 Talbert Manufacturing Inc. Rensselaer, IN Manager of Information Systems § Manage small Novell network with 100 nodes, Win 95/NT client § Purchase of all software/hardware related to IS and Electronic Manufacturing methods § PBX Phone System programming and operation (Toshiba / Strata) § Build and repair all company PC’s § Numerical Code generation for digitally controlled manufacturing hardware and communications with network § Modem pools and Inter-Office internet connectivity § Manage Software License Compliance § Shop Supervisor – Managed 60 Persons, Laborers, Welders and Fitters § Mechanical Engineer – Designed customized heaving hauling equipment / Autocad
Other Experience	- Field Engineer for DatastarUSA – Installing Cisco routers on client side - CCNA Certification - Cisco ICND Training - Bay networks training (Layer2 and 3) - Part Time Police Officer, 2 years - Volunteer Firefighter, 2 years- Water rescue Experience. Repelling, trained emergency driving (Ambulance service driver) - WKA Series Kart owner/driver - Owned and Operated private Business known as DC Product for 5 years specializing in the repair of Printers and sale of office consumables - Certified Fitter/Welder – 10 years experience My experience is solid and broad. I can be contacted at any time to discuss the details of my history. Thank you for taking the time to read my bio