Steve Cvar, CISSP

Current

Owner at The Cvar Group

Past

Sr. Technical Engineer at CBS Television Distribution
Systems Architect at Boeing
Field Service Engineer at Micro Age / Wareforce

Configuration Technician at Computer City

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Steve Cvar, CISSP’s Summary

I have over 10 years of experience providing IT solutions for fortune 500 companies and have been a full time Independent Consultant since June 2008.

I hold multiple industry certifications including a current CISSP and not so current MCSE (NT4) , EMC Proven Professional, ITIL Foundation, and A+.

Served as technical editor for SAM's Teach yourself SQL in 24 Hours (4th edition only).

Steve Cvar, CISSP’s Specialties:

Virtualization: Hyper-V, SCVMM 2008, VMware GSX, ESX, Converter, P2V, Fusion, Parallels
Scripting: VBScript, Perl, Shell
Macs, iPhones and Apple Technologies
Computing Infrastructure: Active Directory Architecture and Reporting, IIS, Apache, Exchange, LDAP, Open VPN, DFS, FRS, Live State, Google for organizations,
Windows, OS X, and Linux/ BSD (RHEL, CentOS).
Monitoring: Nagios, Cacti, Whats Up, Nessus, NMap, Wireshark
Web Development: HTML, CSS, PHP
DBA: MS-SQL, MySQL, Oracle

Steve Cvar, CISSP’s Experience

Owner

The Cvar Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2000 — Present (9 years)

Systems Integration and Computing Infrastructure Consulting
• Web development (non-flash) and hosting.
• Application server deployment and maintenance.
• Storage and backup solutions. (Windows, Linux, and Mac)
• Open Source VPN Solutions, Including LDAP integration.
• Domain Migrations: NT4->2003 2000->2003 2003->2008
• Custom VBScript solutions for account creation, and AD reporting.
• VMWare, Hyper-V and Parallels Virtualization.
• Desktop deployment strategies. Image Deployment via RIS/WDS
Sr. Technical Engineer

CBS Television Distribution

(Public Company; CBS; Entertainment industry)

August 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 11 months)

Active Directory Reporting/ Management/ VBScript, ADSI, CSVDE
Software Delivery, Altiris, Wise
Server and Desktop Imaging Architecture
Application Server Support (Citrix, Connected, Altiris, RIS/ WDS, File, Print) - BartPE on RIS via PXE
MS SQL 2000 DBA
Scripting for server monitoring and reporting
Virtualization - VMWare Server
Executive Mac Support and Technology Steering
Systems Architect

Boeing

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2006 (6 years)

Enterprise Systems Administration in secure and corporate evironments.
Managed Ardence / BXP diskless PXE Booted client environment.
Managed Windows 2003 Active Directory, AD Sites, Linux RHEL servers, Storage SAN/ NAS (MSA-1000), Exchange 2003, Routers/ Switches (Cisco 6509, 3725, 2800, 2900 Cisco IOS), Logon Scripts, Web Sites, Citrix Metaframe XP Farms, Livestate Recovery, Double-Take Replication, VMWare, DFS, FRS
Field Service Engineer

Micro Age / Wareforce

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

February 1997 — August 2000 (3 years 7 months)

Performed on site Server, Desktop and Networking support for various clients: Downey School District, Boeing, Nissan Motors, etc.
Configuration Technician

Computer City

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1995 — January 1997 (1 year 6 months)

Installed software and hardware upgrades on PCs and Macs. Diagnosed hardware and software problems.