• Email: ben@benvon.net
• VCard: Ben Vaughan
• Geography: Chicago, IL
• Web presence: http://www.benvon.net

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Amateur Radio
• Cars
• Digital Photography
• Electronic Communication
• Gadgets
• Cooking
• Music: Guitar, piano, computer
• Movies
• Programming: PHP, perl, etc.
• Podcasts (favorites include: Technorama, Manager Tools, and This American Life

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.)