Thomas Trelvik

Current

Business/Systems Analyst 3 at Microsoft

Past

Solaris/Linux System Administrator at KForce
Solaris/Linux System Administrator Consultant at Kent State University
Senior Systems Engineer at CampusEAI Consortium

Case School of Engineering Webmaster at Case Western Reserve University
Unix System Administrator at Case Western Reserve University
Network Specialist at Case Western Reserve University

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Education

Cleveland State University
Case Western Reserve University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

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Thomas Trelvik’s Summary

Linux/Unix system administrator with network engineering background, looking to build on one or both areas of experience.

Managed large scale server deployments, backup systems, and storage area networks(SAN)/network attached storage(NAS). Set up monitoring system to monitor and measure network, server, and service availability and performance, and send alerts upon detection of outages. Deployed and managed numerous web servers, mail servers, mailing lists, name servers, switches, routers and firewalls. Managed multiple Windows and Unix domains, VPN servers, and a global Voice over IP (VoIP) network.

Thomas Trelvik’s Specialties:

Ubuntu Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Core, CentOS, Solaris, virtualization, VMware, Nagios, Asterisk, Apache, RT, BackupPC, Mailman, Sendmail, Postfix, Bind, iptables, pf, OpenVPN, nmap, Snort, Wireshark (Ethereal), TCP/IP, 802.11, network design, routing, Cisco IOS, Cisco CatOS, VLAN, RAID, LVM, SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, NIS, Samba, bash, CUPS

Thomas Trelvik’s Experience

Business/Systems Analyst 3

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

Working on the Exchange Hosted Filtering team as part of Forefront Online Security for Exchange. Helping manage 1K+ Linux/Postfix & Windows/Exchange servers.
Solaris/Linux System Administrator

KForce

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; KFRC; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

May 2007 — March 2008 (11 months)

Linux/Unix system administrator consultant.
Solaris/Linux System Administrator Consultant

Kent State University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

May 2007 — March 2008 (11 months)

Solaris/Linux System Administrator Consultant
Senior Systems Engineer

CampusEAI Consortium

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 2 months)

•Managed 50+ Linux servers for company and clients.
•Deployed detailed monitoring system for reliability metrics.
•Supported global Voice over IP (VoIP) communications for extensive savings in international calling.
•Implemented SAN & NAS for highly redundant and abundant storage for many servers.
•Extensively utilized virtualization technologies to save on hardware expenses.
•Planned and developed company IT security policies and procedures.
Case School of Engineering Webmaster

Case Western Reserve University

(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

October 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 1 month)

•Maintained web sites for 22 academic departments, administrative offices, and research institutes.
•Deployed content management system enabling hundreds of content producers to create and manage
their content without requiring web development expertise.
•Oversaw development and deployment of products to utilize the content management system for course accreditation material.
Unix System Administrator

Case Western Reserve University

(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

February 2004 — October 2004 (9 months)

•Administered Windows and Unix domains, dozens of Unix workstations, web servers, mail servers, mailing lists, and print servers.
Network Specialist

Case Western Reserve University

(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 2000 — February 2004 (4 years 2 months)

•Supported infrastructure for 10,000 user network, 50,000 user email system, and several department web servers.
•Managed product selection for project to replace campus telephone system with VoIP, including evaluation of end user hardware and software, converters enabling use of traditional analog phones, protocol selection, and server hardware and software.
•Evaluated wireless security and network management solutions for 1200 node wireless network covering 155 acres.
•Worked extensively with enterprise switches and routers by Cisco.
•Created and maintained technical documentation and network maps.

Thomas Trelvik’s Education

Cleveland State University

BS , Computer Information Science , 2006 — 2007

Completed Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Science in May 2007.

Activities and Societies:

Association for Computing Machinery, Northeast Ohio Software Association
Case Western Reserve University

Computer Science 1997 — 1999

Full time student from August 1997 to December 1999.
Full time staff and part time student from January 2000 to October 2005.
Earned 57 credits towards Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science.

Activities and Societies:

Founder of the Case Racquetball Club, Webmaster for the Association for Computing Machinery, CWRU Linux Users Group, Mac Users Group, Case Cycling Club