Steve Tylock

Current

Author at The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
Board Member at Digital Rochester
Turnaround IT Consultant at Tylock and Company

Author at TimelyInsights

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Past

Manager of Technical Services at Kriterium
Sales Architect at Lynx Technologies
Director of Desktop and Network Services at Questra Corporation

Senior Systems Architect at Questra Corporation
Systems Administrator / Manager at Eastman Kodak Company
Senior Systems Administrator at SUNY Buffalo - CEDAR Research Group

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Education

SUNY Buffalo
SUNY Buffalo

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Steve Tylock’s Summary

System infrastructure professional with broad information technology experiences in servers, desktops, networks, security, applications, resource scheduling, personnel, and sales across the domains of education, business, government, and manufacturing.

Co-Founder of http://www.timelyinsights.net

LinkedIn Trainer and Author of The LinkedIn Personal Trainer

Steve Tylock’s Specialties:

Analysis of environments leading to strategies and plans for growth and excellence.

Steve Tylock’s Experience

Author

The LinkedIn Personal Trainer

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Author and Publisher for "The LinkedIn Personal Trainer - Using LinkedIn to find, get found, and network your way to success!"

"The LinkedIn Personal Trainer” provides just that – a personal training approach for the number one professional online networking tool – LinkedIn.com. Packed with advice, insightful questions, and exercises, you learn what to do – and why you should be doing it. When completed, you’ll be prepared to find, get found, and network your way to success with LinkedIn.

The book is available at http://linkedinpersonaltrainer.org/book.htm, lulu.com and online retailers everywhere.
Board Member

Digital Rochester

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Digital Rochester is the Upstate NY area's pre-eminent technology business community. We host events ranging from Networking and Career Fairs through Education and Rising Stars to assisting Angel Investing.

The Board works to make our vision a reality - to create, schedule, plan, and drive all of these events – kind of like the Apprentice without the cameras or competition for a job with Donald…

We find sponsors, manage budgets, arrange event details, and greet guests – all in the name of expanding the success of Digital Rochester in bringing people together.

We work for the more than 4500 "employees" of the organization - the members.

http://www.digitalrochester.com
Turnaround IT Consultant

Tylock and Company

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

You know how some companies bring in a new CEO to turn things around - I'm like that except for IT. When you don't have a good understanding of what you have, why you have it, what it's doing (or not doing) and how much it's costing you - that's when I'm invaluable.

I evaluate the existing environment - to get a firm understanding of what's there - and why. Taking that, together with your needs and desires, I come up with a design and plan to get you back on track. Then it's a matter of staffing, execution, and managing the plan to make it all happen. Turning around Information Technology.
Author

TimelyInsights

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

http://www.timelyinsights.net

Timely Insights is a site devoted to exploring the nature of human life in our times. We hope you will visit our site and enjoy the articles and discussion threads for what they bring to the table, and we also hope that in exploring these topics you find yourself taking a few more steps along the path of life – steps that you appreciate taking.
Manager of Technical Services

Kriterium

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

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

Providing proactive system administration services and managed security services to small and mid sized companies in the Western New York area.
Sales Architect

Lynx Technologies

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

2002 — 2004 (2 years )

Providing specialized data storage technologies - online (NAS & SAN), nearline, offline, and archive.
Director of Desktop and Network Services

Questra Corporation

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years )

I managed the complete IT environment - equipment, personnel, vendor relationships, budgets, strategy and implementation. Questra's offices spread across four states with consultants in the field as well as project based client engagements that took place in-house.

During this time, my team managed phases of both growth and decline in the the user base - balancing cost against the continuing demands of users and projects. We re-vitalized an aging infrastructure, and worked to establish common expectations.
Senior Systems Architect

Questra Corporation

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Consulting on VPN deployment, application stress testing / performance improvement, web security and infrastructure work.
Systems Administrator / Manager

Eastman Kodak Company

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EKC; Information Technology and Services industry)

1990 — 1998 (8 years )

1996-1998 Systems Manager
Managed Manufacturing, Engineering, and Office systems for optics organization. Recruited, Trained, and Managed staff of 5. Administered MRP, Quality, Intranet, NT, Novell, MVS, and UNIX systems. Implemented desktop, server and network improvement programs.

1992-1996 Systems Administrator / Team Leader
Lead team of 5 sysadmins; managed and evaluated team's performance. Delivered helpdesk / trouble ticket system and put in place a metrics program for the sysadmin staff.

1991-1992 Software Engineer
Conceived, Designed, Implemented, Documented and Tested software / hardware component of the Optistar Microfilmer line.

1990-1991 Systems Administrator
Performed sysadmin duties for a network of 70 UNIX / Sun Microsystems computers. Initiated program and mentored new sysadmins and technicians based on the "Unix System Administrators Handbook", by Nemeth, Seebass, Snider, & Hein. Fielded OS and kernel questions from software engineers.
Senior Systems Administrator

SUNY Buffalo - CEDAR Research Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1986 — 1990 (4 years )

Managed a network of Sun based computers for research staff working on United States Postal Service address location and character recognition applications - hardware, software, installations, 3rd party products, developing custom programs. Mentored undergraduate assistant. Consulted with researchers and doctoral candidates.
http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/

Steve Tylock’s Education

SUNY Buffalo

MS , Computer Science , August 1986 — May 1990
SUNY Buffalo

BS/BA , Business Management/Computer Science , August 1982 — May 1986

Summa Cum Laude

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Steve Tylock’s Interests:

Cubmaster - Pack 80 2000-2005 ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦, Community Theatre ♪♫, Orienteering - http://roc.us.orienteering.org/ ◪

Steve Tylock’s Groups:

LOPSA - League Of Professional System Administrators - Founding Member - www.lopsa.org/,
GVSAGE - Genesee Valley Systems Administrators Guild - www.gvsage.org, RPCN, Digital Rochester