Gilles Clément "GC" Koupaki

Current

• Systems Engineer at MindComet

Past

• IT Analyst at Siemens Power Generation
• Network Migration Team Member at Wheelabrator Air Pollution Company, a Siemens Company

Education

• University of Central Florida
• Valencia Community College

Connections

47 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Gilles Clément "GC" Koupaki’s Summary

Systems Admin with experience in small and large scale corporate environments, using Linux, MacOSX, and Windows based environments. Fast paced worker on multiple systems administration tasks, research, new development, and support. Particularly interested in network designs, network security, and systems architecture. Always interested in consulting, migration projects, designs, development and implementation of new concepts and ideas related to Systems and Networking.

Gilles Clément "GC" Koupaki’s Experience

• Systems Engineer

  MindComet

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  May 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

  •System Administration for Internal and Production Linux and Apple OSX Based servers (XServe and XserveRAID, Linux Fedora Core 3 and 4), Web hosting administration, name server administration, backup server administration, Linux and Apple shell scripting and development
  
  •Software Testing, Networking Solutions, internal support for Mac end-users, Windows, Linux
  
  •Systems monitoring, updating, network administration and security
  
  •Admin tasks including internal and external activity, hardware monitoring using Nagios, network solutions, Intern management, shell data parsing, Email and Reflexion server administration,
  
  •Administration of Maya, LAMP production and development servers, Bash and Perl scripting for administration automation, security admin, firewalls and iptables
  
  •MacOS X Tiger File Server Configuration, and Administration, LDAP, Replication, Master/slave scheme, remote administration using Nagios for monitoring server status, Systems Monitoring, User management.

• IT Analyst

  Siemens Power Generation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

  October 2005 — March 2006 (6 months)

  Contractor with The Abreon Group, stationned at Siemens Power Generation job site.
  
  •Network User Group and Resource management with Active Directory
  
  •Database Management of Answer Files
  
  •Net work Administration, Database Information Tracking
  
  •Network, Server Based installations for Siemens PG Supported Hardware
  
  •Hardware and Software support
  
  •Harware support on Dell line of products used
  
  •Ticket Queue Monitoring and Attendance from PG Call Tracking system
  
  •Resource for Asset Management control for assigned site

• Network Migration Team Member

  Wheelabrator Air Pollution Company, a Siemens Company

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Biotechnology industry)

  January 2006 — January 2006 (1 month)

  •Helped with migration and integration for over 200 users up to a Siemens Standards
  
  •Resource for multiple Quality Assurance tasks to ensure top Quality of Service
  
  •Provided Coaching and Assistance to ease the transition to the Siemens PG Networking System

Gilles Clément "GC" Koupaki’s Education

• University of Central Florida

  B.S , Computer Science and Information Technology , 2003 — 2005

  Dean's Honor List - UCF

  Activities and Societies:

  International Student Association - 2003

• Valencia Community College

  A.A , Computer Science and Information Technology , 2001 — 2003

  Dean's Honor List - Valencia

  Activities and Societies:

  International Student Association - 2001 - 2003

Additional Information

Gilles Clément "GC" Koupaki’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Gilles Clément "GC" Koupaki’s Interests:

computers, mechanics, science, working out, most sports sports, soccer, basketball, movies, most types of music but mainly old school hiphop, jazz, and classic reggae. I also enjoy cooking and eating healthy. I like Linux and Mac OSX, but I still use windows for gaming. I enjoy open source stuff, there is always something out there that will do what you need. I love DIY house or car projects...and I love my job.

Gilles Clément "GC" Koupaki’s Honors:

Dean's List Honors - UCF
Dean's List Honors - Valencia

Gilles Clément "GC" Koupaki’s Contact Settings

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