Richard B. Brant
151 Trolley Crossing
Middletown, CT 06457
860.916.6392
Rick@BrantCT.com
Summary of Qualifications
Operating Systems
Windows Vista, Windows XP, 2000 ME, 98, NT, 95, 3.1, DOS, MVS, VMS, AIX, Unix
Networks/Server Apps
Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, NT, Exchange, SMS, IIS, iPlanet, Netegrity, Directory Services, NAS, Citrix, Sonicwall, Cisco
Programming Languages/Packages
C, C#, Visual Basic, VBScript, ASP, Perl, Batch, ASDI, Access, JavaScript, HTML
Databases
DB/2, Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access
Certifications
n MCSE / MCPS (Microsoft Certified Product Specialist Windows NT Advanced Server; Microsoft Certified Product Specialist Windows NT Workstation; Microsoft Certified Product Specialist SMS)
Technical Training
n Tumbleweed - Secure Mail (MMS) Administration and Secure Web Administration
n Microsoft Active Directory design and deployment
n Xcert Certified Developer
Experience
Technisoft Technologies, Inc. May 2006 – Sept 2008
§ Participated in all aspects of the integration of eight acquisitions. This included the review of all applications for the businesses
§ Determine all authentication and authorization methods for each application and source of identities for the migration of identities to Aetna sources
§ Flag all applications that do not comply with current Aetna standards
§ Review all resources both internal and external that the applications access
§ Make recommendations for short term remediation and suggest steps to get to the desired end-state
§ Be certain all security issues are addressed
§ In addition to the acquisition related responsibilities I participated in several proof-of-concept projects with various applications with relation to authentication and authorization
§ Pioneered the use of WS-* standards for web services between heterogeneous environments
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Summit Technologies, Inc. June 2001 – May 2006
Vice President of Engineering
§ Responsible for sales and account management for the entire book of business for the Small business support unit. This included over 25 named accounts.
§ Responsible for the day-to-day operations of Summit’s Small Business unit including, 24x7 support of 25 clients, and managing on-call rotation.
§ Responsible for the maintenance and expansion of Summit’s technical capabilities. This includes all networking services including, IIS, Exchange, SQL Server, Wins, DNS, Web Hosting, Windows NT Domain, Windows 2000 Domain, Firewall, VPN, file and print services, and workstation support.
§ Responsible for network design, infrastructure assessments, domain design, Internet connectivity, and security consulting.
§ Participate in the design of application development, as required.
§ Additionally, responsible for technical sales support including client meetings and RFP responses.
§ Several Windows NT – Windows 2000/3 migrations from 50-5000 seats
§ Several Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000/3 migrations from 50-5000 seats
§ Responsible for server support including creating the standard builds application installation and security.
§ Was responsible for the deployment of Windows 2000 rollout at various sites. This included setup of networking equipment, preservation of data, management of technical staff, and coordination with the client managers.
§ Performed an in-depth technical assessment of AIGFPC current infrastructure assessing its readiness for an upgrade to Windows 2000. As a follow up to the assessment, created preliminary designs for the Windows 2000 Domain, DNS, Time Services, Wins, and the site structure.
Validea.com 2000 – August 2001
Vice President of Engineering
§ Performed duties pursuant to an officer of the company including attending board meetings, M&A meetings and business strategy planning sessions.
§ Was responsible for engineering budget and had significant input to budget for the entire company.
§ Ultimately responsible for everything technical within the company: This included running a financial information website; Backend processes; feeding/presenting the data to financial partners including Fortune, NASDAQ, CNBC; Database design; Website design; etc.
§ Participated in all aspects of development and deployment of technology. Including database, application, site and infrastructure design.
§ Was responsible for all standard Office Automation services (Windows 2000 Pro, Exchange 5.5, SQL Server 7.0, Microsoft Proxy, etc.)
§ Designed and coordinated a company-wide conversion from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000
§ Was responsible for day-to-day operations of Bloomfield, CT office
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Aetna, Inc. 1990 – 2000
Senior Systems Engineer / Web Engineering (1998 – 2000)
§ Performed as a consultant for Application Architecture; Application design and Database design to build robust and scalable Internet/intranet applications
§ Key member of the team responsible for an enterprise Windows 2000/Active Directory design and deployment
§ Key member of the team responsible for an enterprise LDAP implementation. Played a large role in building Aetna’s extranet, which utilizes client certificates, heterogeneous cross-server authentication and access to many of Aetna resources for employees and partners. This effort saved thousands in the first year alone. This effort utilized an enterprise-wide deployment of Xcert PKI, Netegrity’s SiteMinder, LDAP and NT authentication.
§ Responsible for 100’s of NT and UNIX based web servers running IIS and Netscape software.
§ Contributed technical expertise to the design of several major stand-alone applications that are now web-based applications
§ Lead design for all applications moving to web-based technology
§ Tested, implemented, and support a 3 tier reporting system (Crystal Info 5.0 / 6.0)
§ Built division NT infrastructure that interacts with corporate NT infrastructure
§ Participated in Corporate NT Enterprise rollout team, Corporate Internet technology team
§ Deployed MS IIS 3.0 and IIS 4.0
§ Served as Level 3 support for all major division technologies
§ Microsoft beta tester for NT 5.0 Win 98, Outlook ’98, hardware and software evaluations
§ Develop Web sites using IIS4, asp, VB and VC
§ Used MS Proxy Server, MS Certificate Server, MS SQL Server, etc.
§ Managed multi-terabyte data warehouse, 75 node NT Network, and MS Backoffice
§ Managed team of diverse programmers to develop a leading edge, three-tier healthcare reporting system with a window front-end and (Dec) Alpha / Oracle backend
§ Client Server Reporting, Database design, UI Design, Windows C, established standards.
General Dynamics 1984 - 1990
Education
n University of New Haven – Electrical Engineering
n Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Electrical Engineering/Computer Science