Don Meyer's Resume

Donald L. Meyer

Work Experience

Network Manager,
December 1988 - Present

University of Illinois, College of Agricultural, Consumer and
Environmental Sciences Academic Computing Facility

Responsible for management of 185 workstations and 47 servers (Incl. 9 LAN servers, 17 web servers, & 12 special purpose systems

Specify and approve purchases for all upgrades and expansions to the facilities

Install, upgrade, and maintain computer equipment and software

Administer and coordinate instructional usage of the facilities

Maintain inventory and necessary network documentation

Serve as Building Network Administrator

manage IP addresses, firewall configurations, and physical network configurations
serve as primary point-of-contact for networking and security issues related to the building

Administer and maintain web pages for the Academic Computing Facility

Develop software to track and administer student/staff/faculty usage of the facilities

Supervise and coordinate activities with one full-time assistant

Maintain the College of ACES TeleNet system
(Cisco MeetingPlace — a 96 port system for teleconferences/data-conferences)

Develop billing reports system and profile management system for the TeleNet program

Serve as Designer and Technical Lead on College's Web Infrastructure upgrade (team of four)

Serve as Primary System Manager - Linux web systems

Serve as a Linux system and security consultant within the College

Research Assistant,
June 1987 - May 1989

University of Illinois, Department of Agricultural Economics

Wrote & co-designed an expert system for farm management

Software Designer/Programmer,
April 1986 - May 1987

University of Illinois, Department of Agricultural Economics

Developed & modified several software packages(HedgeSim, HedgeSim/Win, MC)

Demonstrated software at IBM's Higher Education Conference (April 1987)

Demonstrated software at IBM's Conference for Deans of Colleges of Agriculture (Mar 1988)

Publications

	"Development of a Loan Scoring Decision Support System for Agricultural Lenders", Computers in Agriculture
	Software HedgeSim; 1987 HedgeSim/Win; 1987-88 MC, MC/net; 1988-89 Ferret; 1988 Flexmail; 1992-96 GoHTTP; 1993-96 PM-Proxy; 1995 PRACCSYS; 2000-2004 ACES-ACF User/Facility Mgt. System; 2002-present

Other Qualifications

Experienced with :

C, Java, Pascal, & Assembly programming languages
REXX scripting language, TCL/TK and Unix shell scripts (Familiar with PERL)
Microsoft Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/95, Linux, OS/2, DOS, MacOS & OS X
Intel/PC hardware platforms
Management of Windows 2003/XP/2000, as well as older systems like NT Server, IBM LAN Server/ Warp Server
Management of Linux systems; especially Apache, Samba, NFS, sendmail, iptables/netfilter, DHCP & DNS servers
Management of Linux systems; esp. Apache, Samba, NFS, sendmail, iptables/netfilter, DHCP & DNS servers
Management of TCP/IP networks
Physical network design and installation
Inter-departmental collaboration & project management

Education

Master of Science, Management & Production Economics
	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		GPA:	4.75/5.00
		Incomplete (Thesis)	GPA in Focus:	5.00/5.00

Bachelor of Science, Agricultural Economics
	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		GPA:	4.51/5.00
		May 1987	GPA in Major:	4.82/5.00

Honors

References

Available on request.