THOMAS L. WEEMS, JR

4962 Beckham St

North Port, FL 34288-5311

941-586-4775

yacidka@gmail.com

 

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging position where my leadership, strategic planning, and business development skills will be fully utilized to improve operational proficiency and reduce total cost of ownership. To create a positive environment with other members of a team where I can enhance my skills and contribute my creativity towards group success. 

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

·         Department/Division Management

Develop and mange the annual operating budget.  Plan short and long range goals and objectives.  Supervise personnel and project implementations

·         Technology Design and Project Management

Design network solutions for upgrades, refits, or new installations. Analyze business processes to meet the need of software applications. Supervise hardware and software projects from implementation to post production.

·         Network Management

Server administration and maintenance.  Security services. Disaster recovery services. User and resource management. Hardware repair. Technical training.

·         Software Management

Database and application administration and support. Product analysis. Business design. Vendor relations. Application training.     

·         Positions Held

IT Manager, Network Manager, Network Engineer, Systems Administrator, Projects Manager, Webmaster, Technical Trainer, Graphic Specialist, Network Technician, Help Desk Technician.

 

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Network Engineer                           

Softrim Corporation                                                

Estero, Florida

August 2007 – Present

Network and telecommunication systems support for medium to large sized business that don’t have their own IT staff.

 

Projects:  Implemented several new Small Business Server/Terminal Server systems with Cisco PIX firewall for remote VPN/RDP access.

 

Information Technology Manager          

City of North Port                                                    

North Port, Florida

January 2006 – August 2007

Responsible for the management of the City’s Technology Department including Systems Management, Network Management, GIS Management, and Telecommunications.  Supervision of 15 staff members.

 

Projects:  New 5 Year Strategic Technology Plan, Server Farm Upgrade from 2000 to 2003, NAS Server, New Exchange 2003 Server with Mail Archive System.  New Cisco Fiber LAN Network. DayStar Wireless Access point to point WAN system for all facilities. Disaster Recovery Co-location system.  New IBM i5 series server.  SunguardHTE financial enterprise system upgrade from green screen to windows GUI. New Siemens enterprise VOIP phone system for all facilities.

 

Vice President/General Manager                      

Weems Enterprises, Inc.                                                    

Port Charlotte, Florida

November 2004 – January 2006

Temporary position to help family business until sold. Supervision of 6 staff members.

 

Projects:  Implemented Point-of-Sale / Invoice system to replace hand written receipts. Started new division for Roll-off Container Pickup service.  Sold family business.

 

Network Engineer/IT Projects Manager 

City of Fort Myers                                                    

Fort Myers, Florida

October 2000 – November 2004

Municipal Network Administration. Project Management. Website Administration. Operational supervision of network technicians, webmaster, and helpdesk technician.

 

Projects:  Server migration from Novell to Windows 2000 then 2003. Created Help Desk Services.  Implemented over 7 new municipal software packages such as Building permits, Golf tee time,  Public works work order, and Museum ticketing software. Implemented new enterprise financial system. Redesign of city’s website. Implemented better security measures with new firewalls and antivirus. Implemented new VPN remote access.

 

CEO & Systems Administrator       

Afcon Communications, Inc.                                           

Port Charlotte, Florida

            July 1997 – October 2000

Co-Owner.  Management of a 5000 plus user Internet Service Provider (ISP) Network.  Webmaster. Supervision of 5 staff members.

 

 

EDUCATION

Southwest Florida College                                    

Fort Myers, Florida

2002 - 2004     Microsoft Network Engineer and Database Administrator - Associates Degree                Dean’s List   2002 - 2004

 

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

Training Options                                                      

Fort Myers, Florida

2004    Managing Windows 2003 Server

 

Microsoft Technical Education Center                          

Fort Myers, Florida

2000    Microsoft Certified Professional

 

CompTIA                                                                  

Fort Myers, Florida

2000    Network+  Certified Network Engineer

 

 

CompMaster                                                                        Fort Myers, Florida

1998    A+  Troubleshooting, Maintaining, and upgrading PC’s

 

CERTIFICATIONS

            MCP                                        #2261477

            Network+                               #COMP10373612

           

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware

Servers, PCs, Laptops, PDA’s, Modems, Printers, Scanners, Fax Servers, DELL,  Gateway, Systernals, HP, 3Com, Brother, Acer, Cisco, Lucent, IBM

Operating Systems

DOS to Windows 2003/Vista, Unix, Linux, Novell, AS/400, CISCO, 3Com

Network Technologies and Management Systems

NetAdmin, Active Directory, Routers, Switches, Hubs, Portmasters, Digiboards, Multiplexers Winternals, Radius, Livingston, Lucent, Netware, Netgear, Linksys, Cisco, Novell, Windows

Mail Systems

Groupwise, Exchange 5 to 2003, Outlook, Eudora, POP3,  SMTP

Archive File & Backup Systems

ArcServ, BackupExec, Alchemy

Internet Hosting  & Web Design Systems

IIS, Front Page, Dream Weaver, Pagemaker, Page Mill, Photoshop,HTML, XML, Cold Fusion, SHTML, Peral, JAVA, Apache, Netscape

Security

Firewalls, Watchguard, Cisco PIX, SonicWall, Symantic/Norton, Zone Alarm, McAfee, Kapersky, Trend Micro, Astero,  Linksys, Netgear, ISA server

Desktop Applications

DOS to Windows Vista.  Office Works to SBS 2003 including Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, Powerpoint, Visio, Project.

Industry Applications

Quickbooks, Peachtree, Adobe, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, SunguardHTE, Jonas.

Databases & Programming

Advanced Revelation, Sybase, FoxPro, Dbase, SQL, Access, AS/400, Pic, Visual Basic, Access, Perel 5, Java, HTML, RPG

 

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Family, Kayaking, Hiking, Photography, Geocaching,  Waymarking, Playing Drums