Jonathon Conley

Jonathon Conley

Information Technology and Services Consultant and Professional

Sioux City, Iowa Area

Current
  • IT Support Specialist at CNOS
Past
Education
  • Metropolitan Community College
Connections
42 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services

Jonathon Conley’s Summary

Five years of contract and consulting experience in an array of industries and company sizes. Skilled in installation, support and management of workstations, servers, and the technologies that connect them. Support provided on an individual and team basis via phone, e-mail, on-site visits, remote control, and management software. A clear and consistent ability to uniquely assess situations and improve upon the productivity and efficiency in the status quo. Strongest strengths within Microsoft operating systems and productivity software, PC hardware/software, and Ethernet networks. A proven ability to provide high level technical solutions while also raising the quality of customer service.

Jonathon Conley’s Specialties:

Client OS: Windows 9x/XP, DOS, MacOS
Server OS: Windows NT/2000/XP, NetWare, Linux
Server Tech: Exchange, IIS, SMS, Citrix, Terminal Services, VPN, GroupWise, Ghost, MSSQL, Firewalls


Jonathon Conley’s Experience

  • IT Support Specialist

    CNOS

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Medical Practice industry)

    October 2007Present (1 year 10 months)

  • MIS

    Nemschoff, Inc

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Furniture industry)

    April 2006September 2007 (1 year 6 months)

    Responsible for the installation, maintenance, and repair of hardware, systems and software, network infrastructure, telephone systems and other office equipment.
    -Coding, debugging and development in of VBScript, ASP, PHP, Access, Dibol.

  • Migration Technician

    TekSystems

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    March 2006April 2006 (2 months)

    Desktop OS migration for MCI to new Dell desktop model.
    - Technologies used were Ghost and RIS imaging.

  • Cisco Field Engineer

    Expedited Temporary Assistance

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2006March 2006 (1 month)

    Replace Cisco switches at SSA Office

  • IT Support Specialist

    Sabre Communications

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

    August 2005November 2005 (4 months)

    Built groundwork to centralize and standardize the IT support environment
    -Defined groups and setup remote installation server customized to each departments PC needs
    -Began knowledgebase to create records of common tasks and issues in an effort to standardize how support is performed overall
    -Evaluated hardware for desktops, ticket management software, and asset control software for purchase

  • Server Technician

    KForce Professional Staffing

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Retail industry)

    October 2005November 2005 (2 months)

    Performed removal and installation of servers at Wal-Mart sites
    -Dell PowerEdge and IBM servers

  • Systems Technician

    Mercy Health

    (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    October 2005October 2005 (1 month)

    Removal of confidential data for use of systems in other departments
    -Automated process using a bootable disk and configuring for use without interaction
    -Performed high level destruction of sensitive data with a DOD 5220.22 M compliant method

  • Deskside Support Technician

    TekSystems

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    January 2005June 2005 (6 months)

    Resolved trouble tickets involving desktops, printers, peripherals, and the networks that connect them
    -Resolved 2nd highest volume of trouble tickets within a group of 30 state-wide technicians
    -Of 10 local technicians, provided 16% of the completed ticket resolution
    -Created custom tools and fixes to site-wide issues with infected PCs and software compatibility issues

  • IT Specialist

    Techie Plus

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2003January 2005 (1 year 6 months)

    Performed various tasks from simple support calls to designing companies’ networks
    -Chosen by several clients to learn various proprietary hardware and software, to provide support in place of vendors
    -Completed over 90% of on-site service calls under the one hour minimum charge time

  • Cisco Field Engineer

    The Computer Merchant

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)

    June 2003September 2003 (4 months)

    Upgraded General Motors network infrastructure and servers across Iowa and Nebraska
    -Completed all sites without escalation and within scheduled downtime
    -Executed over 75% of sites under half the allotted downtime
    -Performed configuration of new/existing Cisco switches

  • Network Administrator

    The Computer Merchant

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MER; Investment Management industry)

    August 2003August 2003 (1 month)

    Contract description for Merrill Lynch for the following:
    perform installations, upgrades, platform integrations, configuration and maintenance of hardware and software. Monitor the functions of the network, install networks, add users, troubleshoot the network, LAN and internet related issues. Plan and implement solutions to improve performance, security, scalability and manageability of the system.

  • Network Engineer

    Mercy Health

    (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    June 2003June 2003 (1 month)

    Installed wireless network of devices accessing a shared database for benefit auction
    -Configured wireless to use network encryption due to sensitivity of data being transferred
    -Setup MAC address filtering and changed SSID to further enhance prevention of rogue access

  • Desktop Engineer

    USA Wrestling

    (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Sports industry)

    March 2003May 2003 (3 months)

    Custom-designed computers for entire organization to provide essential and efficient systems
    -Reduced build time by using imaging system to perform base installations
    -Deployed systems in a single weekend and project finished ahead of schedule

  • Server Specialist

    USA Wrestling

    (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Sports industry)

    December 2002February 2003 (3 months)

    Performed server migration and implement telecommuting solutions
    -Utilized a gateway to convert mail structure from GroupWise to Exchange
    -Implemented web accessible e-mail and terminal services due to nature of employees access from public and non-company computer systems
    -Configured firewall to allow websites and terminal services authentication through domain credentials


Additional Information

Jonathon Conley’s Groups:

  •    Apple Professionals
  •    Open Source
  •    FLOSS Professional
  •    BriForum
  •    FOSS Professionals
  •    Cross-Platform (Apple/Windows) Professional
  •    Nagios Users
  •    Zenoss
  •    WWDC 2009
  •    MacEnterprise.org

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