I’m Alexander Ray, a Standard Nerd who works as a System Administrator at a software company in the Spokane Valley. I’m currently a Junior at Eastern Washington University, working toward a BS-CIS degree.

Experience

• University: Eastern Washington University, BS-CIS
• Junior; 2011 – Present
• College: Spokane [Falls] Community College, AA
• Graduated; 2008-2011
• High School: Mount Spokane High School, Diploma
• Graduated; 2006-2010
• Work: Enhanced Software Products, System Administrator
• October 2010 – Present
• Work: McGlades, contract IT
• 2007-2009 – periodic
• Work: Mead Middle School, helpdesk
• Norton Ghost; basic networking; data recovery with linux; hardware replacement (laptop/desktop repair)
• 2005-2006 – elective class

Skills

• Operating Systems: 
• CentOS (2 years)
• Debian/Ubuntu (3/6 years)
• FreeBSD (5 years)
• Windows XP/7 (5 years/since beta)
• Windows Server 2003/2008 (2/2 years)
• OS X (3 years)
• Server-Stacks:
• SQL 2008 on Server 2008
• Exchange 2010 on Server 2008
• Apache, PHP, MySQL, and MSSQL via odbc on Debian and CentOS
• Apache, PHP, and MySQL with memcached and eaccelerator on FreeBSD
• nginx and php-fastcgi on Debian
• MDaemon on server 2003
• Bind on CentOS
• IIS 6/7 on Server 2003/2008
• Service Platforms:
• MediaWiki
• WordPress
• Programming: 
• PHP (fluent)
• Python (okay)
• Java (fluent)
• Bash/Batch (functional)
• Security:
• Hardening CentOS per NSA guidelines
• tracking and removing webshells installed through misconfigured client websites
• basic penetration testing (SQL injection, XSS)
• Networking:
• VLANs
• NATs
• VPNs (troubleshooting phase 1/2 mismatches, stability, etc, on mixed SonicWall/Cisco environments)
• Routing