Experienced Wireless Professional
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- IT Manager at Hara Software, Inc.
- Founder / Principal at Ridge Wireless
- Communications Officer / Fireman at Stevens Creek Volunteer Fire Dept.
- Past
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- Member, Board of Directors. at KKUP Public Radio
- Network Engineer at Invisible IT
- Network Engineer at PMGI
- Network Engineer at Chordiant
- Technical Operations manager at Opsource Inc.
- Network Engineer II at DirecTV BroadBand
- NOC Monkey at GlobalCenter
- RF Tech at Hybrid Networks
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Mike Lyon’s Summary
OBJECTIVE
To find a long-term opportunity where I can apply my technical knowledge and my superior interpersonal communications skills in a management or individual contributor position.
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Nine plus years of increasing technical experience in WANs, LANs, WLANs and network security utilizing best of breed equipment from manufacturers such as Cisco, Foundry, Extreme, Netscreen and Checkpoint. Committed team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Vendor management. Sarbanes-Oxley auditing. Security-minded. Ability to think “outside of the box.”
SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS
Hands on experience in management and deployment of the following items:
Network
-Cisco 2600, 2800, 7200, 6500 (Sup32, Sup720), 2900, 3560, 3750, CSS 11500 Load Balancers w/SSL offloader module. PIX 515, 525, 535, ASA 5500 firewalls with IPS module, VPN 3000 VPN concentrators. AP350s, AP1200s, AP1010s & Cisco Wireless Controller (WLC), CiscoSecure ACS, Cisco ACE, ISRs, MARS, Implementing Phone Proxy with ASA version 8.4
-Foundry Server Load Balancers and BigIron line of products.
-Extreme Summit and Black Diamond switches/routers.
-Checkpoint 4.1.
-SonicWall.
-NetScreen.
-Point-to-Point and Point-to-multi-point wireless, 802.11a/b/g, Wi-Fi & RF system design.
-Cat5/6 structured wiring.
-ATM & Frame relay.
-RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.
-HSRP & VRRP.
-Subnetting/CIDR/VLSM.
-802.1q/VLANs, Layers 2, 4 - 7 content switching / load balancing.
-Familiar and experienced with the workings of ARIN.
Software
-MRTG, CACTI, IPPlan, Nagios, SolarWinds / Orion, Kiwi Catools, Microsoft Visio.
-Windows NT, Win2k, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS 5 & Fedora) and Unix.
-EtherReal, Packetyzer, WireShark, Nmap, TCPdump, and Nessus.
Mike Lyon’s Specialties:
Cisco, Foundry, Extreme, Netscreen, Checkpoint, VPN, Wireless network system design and implementation. RF, two-way radio and antenna systems. Tower climbing.
Very hands-on and personable.
Mike Lyon’s Experience
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IT Manager
Hara Software, Inc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Handle all aspects of IT, application hosting and facilities for the amazing Green Tech Company that is changing the world and helping your company go Green!
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Founder / Principal
Ridge Wireless
(Wireless industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
A consulting company offering various types of telecommunications services:
-Project-based IT Network and Security consulting.
-Wireless ISP providing internet access to rural communities.
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Communications Officer / Fireman
Stevens Creek Volunteer Fire Dept.
(Government Administration industry)
August 1998 — Present (11 years 4 months)
-Respond to EMS and Fire emergencies within our jurisdiction.
-Manage all two way radio equipment and repeaters.
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Member, Board of Directors.
KKUP Public Radio
(Broadcast Media industry)
January 2002 — June 2009 (7 years 6 months)
Have been involved with KKUP since 1994.
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Network Engineer
Invisible IT
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2008 — January 2009 (7 months)
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Network Engineer
PMGI
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
March 2008 — June 2008 (4 months)
General packet plumber. Local 32527
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Network Engineer
Chordiant
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; CHRD; Computer Software industry)
September 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 6 months)
General packet plumber. Local 16855
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Technical Operations manager
Opsource Inc.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Network guru
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Network Engineer II
DirecTV BroadBand
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
October 1999 — February 2003 (3 years 5 months)
designed, built and maintained network consisting of 200+ NT/UNIX/LINUX servers utilizing Cisco, Foundry, Extreme, Netscreen, Checkpoint and RedCreek networking gear. Managed 2 production datacenters. Created and kept accurate all documentation of systems. Performed all procurement of equipment for our dept. Acted as liason for our dept. between various groups within the company. Reported to the Director or Production Services.
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NOC Monkey
GlobalCenter
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
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RF Tech
Hybrid Networks
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
Additional Information
Mike Lyon’s Interests:
Wireless technologies, Data networking, Foreign Policy / Politics, Guns, Fishing, Volunteer Fire Fighting, Rural wireless communications, Ham Radio, Grateful Dead.
