Reed G. Porter at myITforum.com

Reed G. Porter

email: reedracer@hotmail.com

Skills

Expert in remote administration, system state management, software packaging, OS imaging and lite touch system deployment. Committed to error free distributions with minimal downtime.

Experience

Cerner Corporation ~ CernerWorks July 2006 - Present System Engineer
Kansas City, MO

• Implemented Altiris Total Server Management System, Task Server, and Security Expressions

• Track, Inventory, Patch, State Monitor, Remediate, Upgrade, and Standardize managed servers.

• Currently 5300 Windows, 300 Linux, 100 AIX, and 2 HP-UX servers

• Increasing at approximately 200 servers per month

Saint Luke's Health System March 2001 - June 2006 Desktop Integration Engineer
Kansas City, MO

• SMS Administrator with 7 sites supporting 3600 clients

• Created single standard image for all client PC's

• Altiris Administrator

• Performed Windows 95 to Windows 2000 OS and Hardware Refresh

• Performed Windows 2000 to Windows XP OS Refresh

Universal Underwriters Group November 2000 - February 2001 Consultant
Overland Park, KS

• SMS Administrator

• Trained customer to use SMS Installer to create software packages

• Recommended software deployment strategy utilizing Microsoft SMS 2.0

• Created documentation for package creation and distribution

• Trained client on desktop management strategies

The Boeing Company May 1997 - May 2000 System Design & Integration Specialist
St. Louis, MO

• Project Co-Lead for Win3.1/NT3.51 to Win95/NT 4.0 upgrade of 13,000 workstations

• Implemented Software Packaging and Distribution for the PC Platform

• Migrated from WinInstall to Microsoft SMS 2.0

• Installed and Supported 15 NT 4.0 resource servers

• Received Boeing Quality Achievement Award for "Efforts to stabilize Tektronics WinDD/Citrix WinFrame Servers"

• Performed WinFrame to Terminal Server with Citrix Metaframe upgrade

• Designed and scripted Windows Terminal Server login and a Served Application Launcher

• Lead Technical Support for Computer Based Training server

• Executive Technical Support for 20 users

Veterans Administration Medical Center May 1995 - May 1997 Software Specialist
Kansas City, MO

• Participated in Windows 3.1 to Windows NT 3.51/95 Conversion

• 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Level Help Desk support for 1500 clients

• Helped implement paperless medical records and patient encounter forms

Terminal Data Corporation January 1989 - March 1992 Customer Service Engineer
Moorpark, CA

• Maintained and Repaired large scale Digital Scanners, Source Microfilm equipment, and PC's

Anacomp Maintenance Division February 1988 - January 1989 Field Service Engineer
Los Angeles, CA

• Maintained and repaired PC controlled Computer Output Microfilm equipment

United States Navy August 1978 - August 1987 Data Systems Technician
San Francisco, CA

• Lead Data Systems Technician, U.S.S. Moosbrugger, DD-980

• Data Systems Instructor Mare Island, CA

Education

Microsoft Corporation

• Business Desktop Deployment Accelerator - 2006

• Microsoft Management Summit - March 2004, April 2005

Altiris

• ManageFusion 2003, 2007

• Notification Server 2003

• Deployment Server 2003

• Advanced SSDK 2007

Centriq University
Overland Park, KS

• Windows 2000 Implementation - 2000

• CTX-302.2 MetaFrame Administration -2001

• CTX-410 Advanced Citrix Server Implementation - 2001

• SMS Boot camp - 2001

• Active Directory Administration - 2002

• VB Scripting - 2005

• Linux 101 - 2006

University of Central Missouri State
Warrensburg, MO

Bachelor of Business Administration Computer Information Systems

In Progress Current GPA: 3.61 Graduation 2007

United States Navy

• Basic Electricity and Electronics, computer maintenance and repair (mainframe, tape drive, multiplexers, and display systems), soldering, and Instructor schools

Technical Skills

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Workstation and Server, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server System

• Systems Management Server 2003 and 2.0, SQL Server, Internet Information Server, System Center
  

• Altiris Notification Server, Deployment Solution, Inventory Solution, HP Client Management Solution

• HTML, PHP, VB.Net, VB Script, Java, Java Script, C, C++, Pascal, RSS, XML, WinBatch, Kixtart

• Citrix WinFrame, Metaframe, and Windows Terminal Server

• Windows Installer, Wise, and SMS software packaging/delivery solution

Honors and Awards

• Coordinator Kansas City Regional SMS User's Group 2005-Present

• Altiris Certified Professional - Notification Server 6

• Speaker 2005 Microsoft Management Summit

• Boeing Quality Achievement Award for Tektronix WinDD (Citrix) Stabilization

• Lambda Sigma Sophomore Honor Society