Ryan Birk

Current

Infrastructure Specialist at Apparatus
Associate Faculty at Purdue University, Indianapolis

Past

Systems Administrator at Sallie Mae

Education

Capitol College
Purdue University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Ryan Birk’s Summary

I have recently obtained the VCP credential. I am actively pursuing RHCE. I currently hold various Microsoft certifications (on 2000) and other CompTIA certifications.

I can honestly say that I found my niche inside the wide open world that is Information Technology. I setup my first virtual machine in 2002 and fell in love with the idea instantly. So, over the past few years I have been focusing on expanding my knowledge on the different virtualization platforms and the various technology surrounding it.

Ryan Birk’s Specialties:

Microsoft: 9x / 2k / Server 2003 / XP / Vista
Apple: OS8 / OS9 / OSX
Linux: Debian / Red Hat / Open/FreeBSD (pf based firewall)
VMware: GSX / ESX ( 2.x / 3.x / 4.x ), Workstation, Server, Fusion, Converter, vCenter
Citrix: Metaframe XP, Presentation Server 4.0/4.5
Novell: NetWare 6.5

Security: Packet Filtering, Intrusion Detection, Disk Encryption.

Hardware: HP c-Class blades & DL server line, IBM BladeCenter and Dell PowerEdge systems. HP's iLO and IBM's KVM over IP.

Ryan Birk’s Experience

Infrastructure Specialist

Apparatus

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

Apparatus is an Internet services firm, focusing on enterprise managed hosting and consulting. Clients range from local start-ups to global Fortune 500 firms.

Eli Lilly, Global Virtualization Team (November 2008-Present)
Eli Lilly, Systems Analyst (IIS / .NET), Lilly Research Laboratories (March 2008-February 2009)

I've also worked with several other clients on various projects including a Citrix farm upgrade / consolidation, VMware vSphere 4 installation and RSA authentication implementation.
Associate Faculty

Purdue University, Indianapolis

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

I teach a Computer & Information Technology class for the School of Engineering and Technology. I stress industry best practices and the importance of information security throughout the semester in a hands on lab environment.

I have my class build fully functional web servers on both Windows and Linux in a virtualized environment.
Systems Administrator

Sallie Mae

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SLM; Financial Services industry)

October 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 6 months)

I worked with our corporate VMware ESX 2.x/3.x, Citrix Presentation 4.x and Novell NetWare 6.5 environments.

In a previous position at Sallie Mae, I played a large technical role in deploying full hard disk (Pre-Operating System) encryption at our various corporate locations and over 2,500 company laptops.

Ryan Birk’s Education

Capitol College

Master of Science , Information Assurance , 2009 — 2012 (expected)
Purdue University

Bachelor of Science , Computer Technology , 2001 — 2005

Activities and Societies:

Purdue Technical Assistance Program, University Information Technology Services (UITS), CERIAS