Rick Sutherland

• Participated in Corporation management meetings and in staff meetings in individual schools. • Recommended new technology and software and educated staff and administration of new opportunities. • Trained teaching staff as well as provided continued training of technology staff. • Communicated with other IT professional staff in the area. • Supervised technology staff at all schools within the corporation. • Continued to preformed Network Specialist duties.

• Created new users and setup e-mail accounts on Netscape and Novell GroupWise. • Installed new software on all computers as well as updated all computers in system with new versions of existing software. • Ran tape backups and restore data from tapes as needed. • Assisted installing new Disk 2 Disk backup system to eliminate tape backups. • Setup and brought on-line Novell Linux server and have installed the new 1 to 1 Linux servers and clients. • Troubleshot and helped users in school system. • Reconfigured the pix and firewall. • Assisted in bringing the elementary schools and administration building on-line with wireless towers. • Refurbished existing Uninterrupted Power Supply. • Helped with administering the Core 40 online testing. • Participated in the PATINS group. • Took a role in the state Novell Users Group. • Volunteered for extracurricular activities at the High School.

• Managed and coordinated network operations, IT planning. • Maintained a local area network for MRP group which included 36 window-based workstations, 3 Mac-based workstations and three servers, both domain and member application, network printers, and associated hardware using Microsoft Windows XP, NT, 2000 Professional and Vista, 2000 Server and Server 2003. • Installed, configured and updated applications including Intranet Connections, Microsoft Office, Project 2003, Adobe Acrobat 7.0, Print Café, Macola, Outlook, Microsoft Internet Information Server and Veritas Backup Exec.; Supervised the migration from AS400 platform to an updated AS400 platform system. • Facilitated the migration to a Windows-based system including running Cat5 for entire network including termination of cabling of a 15,000 sq. foot facility. • Established a DHCP network, set up DNS servers on network for Internet connectivity and networked Macs into Windows network. • Set up and maintained IP phones for staff use in the California office. • Designed Web site using Microsoft FrontPage.