Christopher Randel: Network Manager

Christopher is a Network Manager based out of Minneapolis, MN.
Christopher seeks to create excellence at whatever task is at hand and strives to enable technology for his clients.
He believe that IT shouldn't be about how to say "No", but instead how to say "Yes, we can do that."
Christopher is currently employed at space150

Christopher's Skills & Accomplishments:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems Administration from Bethel College, KS
• Excellent verbal & writing skills (Hey, that liberal arts education IS useful for something!)
• Excellent at "laymens terms" explanation of all IT related issues: Example (1) (2)
• Job History & Resume

• Over 10 years experience in network security, firewall, LAN & WAN management
• Specialization with network troubleshooting over each layer of network fabric; firewall issues, IP-routing/L3 issues, wired & wireless ethernet/L2 issues, as well as higher level/layer issues.
• Open & closed source VPN, tunnels, client VPN deployment & auditing
• Cisco based networking products configuration
• Network documentation, hardware lifecycle management, & longterm project management.

• Debian & Redhat Linux Distributions, all Microsoft client and server Operating systems, & BSD distributions including all Apple OS X versions
• Administration for Apache, LightHTTPD, nginx, IIS, Coldfusion
• Database administration for MySQL, PostgreSQL, & MSSQL Servers
• Extensive experience troubleshooting server & client hardware issues
• Specialization with VMware Vsphere and other hypervisor installations including;
• Deployment and redeployment of hardware to gain more value of existing infrastructure.
• Administration of hypervisor products
• Understanding and removing hardware bottlenecks for hypervisors & guests
• Troubleshooting guest performance issues
• Top to bottom configuration and troubleshooting for Hypervisor; Disk Storage, Networking, and Servers
• Specialization with HP Lefthand Servers and Software and Cisco networking for its storage and traffic.

Please contact Chris directly for more information.

Christopher Randel
Minneapolis, MN
chris@chrisrandel.com