Todd Hill
Contact information
will be furnished
upon request
lorientmh (at) yahoo {dot} com

Objective

To find employment in the field of server hardware and software support and administration with a focus on Storage Area Network implementation and administration.

Work Experience

Senior Information Resource Consultant
9/2001 - Present
State of South Carolina/DMV, Blythewood, SC

Responsibilities
  • I am responsible for the installation and management of Dell server hardware and Microsoft operating systems (Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003) within both of our computer centers. Hardware installation involves anticipating power consumption within each rack and placing PDU's and UPSes to balance loads on circuits, and employing the use of cable management to allow for better tracing of each system's wiring. Operating system installations follow industry standard practices
  • Field office server infrastructure administrator. This involves using VNC, SMS Remote Control and Microsoft Terminal Services to remote manage systems that are distributed throughout the state. This duty also entails traveling to DMV Field Offices to replace damaged or obsolete server equipment on very short notice
  • Dell/EMC2 Storage Area Network Administrator. In addition I have participated in the installation of multiple CX-300 and CX-500 units at our headquarters location and at the state's main data center. (I have received training at Dell headquarters on the use of Navisphere's management tools and also have some experience with Brocade Fiber Switch zoning and management)
  • Trend/Micro Anti-virus suite Administrator
  • Captaris RightFAX Administrator
  • Domain Administrator, including account management. This role will be modified once the agency migrates to Active Directory some time in the second or third quarter
  • Microsoft SQL 7.0 and 2000 Server Administrator (database backups and server installations)
  • Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Administrator
  • Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Server Administrator
  • Microsoft IIS 5 and 6 Server support and administration (www.scdmvonline.com)
  • Microsoft Windows Server Update Services Administrator
Accomplishments
  • Utilization of the WSUS server by clients in a Windows NT environment was problematic without the benefit of Active Directory group policies, however I discovered a workaround using a client-side registry modification that I pushed throughout the agency using SMS
  • Wrote custom VBscripts to track uptimes of over 155 servers statewide on the DMV WAN. Also used VBScript in conjunction with SMS to deploy updates of internally authored software to over 1200 systems in the DMV WAN
  • Utilized Norton Ghost in conjunction with Microsoft's SYSPREP utility to make Windows Server 2003 images for our fleet of over 70 servers in all field offices within the agency. Despite the fact that we still use an NT 4 domain, we are replacing dying domain controllers with Windows Server 2003 systems as a step towards Active Directory deployment
  • As of March 2006, the agency is still on an NT4 domain. I am currently drafting a logical as well as physical migration plan to bring the SCDMV network from NT4 to Active Directory 2003. Implementation is pending the completion of regression testing of all internally authored software packages within an AD lab environment as well as the completion of all legislation-based tasks.


Server Administrator
5/2000 - 9/2001
Renaissance Interactive/Impressa, Columbia, SC

Renaissance Interactive was an IT shop that specialized in website authoring and hosting. I was responsible for the creation and maintenance of their development, QA, intranet, extranet and production web environments. This included maintaining thirty-five Windows NT, Windows NT Terminal Server Edition, and Windows 2000 Server systems supporting 120 web sites for clients across the United States and Europe.

Responsibilities
  • Installing, maintaining and updating IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0 web servers utilizing both ASP and Cold Fusion-based code
  • Administering both NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 DNS
  • Supporting and administering SMTP/POP3 email servers
  • Registering and renewing domain names for our customers upon request
  • Requesting and renewing Verisign certificates for websites requiring SSL
  • Supporting the Impressa Storefront utility for our customers that required commerce sites and online ordering
  • Using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe source control on all development environments
  • Building web sites for QA and production environments. This involved:
    • Installing third-party components (such as ASPmail, ActivePDF, SAFileUP, etc)
    • Creating the virtual web in IIS on either the QA or Production servers and tailoring the web environment as needed
    • Installing FrontPage 98 or FrontPage 2000 extensions on the website
    • Add the URL for the website to our DNS as necessary
    • Using FrontPage to assign permissions on the website
    • Install and configure DLLs written to support particular functions within a website
    • Performing debugging in concert with website designers and developers whenever issues arose with the website


Information Technology Administrator and Adjunct Faculty Member
2/1996 - 5/2000
Newberry College, Newberry, SC

My primary responsibility was maintaining the twenty-three Windows NT Servers and over two hundred and sixty Windows 95, 98 and NT Workstation clients supporting approximately 1000 users. After leaving the college in May 2000, I continued to work for the school in the capacity of a part time pro-bono consultant until March 2001.

Responsibilities
  • Designed, configured and implemented a campus-wide network
  • Designed the school’s NT domain structure
  • College Webmaster (http://www.newberry.edu)
  • Implemented website with Microsoft FrontPage 98 Server Extensions for students and faculty to author and maintain individual as well as departmental websites
  • Implemented and managed the campus NNTP and POP3/SMTP servers
  • Installed and administered the Sequitur Corporation College Admissions package
  • Participated in the Y2K upgrade of our legacy IBM System/36 minicomputer with a client/server-based system by CMDS
  • Designed and implemented the layout of three multimedia computer teaching labs
  • Implemented a Remote Access Dial-in solution to provide dormitory students with access to the campus network
  • Adjunct faculty member during the Spring 1998 and Spring 2000 semesters


Phone Support Specialist
5/1994 - 11/1995
AT&T Global Information Solutions/NCR, West Columbia, SC

PC Support Technician
2/1994 - 5/1994
Roger Milliken and Company, Inc. Spartanburg, SC

PC Support Technician
6/1993 - 2/1994
Procter and Gamble, Greenville, SC

Education

Francis Marion College
9/1987 - 5/1992
Florence, SC

Achievements
  • Earned a Bachelor's Degree in Math and Computer Science
  • I also completed a two-year internship (5/1991 – 6/1993) at E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co, Inc. as a PC repair/installation technician, which included hardware maintenance, operating system and networking support, and support of the Microsoft Office suite.

Skills

  • Working knowledge of Navisphere Storage Area Network Management Tools
  • Working knowledge of Brocade Fabric OS interface and SAN Zoning
  • VBScript programming
  • Possesses ability to quickly study a problem and provide a diagnosis and solution