Ben Thomas' Resume (Last updated September 8th 2007)

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BEN THOMAS

Milwaukee, WI 53211 - USA

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OBJECTIVE 

Seeking an enterprise production environment to deploy and maintain hardware and software, while creating an efficient and easily managed environment to meet the business goals and objectives of a growing company.

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WORK EXPERIENCE 

Journal Broadcast Group, Milwaukee, WI

1/2007 - Present

Associate Network Engineer
- Assisted Senior Network Engineer with LAN administration tasks.
- Designed and maintained an enterprise monitoring system based on open source tools.
- Designed and maintained policies on 17 Packeteer PacketShapers using Packeteer PolicyCenter.
- Designed and maintained an enterprise wireless network.

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Journal Broadcast Group, Milwaukee, WI

11/2006 - 1/2007

Help Desk Level 2
- Similar to Level 1 position, but solved more complex problems and worked with higher level engineers more closley.
- Built an enterprise monitoring system using open source tools.

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Journal Broadcast Group, Milwaukee, WI

4/2006 - 11/2006

Help Desk Level 1
-Help desk position on a team to solve a variety of problems for users.
-Helped users in remote locations across the country using email, telephone, and remote control services.
-Assisted higher level technicians and engineers solve complex problems.

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Energenecs Inc, Cedarburg, WI

11/2005 - 9/2006

Lan Administrator
-Currently doing consulting work on a limited basis to meet this operations needs.
-Formerly responsible for day to day operations of network and computer systems.
-Migrated system from Windows 2000 Server and Exchange 2000 to Windows 2003 Server and Exchange 2003.

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CompuThority Inc, Durango, CO

10/2004 - 10/2005

Computer Specialist
-Repaired computers in shop and performed residential and business on-site calls.
-Managed several small and medium business networks in the Durango region.
-Deployed and maintained a paperless office.
-Deployed and maintained remote access and remote administration on several networks.
-Developed a work order and information management system.

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SKILLS 

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CERTIFICATIONS 

CompTIA A+

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EDUCATION 

Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, 8/2003 - 6/2004

Computer Science

 

Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee, WI, 9/2005 - Present

Network Engineering

 

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