Michael Johnston

Current

• Senior Systems Manager at AT&T

Past

• Senior Technical Team Lead at SBC
• Team Lead at SBC
• Specialist at Ameritech

• Network Engineer at Ciber
• Systems & Technical Support at Coastal Hotel Group
• Technical Consultant/Network Administrator at Software Essentials

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Education

• Albion College

Recommended

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Connections

168 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Personal Site

Michael Johnston’s Summary

NETWORK SYSTEMS MANAGER / SENIOR ENGINEER
Proven experience in the design of customer-focused solutions in a career spanning eleven years.
Focused and dynamic senior management professional with extensive experience in risk assessment, change management, strategic planning, technological development, and project management. Diverse background consisting of senior lead positions that encompass the creation of secure, fault-tolerant, and complex network systems. Strong feasibility analysis and conceptual design skills. Excellent motivator with an aptitude for assessing corporate needs and delivering solutions that meet goals and remain in budgetary guidelines.
 Extensive experience leading virtual teams; creating policy, procedure, and system documentation.
 Strong presentation, negotiation, written and verbal communication skills.
 Effective manager who can lead complex, sensitive, and strategically important IT initiatives.
 Assume complete ownership of all projects, and consistently deliver on-time, on-budget, and with minimal disruption to critical business processes.

Michael Johnston’s Specialties:

Windows system administrator, web design, scripting, software evaluation, application development liaison, IP network configuration, SharePoint services

Michael Johnston’s Experience

• Senior Systems Manager

  AT&T

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

  February 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

• Senior Technical Team Lead

  SBC

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

  January 2004 — February 2006 (2 years 2 months)

• Team Lead

  SBC

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

  January 2001 — January 2004 (3 years 1 month)

• Specialist

  Ameritech

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

  September 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 5 months)

• Network Engineer

  Ciber

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CBR; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 4 months)

  CONSULTANT/NETWORK ENGINEER
  Contracted to provide support to 600+ servers, running Windows NT Server 3.51 and 4.0, in a multiple master domain NT Server environment. Ran and monitored automated installation of Windows 95 and assorted banking and financial applications.
  Accomplishments:
   Implemented Windows NT 4.0 Workstation on mixed Novell NetWare/NT Server network using disk-imaging.
   Established network connectivity on Macintosh clients.

• Systems & Technical Support

  Coastal Hotel Group

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 2 months)

  Converted LANtastic 6.0/7.0-based peer-to-peer file sharing network to Windows NT Server 4.0-based client/server system. Administered Windows NT domain.
  Designed and implemented new email system (Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 using Outlook clients).
  Converted network protocol to TCP/IP.
  Performed system tuning and maintenance. Daily backups of network drives and maintenance of tape drives
  Installed, configured and upgraded workstations (Win3.11/95/NT/Macintosh).

• Technical Consultant/Network Administrator

  Software Essentials

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1995 — May 1997 (1 year 6 months)

Michael Johnston’s Education

• Albion College

  Bachelor's , Communications , 1991 — 1995

  Activities and Societies:

  Tau Kappa Epsilon, Men's Swim Team, WLBN college radio

Additional Information

Michael Johnston’s Websites:

• My Personal Site

Michael Johnston’s Interests:

Copyright, tech toys, IP technology, future of media, robots, Japanese anime, psychology, philosophy

Michael Johnston’s Groups:

Chicago Windows Users Group, HTML Writers Guild, Electronic Frontiers Foundation, World Future Society

Michael Johnston’s Contact Settings

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