Q. David Conklin-Little
qconklinlittle@madisoncollege.edu
Education:
Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin-Graduated December 2012
§ Bachelors Degree in Business Administration- Management
Madison Area Technical College- Expected Graduation May 2016
§ Network Security Specialist
§ Current degree program total GPA: 4.0
Employment Goal:
Public/Private Cloud design and implementation. Web application and network security. Build/maintain
Linux-based virtualization clusters for enterprises.
Experience:
· Internship August 2015 – Current: Private cloud design, development, and implementation at 360 Networks,
LLC, with an emphasis on open-source Linux-based virtualization for enterprise datacenters.
o Build infrastructure for aggregating multiple separate customer SIP circuits into highly available
virtual private cloud. A “hosted” solution for digital phone systems
o Leverage my extensive knowledge and experience as a private cloud architect to eliminate hefty
yearly VM ware/Simplivity licensing fees. Create KVM-QEMU based, geo-redundant highlyavailable
virtualization clusters for mission-critical applications and servers.
o Utilize an open-source framework. Creating a HA virtualization cluster to rival a $65,000/year
VMware Vsphere cluster with vMotion and shared storage.
o Ability to create geo-redundant highly available virtualization clusters with existing packages.
o Mobile browser compatible cluster management. Essentially VMWare Vsphere for your
iPhone/Android, including console access.
o Integrating new, low-cost high-performance networking technologies such as SFP + direct attached
copper and lossless Ethernet for shared storage.
o The network setup for this project was the subject of an Alcatel-Lucent Whitepaper. I was indirectly
involved.
o Integrating low-cost, high-performance networking technologies and protocols such as SFP + Direct
Attach Copper and lossless Ethernet with open-source virtualization software.
o Work with vendors to build hardware platforms optimized for open-source virtualization software.
· Winter 2010: Interned at the US Social Security Administration in La Crosse, WI
· July 2 2010-August 1 2010: Teacher of Technical English to Engineers at Bandway Intelligent Co. in
Shanghai.
· May 30-July 2 2010: Internship with Kingtong Electronics (Hong Kong) Co, Ltd. in Shenzhen, China.
· March 18, 2013 – March 12, 2014: English teacher at Best Learning English Co. in Beijing, China.
· September 2014 – August 2015: Customer-facing digital printing consultant at FedEx Office in Middleton,
WI.
Technical Skills:
· Security:
o Alien Vault OSSIM, SIEM
o Security policy implementation
o Open-source Web Application Firewall deployment
o Cisco ASA experience
o Contextual session inspection and target-based stream reassembly
o Understanding anonymity provided by Tor, VPN, and bitcoin
o Using Kali Linux to discover vulnerabilities in my company’s web-facing applications.
o Discovered serious fail2ban misconfiguration
· Networking:
o Extensive experience with Linux software-defined networking, layer 2 and layer 3
configurations. For example LACP bonded trunking, providing multi-host, multi-vlan
connectivity in a single virtual environment.
o Adtran AOS Command Line, Advanced Cisco iOS Command Line
o Configuring Cisco 1841, 1941 routers for IPv4/IPv6:
o telnet, ssh, trunk link, inter-VLAN routing, static routing, OSPF
o Static NAT, dynamic NAT, PAT, DHCP server/client, ACL, Logging, port forwarding,
HSRP, OSPF, EIGRP.
· Software and Scripting:
o Security considerations
o Configuring Cisco Switches for IPv4/IPv6:
o Ssh, vlan, port-security, STP auto configuration procedures.
o Trunk links
o Ether Channel
o Layer 3 functions and security considerations
o Advanced understanding of open-source virtualization software, especially those based on
Linux Kernel Virtualization Module and/or Quick Emulator (KVM-QEMU.)
o Practical applications of Open-Source Cluster Framework APIs for creating highly-available
virtual resources running on the Pacemaker stack.
o Advanced Python Scripting
§ Modules: crypt, turtle, sockets, os, math, sys
o Advanced PowerShell Administration and Scripting
§ Creating custom scripts with conditional event logging
o Bash scripting
§ Installing and Administering: FTP, Apache2, SAMBA, PostgreSQL, Asterisk, DNS,
FOG, NFSv4, corosync, pacemaker.
o Advanced Windows 7 & 8 Administration
o Windows Server 2012:
§ Server manager, AD DS administration, DNS server, share/NTFS permissions,
DHCP server
§ Group Policy creation and administration, application restriction/AppLocker,
windows firewall
§ Hyper-V, virtual storage, virtual networking
o VMware Workstation 10, 11, 12 Pro
Hobbies and Volunteerism:
· Lymphoma & Leukemia Society of America
· Fundraising events for the American Diabetes Association: Tour de Cure, Step Out
· Milwaukee Rescue Mission- sorting donations and daycare duty
· Students In Free Enterprise aka enactus
· Hoofers Sailing club
· Engage in various projects with Raspberry Pi B+ like sensor modules and robotics applications.
· Racing quadcopters.
· Conversational Mandarin Chinese.
· 2012 CAPSIM Business Management Simulation competition team ranked top 4% Globally
References:
· Ross Bagurdes; Cisco academy instructor. RBagurdes@madisoncollege.edu
· Shileen Doyle; Manager, FedEx Office. (608) 831-3319 sheileen.doyle@fedex.com
· Doug Schwartz; CEO and Founder, 360 Networks LLC. dschwartz@360networksllc.com
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