Sr. System Admin / Java Developer / System Architect / Sustainable Energy Enthusiast
Greater Boston Area
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- Chairman at Hartford Energy Commission
- Sr. System Administrator / Systems Engineer at AIRS - A company of The RightThing, LLC
- Owner at DATDEC, LLC
- Past
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- Chairman at Hartford (VT) Energy Committee
- Director of Technical Operations at FINOWEN
- Web Tier Development Lead at Solzon Corporation
- Technical Consultant to Creative Team at Granitar, Inc.
- Consultant at Questra Corporation
- Technical Manager at Universal Education Foundation
- Technician at Syracuse University, Residential Computing
- PC Administrator at Digital Equipment Corporation
- Operator, Treasury Systems Help Desk at Bank of Boston
- Education
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- BestSalesPeople.com
- Alvarion Systems and Solutions
- Syracuse University
- BEA Systems
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Alan Johnson’s Summary
Before starting a family and getting back into the full time workforce, I founded a fixed-wireless Internet Service Provider, FINOWEN, which I grew to about 250 broadband customers before moving on. Right out of college, I started doing software development on a consulting basis, first as an employee of a consulting company, and then as an independent while I transitioned into the wireless data communications business that evolved into FINOWEN.
I am interested in just about anything geeky, but I am really driven by technologies that improve quality of life, especially any technology that enables people to improve their own quality of life. This is why I started FINOWEN: once you have practically instant access to the virtually limitless information that is the Internet, your quality of life is limited only by your desire to change it.
The following is a list of skills and technologies for which I have at least some experience and interest.
SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: eXtreme Programming; Object-oriented software development; Component based and functional design; Data structures and associated algorithms; Classifier systems; MVC; Java; RMI; JDBC; JavaMail; SQL; Bash, Perl; Eclipse
WORLD WIDE WEB: HTML; JSP; Servlets; CGI; SSI; JavaScript
SYSTEMS AND SERVERS: PC and server hardware; Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu Linux; MySQL admin and performance tuning; Windows 98, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003; Apache Tomcat and HTTP Server; Exchange and MS Domain administration; Veritas
NETWORKING: Internet networking and related technologies; Wireless LANs and WANs; IEEE 802.11 standards; Ethernet LAN, basic wired WAN, firewall installation and admin including SonicWall; General knowledge of hundreds of products, technologies, and standards
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: Human capital management; Financial modeling; QuickBooks; Billing processes and automation; Customer support and feedback management; Bootstrapping; Financing/fundraising; Sales and marketing
Alan Johnson’s Specialties:
Java application hosting and development, Wireless data communications, Operational management of high-tech implementations, Production Linux systems management and maintenance, Internet troubleshooting
Alan Johnson’s Experience
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Chairman
Hartford Energy Commission
(Government Administration industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Official Energy Commission to the Town of Hartdford, VT.
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Sr. System Administrator / Systems Engineer
AIRS - A company of The RightThing, LLC
(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
Software engineering; Java programming; Web scraping partner integrations; Web application development; Java, MySQL, file system, and web performance analysis and tuning; JavaScript/ECMAScript; Bash and Perl scripting; software and hardware architecture, installation, and support for two data centers (production and contingency) as well as test and development systems; web, mail, DNS, LAN, and WAN administration including Linux (RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu), MySQL, Tomcat, Apache, Coyote Point Equalizer (web load balancer), SonicWALL Firewall, Sendmail, Postfix, BIND9, Spam Assassin, Barracuda spam firewall, VPN, SSL certificates; some Microsoft Domain, Windows Server, XP, Vista, and Exchange administration and support; Veritas/Symantec backup maintenance; custom backup development and maintenance; bulk mail reputation management; Domain registration management; process development and documentation
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Owner
DATDEC, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 1998 — Present (11 years 3 months)
Project management; software engineering; Java programming; Linux system administration; software and hardware installation, support, and research; web, mail, and DNS server administration; web site design and construction; LAN administration; business administration; sales and marketing; process development and documentation; employee management; financing; accounting; bookkeeping; billing automation; accounts receivable and payable
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Chairman
Hartford (VT) Energy Committee
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
February 2007 — August 2007 (7 months)
Ad-hoc energy user and conservation advisory group to the Town of Hartford, VT. Was dissolved in favor of the Hartford Energy Commission, an official town commission, which this group sought to establish.
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Director of Technical Operations
FINOWEN
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)
January 2001 — May 2005 (4 years 5 months)
Wireless data communications system architecture; wireless hardware and software installation, support, testing, and research; business administration; sales and marketing; IP routing; Linux system administration; web, mail, DNS, DHCP, and FTP server administration; web development; LAN and WAN administration; Java programming; process development and documentation; employee management; financial modeling; financing and fund raising; customer support; feedback management
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Web Tier Development Lead
Solzon Corporation
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2001 — April 2002 (8 months)
Worked on a distribution and tracking system for large Bio-Medical company; designed and developed web tier architecture to bridge between user interface and business logic layers; activated web forms by connecting them to business logic via JSP, EJB, JNDI, JDBC, etc.; implemented some business logic
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Technical Consultant to Creative Team
Granitar, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — November 2000 (3 months)
Advanced HTML and JavaScript coding; some JSP; evaluation and recommendation of technologies; active member of the creative development process; general process and technical consulting
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Consultant
Questra Corporation
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 3 months)
Consulted on architecture of distributed system to provide web-based business form management using JSP on Netscape Enterprise server, EJB on BEA WebLogic, and a relational database on Oracle for eALITY, Inc.; participated in discovery and foundation phases for web portal to an Internet readiness assessment service for Hewlett Packard; designed and implemented a multi-user, client-server application for communication and control of a physical conveyor system for Middlesex General Industries using Swing for the GUI
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Technical Manager
Universal Education Foundation
(E-Learning industry)
March 1998 — September 1998 (7 months)
College job; In charge of all technical aspects of organization, including hardware and software support; network management, design, and support; teaching; and some programming for the virtual classroom implemented by the organization
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Technician
Syracuse University, Residential Computing
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Networking industry)
January 1996 — January 1998 (2 years 1 month)
My first College job. I was a member of the first group of folks to install, configure, and support networking services for students in their door rooms at Syracuse University. Once that trail was blazed, the following year, the group added general on-site computer support for students both on an off campus.
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PC Administrator
Digital Equipment Corporation
(Public Company; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)
June 1997 — August 1997 (3 months)
College summer job; Support and administration of PCs running Windows NT Workstation and Windows 95 for internal customers in a professional engineering environment
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Operator, Treasury Systems Help Desk
Bank of Boston
(Public Company; BKB; Banking industry)
June 1996 — August 1996 (3 months)
College summer job; Telephone technical support for the Treasury Department (which includes the largest trading floor in New England) and dispatching appropriate personnel for problems that could not be corrected over the phone
Alan Johnson’s Education
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BestSalesPeople.com
The Sandler Sales Process 2002 — 2005
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Alvarion Systems and Solutions
Certified Network Engineer , Broadband Wireless Access , 2003
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Syracuse University
BS , Computer and Informational Science , 1995 — 1999
- Activities and Societies:
- Dean's list, graduated with honors
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BEA Systems
Developing Enterprise Applications with BEA WebLogic Server 2000
Additional Information
Alan Johnson’s Websites:
Alan Johnson’s Interests:
self improvement, renewable energy, physics, entrepreneurship, child development (i.e. my kids), computer hardware, software systems
Alan Johnson’s Groups:
Hartford Energy Commission (HEC), Upper Valley Computer Industry Association (UVCIA), Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group (DLSLUG), Upper Valley IT Consultants (UVITC)
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Sandler Training - New Hampshire
Alan Johnson’s Honors:
Patent awarded — “Mechanical-Thermal Solar Power System”, 2007
Alan Johnson’s Contact Settings
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