Principal Consultant
Portland, Oregon Area
- Current
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- Principal Consultant at BTS
- Past
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- Sr. Data Network Design Architect at Daimler Trucks North America (Previously Freightliner)
- Senior Systems Consultant at Meridian Technology Group
- Network Architect (Meridian contract) at Discount Tire Company
- IT Project Manager (Meridian contract) at Nike, Inc.
- IT Manager at The Erickson Group, Ltd.
- Security Consultant at Self Employed
- Systems Administrator at Tripwire inc.
- Senior Network Administrator at Chrome Systems Corporation
- CSE - LAN Site Support Team Leader at Bank of America
- Systems Administrator at Transdevelopment Corporation
- Inventory Control Specialist at Portable Cellular Communications
- Airborne Pathfinder Light Infantry NCO at United States Army
- Education
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- The Art Institute of Portland
- Portland Community College
- Business Computer Training Institute
- US Army Infantry Center Noncommissioned Officers Academy
- US Army Infantry Center Noncommissioned Officers Academy
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Bruce Larson’s Summary
A Solutions-oriented, proactive Senior IT Professional with 19 years of industry experience designing, planning, engineering, deploying, integrating, and maintaining network infrastructure, systems, and services, as well as the initiating, planning, and managing of IT projects that provide reliable performance, scalability, service, and support for new technologies. Motivated and adaptable, with strong leadership skills and the demonstrated capability to coordinate, and lead teams to deliver complex infrastructure projects, manage budgets, and provide a strategic vision for the future. Customer-service oriented and goal focused with communication skills that range from creating written proposals to presenting complex project plans, conducting training, defining technical policies or procedures, and performing critical negotiations with vendors and/or service providers. An effective negotiator with the ability to handle large, complex initiatives ensuring activities are consistent with organizational goals, policies, and standards. A technically adept manager with the ability to clearly communicate actions and results, provide quality support, and create a knowledgeable, competent, and adaptive team of professionals.
Bruce Larson’s Specialties:
Cisco Certified - CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, CCDP
NetScout Certified - NCA
TripWire Certified - Server & Server Manager
Bruce Larson’s Experience
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Principal Consultant
BTS
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2009 — Present (10 months)
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Sr. Data Network Design Architect
Daimler Trucks North America (Previously Freightliner)
(Public Company; Automotive industry)
April 2005 — January 2009 (3 years 10 months)
Senior member of Network Services team, Primarily tasked with design, development, documentation, and tier 3 support of data network infrastructure architectures. Technical and operational leadership for departmental efforts to ensure the enterprise network infrastructure develops in accordance with industry best practice, compliance, security policies, and business requirements. Responsible to collaborate with and provide SME consultancy services to internal, cross functional, and extended corporate teams as required towards developing, planning, and the implementation of IDS projects. Expected to lead by example and provide knowledge transfer when possible to fellow associates, and business critical partners when appropriate.
Design architect and technical lead for the planning, purchase, and deployment of a new Cisco MPLS core LAN at a 3mil Square foot manufacturing facility, with 2 MDF’s, 60 IDF’s, and over 3500 end points. -
Senior Systems Consultant
Meridian Technology Group
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Contract consulting engagements for multiple customers, in multiple locations.
Network Arch/Engineer
Client: Daimler Trucks NA – Portland, OR. Apr 05 – Aug 05
Contract to perm engagement, see subsequent FTE position above with DTNA for details.
Network Arch/Engineer
Client: Discount Tire Co. – Scottsdale, AZ. Jun 04 – Mar 05
Produced network architectural design documents & diagrams of e-commerce enterprise network. Cisco network infrastructure; Imperva SecureSphere Application Layer Firewalls, CyberGuard Perimeter FW. Systems engineer, RH Linux ES 3.0 LAN, Win2003 SVR / SQL SVR 2000, Dell Servers. Systems design arch specifications of SOA, J2EE, BEA WebLogic 8.1, Apache 2.0, SVN, Maven. Bastille for Linux (Unix) security hardening for all RH Linux systems.
* Completed BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 Systems Administration training in San Diego on Nov 20, '04.
Network Engineer
Client: Nike, Inc. – Beaverton, OR. Jan 04 - May 04
Project manager – Redesign of Active Directory Global Catalog for global enterprise network. Created project plan, schedule, scope of work, requirements documentation, graphs, charts, diagrams. Coordinated service requests, facilitated meetings, communicated updates, tracked schedule. Migration to AD 2003, and rollout of Kerberos, PKI / CA services, SMS, and AD/AM, and clean-up & reconciliation of Group & User-Objects, and reorganization of OU’s & GPO’s. Win 2k, Visio 2003, MS Office 2003, MS Project 2002, MMC. -
Network Architect (Meridian contract)
Discount Tire Company
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
June 2004 — March 2005 (10 months)
Worked as a contract Network Architect to design an e-commerce environment for Tires.com See Senior Systems Consultant position with Meridian Technology Group above for details.
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IT Project Manager (Meridian contract)
Nike, Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Goods industry)
January 2004 — June 2004 (6 months)
Worked as a contract Project Manager on a project to redesign the Active Directory structure and schema for global operations in preparation for rolling out Windows Server 2003, AD/AM, & IPAM (Vital QIP)
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IT Manager
The Erickson Group, Ltd.
(Airlines/Aviation industry)
November 2003 — January 2004 (3 months)
Managed IT/IS operations for the parent holding group of three different companies.
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Security Consultant
Self Employed
(Security and Investigations industry)
March 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 9 months)
Physical security consultant providing armed and unarmed services to individuals, groups, and businesses. Private & public event security. Personal security.
* Concealed Handgun License for Oregon and Washington State.
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Systems Administrator
Tripwire inc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2001 — February 2002 (5 months)
Systems administrator on a small (3 FTE + 1 Mgr) Information Services team. MS Project Server, SMS 2.2, Active Directory, Tripwire for Servers & Tripwire Manager, Exchange, SQL, Great Plains Accounting, Terminal Services, IIS, Gtlicensing, and Check Point. Win 2k on Dell/IBM hardware. Nokia CryptoCluster VPN administration and support, Check Point administration.
* Completed Tripwire Technical Training and Certification - Portland, OR. Nov '01 -
Senior Network Administrator
Chrome Systems Corporation
(Public Company; TRAK; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — June 2001 (10 months)
Network Administrator for all corporate systems and infrastructure at a pre-IPO e-commerce B2B Application Service Provider. Systems admin and support engineer - NetWare 5.1 NDS, Win 2k AD, Win NT4, Solaris, FeeBSD, Linux, HP/UX. Managed a multi-homed, routed and switched, 100BaseT, Cat5 UTP TCP/IP network with a Gb Fiber backbone. Multiple domains; Web operations, dev & staging, and co-lo production environment. BIND, IPtables, IPCop, Check Point, Veritas NetBackup, F5 3DNS & BIG-IP, WebLogic, Oracle, SQL, ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe, eBack Office. Compaq (Win / Novell) and Sun (Solaris) servers & external storage. 3Com & Cisco switches, Cisco routers, and NetScreen SG firewalls / VPN. Project Manager for the rollout of HP OpenView Vantage Point Operations. Bash scripting, Perl scripting, PHP, CGI, VB scripting, MS windows Batch file scripting.
* Completed HP OpenView VPO training at the HP Educational Services Facility in Mt. View, CA. Apr '01 -
CSE - LAN Site Support Team Leader
Bank of America
(Public Company; BAC; Banking industry)
June 1995 — August 2000 (5 years 3 months)
Started work at Bank of America as a Project Analyst in 1995, was promoted to an Advisory Systems Engineer - working as a Project Manager in Jan. of 1997, was then hand picked to manage a large scale regional project for the mortgage division from Aug. '97 - Aug. of '98, and upon successful completion in Aug. '98 was invited to become the Site Support Team Leader, with a promotion to Consulting Systems Engineer (CSE) a management position with 4 direct reports.
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Systems Administrator
Transdevelopment Corporation
(Commercial Real Estate industry)
September 1991 — May 1995 (3 years 9 months)
Primary systems administrator and engineer for small (45 FTE) inter-modal construction management & design engineering company. CNE Novell Netware 2.15. IPX/SPX 10 Base T LAN with P2P remote site administered via 2400-baud modem. 56k fractional T1 WAN link to remote P2P server. Supported AppleTalk for networked Macintosh graphic design workstation. Remote and onsite Helpdesk support engineer. Worked with CADD Manager to develop and administer AutoCAD systems.
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Inventory Control Specialist
Portable Cellular Communications
(Telecommunications industry)
June 1990 — June 1991 (1 year 1 month)
A McCaw Cellular, Inc. company and cellular ‘reseller’ providing mobile phone rental (Motorola DynaTAC 8900x, and DynaTAC 6000XL) services to consumers primarily in cooperation with rental car companies across the US.
Responsible for the oversight of all field locations with regard to the return of all rental equipment per contract terms. Accountable for the recovery of equipment not returned per contract, including collections, and legal actions when necessary. Provided weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, and all ad-hoc reporting on the status of rental equipment, including inventory in recovery status. FileMaker Pro database developer and administrator for the company. Created developed and administered the inventory reporting database using FileMaker Pro on a Macintosh platform on an Apple network. Reconciled inventory on a Unix host for all field locations and imported data to FileMaker Pro for reporting and administration. -
Airborne Pathfinder Light Infantry NCO
United States Army
(Government Agency; Military industry)
January 1982 — September 1989 (7 years 9 months)
Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) 11B2Y Light Infantry Airborne Pathfinder with 7 years 9 months honorably discharged active duty service. Assigned to various units in multiple locations; B co. 1/38th Infantry Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Hovey, Republic of Korea (South); C co. 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment - Airborne Pathfinders, 1st Aviation Brigade, Fort Rucker, Alabama; HHC 4/87th Infantry Battalion Recon Platoon, 25th Light Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; C co. 4/87th Infantry Battalion, 25th Light Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
· Top Secret Clearance.
· Combat Radio Telephone Operator (RTO) in the Republic of Korea and the DMZ.
· Awarded the 2nd Infantry Division Imjin Scout badge for combat operations in the DMZ.
· Team Leader for Airborne Pathfinder team.
· Team Leader for Light Infantry reconnaissance team.
· Acting Squad Leader for a 9 – 13 man light infantry squad.
· Primary personnel manager and performance coach for my team/squad including two team leaders.
· Graduated in the top 5% of my class (Commandants List) from the leadership courses, PLDC and BNCOC at the US Army Infantry Center, NCO Academy, Fort Benning, GA.
· Received Army Commendation Medal for leadership as a light infantry team leader.
· Received the Army Achievement Medal with 2 OLC (three awards.)
· Graduated from Airborne school.
· Graduated from Airborne Pathfinder school as second in my class.
· Graduated from Air Assault school.
· Worked as an Air Assault school instructor.
· Achieved Expert Infantrymans Badge (EIB)
· Achieved Expert Riflemans Badge.
· 25th LID Land Navigation Master.
· Attended 25th LID Lightfighters Course.
· Attended S.E.R.E. Training Course.
· Attended Jungle Operations Training Course.
· Graduated from 25th LID Ranger Indoctrination Program.
· Achieved 100% perfect score on annual Skill Qualification Testing (SQT) 1987.
Bruce Larson’s Education
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The Art Institute of Portland
Graphic Design 2003 — 2004
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Portland Community College
Computer Information Systems 1992 — 1995
Working towards BS
GPA 3.8 -
Business Computer Training Institute
Diploma , Computer Operations & Office Automation , 1990 — 1991
technical vocational school
GPA 4.0 -
US Army Infantry Center Noncommissioned Officers Academy
Certificate , Basic Noncommissioned Officers Course - BNCOC , 1985 — 1985
Graduated with honors as number three on the Commandants Lists.
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US Army Infantry Center Noncommissioned Officers Academy
Certificate , Primary Leadership Development Course - PLDC , 1984 — 1984
Graduated with honors as number two on the Commandants List.
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Bruce Larson’s Interests:
Leadership & Team Dynamics, Ethics, Jefersonian Democracy/Republicanism, Human Rights, Community Activism, Sustainable Subsistence Living, Rationalism, Existential Philosophy, Quantum Physics, Cosmology, Photography, SCUBA diving, Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Bonsai, Saikei, Motorcycles, Graphic Design...
Bruce Larson’s Groups:
Association of Information Technology Professionals
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Networkers Club for all Cisco networkers (http://www.hightecher.com) -
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The IT Architect Network -
PDX Technology Professionals - Portland Oregon -
Bank of America Employees & Alumni Network
Bruce Larson’s Honors:
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco Certified Network Professional
Cisco Certified Design Associate
Cisco Certified Design professional
NetScout Certified Administrator
Tripwire Server Manager Certified
US Army Achievement Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters
US Army Commendation Medal for leadership
US Army Airborne Badge
US Army Air Assault Badge
US Army Pathfinder Badge
US Army Expert Infantrymans Badge
US Army Expert Riflemans Badge
US Army - 25th LID Land Navigation Master award
US Army Imjin Scout Badge
Certificate of Completion US Army S.E.R.E. training
Certificate of Completion US Army Light Fighters Course
P.A.D.I. Advanced Open Water SCUBA certification
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