Christopher Randel

Current

• Network Administrator at space150

Past

• Network Administrator at Internet Exposure
• Junior Systems Administrator at Bethel College Information & Media Services
• Systems Administrator at University of Minnesota Twin Cities Computer Science Department

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Education

• Bethel College
• Apple Valley High School
• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Christopher Randel’s Summary

Become an excellent systems administrator for a business, college or ISP.
Be a part of a successful workplace that supports the community.
A constant goal of finding the "elegant solution" to all problems.

Christopher Randel’s Specialties:

-Expertise in configuring/deploying web application platforms with thought to security, performance, and scalability.
-Solid knowledge and experience in Microsoft AD deployment/administration.
-Experience with MS Server 03/08, 2000/XP/Vista/7, Debian and Redhat Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X 10.5 server/client.
-Experience with database administration for MySQL 4.0/5.0 and MSSQL 2000/2005/2008
-Experience with Exchange 03/07 admin
-Experience with VMWare Server deployment and utilization.

Christopher Randel’s Experience

• Network Administrator

  space150

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

  October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Enabling technology for the employees of space150;
  
  This includes;
  Managing our Active Directory based network
  Administering our MySQL and MSSQL database servers
  Administering our IIS and apache web servers
  Administering our exchange server
  Administering our network, Barracuda spam filter, and Linux based firewall
  Administering our Cisco VOIP system
  Administering our Cisco Wireless Network [PEAP Auth] as well as guest network [WDS via Linksys DDWRT]
  Hardware troubleshooting for desktops and servers

• Network Administrator

  Internet Exposure

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

  August 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  Work independently and together in a fast paced environment being the equivalent of a Swiss army knife in the systems administration world. With thoughtful consideration towards security and client usability we successfully created a simple and sound network with multiple layers of security.
  
  Installed and administered both Linux and Windows 2003 servers running web applications like Apache, IIS, Ruby on Rails/Mongrel, PHP, etc. Behind those I installed and managed backend databases running Mysql 4/5 or MSsql 2000/2005.
  
  IE runs Postfix with a custom filtering configuration with Spam Assassin and various real time ban lists. DNS is provided through BIND, and authentication through LDAP. IE is currently using Juniper firewalls onsite and Netscreen firewalls for many of our clients. IE also work over the phone and on site with our clients administering their domain controllers, firewalls, exchange servers, and workstations.

• Junior Systems Administrator

  Bethel College Information & Media Services

  (Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2003 — May 2006 (2 years 10 months)

  Solve a wide variety of technical problems and maintain Bethel College’s computer network. Bethel College has an LDAP back-end based authentication and integrated Active Directory and Exchange. Job duties often included troubleshooting student and faculty technology issues, and deploying new components to our network.

• Systems Administrator

  University of Minnesota Twin Cities Computer Science Department

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2002 — January 2003 (1 year 1 month)

  Job duties included account and computer administration of both Windows NT/2000 and *NIX/UNIX environment involving hundreds of computers and thousands of accounts. Diagnose problems for clients and fixing them. As a major project we used PXE boot installations and set up 3 labs totaling several hundred computers.

Christopher Randel’s Education

• Bethel College

  Computer Systems Administration , Computer Systems Administration , 2003 — 2006

• Apple Valley High School

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Additional Information

Christopher Randel’s Groups:

•    Twin Cities Systems Administrators

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