Mark Schoonover

Current

Network Planning Engineer IV at Harris IT Services

Past

Consultant at JL Bond Consulting
IS Manager at American Geotechnical
Onsite Consultant at Technical Directions, INC

2nd LT/Battalion Signal Officer at United States Army
CTRSN at US Navy

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Education

National University
California Army Reserve, National Guard Officer Candidate School

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Defense & Space

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Mark Schoonover’s Summary

Innovative and intelligent problem-solver with Honors BSc in Computer Science / Software Engineering with strong leadership, communication, and real people skills. 15+ years of hands-on problem-solving in programming and network management using Linux, MySQL, Perl, shell, allied with track record of success in diverse corporate and government contracts. Strong written / verbal communication combined with broad technical background. Current Secret security clearance, previous Top Secret SBI/SCI security clearance.

* Certifications: IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition V3.7, IBM Netcool Webtop 2.0, MySQL 5.x DBA (CMDBA)

* Operating Systems: Linux – CentOS, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, RedHat, Solaris 8/9/10 and VMWare ESX 2.5.3.

* Software: IBM Tivoli Network Network Manager IP Edition v3.7, IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus 7.1/7.2.x, IBM Netcool Precision 3.5, IBM Tivoli Netcool WebTop 2.x, qMail, djbDNS, MySQL 4.x/5.x, Apache 1.x/2.x with mod_perl, rsync, Crystal Reports 7-XI, Microsoft Office 95-XP, and OpenOffice.

* Languages: Perl, SQL, C.

Mark Schoonover’s Specialties:

Certified IBM Deployment Professional - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition V3.7 & Weptop 2.0, MySQL Certified DBA, Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Solaris 8/9/10, Perl from command line applications, CGI and GUIs.

Mark Schoonover’s Experience

Network Planning Engineer IV

Harris IT Services

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Government/Military Contractor with 30,000+Employees

Provide solution development, documentation, verification, Perl programming, and database planning, installation, configuration, performance tuning, and issue identification / resolution.

Develop, analyze, and implement IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition V3.7 for combined Navy / Marine Corp Intranet (NMCI) supporting 1.2 million users monitoring Cisco switches / routers and Juniper VPN equipment.
Consultant

JL Bond Consulting

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2009 — September 2009 (6 months)

* MySQL Database and Application Performance Consultant
IS Manager

American Geotechnical

(Civil Engineering industry)

November 1996 — October 2007 (11 years )

Soil, Foundation and Geotechnical Industry

Excelled at numerous roles to manage all day-to-day operations of IT Department supporting local and remote offices, and end users for small business with four sites.

Hired and managed small technical staff, including training and performance evaluations.

Planned and managed deployment and system administration of Windows, CentOS, and VMWare ESX servers, cabling infrastructure, and business programming using Perl, bash shell, MySQL 3/4/5, Apache 1.x/2.x.

Developed custom and standard management reports using SQL, T-SQL, and Crystal Reports 8-X (Business Objects)

Developed custom, high capacity digital film system using Perl, Apache, mod_perl and MySQL 5.X; running on CentOS for entire enterprise supporting 45 employees in 4 offices storing ~ 750,000 images and metadata.

Build and provided system administration for multi-platform networking infrastructure including FreeBSD VPN with embedded systems for remote office connectivity.
Onsite Consultant

Technical Directions, INC

(Computer Hardware industry)

November 1995 — November 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Provided day to day desktop and network support for 400 engineers (electrical, mechanical, and Software) with diverse and highly specialized technical support needs.

Handled system administration of Novell server and provided desktop support on Japanese versions of Windows NT / 95 running common software applications such as Microsoft Office.
2nd LT/Battalion Signal Officer

United States Army

(Military industry)

August 1990 — August 1994 (4 years 1 month)

Tasked with planning and execution of all aspects of communications on activation and peacetime missions, including tactical communications decisions in combat arms.

Coordinated Signal Soldiers at all levels of command, from platoon to battalion and higher, in California Army Reserve/National Guard.

Delivered training on V/HF and various types of communications security equipment.
CTRSN

US Navy

(Government Agency; USN; Military industry)

August 1987 — January 1990 (2 years 6 months)

Duties include performing collection and analysis of state of the art communication signals using sophisticated high powered computers, specialized computer-assisted communications equipment, video display terminals and electronic/magnetic recorders.

Additional formal training in satellite communications, high frequency direction finding, direct support to ships and submarines.

Mark Schoonover’s Education

National University

Bachelors of Science , Computer Science , 1992 — 1994

Graduated with Honors
California Army Reserve, National Guard Officer Candidate School

Commissioned 2LT, Signal Corps , Army Officer Basic Training , 1990 — 1991