Kevin L. Ericson

Kevin L. Ericson
1845 Kendall Street #206
Lakewood, Colorado 80214
Phone: (303) 981-1159

Qualifications: Fourteen years of diverse experience in the computer industry. Proven success in network design, LAN Administration, system evaluation and implementation, programming, end-user training, support and management.

Employment

9/95 - Present Kinetic Technologies, Inc., Denver, Colorado

Owner/Operator - Independent Technical Consultant
Manage all phases of business development for my company. Working with individual clients as well as other consulting and employment resource agencies.

Provide in depth project management, network design and implementation of Novell, Windows NT, and UNIX environments. Offering network monitoring, email and web hosting services, firewall and router design as well as workstation maintenance.

Client Projects under Kinetic Technologies, Inc.

Adams County 911 Center, – Network redesign, implement email, web hosting. Support 3Com and IPAD routers/firewall in high security environment.
Aquatic and Wetland Co., Boulder, CO – Implement DSL services, project manage Citrix server solution for Ft. Lupton office, Netware 5.0 upgrade.
Community Communications Company, Monticello, AR – Provide onsite training for Cable TV company on Internet operations; email, Web hosting, routing and firewall.
Erin Enterprises, Chicago, IL – Design and sold ISP solution to consulting firm, providing dial up access for 250+ customers, DNS, Web and Email services using Lucent Portmaster, Shiva Access switches, IPAD 5000 and Cisco routers
Northglenn Police Dept., Northglenn, CO – Consultation regarding Computer and Internet crime.

3/97 – 7/99 ROMAC International, Denver, Colorado

Technical Consultant
On site technical consultant for ETC/CareerTrack. Contracted to re-engineer LAN/WAN infrastructure including reconfiguration of Synoptics/Allied Telesis hubs, the MorningStar/Ascend Internet firewall and all Cisco routers and Catalyst switches. Re-cabled all major components to Category 5 specification. Enabled SNMP management on all major components, installed Optivity v7.1 on a Sun workstation, HP OpenView under Windows NT v4.0 and AG Group’s EtherPeek protocol analyzer to provide network monitoring. Redesigned LAN topology based on those finding.

9/97 – 1/98 RHI Consulting, Denver, Colorado

Technical Consultant
Contracted to implement Hanover Erlich Realty as an Internet Service Provider. Set up email services, Web, FTP, DNS, Telnet and dial in services. Converted network file services to Novell’s Intranetware v4.11 from Microsoft NT v4.0. Migrated MS Exchange server to internet SMTP and POP3 services. Implemented primary Domain Name Services (DNS) and designed network monitoring via SNMP.

7/95 - 3/97 Alternative Resources Corp., Denver, Colorado

Technical Consultant
On site technical consultant for Amoco Production Company. Providing LAN support functions in the areas of Novell v4.1 server and Directory Services support, network and protocol analysis, technical consulting on Cisco routing issues, SNMP and communication issues as well as various other network components.

Projects included ongoing support of Intel’s LANDesk product, setting up Amoco’s Windows NT v4.0 domain, configuring automatic network event paging, software metering and writing PERL applications for network support.

7/94 -7/95 Boston Chicken, Inc., Golden, Colorado. Data Communications Specialist
Supervised LAN administration staff. Responsible for all data center connectivity issues from the routers to the workstations. Used various management tools such as LANalyzer, NetView 6000, SNMPc, Intel LANDesk and Optivity. Extensive trouble shooting of TCP/IP, IPX and Token Ring issues. Primary support person for all Netware servers, Synoptics and ODS hubs and the cable plant. Additionally provided on going support for Wellfleet BCN router and WAN connectivity issues.

Projects included initial set-up and configuration of their Wellfleet BCN router, network segmentation of their Synoptic token ring hubs, redesign of network routing integrating Novell’s Link Support Protocol into their environment, consolidating the server farm and upgrading to Netware v4.1 Directory Services. Played key role in moving Boston Chicken’s data center from Naperville, Illinois to Golden, Colorado.

4/94 - 7/94 Columbine Systems, Inc., Golden, Colorado. Networking & Communications Consultant
Develop and support wide area network management to our 1600+ international customers. Provided field support of LAN operability to Columbine’s suite of AS/400 applications. Full working knowledge of IBM’s AS/400 PC Support program, Rumba/400 for Windows and AS/400 network configuration. Worked extensively with Windows NT, TCP/IP, OS/2 and a wide variety of SNMP management tools. 11/91 - 7/94 US West MIS, Englewood, Colorado. LAN Administrator
Supported 350 node Netware network in an Ethernet, Token-Ring and LocalTalk environment. Responsible for daily backup of data, maintaining optimal network performance and planning future LAN growth. Supported all SNA/3270, VAX and Tandem to workstation connectivity issues. Had high level involvement in supporting OS/2, CASE tools, Client/Server and UNIX projects.

Designed many network enhancements such as server mirroring, fiber backbone topology, disaster recovery and dial-in/dial-out access to the LAN. Acted as lead role for all End User Support technicians at MIS, interviewing potential new hires and contractors, providing technical training and teaching classes in trouble-shooting methodology.

Wrote many LAN based utility and installation routines in Visual BASIC. Adept with network protocol analyzers, cable testers and many network management packages. Additionally responsible for senior management of all Novell and OS/2 file servers located the Englewood Data Center. Planned and implemented upgrade of 300 users to Microsoft Windows v3.1 in a network-only configuration.

Technical Consultant for US West MIS, Analysts International, Inc.

Provided end user support and LAN administration. High level expertise in IBM, Compaq, Apple Macintosh computers, MS-DOS and OS/2. Responsible for administrating and supporting SprintMail electronic mail service.

4/86 - 11/91 The Data Solutions Group, Omaha, Nebraska. Manager/Senior Partner
Managed computer consulting firm. Acting as an off-site information center for various local corporations with major focus on network design and implementation, end user training/support and application development. Served many corporate clients in the engineering, advertising and publishing industry. Highly specialized support of all Macintosh platforms. 1985-1986 The Computer Works, Bellevue, Nebraska. Direct Sales & Marketing Manager
Responsible for managing retail sales staff, supervising support staff, inventory floor planning, marketing and advertising. Later promoted to create and manage outside sales department. Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Management
Bellevue University, Nebraska (1990)

Associate of Science in Aircraft Maintenance Technology
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida (1983)

Achievements

Courses taken toward Novell Certified Network Engineer certification:

Novell Service and Support, May 1992

Networking Technologies, April, 1993

Netware v3.11: System Manager, April, 1993

Netware v3.11: Advanced System Manager, September, 1993

Netware TCP/IP Transport, October, 1994

Novell Brain Share attendee.

UNIX v3 System Administrator course, October, 1993