Frank Wayne
Senior Network Analyst at CORPTAX, LLC
- Location
- Greater Chicago Area
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Frank Wayne's Overview
- Current
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- Senior Network Analyst at CORPTAX, Inc.
- Past
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- Systems Analyst at Advocate Health Care
- Consultant at TEKsystems
- Consultant at Technisource
- Network Technical Specialist at Comdisco
- Internet Application Developer at American Medical Association
- Senior Systems Analyst at Handy Andy Home Improvement Centers, Inc.
- Education
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- College of DuPage
- Moraine Valley Community College
- St. Ignatius College Preparatory
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St. Laurence High School
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Triton College
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Wilbur Wright College
- Recommendations
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3 people have recommended Frank
- Connections
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63 connections
- Websites
Frank Wayne's Summary
An accomplished network professional with extensive experience implementing, managing and troubleshooting leading edge technologies, deploying servers, resolving problems and administrating complex environments. Broad knowledge of networking technologies, the Windows operating system, and computer hardware. Proven ability to improve efficiency and provide benefits which enhance client performance and reduce cost of administration.
Specialties
IP Networking
HP/Compaq Equipment (DL3x0 and c7000 Blades)
Microsoft Windows Server Operating Systems
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway
Microsoft ISA Server 2006
Microsoft Exchange 2010
Microsoft Exchange 2007
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
Barracuda Load Balancers
Barracuda Web Filters
Barracuda Spam Filters
EMC CLARiiON SANs (Unisphere)
VMWare ESX 4 (vSphere)
RIM BaclBerry Enterprse Server
Frank Wayne's Experience
Senior Network Analyst
CORPTAX, Inc.
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry
February 2007 – Present (5 years) Deerfield, IL
Built and hardened Windows 2008 R2 servers for ASP environment, providing a secure, redundant and powerful platform for CORPTAX applications and databases, and insuring reliable performance for hosted customers.
Provided a rock-solid collaboration environment by designing and building a highly-available Microsoft Exchange 2007 cluster and redundant transport servers (internal and edge); upgraded to Microsoft Exchange 2010 in a geographically distributed, highly-available DAG environment; integrated Unified Messaging for desktop VoIP and voice mail.
Built an Microsoft Office Communication Server (OCS) 2010 environment that integrated instant messaging, Live Meeting and VoIP on the corporate network and Internet, allowing employees and customers to collaborate anywhere and anytime.
Provided 24/7 monitoring and alerting for essential systems with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2; integrated various domains and perimeter network systems using gateways.
Built, configured and administrated arrays of Microsoft Threat Management Gateway (TMG) and ISA Server firewalls, providing secure access to Web resources for internal clients, including SSL inspection; published various services, such as IIS, Exchange and OCS; provided authenticated proxy access for security and responsibility.
Built, configured and administrated servers to support office and infrastructure applications and systems, including Internet web servers (IIS), Microsoft Certificate Services, Microsoft Project 2010, DHCP, DNS, RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5, Symantec Backup Exec 2010, Barracuda Networks appliances.
Managed EMC CLARiiON SANs with Unisphere, providing reliable storage for high-performance and high-availability environments.
Managed VMWare ESX 4 clusters with vSphere, providing powerful and cost-effective servers for development and production environments.
Installed, maintained and repaired hardware, including HP 300-series servers and c7000 blade systems.
Systems Analyst
Advocate Health Care
Nonprofit; 10,001+ employees; Hospital & Health Care industry
June 2003 – January 2007 (3 years 8 months)
Gave second-tier help for 2000+ hospital network users, workstations, servers and peripheral equipment, including 24/7 pager support.
Supervised vendor-installed solutions, closely assisting and insuring timely implementation.
Implemented Novell ZENworks 4 to simplify application and policy distribution to Windows 2000 and XP clients.
Consultant
TEKsystems
Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
May 2003 – August 2003 (4 months) Park Ridge, IL (Advocate Lutheran General Hospital)
Provided advice and assistance for a hospital-wide, multi-server upgrade and switch to NDPS printing.
Wrote scripts to move over a thousand users and their data to new servers, significantly reducing administration time and error.
Provided post-migration support for users and workstations, moderating the impact of the transition on the user community.
Consultant
Technisource
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SFN; Information Technology and Services industry
October 2002 – November 2002 (2 months) Chicago, IL (Harris Bank)
Designed and implemented a disaster recovery plan, including backup and UPS systems, insuring data integrity and server reliability for IT staff.
Fixed server stability and performance problems, establishing a positive reputation for the new systems management staff.
Implemented auditing for production servers to improve security and establish accountability.
Network Technical Specialist
Comdisco
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CDO; Information Technology and Services industry
August 1996 – April 2002 (5 years 9 months)
Transformed an international network containing more than sixty Novell NetWare servers using bindery services, to Novell Directory Services (NDS/eDirectory), reducing administration costs and establishing global standards.
Instituted server monitoring using Novell ManageWise and Compaq Insight Manager, significantly reducing unscheduled outages and saving millions of dollars per year in lost productivity.
Convinced management to change the corporate server backup strategy and implemented a centralized data recovery system using CA ARCserve, reducing licensing costs, wasted device capacity, and operations time.
Traveled, often on short notice, to perform emergency maintenance on remote office servers, minimizing downtime and the risk of loss when recovery exceeded the expertise of local technicians.
Replaced an inefficient, manual system of IP address management with DHCP services, reducing the cost of IP device administration and configuration, especially for mobile users.
Established a network test laboratory resembling the production environment in order to reliably rehearse maintenance, test changes and evaluate products, significantly reducing costly production resource downtime.
Planned, proposed and built a CD-ROM server with 96 drives to consolidate CD sharing, simplify updates, additions and access management, increase capacity, and provide for future expansion.
Implemented ZENworks application distribution for departments that used software products requiring frequent updates, significantly reducing the time consumed by floor team support for those clients.
Internet Application Developer
American Medical Association
Nonprofit; 1001-5000 employees; Nonprofit Organization Management industry
April 1996 – July 1996 (4 months)
Developed CGI applications for the organization's website as well as created and maintained pages for it.
Senior Systems Analyst
Handy Andy Home Improvement Centers, Inc.
December 1991 – March 1996 (4 years 4 months)
Developed a retail labeling system that integrated hand-held scanners for our stores using Foxpro with an IBM AS/400 as a backend database server. The application had to run using a 4.8Kbs link to the AS/400. Interfacing the application with the database was done through PC Support/400 DOS drivers, which I exploited from Foxpro using the Foxpro Developer's Kit with a combination of C and assembly language.
Built the first Ethernet LAN and T1 WAN for personal computers to provide file and printer sharing for our two corporate offices.
Frank Wayne's Education
College of DuPage
AS, Physics
2010
Honors Program
Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa
Moraine Valley Community College
Psychology, Criminal Justice, Computer Science
Activities and Societies: Creative Writing (Mastodon)
St. Ignatius College Preparatory
Activities and Societies: Honors, Wargames Club, Math Team
St. Laurence High School
HSD
Activities and Societies: Computer Lab Steering Committee, Continuing Education Instructor
Triton College
Electronics
Wilbur Wright College
Polish
Frank Wayne's Additional Information
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- Interests:
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Computers, Photography, Rational Skepticism
- Groups and Associations:
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The Brights, Civil Air Patrol, MENSA, Phi Theta Kappa
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- Honors and Awards:
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Illinois Top 30 State Scholar (IJAS)
National Latin Exam summa cum laude (Latin I)
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