Meet your instructor...TIM

 

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Timothy is a Database Administrator on a Business Intelligence Team at Symantec (www.symantec.com, SYMC). Timothy’s particular interests are IT operations, IT service management (ITSM), ITIL, information security, project management, and database/application tier high availability solutions. Timothy is a Certified Technical Trainer (CTT), a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), PMP, a CISA, a CISM, a CISSP, and ITIL V3 Foundations certified. Timothy also holds MCTS, MCITP certifications on Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2005/2008, and Exchange 2010.  Timothy is also a part time trainer, and recently provided Exchange 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server training to Symantec employees.

Timothy is a frequent speak at local/regional technology user groups in Florida (.Net User Code Camp and SQL Server users groups/SQL Saturday events).

Prior to his work at Symantec, Timothy was a systems engineer and database administrator at, a high volume e-commerce company, where he designed and implemented a data tier security model, patch management, and enterprise change management / release management in preparation for PCI DSS and SOX pre-compliance audits. Timothy was also directly responsible for designing and implementing data tier high availability, disaster recovery and business continuity.

Timothy worked for ASM Research, a U.S. Department of Defense contractor. At ASM Research, Timothy was the Information Assurance Manager (IAM) for a U.S. Army personnel heath care reporting system. Timothy was directly responsible for responsible patch management, system certification and accreditation (DITSCAP/DIACAP), incident response and reporting, and end-user security awareness training.  Timothy also designed and implemented highly available data and application tiers, business continuity, and change/configuration management. Timothy also designed and implemented a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer track, and also ran several “Train-the-Trainer workshops to enable peers to obtain the MCT certification.

Professional Skills highlights:


• Enterprise Database Administration

• Help Desk and Desktop Support

• Project Management (with PMBOK methodology)

• Change and Configuration Management using ITIL

• Enterprise Network Administration (Windows Server 2003/2008)

• Information Systems Design and Analysis

• Supervision and Leadership

• Enterprise Messaging (Exchange 2003/2007/2010)

• Excellent Presentation and Communication Skills

• Client Application and Database Connectivity/Replication Support• Enterprise Network Security• Enterprise Knowledge Management

 

• Technical Writing and Proposals

• Technical Training

•Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning

Tim lives in Port Orange with his beautiful wife and seven year old daughter. Tim promises an entertaining and knowledge filled Learning adventure for all his students!