Mark Schoonover

Current

• Network Planning Engineer at Harris IT Services

Past

• IS Manager at American Geotechnical
• IT Support Contractor at Technical Directions, INC

Education

• National University

Connections

51 connections

Industry

Defense & Space

Websites

• My Website

Mark Schoonover’s Summary

* Certifications: MySQL 5.x DBA (CMDBA)

* Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 3.1 through 2003 workstation and server. Experienced with Linux – CentOS, Gentoo, Slackware, RedHat, FreeBSD 4.x/6.x, Netware 4.x and VMWare ESX 2.5.3.

* Software: NFS, NIS, NTP, qMail, djbDNS, MySQL 4.x, Apache 1.x/2.x with mod_perl, rsync, Crystal Reports 7-XI, Microsoft Office 95-XP, OpenOffice, Adobe products, and MS Exchange 5.5.

* Hardware: PCs, IBM servers, NAS, HP and Dell desktop computers, WIFI, gigabit networks, hubs switches and Cisco/3Com routers. Soekris Net4801 embedded systems running FreeBSD.

* Programming Languages: Perl, shell, C, Lua, Visual Basic for Applications, Visual Basic, T-SQL.

Mark Schoonover’s Specialties:

MySQL Certified DBA, CentOS, Ubuntu, Solaris 8/9/10, Perl from command line applications, CGI and GUIs.

Mark Schoonover’s Experience

• Network Planning Engineer

  Harris IT Services

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

  October 2007 — Present (10 months)

  Perl developer and system engineer on Solaris 8/9, and Juniper Netscreen VPN devices supporting 30,000 devices and 1.2 million users on the Navy and Marine Corps Intranet . Experienced in authoring and reviewing technical documentation. Assists with solution validation and testing. Skilled with standard Solaris performance monitoring and process debugging tools including core debugging. Growing experience with IBM Tivoli Netcool network performance monitoring software suite.

• IS Manager

  American Geotechnical

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Civil Engineering industry)

  November 1996 — October 2007 (11 years)

  Responsible for the day to day operation of the IT Department to support 4 offices, most remotely connected, and several home offices. Deployment, and system administration of Windows and UNIX servers, cabling infrastructure, and custom business programming using Perl, shell, MySQL, Apache, and PHP running on CentOS Linux. Windows programming includes MS SQL Server 2000, T-SQL and Crystal Reports (Business Objects). Networking infrastructure includes FreeBSD based M0n0wall VPN on Soekris Net4801 embedded systems for remote office connectivity, Cisco IOS on core routers, with various 3Com and NetGear 100/1000 Mbit switches. Experience also includes hiring, training and performance evaluations of the technical staff.

• IT Support Contractor

  Technical Directions, INC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1995 — 1996 (1 year)

  Provided day to day desktop and network support for approximately 400 electrical, mechanical and software engineers at Sony, Television America. Responsibilities included system administration of a Novell 4.11 server running Netware Directory Services (NDS), and Cheyenne ArcServe backup software. Desktop support on Japanese versions of Windows NT 4, Windows 95 and Microsoft Office.

Mark Schoonover’s Education

• National University

  BSCS, Computer Science/Software Engineering, 1992 — 1994

Additional Information

Mark Schoonover’s Websites:

• My Website

Mark Schoonover’s Interests:

Programming, Network Engineering, System Administration, Amateur Radio, Running and Cycling

Mark Schoonover’s Groups:

•    Perl Mongers member
•    MySQL Certified Professionals member
•    MySQL Professionals member

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