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Written by Benton Pena

Wednesday, 23 November 2005

Benton H. Pena

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Objective

Full time career opportunity in a key management position, where I may utilize and build upon my expertise and experience in IT, that offers challenge and career advancement.

Summary

Over ten years of LAN/WAN/Internet experience encompassing all aspects of telecommunications, electronics and computer systems operations. Also over two years of trading in International Currency Markets - Forex.

Internet Marketing, PPC, Adsense.

Support and maintenance with extensive experience in quality assurance, systems management and personnel.

Skills

LAN Administration: Design, Integration and management of these systems: Windows NT, Windows 2000/2003 Advanced Server, Microsoft Exchange, Shorewall / IP Tables Firewalls, MS Proxy.

Microcontrollers: In-depth knowledge of the Intel 8051 microcontroller family, specially concerning machine language but also in-depth knowledge about the hardware itself, what make me the ability to design the DS51 and DS537 single board computers (SBC), PCB design and programming library.

Web Authoring: Fluent in the HTML Language. Design and develop of various portals using LAMP - Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP.

Internet: Very knowledgeable about the Internet, Search Engines, and Internet Marketing (SEO / SEM).

Network Engineering: Ethernet 10/100-BaseT, 3G, IPv4, WLAN (802.11x), ISDN, T1, Frame Relay and ATM.

Operating Systems: Very well versed in UNIX, Linux and Windows Operating Systems.

Computer Telephony: Harris Messaging application, Oryx Prepaid platform administration, Kannel SMS Messaging, and Lucent IWF 3G Platform for CDMA Networks.

Network Security: Specialized in using protocol analyzers, sniffers, and traffic generators.

Bilingual: Fluent in English and Spanish.

Experience

Marketing Manager

Nemedia SA
http://www.nemedia.com

2006 - 2006

Operations Manager

Mercado Electronico Dominicano MED

http://www.med.com.do

2003 - 2005

Operator - Sistema de Mercados Financieros (SMF). Operations manager providing service for more than 150 institutions for different financial instruments like Dollar Spot, Euro Spot and Fixed Income.

Project Management: defining, designing, supervision, implementation, and training of new trading platforms.

Managed the development and planning for site installation, Firewall customization as main router, and mail filtering, Microsoft Windows Domain and Microsoft Exchange implementation. Monitoring, Maintenance and troubleshooting, including communications and security. Web Portal Design and Implementation.

Manager LAN/WAN

Centennial Dominicana

http://www.centennial.com.do

2000 - 2003

Responsible of maintaining IT Operations, responsible of the IT Computer room on Compaq DL360 and DL550 Servers, Compaq DLT Backup Robot.

Administration of a Microsoft Windows 2000 Domain, Linux boxes and Solaris, and SCO boxes.

Administration of a robust ATM WAN on Marconi Network platform (Macroni ASX-200BX ATM Switch, and a PowerHub ASN9000 routing node as ATM Core), interconnecting main office, buildings, stores, sale kiosks and corporate WAN, FR over ATM, OC3 Links for main buildings, wireless links for kiosks, etc.

Migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 with more than 500 users, without service interruption.

Project Management: defining, designing, supervision, implementation, and training.

Install, configure of transparent proxy based on a Linux IP Tables firewall for 3G CDMA Network Internet provisioning.

Oryx pre-paid platform administrator providing support to stores, customer service and direct clients.

Software Support / Call Center Support

Verizon International Teleservices (formally Infotel)

http://www.vzit.com.do

1999 - 2000

Support and maintenance of thee mayor call centers attending robust telecommunications and computer telephony (CTI) platforms individual for each call center. Mainly using DSC TC421, T1 Multiplexer Transcoder, Nortel DMS 100 SSP.

Test Engineer Position

Napco Security Systems / Alarm Lock International Group

1994 - 1999

Help improve UTS - Universal Test Systems for test fixtures, technical support for production test fixtures.

Development of DS51 and DS537 SBC for test platform for custom test fixtures.

Maintenance of the DR LAN, integration of Linux and Windows NT Domain for Corporate and Local LAN communication and collaboration.

Education

Mercados Financieros

Bolsa Mexicana de Valores http://www.bmv.com.mx , SIF Garban Mexico

Introduction to Special Services

Codetel Centro de Ed., Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic.

Visual Basic