Ron Jarrell

Current

• Ecommunications & Windows Applications Services Team Manager at Virginia Tech
• IT Consultant at Jarrell Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Computer Systems Senior Engineer at Virginia Tech
• Vice President at WireFrame Productions, Inc.
• NOC Team Member at Networld+Interop

• Computer Systems Engineer at Virginia Tech
• Programmer/Analyst at Virginia Tech
• Programmer/DBA at Honeywell Information Systems
• Assistant Teacher at Fairfax County Public Schools

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Ron Jarrell’s Summary

Enterprise service integrator with emphasis on ISP-level service infrastructure design and vendor and database interoperability.

Ron Jarrell’s Specialties:

Computer & Network Security, LDAP directory, meta-directory, large scale email and usenet news system design and management. Supervision of engineers. System and Email forensic investigation. Certified Conflict Mediator. GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)

Ron Jarrell’s Experience

• Ecommunications & Windows Applications Services Team Manager

  Virginia Tech

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  May 2004 — Present (4 years 6 months)

  Manage team of engineers responsible for centralized email and calendaring, with both 100K+ user Iplanet pop/imap ldap based server, and faculty/staff only Exchange system. Provide central virus scanning and spam management of 3million+/day email flow. Team also provides support central organizational level active directory domains, citrix, and assorted outside groups needing windows administration services.

• IT Consultant

  Jarrell Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer & Network Security industry)

  January 1990 — Present (18 years 10 months)

  Provide consulting support related to design and implementation of ISP level services, meta-directory design, systems management and associated fields. Provide consultation and coordination of installation of both home and corporate networks.

• Computer Systems Senior Engineer

  Virginia Tech

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  October 1986 — May 2004 (17 years 8 months)

  Designing and implementing enterprise level email and directory services, including meta-directory systems to connect disparate data realms to provide for white pages services and automated account provisioning. Design infrastructure to provide redundancy and virus and spam protection for 100,000+ user accounts receiving 3 million + messages daily. UNIX and VMS systems and performance management.

• Vice President

  WireFrame Productions, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  January 1997 — October 2000 (3 years 10 months)

  Wrote, Designed, and Published series of games and associated tie-ins for licensed property from Warner Bros. Inc television program.

• NOC Team Member

  Networld+Interop

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  1992 — 1996 (4 years)

  Part of invitational Network Operations Center team responsible for designing and rapidly deploying portable multi-thousand node multi-vendor enterprise network to support Networld + Interop tradeshow, including systems support and help desk design and management. Specialized in "first deployment" international shows.

• Computer Systems Engineer

  Virginia Tech

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  February 1984 — November 1986 (2 years 10 months)

  Provide systems and user support to Computer Science Department VMS systems, PCs, and Macintoshes. Implement universities first major UNIX system. Install universities first ethernet network in multi-building configuration. Manage DECnet and TCP/IP protocols. Plan and execute move of Spatial Data Analysis lab and associated VAX 11/780 across campus to new facility.

• Programmer/Analyst

  Virginia Tech

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1983 — February 1984 (6 months)

  Provide software support and class computer systems management for College of Architecture. Develop real estate financial feasibility analysis software for use in classroom and research. Provided remote job entry operations support for remote printer/card reader facility for mainframe users.

• Programmer/DBA

  Honeywell Information Systems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HIS; Computer Software industry)

  June 1981 — August 1982 (1 year 3 months)

  Designed database migration tool for schema change in corporate customer database system. Designed system performance log analysis tools to identify bottlenecks in production environment

• Assistant Teacher

  Fairfax County Public Schools

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

  June 1980 — September 1980 (4 months)

  Assistant Techer for summer school enrichment program in computer science. Class consisted of 50-60 high school students ranging from 10th-12th grades. Managed school labs, and taught FORTRAN programming.

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