====== Ben Vaughan - Curriculum Vitae ====== ==== Contact ==== * Email: * VCard: {{vcard>Ben Vaughan http://www.benvon.net | 312-436-1597 }} * Geography: Chicago, IL * Web presence: http://www.benvon.net ==== Education ==== * High School: Waverly - Shell Rock Sr. High, Waverly, IA 1996 * Bachelor of Science, Computer Science: Iowa State University, 2001 * Masters of Science, Information Assurance: Iowa State University, anticipated ==== Employment ==== * 1997-2001: Junior Systems Administrator for Engineering Computing Support Services at Iowa State University * 2001-2007: Full time Systems Administrator for Engineering Computing Support Services at Iowa State University * 2001-present: Independent IT consultant * 2007-2008: Systems and Network Administrator for Chicago-based telecom company Globalcom. * 2008-2008: Open Systems Engineer at Chicago Mercantile Exchange * 2008-Present: Electronic Trading platform engineer at Newedge ==== Professional ==== * Certified GL Trade Platform Engineer, Spring 2009 * Certified as a RedHat Certified Engineer, Summer 2006 * Co-authored and evaluated RFP for NAS/SAN storage system, Fall 2006 - Sprint 2007 * Developed and implemented cross-platform Windows / UNIX integrated directory and file sharing environment. Engineering students have access to the same file storage from UNIX or from Windows. * Lead a project team in moving Exchange mail system from one Exchange environment to a second, unrelated Exchange mail system * Major participant of a project team for migrating from one Active Directory to a second, unrelated Active Directory * Created web-based Active Directory user object management tools (ASP.Net and VB.Net) * Manage content delivery resources (SAN storage, delivery, etc.) for distance education unit. * Primary Macintosh support person for College of Engineering * Primary Exchange services support person for College of Engineering * Member of the League of Professional System Administrators * Casual member of Iowa Area VMware User Group * Member of the Ames Free UNIX Group * Mobile computing device investigator * Gadget guru ==== Personal ==== * Served on the Foundation Board of University Lutheran Center at Iowa State from 2000 to 2005 * Served as President of the Foundation Board of University Lutheran Center at Iowa State from 2003 to 2004 * Served on the Church Council at Bergen Lutheran Church in 2006 * Earned Technician Class amateur radio certificate spring 2005 * Practice personalized variant of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" personal organization techniques * Continuing study of John Maxwell's leadership series * Member of the Ames Chamber Artists chamber choir 2002-2004 ==== Hobbies and Interests ==== * Amateur Radio * Cars * Digital Photography * Electronic Communication * Gadgets * Cooking * Music: Guitar, piano, computer * Movies * Programming: PHP, perl, etc. * Podcasts (favorites include: [[http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama|Technorama]], [[http://www.manager-tools.com|Manager Tools]], and [[http://www.thisamericanlife.org|This American Life]] ==== Technologies ==== I am competent in these technologies: * RedHat Enterprise Linux * RedHat Network * Solaris 10 * Microsoft Windows Server * Microsoft Windows XP * Microsoft Active Directory * Microsoft Exchange * Microsoft Developer Studio * Apple Mac OS X * Apple Mac OS X Server * Apple Quicktime Streaming Server * Apple XSAN * Apple XServer * Apple XRAID * Apple PowerBook * Apple MacBook / MacBook Pro * Dell PowerEdge Server series * Dell PowerConnect Switch series * Dell Optiplex series * Dell Precision Workstation series * PHP * VB * Samba * Apache HTTPd * Mailman mailing list management software * EMC/Legato Networker * Osiris host monitoring tool * Zabbix monitoring tool * Nagios monitoring tool * Cacti performance monitoring tool * VMware Server * VMware Workstation * SMTP * SSH * DNS * DHCP * SNMP * VPN * TCP/IP I am very familiar with these technologies: * Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 * Microsoft SQL Server 2003 * SonicWall TZ Firewall appliance * Ubuntu Linux * MySQL * Typo3 CMS * Wildfire Jabber server * Sun Fire series server hardware * Sun Blade series workstation hardware * LDAP At one time I was familiar with these technologies (but am a bit rusty now): * FreeBSD * OpenBSD * Solaris 8, 9 * C * Novell Netware * Cisco Catalyst Switch IOS * Palm OS and devices * Windows Mobile OS and devices * Adobe Photoshop * Adobe GoLive * Adobe LiveMotion * Polycom video conferencing technologies * Mathematical and Statistical analysis softwares (SPSS, Maple, Matlab, etc.)