WILLIAM NEVIS

1584 Parrot Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94087 | wnevis@lanwanprofessional.com |

408-245-0893

SUMMARY
17 + years of experience in the IT industry. Background ranges from engineering,
escalation server support, administration and networking ranging from small to
large scale complex enterprise environments.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS SUMMARY
• Exceptional presentation and customer relationship skills including strong
written and verbal communication skills. Able to effectively communicate with
senior management, third party vendors, technical staff, as well as non-
technical end users.
• Excellent analytical skills. Able to absorb large volumes of technical data and
develop concise solutions in addition to translating into non-technical terms.
• Extensive knowledge and experience proficiently handling complex mission
critical projects under extreme time constraints.
TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (pending)
(CISSP)
• Unix System Management and Administration
(USCUMA)
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer(pending)
(MCSE: 2003)
• Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
(MCSA: 2003)
• Microsoft Certified Professional
(MCP)
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (pending)
(CCNP)
• Certified WAN Specialist
(CWS)
• Cisco Certified Network Associate
(CCNA)
• Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician
(CCENT)
TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY
Connectivity & Hardware: Cisco 3500/4500, firewalls, routers, switches, wireless, T1,
Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fujitsu and SUN
servers, ADIC Tape backup NAS storage, IBM desktops ,
Fujitsu laptops, Linksys WAP’S, Netapps.
OS & Enterprise Apps: Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 , ISA Server, Exchange
Server5.5/2003, Nagios, Zabbix, Symantec VERITAS, Proxy
Server, VMware, Terminal Server, SQL 2000/2005, MySQL,
Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, IIS, Apache, Shell, C, Java, Perl.
Network Technologies: CDP, Frame-relay, PPP, Access Control List (ACL), Network
Address Translation (NAT), Port Address Translation (PAT),
Redistribution, OSPF Virtual links, GRE Tunnel, VLAN, VTP,
HSRP, Ether Channel, STP, SVI, CEF, MPLS, Multicast, IPv6, IOS
Security, Qos
Technologies: RAID, SCSI, UPS, Active Directory, DNS, SMTP, WINS, DHCP,
RIS, Remote Desktop.
Windows NT/2000/XP/VISTA/Windows7, Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, Project,
IE, Mozilla Firefox, Wireless Networked Scanners/Printers.

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LAN/WAN Professional Contractor 2009-Present
Fujitsu America Staff System Software Engineer (SA/NA)
2000-2009
Amdahl/Fujitsu Senior System Administrator (SA)
1991-2000
Amdahl Corp. Senior Test Support Engineer (TE) 1981-
1990
EDUCATION
University of Colorado Masters of Science Information Systems Security
Management
National University Bachelors Computer Science
West Valley College AS Degree Electronic Engineering

DETAIL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LAN/WAN Professional Contractor 2009-Present
Sunnyvale, CA

• Member of a team of contractors responsible for providing end to end

LAN/WAN solutions.

• Primary responsibilities include but not limited to design, implementation

and troubleshooting of all LAN/WAN solutions offered by LAN/WAN
Professional.

• Technologies handled include but not limited to routers, switches, and

firewalls, Enterprise servers, Storage, Windows 2000/2003, Exchange Server,
ISA, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, frame relay and much more.

• Additional responsibilities include remote support and administration of a

server farm of 500+ servers and in house administration of a
routing/switching infrastructure designed to support over 30,000 users.

Fujitsu America Staff System Software Engineer (SA/NA) 2000-

2009 Sunnyvale, CA
• Primary responsibilities included but not limited to a member of a team of
Engineering Enterprise network, storage, and server engineers responsible
for enterprise server design, implementation, integration and
troubleshooting and 1st/2nd level escalation support to various professional
and corporate clients of Fujitsu America/Siemens.

• Additional primary responsibilities included but not limited to maintaining

multiple Enterprise data center servers and network infrastructures with
Cisco/Linksys routers and switches. Support for environment of 400+ users
included troubleshooting network connectivity issues, proactive network and
 system monitoring, system load balancing, tracking, reporting engineering
data corruption, training peers, recommending and scheduling repairs,
updates, patches and security enhancements, scripting modifications,
installation of workstations, end user consulting support for all of the
organization’s LAN based applications data centers, WAN and Internet
segment system needs as required. Supervised and aided other network
support and client server specialists in planning, coordinating, designing and
implementing network security measures, performance enhancements and
connectivity integrations.

• Project management tasks included relocation, infrastructure upgrade

proposals. Negotiation and purchasing of IT related services, required
software and hardware solutions, and product ECR retrofits. Employee
training on all system enhancements also included.

• Technologies handled include but not limited to UNIX LINUX Windows

VMware servers and clients, Exchange Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP,
WINS, OSI, SQL, Web servers, and much more.

• Special projects included support and configuration of corporate Video

Conference systems, lab installations and migration management, misc
enterprise server and storage implementations, support and implementation
of internal and external network access for customer demos and
benchmarking requirements.

Amdahl/Fujitsu Corp. Senior System Administrator (SA/NA)

1991-2000 Sunnyvale, CA

• ERP mainframe Oracle UNIX server data admin support and analysis in a
SPARC UNIX/Windows NT 300+ client network environment including
installations, backup, performance and network monitoring, configurations,
Raid storage integration, hardware and software evaluation testing,
recommendations, purchases, and training.

Amdahl Corp. Senior Test Support Engineer (TE)

1981-1991 Sunnyvale, CA
• Liaison and advisor with Japan, Ireland, manufacturing training, performing
test system installations, implementation and resolutions to various
technical issues to ensure optimal system performance and card test
coverage. Installed and configured network connectivity to test systems
centralized results to data base for monitoring and tracking.