Roger Rustad

Current

sales engineer (wireless) at BelAir Networks
principle consultant at Continuity Networks

Past

Systems Engineer (monitoring / security) at Frontline IS
Sr. Network Engineerat Ariel Technical Services (Sole Proprietorship)
Network Security Engineer at Titan Corporation

Systems Administrator at SDPS
Regional Administrator at MRV Communications
IT Support / Network Admin at La Sierra University

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Education

foreign language classes
La Sierra University
Le Campus adventiste du Salève

Loma Linda Academy

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Information Technology and Services

Roger Rustad’s Summary

Using a wide array of vendor and open source technologies, I build secure, scalable, and easy-to-maintain cross platform solutions that promote and maintain business continuity.

If you would like to connect and share best-of-breed solutions, strategies, or business opportunities, please contact me at:

Roger . Rustad + LinkedIn @ gmail.com (preferred email for invites)
RRustad @ BelAirNetworks.com (current full time)
Roger @ Continuity Networks.com (private consulting)

949 209 9737 (preferred phone)

RogerRustad (Y!, AOL, skype)
Roger.Rustad (gmail)
http://del.icio.us/RogerRustad (my bookmarks)
http://twitter.com/RogerRustad (misc posts)

(If you would like to connect on LinkedIn and I have not previously worked with you in some capacity, please tell me about yourself first.)

Those who would like to join our SoCal Nagios group can do so here:

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And those wanting to join SoCal Linux may do so here:

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Roger Rustad’s Specialties:

BUSINESS CONTINUITY WITH IT

preventative maintenance; capacity planning; work flow / process documentation; impact analysis; disaster recovery; planned downtime; simplified and repeatable IT processes; cross-training; problem escalation; system integration; n-tier; distributing computing tasks; guaranteed uptime for users; smooth migrations; role-based networks, OS and endpoint security, data integrity; network segmentation; fault tolerance; messaging, minimization

Roger Rustad’s Experience

sales engineer (wireless)

BelAir Networks

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)

April 2008 — Present (9 months)

rrustad @ belairnetworks.com

* multi-service radio solutions (licensed WiMAx, Wi-Fi [2.4/5/5.8GHz], public safety [4.9 GHz], ITS [5.9 GHz])
* rich, complex wireless service layers
* capacity planning for mesh
* mobility solutions for municipalities, public safety, carriers, and defense
* territory spans Western US / Canada, Mexico, & Central/South America
* verticals include: hospitality, sports stadiums, rural ISPs, muni, public safety
principle consultant

Continuity Networks

(Computer Networking industry)

1999 — Present (9 years)

roger @ continuity networks.com

Partnering with VCs, vendors, ISPs/ASPs, management consultants, and integrators to provide enterprises the following:

UPTIME: ugly Microsoft migrations w/min downtime; network monitoring / performance analysis (Nagios , rrdtool, cacti); MX backups; clustering; solid ext DNS solutions; intelligent imaging / ghosting / backup / disaster recovery solutions; virtualization; power, KVM, and out-of-band management solutions; n-tier network design (F5 Big-IPs, web farms, clustered SQL; SANs)

SECURITY: application aware networks using Cisco, Checkpoint / Nokia, Watchguard, and SonicWALL; strong authentication solutions (tokens, RSA, etc); WAN/LAN assessments; Enterprise AV rollouts (Symantec, TrendMicro, McAfee, Authentium, etc); GPO strategies for NT environments; Directory Services (LDAP/AD); data governance

MESSAGING: Groupware (Microsoft Exchange, Novell Groupwise, Intellisync); MX filtering; messaging security; archiving; corporate IM services.
Systems Engineer (monitoring / security)

Frontline IS

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — April 2008 (1 year)

* open source monitoring solutions (Nagios, Cacti)
* security solutions (CheckPoint / Nokia, Cisco)
* messaging solutions (Nokia, pushmail, Blackberry/RIM, MTA-to-MTA encryption)
Sr. Network Engineer
Ariel Technical Services (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 11 months)

* collocation management
* routing / switching / firewall solutions
* MS: Exchange / AD; SBS upgrade / migrations
* telco provisioning
Network Security Engineer

Titan Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TTN; Defense & Space industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year)

* pre- and post-sales support for enterprises and government accounts
* CheckPoint/Nokia/IDS/Websense solutions (CCSA and Nokia certified)
* clustering / load management
* CheckPoint migrations
* endpoint security
* OPSEC CheckPoint vendor solutions
Systems Administrator

SDPS

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year)

* Designed and maintained Windows/Cisco WAN
* supported so that ~300+ users (radiologists, office workers, transcriptionists, and accountants) from La Jolla Radiology, Valley Radiology, and Open Air MRI
* Major projects included: collocating servers/routers for radiology groups; migrating from Windows NT 4 to Windows 2000; implementing advanced Microsoft 2000 Server features such as Active Directory, Clustering/Load Balancing; importing dbase5 data to SQL for Crystal Reports; MAS90 upgrades; HIPAA compliancy; and revamping Acceptable Use Policy.
Regional Administrator

MRV Communications

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MRVC; Telecommunications industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years)

Forecasted fiber optic and out-of-band management hardware sales; supported sales reps, engineers, and channel partners with pre-sales support on hardware quotes and configurations; coordinated logistics of demo equipment delivery.
IT Support / Network Admin

La Sierra University

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

1994 — 1998 (4 years)

Responsible for fixing hardware, software, and networking issues for students / teachers; managed business department LAN.

Roger Rustad’s Education

foreign language classes

1998 — 2005

* Language Classes: Spanish, French, Russian, German, Japanese, Arabic.
La Sierra University

BA, Business Administration, 1994 — 1998

http://business.lasierra.edu
SIFE

Campus Prankster Extraordinaire
Le Campus adventiste du Salève

francais 1996 — 1996
Loma Linda Academy

1990 — 1994

http://www.lla.org

Additional Information

Roger Rustad’s Interests:

digital divide accessibility and computing philosophy - philosophy of language, ethics sci fi - golden age, new wave GNU/Linux - Debian, Slack, *BSD open source advocacy music - classical, prog metal, ambient, classic rock, international languages film - classics, international, indie games - go, chess, poker, xiangqi, pentago