Resume
Elliott Clifton
404 South Hall, Richland Springs, TX 76871
325-205-2184
whois@cliftonscientific.com
cliftonscientific.com
Experience
Clifton Scientific
2008-Present
Owner
I consult for a variety of clients desiring assistance in Information Technology with a general focus on SEO (search engine optimization), systems administration, and general IT needs.
FedEx Freight – Harrison, AR
2006-2008
Systems Administrator
I was part of a division of the systems administration team focusing on R&D and implementation. My responsibilities included: production systems root cause analysis, project management from the infrastructure perspective, R&D of new technologies and infrastructure architecture. I have also been responsible for the NAS environment (front and back-end), the Exchange environment (from an infrastructure perspective), and network print environment (3000 plus printers).
I have completed the Dale Carnegie “Effective Communications and Human Relations” course as well as the Situational Leadership course. I have been recognized with the “Diversity at Work” and “Extra Mile” awards
Celtek Systems LLC – Nixa, MO
2005-2006
Consultant
My responsibility was to learn the customer’s environment and needs – then to provide the best solution available within their cost constrains. These solutions included: providing technical support on digital video recorders for our customer’s end users; providing hands on technical support for DVR hardware and software; engineering and troubleshooting office networks and computer systems; systems image deployment; building, troubleshooting, and repairing personal computers, file, and application servers; troubleshooting customer applications; and user education.
John Kerry for President – Washington, DC
2004 -2004
Deputy Director of Operations
I was responsible for all aspects of the mobile communications devices assigned by the Kerry/Edwards for President Campaign (400 plus devices). This responsibility included but was not limited to configuration, installation, vendor relations, inventory, user education, account management, vendor management, and troubleshooting.
Bentonville Public School District – Bentonville, AR
2000-2004
Systems Administrator
As a Systems Administrator of a 4,000 plus user network my responsibilities included the following: Anti-Virus solution; Backup and restore – architecture and operation; data storage (Clariion – SAN); file and application server (30 plus) health and stability – hardware and software; and network print environment (200 plus printers). As part of the technology team I also have exposure with: user education and presentation, VOIP networks running Cisco Call Manager, served on community IT architecture.
Ozarks Unlimited Resources Cooperative – Harrison, AR
1999-2000
Systems Administrator – Assisted 21 school districts in network design and implementation, network operating systems deployment and repair, and PC repair.
Systems Proficiency
TCP/IP, WAN, LAN, IIS, PERL, DAS, RAID, SCSI, IDE, VLAN, fiber, Ethernet, APC, Navisphere, Microsoft Windows 3.11/95/98/NT4/2000/2003 Professional and Server, CHANCE-I (video capture cards), Novell 3.11/4/4.1/5, Anti-Virus Symantec/McAfee/Panda, Veritas Backup Exec, Microsoft Office Suite, NAS (EMC Celerra), SAN (EMC Clariion & Symmetrix), Blackberry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange, Exchange 5.0 and 2000, Peregrine Service Center Client, Cisco Catalyst 3000 switch, Cisco 2650 router,Stratus servers Some experience with Linux (Red Hat Slackware Suse), CUPS, VPSX, ACRONIS Symantec Ghost, HP DL380 (gen 3/4/5), IBM 330, DELL POWEREDGE servers.
Attended “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” (by Stephen Covey) course
I have completed the Dale Carnegie “Effective Communications and Human Relations” course with an award for “Outstanding Performance”; I have also completed the Situational Leadership “The Core” course.
References upon request
