BRANDON ARNOLD

67-40 Booth St Apt 1D Forest Hills, NY 11375 (409) 527-4630

brandonarnold@live.com

My goal is to obtain a position as a Junior Network/Systems Administrator that will allow me to broaden my
knowledge while applying my current expertise.

Professional Experience______________________________________________________________

Pirozzi Reporting, New York, NY October 2006 – January 2009

Network/Systems Administrator for court reporting company
• Primary responsibilities included setting up and maintaining network equipment and office computers
• Provided on site support for attorney’s and court reporters at multiple locations
• Maintained systems and network
• Conducted multiple national and international IP/ISDN video conferences
• Configured attorney’s laptops at multiple locations for streaming real time depositions
• Provided legacy support for outdated systems
• Designed and coded application to assist in automation of editing transcripts

Joe Arnold Consultants, LLC, Port Neches, TX January 2002 - October 2006
Network/Systems Administrator for public relations firm
• Responsible for maintenance of systems and network
• Responded to off site support calls from multiple clients
• Managed setup, maintenance and access to dedicated Windows 2003 server
• Designed and implemented network in new office
• Installed and maintained various network technologies
• Coordinated with art, programming and administration departments
• Developed emergency backup solution for quick backups on short notice evacuations
• Setup and maintained basic VoIP system

Victor's Construction, Port Arthur, TX September 2005 - October 2006

Technical Support Contractor for construction company
• Mapped physical network for newly constructed building
• Maintained network and systems

Port Arthur Economic Development Corporation, Port Arthur, TX March 2003 - October 2006
Technical Support Contractor for governmental agency
• Resolved numerous email related issues
• Managed access to remote backup server

Glover Insurance, Port Neches, TX March 2003 - October 2006

Technical Support Contractor for insurance agency
• Implemented various hardware and network upgrades
• Maintained network and systems

Southeast Texas Humane Society, Beaumont, TX August 2005

Technical Support Contractor for animal shelter
• Diagnosed and fixed workstation failure due to electrical surge

Skills_____________________________________________________________________________________

Experience with all major versions of Windows from 95 to Vista, as well as MS-DOS. Extensive
knowledge of, and comfortable working in the command prompt. Working knowledge of C#,
Lua, MySQL and ASP.NET. Understanding of C++, WPF. Moderate exposure to Linux and
 understanding of Open Source methodologies. Exposure to Cisco routers and switches, IOS.
VMWare Workstation. VoIP installation at home.

Programming Experience___________________________________________________________________

C#
• Application to automate the process of editing large text files using regular expressions
• Application to retrieve ads from given category on Craigslist.

ASP.Net/C#
• Built custom MySQL driven blogging backend for reasonman.com

Lua
• Script to act as a server for managing multiple connections from a website as well as a chat
server backend.

Education_________________________________________________________________________________

Microsoft Certified Professional, MCDST.

Studied Network Administration at Lamar Institute of Technology.
Member of Port Neches-Groves High school Computer Science UIL team.

References upon request