Roger Rustad

Current

• systems engineer (wireless) at BelAir Networks
• principal consultant at Continuity Networks

Past

• systems engineer (monitoring / security) at Frontline IS
• Sr. network engineer at 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 (post college)
• La Sierra University
• Le Campus adventiste du Salève

• Loma Linda Academy
• Department of Homeland Security
• Department of Homeland Security

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Roger Rustad’s Summary

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

The bigger and more challenging your infrastructure requirements, the better!

If you would like to connect and discuss solutions or business opportunities, please email me at Roger.Rustad@gmail.com or 949 209 9737.

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

• systems engineer (wireless)

  BelAir Networks

  (Privately Held; Wireless industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  rrustad @ belairnetworks.com
  
  * service provider WLAN solutions
  * multi-functional microcells: Wi-Fi, WiMAX, 4.9 GHz Public Safety, 5.9 GHz ITS, and 4.4 GHz Military
  * comprehensive mobility solutions for municipalities, carriers, and defense
  * enterprise wireless solutions

• principal consultant

  Continuity Networks

  (Computer Networking industry)

  1999 — Present (10 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; 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; 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
  * Collocating servers/routers for radiology groups
  * HIPAA compliancy

• Regional Administrator

  MRV Communications

  (Public Company; 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; Higher Education industry)

  1994 — 1998 (4 years)

  Responsible for fixing hardware, software, and networking issues for students / teachers (Microsoft, Apple, Novell, UNIX); managed business department LAN.

Roger Rustad’s Education

• foreign language classes (post college)

  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

• Department of Homeland Security

  Credential , Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)

• Department of Homeland Security

  Certificate , Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information Authorized User

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)

Roger Rustad’s Contact Settings

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