Michael Rhing's Resume (Last updated June 17th 2009)

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Michael Rhing

http://michael.emurse.com

Orlando, Florida

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Objective 
To become an integral part of a companies technological and business needs by helping meet and exceed their business goals.

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Work Experience 

Senior Software Engineer

March 2006 - Present

AOL, Washington, DC / Orlando, FL
  • Senior Engineer for the Blogsmith Content Management System. Daily responsibility's involved developing and maintaining extensive PHP code base along with Linux, Apache, MySQL servers.
  • Blogsmith System is used by Weblogs, Inc, a subsidiary of AOL/Time Warner, and is responsible for weblogs such as Engadget.com and TMZ.com.
  • Gained Experience with high volume high performance website and working with a Fortune 50 company.

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Dynamic Technology Employee

July 1999 - March 2006

Global Technologies Associates, Orlando, Florida
System Administrator
  • Primary contact for the following office technologies: Telco,. co-location servers, local servers, bandwidth/connectivity, and database management.

Developer
  • Responsible for the maintenance of all web services including the staging and development of website expansion, website updates, feature development, and testing web technologies for possible security flaws.
  • Developed intranet tools beyond basic requirements to streamline the manufacturing, registration, and order placement processes.
  • Redesign of the database infrastructure cutting system overhead by 90%.
  • Developed and implemented a website mirroring solution to increase throughput and offer redundant downloads of mission critical technologies to international customers.

Technology Engineer
  • Responsible for the research, sourcing, and development of new hardware and software solutions.
  • Completed initial and final testing (QA) of hardware solutions for performance, quality, compatibility, and forecasting potential product segment ROI.
  • Researched and proposed technological advancements to product line based off of market trends.
  • First tier contact for customer network development consultations and reviews.
  • Trade show personality used to discuss product uses and implementations.
  • Provide on site technical training for domestic and international partners.

Sales
  • Assist sales team with closing by always offering to talk to any customer about their technology implementations and network installations.
  • Developed PowerPoint presentations to share with customers showing product scope and implementations.

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Systems Administrator / Trainer

October 2003 - December 2004

[Company Name Withheld], Orlando, Florida
Mobile System Administrator
  • Contracted as project manager for the IEEE 802 Groups mobile wireless network for bimonthly meetings.
  • Managed a team that deployed a highly available indoor wireless network to support 1800+ concurrent wireless users for both single and multiple properties. Average allotted setup and breakdown times were less than 24 hours.
  • Provided 24/7 on-site end user and administrative support for services at weekly increments.
  • Assisted in the development of technologies to fight back against viruses, worms, and abusive users that could cause network down times, congestion, or affect availability.

International System Administration Trainer
  • Provided interactive on-site multilingual training in foreign countries. Examples: Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Germany
  • Developed curriculum to adapt lessons based off of locality and students abilities.
  • Duration of each training session spanned from 2 to 3 weeks.
  • WFTV News did a two day feature on this international training program. [Video available upon request]

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Systems Engineer

08/15/1995 - 07/12/1999

Florida Internet / VERIO, West Palm Beach, Florida / Orlando, Florida
Network Administrator
  • Developed system of scripts to monitor and perform maintenance on 400 individual modems running on Livingston Portmaster II's.
  • Developed and shared a modem init string database that was highly regarded in the ISP community as the ?Holy Grail of Working Init Strings?
  • Responsible for the technology shift from individual modems on Portmasters II's to III's to IV's

Technical Support Representative
  • Assisted customers with troubleshooting and configuration of their personal PC's.
  • Was used as a tier-2 support representative for corporate customers.

Account Executive
  • Sales and installation contact for corporate accounts [i.e. Colocation, ISDN, Point-To-Point, Frame Relay, PRI's] and also emerging technologies [i.e. DSL]

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Skills 
Networking Technologies
  • Firewalls: GTA, Fortinet, Netscreen, Sonicwall, Watchguard, Cisco PIX, IPTables / IPChains
  • Routers: Cisco
  • Network Security, VPN, High Availability (Redundancy), Load Balancing, Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, IPS, IDS, DNS, TCP, UDP, SIP / VoIP, 802.11a/b/g, Gigabit, Fibre, VLANs

Languages
  • Web: PHP, HTML, CGI, Ajax, Javascript
  • Frameworks / Concepts: Fusebox, Smarty, RSS, Atom, Blogging, standards compliance
  • Shell scripting

Hardware
  • Servers, Workstations, SANS, RAID [0,1,5,10, JBOD], SMP, Scaling, Clustering

Databases
  • MySql, MSSql, Filemaker

Operating Systems
  • Linux Kernels: 2.2.x, 2.4.x, 2.6.x
  • Linux Distributions: Debian, Redhat / Fedora, Ubuntu, Knoppix
  • FreeBSD: 4.x, 5.x
  • Microsoft Windows: 95, 98, 2000, XP, XP Professional

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Education 

1997 - 2002

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

 

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Keywords 
Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Developer, System Administration, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Partner/Client Relations, Systems Integration, Project Management, Developer, PHP, MYSQL, LAMP, AJAX, Memcache, Orlando, Florida, Orlando Based PHP Developer, Scaling, Linux, Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD, Sales, Technology

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