Experienced & Innovative IT Professional
Louisville, Kentucky Area
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- IT Professional at GE
- Past
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- UNIX Systems Administrator at CompuCom
- UNIX Systems Administrator at Manpower
- UNIX Systems Administrator at Mercer Human Resource Consulting
- UNIX Systems Administrator at Lightyear Communications
- Systems / Network Administrator at FKI Logistex
- Installation Support Analyst at Kindred Healthcare
- Programmer Analyst II at University of Louisville
- Education
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- University of Louisville
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Jason Dour’s Summary
IT professional with broad background and experience, ranging from small companies to world-wide enterprises. From architecture to implementation, driven to provide the most reliable solution possible given technology, resources, and budget. Passionate about technology and making it work for business.
Jason Dour’s Specialties:
Systems/Network Administration. Storage Networking. Clustering. UNIX: HP/UX, Solaris. Linux: Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware. VMware. Windows. Languages: PERL, UNIX Shell, Visual Basic, C, PHP, Tcl/Tk, Expect, Python.
Strong problem-solving and procedure design skills. Excellent proficiency with computers, software, and electronics. Excellent writing skills, with ability to document methods and practices.
Jason Dour’s Experience
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IT Professional
GE
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Financial Services industry)
September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Serving as an administrator on the Midrange Service Support Team. Midrange environment consisting of over one thousand servers in multiple data-centers around the globe. Acting as Storage Platform Lead, providing vision and administration in the storage arena including strategy, planning, budgeting, administration, capacity management, and more. Have planned and executed multiple large-scale SAN refresh projecs. Developed, implemented, and documented both replication-based and tape-based Sarbanes-Oxley compliant disaster recovery processes. Co-developed, implemented, and documented new standards for clusters on Solaris using Veritas Cluster Services. Developed standards and templates for submission of data center facilities requests. Administered deployment of new Midrange hardware in local data centers. Performed daily work as part of the Midrange Operations Team for UNIX, Linux, and SAN needs, including on-call duty.
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UNIX Systems Administrator
CompuCom
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CMPC; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 6 months)
Served as an administrator on a staff-augmentation contract for the Midrange Service Support Team of GE Consumer & Industrial. See description of tenure with GE Consumer & Industrial for details.
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UNIX Systems Administrator
Manpower
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MAN; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
September 2004 — April 2005 (8 months)
Served as an administrator on a staff-augmentation contract for the Midrange Service Support Team of GE Consumer & Industrial. See description of tenure with GE Consumer & Industrial for details.
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UNIX Systems Administrator
Mercer Human Resource Consulting
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MMC; Human Resources industry)
2001 — 2004 (3 years )
Served on UNIX Administration Team, managing hardware and software on more than sixty HP/UX, Solaris, and Linux machines with a global internal and external user base. Administered global DNS servers. Served on VMWare project team, co-designing ESX and VirtualCenter infrastructure and deployment. Co-developed and implemented VirtualCenter training for administrators. Served as lead technical member of DNS Engineering Team, designing technical and logical infrastructure of new services. Defined, tested, implemented, and deployed cross-platform SSH standards for all global UNIX machines. Designed, coded, tested, and implemented a SAN backup solution for mission-critical financial databases. Defined global standard for secure console servers for remote access to UNIX consoles, and deployed to locations in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Re-designed legacy urgent-messaging system, reducing delivery times and lost-in-delivery rates.
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UNIX Systems Administrator
Lightyear Communications
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
May 2001 — September 2001 (5 months)
Administered hardware and software of seven HP/UX and Linux production and development customer billing machines. Initiated security review of all systems. Drafted new systems security and administration guidelines. Initiated deployment of Secure Shell and other third-party tools for a more secure and manageable environment. Began cleanup of all systems to repair problematic user and administrative practices. Patched open-source code to meet new guidelines for security and logging.
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Systems / Network Administrator
FKI Logistex
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)
May 2000 — May 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Designed, ordered, and installed new information systems, data and telecommunications, and security systems infrastructure for relocation of division's primary office. Implemented new physical and network security policies, including controlled building access, PPTP VPN, and firewall access between corporate services, traveling staff, support vendors, and the Internet. Provided 24x365 information systems, data and telecomm, and security systems management and support. Division consisted of five offices in three cities, 400+ employees, numerous traveling staff, and over a dozen servers.
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Installation Support Analyst
Kindred Healthcare
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KND; Hospital & Health Care industry)
September 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 9 months)
Designed and coded conversion routines for data migration from SGML to HTML/PDF for a large-scale legacy-system replacement rollout. Designed and coded in Access/VB automated data conversion for a major Y2K clinical management systems implementation, merging four existing data sets to build new data. Designed reports for quality assurance and general maintenance of the new data. Prepared for installation proprietary clinical management systems. Performed ad hoc coding for group needs.
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Programmer Analyst II
University of Louisville
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
April 1996 — September 1998 (2 years 6 months)
Managed the selection and implementation of computer hardware and software for a major clinical management system switchover. Implemented staged updates to an aging LAN, creating two workgroup networks joined by a firewall. Enhanced security policies and practices as well as user security training. Improved the integration of UNIX and NT services, facilitating better research and clinical practices.
Jason Dour’s Education
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University of Louisville
1991 — 1997
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