Kristopher Loranger

Current

• Sr Engineer AMS at FAST a subsidiary of Microsoft
• Sr Operations Engineer at FAST, A Microsoft® Subsidiary

Past

• Sr. Systems and Network Engineer at Net-Temps Inc
• Systems and Network Consultant at Belenos
• Senior NOC engineer at Comcast

• Senior NOC engineer at Mediaone

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Education

• University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Connections

94 connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

• My Website

Kristopher Loranger’s Summary

Technical professional with 14 years in the technical and Internet field specializing in systems, networking and consulting skills. In the last year I have been heavily intrenched in the search industry and have started consulting on enterprise customer search needs.

Kristopher Loranger’s Specialties:

Linux, Unix, apache, server hardware, networking, network management, load balancers, security, search.

Kristopher Loranger’s Experience

• Sr Engineer AMS

  FAST a subsidiary of Microsoft

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

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

• Sr Operations Engineer

  FAST, A Microsoft® Subsidiary

  (Public Company; Computer & Network Security industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years )

• Sr. Systems and Network Engineer

  Net-Temps Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  2002 — June 2007 (5 years )

  Design and maintenance of web site cluster on Solaris and freeBSD.
  Implemented security products and network IDS systems.
  Support end users (local and remote) with login issues and general web related problems such as security break ins, VPN issues, 2nd tier customer problems.
  Performance tuning of server farm. Cost saving performance tweaks and configurations of Apache web server. Mail server tuning of the postfix mail transfer agent, 3.5Million custom mails per week.
  Update and perform upgrades of virus checking and security patches.

• Systems and Network Consultant

  Belenos

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  1999 — 2002 (3 years )

  Working as a consultant and/or professional services engineer on a variety of core networking and system architectures. Focusing on security and network management.
  Network Operations Center (NOC) design and build out. Designed and implemented entire NOC from hardware, such as Sun Microsystems servers, to network management software including but not limited to HP Openview and Concord Nethealth on Solaris and NT servers. Also administration of Veritas Disk Suite and several home brew perl automation scripts.
  Network and systems engineer working on Fleet Bank subsidiary access project. Designed DNS infrastructure, network load balancing and Intranet web application access for multiple sub company connections.
  Security assessment for Verizon OSS. Completed a security assessment for Verizon OSS department in Herndon, Virginia. Discovered and reported on server exploits using popular security tools such as NMAP, SAINT and several home brew perl scripts.

• Senior NOC engineer

  Comcast

  (Public Company; Computer & Network Security industry)

  1999 — 1999 (less than a year)

• Senior NOC engineer

  Mediaone

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

  · Administrating international corporate network as well as Internet backbone points at switch and router level. Working with MCI to troubleshoot and diagnose problems with MCI frame relay, ATM networking and WAN protocols. Communicate with ISP’s world wide to resolve Internet related issues.
  · Other duties include: Aprisma Spectrum network management server updates and configurations.
  · Building procedures database and automating tasks with home built tools in perl, shell and other scripting languages.
  · Linux (Red Hat, Debian) and Solaris server installation, configuration, and administration.
  · Tracking security and abuse reports.
  · PBX and AVR administration

Kristopher Loranger’s Education

• University of Massachusetts at Lowell

  CS 1994 — 1997

Additional Information

Kristopher Loranger’s Websites:

• My Website

Kristopher Loranger’s Interests:

New Technology, snowboarding, autocross, wireless technology, security, network management

Kristopher Loranger’s Groups:

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Kristopher Loranger’s Contact Settings

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