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Kevin Goldstein kevin@ikornalot.com
520.490.5781
Skill sets
9-10 years experience in each of the following skill sets, as well as a the ability to quickly acquire new skills and master new technologies.
Network Administration
Design, implement and maintain network topologies that include private firewalled, public, virtual private, backup, and storage area networks.
Configure and monitor Cisco 7200, 26xx, and 67x routers, Cisco 5500 and 5002 switches, Linksys routers and switches.
Monitor and analyze networks with Retina, CaptureNet, PeepNet, Snort, Ethereal, MRTG, NT PerfMon, and NT NetMon.
Maintain and configure Inter-Tel Axxess Phone systems.
Systems Administration
Install, configure and maintain Win9x, Windows NT Professional, Server, and Enterprise, Windows 2000 Professional, Server, and Advanced Server, Redhat Linux 5.2 - 7.2 on intel and sparc architectures, SUN Solaris 9, SCO Unix, and IOS 12.
Configure and maintain clustered, high availability Linux, Windows NT Enterprise and Windows 2000 Advanced Server environments.
Administer Microsoft SQL, Sybase SQL, DB2, and MySQL Servers, Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0, FrontPage Server Extensions, Ipswitch IMail, Rockliffe Mailsite, Deerfield FTP Server, Microsoft DNS, Veritas Backup Exec 8 and 8.6, Bind DNS 8 and 9, Apache Web Server mod-SSL and Apache-SSL, OpenSSL, and OpenSSH.
Application Development
Involved with every step of application development: planning, analysis, design, implementation, and support.
Program in Visual Basic and Perl. Script automation tasks in Bash, VBscript, JavaScript, ASP, PHP, and Transact-SQL. Render HTML, DHTML, and XML markup languages.
Communication
Managed teams of employees. Evaluate employee performance, and provide feedback.
Develop and deliver technical training to peer groups.
Work with clients throughout application development to assure client satisfaction.
Provided end-user technical support for by phone, email and in person.
Experience
Pay Rent, Build Credit, Inc.
  Chief Technology and Privacy Officer 7/2003 - Present
Manage the development and maintenance of the business information systems of an FCRA compliant credit bureau. Work with partner financial institutions, property management companies, professional service organizations, and end users to integrate disparate systems and produce useful, effective, secure, intuitive, and cost effective solutions to solve Pay Rent, Build Credit's unique business objectives.
Urkos
  Vice President, Partner 9/1998 - 12/2003
Primary for a small consulting firm, providing services including system planning and architecture, data gathering and analysis, database design and integration, e-commerce and web-based applications, network design and implementation.

In-house and out-of-house application design and implementation, network management, and database architecture.
Casino Marketing Systems, Inc.
  Director of Technology 1/2001 - 7/2003
Manage all Information Technologies for a small click-and-mortar company specializing in providing turn key promotions and new media advertising streams for the gaming industry.

Design, develop and support the company's web-based applications and associated databases, public and private network management, and telecommunications administrator. Contribute to marketing concept development.
Infinetways, Inc.
  Sr. Programming Manager 10/1999 - 1/2001
Manage the application development for a hosting and e-commerce development service provider.

Manage programmers and network administrators. Act as technical advisor for clients creating new applications. In-house and out-of-house application design and implementation. Network and system troubleshooting. Mentor and technical resource for network administrators. Database administration.
Keane, Inc.
  Technical Support Manager 4/1999 - 10/1999
Manage a team of 10 technical support engineers that provide phone support for Microsoft products.

Determine goals and service level expectations for team members. Ensure that goals and service levels are maintained and implement corrective action when necessary. Monitor team member’s technical calls. Evaluate team member performance. Develop and deliver technical training to team members and new hires. Assist in determining required staffing levels, coordinate with recruiting and participate in the hiring process.
  Quality Coaching Team Lead 2/1999 - 4/1999
Manage a team of 6  technical support quality control evaluators.
  Second Tier Technical Support Engineer 2/1998 - 4/1999
Assist first tier support engineers and end-users with support issues with respect to Microsoft FrontPage.
Education
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Windows NT 4.0 Since 9/1999
Western Connecticut State University
Marketing Major 1995-1996
Project Portfolio
payrentbuildcredit.com - Pay Rent, Build Credit, Inc.
Pay Rent, Build Credit is a FCRA compliant Credit Bureau that allows customers unprecedented access to build and maintain their credit files. As CTO of Pay Rent, Build Credit, Inc. I work with technical partners (IBM), property management companies, marketing partners, education/enrollment partners and financial institutions to develop and maintain the back-end infrastructure and portal front-end that supports the massive undertaking of creating a new Credit Bureau.
americancasinoclub.com - Casino Marketing Systems, Inc.
The American Casino Club website is a directory of offers geared toward the 'land based' casino player. The focus of the site is to offer direct market advertising to a database of 'land based' casino players. 

I designed, implemented and manage this site.
sundt.com - Sundt Construction, Inc.
Sundt's corporate website showcases the company's remarkable history and amazing engineering feats.

I integrated the company's existing project database into the 'projects' section of the site.
internetregistration.com - InternetRegistration.com, LLC
Provides domain name registration and management services.

I implemented early versions of OpenSRS's open source reseller client software, and worked with the designers of that software to improve the software.
salience.com - Salience Associates, Inc.
Salience's corporate website showcases the professional sales force outsourcing company's offerings.

I designed and implemented the job posting engine in the 'careers' section of the site.
videoapartmentguide.com - Video Apartment Guide
Aligns renters with a rental placement agency. The site provides full web-based communication between the agency and the renter. The site has a full featured rental property search engine and a back end interface for the rental placement agents, statistic reporting, rental property database management and renter database management. The site automates many tasks for the placement agency, including invoicing, commissions disbursement, and rental application processing.

I worked with the company to design and implement all of the engines, administrative, and automation functions of the website.