Network Engineer

X-Wire Netowrks

April 2005 to Actually working here

While working at Athabasca University as Systems Administrator.. my spare time allowed me to build 7 towers in Athabasca County to start a high-speed Wireless Provider business. This time-demanding project was ongoing for 2 years building towers and installing equipment while working full-time. I brought wireless high-speed internet to the community and myself. I continue to supply high-speed internet to myself and others in hobby scenario while selling some to larger company when they came along 2 years later. I implemented several technologies with various equipment for infrastructure and CPE: WiLAN, Motorola, Microtik, and various others on 5.8Ghz, 2.4Ghz, 900Mhz. Backhaul, Mesh, PTP.

Systems Administrator

Athabasca University

September 2001 to June 2014

Athabasca University - experience highlights Systems Administrator ? UNIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows Server Current desktop environment is MacOS / Win 8

Systems Administrator

Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc.

October 2000 to June 2001

As UNIX/Solaris Systems Administrator, was responsible for medium-size unix portion of IT Dept. ? Responsible for the Solaris boxes and AIX boxes and several GIS applications on a Unix platform. ? Several various GIS applications on Unix platform.

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