Education

BA in Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal (In progress, 6 courses remaining)
Certifications

  • ITIL ver 2 Foundation (2007)
  • MCP – Microsoft Certified Professional Certification Windows 2003 Server (2005)
  • ISS – Real Secure Specialist (2002)
  • ISS – Advanced Real Secure Specialist (2002)
  • CCSA – CheckPoint Certified Security Administrator (2000)
  • CCSE – CheckPoint Certified Security Engineer (1999)
  • Novell Netware 5 Administrator (1999)
  • Apple laptop and desktop certifications – Hardware Maintenance (1998)


Languages

  • French, English and Polish

Responsibilities / Objectives

I am seeking a leadership position in IT. I have strong interpersonal and leadership skills which makes me an ideal candidate in the role of technical project leader, technical consultant, solutions architect or site administrator. In my 11 years in IT, I had the opportunity to work with a vast variety of projects, products, operating systems and networks. My main specialties revolve around solution integration, networks, servers (UNIX or otherwise), security, firewalls, VPNs, WANS, Active Directory. I am looking for challenges that will use the broad based knowledge I have acquired over the years to plan, analyze and provide direction and leadership.

Technical Skills

Operating systems:

  • Unix/network system administration (Linux and FreeBSD) and Windows system administration.
  • UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris)
  • Microsoft OS Family (Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / 2003 / NT / XP / SBS)
  • VMware Server (Virtualization – Linux, Windows)
  • Mac OS 7 / 8 / 9 / X

Networking related:

  • Firewalls, routers, switches.
  • TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, IMAP, SMTP, PPTP, IPSEC, NFS, NIS, LDAP and other protocols.
  • Monitoring solutions (big brother, Nagios, MRTG)
  • Management solutions (Configuresoft ECM, Microsoft SMS, WSUS)
  • Apache, IIS
  • Microsoft Exchange (2000/2003), Sendmail, Imap products (Cyrus, imapd, courier, etc), pop3

Security related:

  • Security systems administration (M0n0wall, Cisco PIX, and Checkpoint for clients)
  • CheckPoint Firewalls (Windows, SecurePlatform, Solaris, all version - NG, NGX, R62, etc)
  • CheckPoint Connectra Portal (SecurePlatform and Appliance)
  • Microsoft Certificate Authority (server)
  • Aladdin Token Management Server - TMS (USB token certificate based authentication)
  • CISCO PIX (worked on)
  • Linux, FreeBSD (ipfw, ipchains, etc)
  • M0n0wall
  • pfSense
  • WatchGuard (why to I even list that...)


For more information and a full CV, you may e-mail me at:

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