Chris Williams

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About Chris Williams

Accomplished Information Technology professional offering extensive experience planning, designing, selling, and implementing state of the art IT solutions to facilitate company growth. Able to communicate technical concepts and issues with both technical and non-technical audiences. Well-rounded background in IT having worked in environments from start-ups to large multinational enterprises. Adept at crisis management and problem solving to secure the right solution in a timely manner. Recognized for strengths in creative solutions when budgets are tight. Primary focused on open source solutions having over 20 years working with Linux/GNU/OSS. Specialties: Platforms: Linux (Gentoo; Red Hat; CentOS; SapphireOS; Kali; Fedora; Knoppix; DBAN; Arch; SUSE; Mint; Slackware), Cloud (AWS; Azure), VMware ESX, Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris, HP-UX. Software: ISC BIND, Postfix, SpamAssassin, Apache, Nagios, IPControl, ISC DHCP, Wireshark, IPtables, nmap, Nessus, OpenLDAP, SunOne Directory Server, Veritas Net Backup, PostgreSQL, MySQL, sendmail, Symantec, Checkpoint Firewall, VMware Orchestrator, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, MS-SQL Server, Tripwire, Big Brother, MS Exchange, MS Office. Hardware: Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo, BT Diamond IP, Oracle, NetApp, Brocade, Cisco, Radware, SpectraLogic. Technologies: DNS, SMTP, RAID, TCP/IP, DHCP, NTP, SSH, IPAM/DDI, IPv4, IPv6, FTP, XML, HTTP, IMAP, ARP, LAN/WAN, LDAP, VPN, iSCSI, JSON, Virtualization, Security, Scripting, High Availability, Open Source, Disaster Recovery.