N Timothy Aho
6473 NW 43rd Ct., Fort Lauderdale, FL | 33067 | 954.263.5006 ~ tko@fullsail.net
Focus
IT Consultant | Virtualization Specialist
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Strategic and hands- on technical analyst with a metric-driven approach to IT projects. From large server farm architecture and policy management to IT project planning and setup with a mind for: Total cost of ownership (TCO), Short and Long term Capacity and Resource Planning, SLA Mgmt., ITIL: Tactical Layer. Datacenter Organization, DR- Disaster Planning and Recovery, Policies and Procedures. Technical Expertise- ahead of the curve: Virtualization (Citrix, VMWare, MS Virtual Server) and Application Streaming Technology. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Short and Long term Capacity and Resource Planning, SLA Mgmt., ITIL: Tactical Layer. Datacenter Organization, DR- Disaster Planning and Recovery, Policies and Procedures. Mid-range to large scale enterprise IT- Application, Directory, Terminal, Web and Database Services. Best practices for Security, OS hardening, Hotfix and Patch Management, Application Packaging and Rollouts, QA/QC, Network and Power Schema, Storage: SAN/NAS/iSCSI, TCP/IP, Firewalls, DNS, VPN, Hub and Routers, and Backup. RDBMS Design and prototyping; solid OOA/OOD/OOP programming and debugging knowledge. |
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General Skills |
Application Frameworks |
RDBMS |
Application & Server Infrastructure Management |
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Systems Analysis and Design, Biz Continuity/Disaster Recovery, Migration Support |
COM - Visual Basic, LDAP, ADSI, CDO, CDOEXM, ATL, COM/DLL Control development, ASP – VBScript |
Oracle – Spatial Database Engine, MS SQL Server, Access |
Citrix Metaframe/Presentation Server, 1.8- 4.0 (+NFUSE/WI); Microsoft Server (NT,2K, 2K3); VMWare ESX 2.5-3.1, Virtual Center 2.0; AppStream |
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Project Management; Document Management - DocsOpen |
C/C++, X-Windows/Motif |
ODBC/ADO/SQL |
AD, Exchange, IIS, SharePoint |
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Virtualization, Application Server, and Thin Client Engineering |
Financial: Quickbooks, Peachtree |
FGDC Metadata – ESRI Geodatabase – ArcCatalog |
Health Information Systems: Cerner; HealthConnect / Epic |
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Objected-Oriented Software Engineering, Web Application Services |
GIS: ESRI Product Line: ArcGIS: ArcINFO, ArcMAP, ArcCatalog, ArcObjects, MapObjects |
Data Warehousing Strategic Planning |
Tools, etc: Wise, WinInstall 8.x, 2003 LE; Citrix IM/RM, Ghost, OpenManage, NIC Teaming, NLB, Appsense, GotoMeeting, Citrix Access Gateway to name a few… |
Certifications/Awards ~ Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA), June 2000/2006
Full Sail Consulting, Inc
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http://fullsail.net
Chief Systems Architect | Since July 1999
p IT and Software Consulting Services: from GIS Consultant for local government to Server Administrator in healthcare, legal and government settings; solid experience with the following range:
>> 10-99 Servers: Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server/Citrix Metaframe 1.8/XPe Farm
>> 50-3000+ Network users with a broad variety of application needs
>> Large Enterprise Document Management Support (DocsOpen, Sharepoint 2007)
p Phatwire.com – This new consumer-oriented hosting venture includes administration of: Windows Terminal Services, Application Streaming: AppStream STS Portal and client; Active Directory, Group Policies, IIS, MS WebAdmin tools, ISP and POP services and Customer Service.
p Partnered with eSERVER, Inc. http://www.eSERVER.com | December 2000 to April 2005 – Contract/Full Time.
p GIS Application and Spatial Data ASP Services: next generation enterprise applications developed in COM, ESRI’s ArcGIS, ArcObjects and MapObjects served to the web Citrix-based ASP style.
AppStream,
Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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http://www.appstream.com
Senior IT Specialist | Current
p Managing the corporate infrastructure with the company's own cutting-edge product as a key aspect of internal application delivery. This role has developed a new perspective on application infrastructure with a great tool that eases management and provides flexibility in the datacenter for provisioning apps and servers.
p License management for complex infrastructure with AIM-- another internally developed innovation.
p Accomplishments include the successful evangelization (upper mgmt), design and installation of ESX 3.0i and the initiation of Sharepoint for a document management system to improve corporate communication.
Kaiser
Permanente | Walnut Creek, CA
Citrix Server Engineer (Contract Assignment) | October 2005 to March 2006
p Consulting Engineer for the “Build team” on Kaiser's Citrix large server farm (~1500 servers); responsibilities included: migration testing, build management and package deployment. The primary focus was a migration/split from a single to seven farms; tested, documented and packaged RFCs and SRs for various application and server transition issues.
p Selected to co-manage two application servers: PTA and JPOINT (Health Information Software: Project Tracking and Point of Sale). These HIS EPIC apps required “retrofitting” for Terminal Services to get them functioning properly in the Citrix environment.
p Managed AD, GPO and Local/Mandatory/Roaming Profiles; VMWare for testing prior to implementation. Farm policy; patch and hotfix management; packaging (IM); resource manager (RM); Access Gateways; SQL Servers (Data Store, DB Connector Servers), XML Servers, and Web Interface.
City Of Los Angeles | Los
Angeles, CA
GIS Systems Consultant (Contract Assignment) | February 2005 to August 2005
p GIS Project Management for the City’s Wastewater Department; advisor for the city's Public Works Department move toward an RDBMS and a better Application Infrastructure. Geodatabase management with Microsoft Access and ArcMap customization with VBA and SQL.
p Planned, designed, prototyped and implemented their first MS 2003 Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server (v. 4.0). Trained IT staff on all aspects of Citrix roll-outs.
SAIC
| La Jolla, CA
Software Engineer | April 1998 to February 1999
p Assisted in the integration of 2- and 3-D Geographic Information Systems capabilities on a
project involving Battlefield Exercise Monitoring custom software developed in OOA/OOD/OOP
with Rational Rose, Visual C++ (MFC, Win32), MapObjects, GeoPres, and TerraVista (terrain
database software - 3D GIS). Also, researched NT Terminal Server Beta edition to simplify
software design for ASP-style, Server-based GIS applications.
p On a contract bid for BellSouth, developed a service vehicle tracking prototype application
using Arcview involving Battlefield Internet Map Server, Netscape’s Web Server, ESRI’s Map
Café, Cold Fusion
Research/Training
University of Hawaii at Hilo. Geographic Information Systems Researcher - August to December 1995
Research
involving the use of ESRI’s Arc/Info to gain certain multi-hazard information on
Hawaii.
Palm Beach Atlantic College, West Palm Beach, Florida
Bachelor of
Science, Computer Information Systems, May 1993
GPA: 3.57 - Cum. Laude

Email: tko@fullsail.net