Ben Lavender

Current

• System Administrator at MC Dean Europe

Past

• System Administrator at M.C. Dean Europe
• Programmer at Self-employed

Education

• University of New Orleans

Connections

38 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Ben Lavender’s Summary

System Administrator and Programmer with very broad experience. Has worked directly in Linux system administration, administration of Linux-based middleware, network engineering, web application development, and more. Has excellent knowledge not just of the software running it, but of several of the actual protocols that keep the internet going.

Works best in an environment offering lots of different kinds of work. Learns fast and lots of experience turning Google results into working systems. Does not mind small, 'trivial' tasks, and doesn't mind working with end users to make sure systems are doing what they need, and not that users are doing what the system lets them.

Ben Lavender’s Specialties:

System Administration:
Linux Administration
Solaris Administration
Xen

Service Administration:
Apache Web Server
BIND DNS Server
DHCP
MySQL
OpenLDAP
Linux NFS
ejabberd
Zimbra
Drupal

Internet Protocols:
TCP/IP
HTTP
DNS
SMTP
SNMP
DHCP
XMPP

Network Engineering:
CCNA
Switching
Routing
Firewalls

Web Development:
SQL
HTML
CSS
Javascript

Programming Languages:
Perl
PHP
Ruby

Spoken Languages:
English (American native)
German

Ben Lavender’s Experience

• System Administrator

  MC Dean Europe

  (Computer Software industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years )

• System Administrator

  M.C. Dean Europe

  (Computer Software industry)

  2007 — 2008 (1 year )

• Programmer

  Self-employed

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2004 — May 2007 (2 years 11 months)

  Freelance software developer

Ben Lavender’s Education

• University of New Orleans

  1998 — 2005

Ben Lavender’s Contact Settings

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