Victor M.J. Ryden

Current

Monitoring Systems Administrator at Amgen

Past

Lead - Computer Infrastructure at Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG)

Education

University of California, Los Angeles
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Cornell University

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Victor M.J. Ryden’s Summary

Senior Systems Administrator, with Windows Server/Active Directory and Linux experience, with an emphasis on security and networking.

CISSP, CCNA, ITCPM

Victor M.J. Ryden’s Specialties:

Attention! Notification System
CA SPECTRUM/CA eHealth SystemEDGE
VirtualBox
Windows Server 2003, Active Directory
Exchange 2003, OWA
Hitachi SAN
Disaster Recovery
IIS, DNS, DHCP
Cisco IOS, VPN, IDS, PIX
Call Manager VoIP, Unity Voicemail, Integrated Messaging
IIS, SSL , FTP
Citrix, IPsec VPN, SSL-VPN
SAP with ASP
Windows XP Pro, Office 2003
VMware
AIX, Linux (RedHat SusE), Mailman, POP, SMTP, NFS, SSH
Computer Security, Encryption
WSUS, Network Monitoring, SNMP, Wireshark

Victor M.J. Ryden’s Experience

Monitoring Systems Administrator

Amgen

(Public Company; AMGN; Biotechnology industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Contractor (SMCI) working for Amgen to perform global network, system and application surveillance, outage escalation, and event status documentation within the I. S. Operations Center for over 7,000 servers and network devices, and 10,200 databases and applications. Taking input from CA's eHealth, SystemEDGE, SNMP traps, and SPECTRUM monitor into Attention! to notify responders of system or application issues and track status and escalations.

Concord's Attention! Software
- Maintain database of users, Cell phones, and schedules for notifications
- Based on Business Rules develop and maintain Alarms and Actions
- Troubleshoot using Wireshark and MS SQL 2005.

CA's Spectrum
- Create SNMP, SysEdge, and pingable models of servers and network devices.
- Trace switch port information using Cisco IOS access to allow Alarm suppression due to network issues.
Lead - Computer Infrastructure

Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG)

(Government Administration industry)

August 1983 — June 2008 (24 years 11 months)

- Responsible for a $4 million IT/Operations budget. All aspects of purchasing.
- Supervised Computer, Reproduction, Mailing, and Facilities staff; as well as temps and consultants.
- Over 15 years experience as Administrator for Windows, currently running Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2003, SQL, as well as Unix/Linux. Monitored and maintained network and computer security in addition to physical access control.

- Project Manager on $1.3 million computer center upgrade including: gigabit network infrastructure, server migration from Netware to Microsoft Server 2003 with Active Directory, GroupWise to Exchange 2003, and a desktop upgrade to XP Professional and Office 2003.
- Project Manager on phone system upgrade to Call Manager VoIP and Unity Voice Mail with Integrated Messaging. Included ISDN/IP Videoconferencing upgrade with multipoint capability.
- System Administrator Lead on a 7 month fast-track migration to Public Sector SAP.

Victor M.J. Ryden’s Education

University of California, Los Angeles

Environmental Science 1981 — 1983
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

M.S. , Biology , 1976 — 1981
Cornell University

B.S. , Biology , 1969 — 1971

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Victor M.J. Ryden’s Groups:

ISSA
InfraGard

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP)
Getting Things Done - GTD - SolutionPeople Innovation's Network of Action Innovators
openSUSE Contributors and Users
Wireshark Users
NOTARY PUBLIC
ANIME / MANGA
ISSA Los Angeles Chapter Networking
Protocol Analysis and Troubleshooting
Certified Project Manager (CPM) and ITCPM
Los Angeles - FBI Citizens' Academy Alumni Association
Getting Things Done® - Network of GTD® Enthusiasts