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andy@kowal.ca
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Andy Kowal
PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
Seeking further challenges as a network, system administrator/technician or an information technology specialist where I can utilize
and advance my technical expertise.
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
Main:
- Design and implement LAN and WAN networks (VLAN's, bridges, all security aspects of net)
- Configure routers, bridges, VPN, switches and network card
- Migrate Windows NT and Novell networks into Linux network
- Plan and implement firewalls, databases, proxy/web/email servers
- Manage Unix and PC workstations (hardware configuration, software installation and upgrade)
Networking LAN/WAN:
- Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX
- Data Link-Layers protocols and services: HDLC, PPP, Multilink PPP
- DSL, ISDN, X.25, FrameRelay, ATM
- Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit
- Routers, Bridges, Tunnels, QoS
- Encryption and VLAN's
- Packet filtering and firewalls
- Verifying access through authentication
E-Business:
- Designing infrastructures
- Optimizing network preformance with SSL acceleration
- Managing multi-site traffic
- Optimizing network infrastructure using caching
- On-line databases
UNIX, Linux:
- Systems: Solaris, SCO, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux (Red Hat, Mandrake, Caldera, Slackware)
- Installing, configuring and maintaining: system, kernel, networking, firewall, virtual servers, databases, backup, system monitoring,
peripherals
- Software packages - Sendmail, Qmail, IMAP, INN, Bind, Apache, SSL, SSH, Samba, firewall, IP Masquerading, FTP, Netnews and other
Databases:
- Oracle
- Informix
- Sysbase
- MySQL
- PostgresSQL
Windows:
- MS-DOS
- Windows 3.11/NT 3.5/4.0/2000
- Windows 3.1/95/98/ME/XP
Programming languages:
- C, Pascal, TurboVision, Delphi
- Perl, shell scripts
- Flash, Java, PHP, CGI, HTML
Platform skills and technologies:
- Processor and multiprocessing technologies
- High-level platform architecture
- Chipset, memory, graphics, hard drive, I/O technologies
- Hardware and software integration
- Troubleshooting and optimization
Other:
- Transition Windows, Novell servers into Unix servers (NT domain server)
- Microsoft, SUN, Lotus and Corel applications
EXPERIENCE
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NeTech - Network Services, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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From 1/01 to Present
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Network, System Administrator and Consultant
- Migrating Windows NT and Novell networks into Linux network
- Planning and implementing firewalls, databases, proxy/web/e-mail servers
- Planning and implementing LAN and WAN networks (VLANS, bridges, all security aspects of net)
- Configuring routers, switches and net-cards (based on Cisco and Intel products)
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Regional Hospital, Krakow, Poland
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From 1/95 to 1/01
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Network Administrator
- Designed implemented and maintained computer network of 250+ users
- Overlooked design and administration of hospital's patient database and servers
- Planned and implemented a connection to internet, security - firewalls, a proxy/web/e-mail server
- Implemented Fast Ethernet
- Managed hospital's PC workstations (hardware configuration, software installation and upgrades)
- Expended Novell network and transitioned it to UNIX network (Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux)
- Led team of six people
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Intel Poland, Krakow, Poland
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From 8/99 to 1/01
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Hardware and Software Consultant
- Tested new hardware and software for Intel IPS products (servers, email and internet stations, network routers
and switches, network cards)
- Implemented Linux system on Intel servers
EDUCATION
Department of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland From 9/90 to 6/95 Master of Physics
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