Charles Kloote

Current

• Senior Systems Analyst at IUPUI

Past

• UNIX Systems Administrator at Direct Brands, Inc.
• Consulting Analyst at Theoris, Inc.
• Systems Administrator at VFA, Inc.

• UNIX Systems Analyst at Mezzia, Inc.
• Senior Support Technician at IQuest Internet, LLC
• Assistant Tech Support Supervisor at Winstar Communications

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Education

• Purdue University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Charles Kloote’s Summary

I'm an experienced system and network administrator on a wide variety of platforms including Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Cisco, specializing in web application and database server administration.

Long-term goal is a systems architect position designing and managing a company's production infrastructure.

Charles Kloote’s Specialties:

systems and network architecture, business continuity/data recovery, storage management, information security

Charles Kloote’s Experience

• Senior Systems Analyst

  IUPUI

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Systems engineering for Global Research NOC.

• UNIX Systems Administrator

  Direct Brands, Inc.

  (Entertainment industry)

  March 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 4 months)

  Manages the UNIX infrastructure for DB's Indianapolis and Terre Haute offices, as well as providing support for UNIX systems throughout the company's US locations.

• Consulting Analyst

  Theoris, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2007 — January 2008 (4 months)

  Providing critical IT experience to Theoris clients, including web applications systems architecture/production support, Linux and Windows systems administration, general tech support, and IT policy drafting.

• Systems Administrator

  VFA, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 4 months)

  After sale of Mezzia to VFA, was responsbile for administration of Windows 2003 servers running VFA's spendManager application acquired from Mezzia, management of IT assets in VFA's Indianapolis office, technical support for all Indianapolis-based employees.

• UNIX Systems Analyst

  Mezzia, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2001 — May 2006 (5 years 2 months)

  Initially managed Mezzia's Solaris web and database servers running their Mezzia capital assets management software, responsibilities later increasing to all Mezzia IT assets and technical support until Mezzia was sold to VFA in May of 2006.

• Senior Support Technician

  IQuest Internet, LLC

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  August 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 8 months)

  Tech support shift lead providing assistance to both customers and other IQuest support techs for a wide variety of ISP services, including dialup, DSL, webhosting, leased line, and colocation customers.

• Assistant Tech Support Supervisor

  Winstar Communications

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WCII; Telecommunications industry)

  February 1999 — July 1999 (6 months)

  Assisted tech support manager in providing assistance to Winstar tech support staff as well as entry-level system administration tasks.

Charles Kloote’s Education

• Purdue University

  Computer & Electrical Engineering 1994 — 1998

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