Over 23 years in the IT industry. Over 30 years as a writer (yes, I know... I look SO young - thanks). Former US Marine. Native of Tennessee. I also have lived in California, North Carolina, Virginia/DC.
MCP, MCSE, BBA in Computer Information Systems (MTSU, 2001), CANDAUDIT Hacker Class, December 2003, Washington DC, Windows 2000 Active Directory training, BrainBench Windows and Security certifications, Winner of the Sixth Author's Den Poetry Contest for entry "The Sound of Thought." Cisco PIX firewall training, December 2005; PeopleSoft Security training; Oracle admin training; Cisco CCNA boot camp.
Experience with Mainframes, Minicomputer/mid-range/servers, workstations (PC/Micro). Experience with Windows Active Directory, RACF mainfame security, UNIX firewalls and security (primarily Solaris); TCP/IP admin, DNS admin; Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000, Windows/XP, Windows Vista. RightFax administrator, BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) administrator, experience with Cisco switches, routers, PIX firewalls, Cisco concentrators and VPN tunnels, experience with Microsoft ISA VPN and Tunnels (and converting Cisco tunnels to ISA); experience with Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2000; some exposure to Novell NDS. Active Directory scripting, perl scripting, DNS, cron jobs, Microsoft VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), vbscript, javascript, VB6, COBOL, Pascal, BASIC; some exposure to LINUX. Some administration of NetIQ (Marshal) WebMarshal, MailMarshal, WebTrends, WS_FTP, IIS 5, 6 & 7; some maintenance of Quicken QuickBooks and Point of Sale; SBS 2003. Active Directory domain setup and maintenance; Windows Security and Network Security (randomization of passwords; distribution of passwords); some work with biometric devices (fingerprint readers); SecurID admin; EDI admin; VAX/VMS admin.