Ernesto Couso Artiles
Network And Systems Administrator
  • San Antonio,
  • Texas,
  • United States of America
Member Since: 2014/11/24
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Professional Background
Network And Systems Administrator
Independent Consultant
July 2014 – Present
• Offer technical consulting in implementation of new solutions.
• Implemented newer procedures and policy’s to streamline standard support options to customers.
• Improving Costumer’s IT Infrastructure
• Recommend and Implement routers, switches for costumers.
Senior Technical And IT Manager / Senior Project Manager
Grupo NetPC
January 2014 – May 2014
In charge of the design and implementation of new IT projects for clients and for the company.

Supervisor of 2 junior network engineers, 10 technicians and 4 tech support technicians

Implementation of the Citrix Netscaler And Peplink load balancers

Implementation of an Cisco ASA 5515 with VPN and security configuration for The National Lottery.

Configuration of the main servers (Centos/Windows2008 server) DNS, Exchange, Active directory, SharePoint, etc..

Manager of 15 Datacenters with more than 500+ nodes.

Develop and Design of the Wireless infrastructure nationwide

Design, develop and implement IT solutions for corporate users, must of then with several data links and virtualized servers (XenServer mainly).

Trained client staff on all new and old technologies deployed into their respective environments
Founder / Owner / Senior Consultant
Enlace Lógico | Ecuador
August 2010 – December 2013
Offer technical consulting in implementation of new solutions.

Implemented newer procedures and policy’s to streamline standard support options to customers.

Improving Costumer’s IT Infrastructure

Recommend and Implement routers, switches for costumers.
Operations And Engineering Manager
LEBLONCORP S.A
April 2008 – October 2010
Implemented, maintained, updated VSAT Satellite Stations as well remote network infrastructure for clients in remote areas (Biocentinela, Shrimp Farms, Banana Farms)

Setting up VPN connections between costumers company headquarters

Designed Virtual solutions for customers wind remote location over the cloud.

Design and implementation of the LAN network (wireless) on remote locations.

Installation and Maintain of SIP Servers (VoIP) and connected lines (Asterisk SIP Central).

Supervise Application Development working over the remote and VPN infrastructure
Engineering Director
M.I. WebWorks
April 2003 – October 2004
•      In charge of the technical department of the ISP (4 Datacenters, 250+ nodes and PTP)
•      Design and Implement security policies trough firewalls (cisco pixfirewall, zywall) And Servers (Solaris, RedHat)
•      In charge of the design and implementation of new IT projects for clients and for the company.
•      Design And Administration of the LAN/WAN network
•      Administration of the Main servers (Solaris, RedHat) DNS, Mail, LDAP, SAMBA, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache and Tomcat HTTP Servers.
•      Bash scripting for pre-programmed processes for linux / unix servers maintenance and administration
Project Manager / Head Systems Engineer
COLOMBUS Conectividad ISP / COPEXTEL CORPORTATION
September 1999 – March 2003
•      Installation, Administration and management of the main servers (RH 9, SuSE 8, FreeBSD)
•      Administration main server services in both Linux/Unix and Windows 2000 advanced Server
•      In charge of the design and implementation of new IT projects for clients and for the company.
•      Design And Administration of the LAN/WAN network
•      Administration of the Main servers (Solaris, RedHat) DNS, Mail, LDAP, SAMBA, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache and Tomcat HTTP Servers.
•      Bash scripting for pre-programmed processes for linux / unix servers maintenance and administration
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Education
Brainbench
Server Administration Certified
Ingeniería informática
2014 – 2014
Brainbench
Linux Administration Certified
Ingeniería informática
2014 – 2014
Brainbench
Cloud Computing Concepts Certification
Information Technologies
2014 – 2014
Superior Institute of Technologies And Applied Sciences
Master in Sciences and Innovation Management
Information Technologies And Business Intelligence
2000 – 2002
Superior Politechnical Institute Jose Antonio Echeverria
Informatics Engineer
Computer Sciences / Informatics
1994 – 1999
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Full Biography

I've been working as Senior Technical Manager, IT Project Manager and Senior Systems Administrator and Engineer for several years in well respected companies. I have been especially trained in installing, configuring and maintaining complex networks and I am analytic enough to be able to troubleshoot most network problems. I have a good grasp of LAN, WAN and MAN technologies and have worked with GAN to some extent as well. Additionally, I am well conversant with determining IT requirements and designing solutions that best suit a customer.       

 15+  years’ experience as Network Engineer, Network Administrator
 15+ years’ experience as Systems Administrator / Engineer
 11 years as IT Project Manager
 10+ years’ experience as technological consulter
 15+ years’experince working in Large Datacenters
 15+ years’experience working in ISP 5,000-10,000 XenServer instances for DT deployment
  Multi-tenant environment experience
  Has managed the entire stacks from box to implementation

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Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual Proficiency
English
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