Tycen Stafford

Current

• Lead Systems Engineer at Apex Learning

Past

• Systems Engineer at Jobster
• Systems Administrator at Jobster
• Senior SMB Systems Engineer at Tyrnstone Systems

• IT Systems Analyst at Jobster
• Systems Administrator at Tyrnstone Systems
• Owner at Tytek Computers (Sole Proprietorship)

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Education

• Eugene Bible College

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Tycen Stafford’s Summary

Linux/Windows Systems Administrator.

Tycen Stafford’s Specialties:

CCNA, MCSA, MCDST, RHCT, Windows and Linux Systems

Tycen Stafford’s Experience

• Lead Systems Engineer

  Apex Learning

  (Privately Held; E-Learning industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  - Windows Systems Administrator supporting a production web server environment.
  - Designed and sourced (vendor and product selection) a SAN solution to support SQL clusters.
  - Assisted in the project management of a ~60 person office move (weekend forklift move).
  - Designed and managed build out of current server room.
  - Ongoing project of migrating older systems to virtual machines using VMware ESX.
  - Major migration to updated hardware and software.
  - Installed and configured a Nagios monitoring solution for internal and production systems.
  - Installed and configured Blackberry Enterprise Server.
  - Traveled to a remote office (East Coast) to install Cisco ASA firewall, domain controller, VoIP phone system.
  - Participate in 24x7 on-call pager support.

• Systems Engineer

  Jobster

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2008 — November 2008 (10 months)

  Linux sys admin supporting a production web server environment running primarily RHEL 5. Use of tools like Nagios, Cacti, WEbmetrics and cfengine. Participate in on-call pager rotation with two other team members. Scripting using bash and Perl scripts. Other experience: 3par storage array; F5 Load Balancer; VMware ESX

• Systems Administrator

  Jobster

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2007 — February 2008 (10 months)

  Provide systems administrator support for approximately 20 Windows 2003 servers hosting Exchange, DHCP, DNS, AD, VPN, IIS, Blackberry Server, etc. Manage hardware and software inventory and ordering. Support Inter-Tel digital PBX phone system. Configure and monitor backups in corporate environment. Provide help desk support for approximately 60 desktops/laptops running XP, Vista, Linux and Mac. Performed numerous server setups, migrations and upgrades.
  
  Also part of the Operations team supporting our production website infrastructure (Linux based). Regular use of tools like Nagios, Cacti, Webmetrics, and cfengine. Participate in on-call pager rotation for website hosted at collocation facility.

• Senior SMB Systems Engineer

  Tyrnstone Systems

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

  Provided IT and server support to multiple small business client sites. The majority of time was spent on a large project involving travel to numerous retail locations and installing/configuring new networking hardware for the site to use to connect back to a central location.

• IT Systems Analyst

  Jobster

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2006 — January 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Provide systems administrator support for approximately 20 Windows 2003 servers hosting Exchange, DHCP, DNS, AD, VPN, RIS/Ghost, IIS, Blackberry, etc. Participate in on-call pager rotation for production website hosted at a collocation facility. Manage hardware and software inventory and ordering. Support Inter-Tel digital PBX phone system. Configure and monitor backups in corporate and production environment. Provide help desk support for a fast growing company – approximately 150 Windows XP clients (plus some remote clients). Onboarded approximately 90 new hires. Performed numerous server setups, migrations and upgrades. Streamlined ordering/purchasing process. Streamlined onboarding process.

• Systems Administrator

  Tyrnstone Systems

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2005 — January 2006 (6 months)

  Supported Small Business Server environments and small office networks.

• Owner

  Tytek Computers (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years )

  Residential and small business computer and networking support.

Tycen Stafford’s Education

• Eugene Bible College

  1990 — 2002

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