Steve Almes

Experience

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  United States Navy

  Nov 1985 - Nov 1989

  Electrician's Mate

  Operated and maintained the electric plant of two U.S. Navy submarines as well as training of new personnel and documentation of work. During a six month period of limited duty, set up a complete P.C. network for Pacific Fleet Submarine Representative at Mare Island, California. Including e-mail on Windows 2.0!

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  Practice Management Systems

  Oct 1989 - Feb 2004

  Controller

  Migrated a Medical Billing Service running a 100% terminal/host environment to a hybrid environment running an HP3000 server on TCP/IP with PC’s and Apple McIntosh clients running network based terminal emulation software. Set up VPN’s with client offices from San Jose to Santa Rosa using Cisco PIX firewalls. Maintained a Cisco 4500 router as the network backbone. Worked with Sutter Health to maintain a secure physician network, including working with Hospital IT personnel to install and configure several hospital applications. Met with clients to design and program changes to the patient scheduling system provided by the software designer. Modified the scheduling system incorporating many client requests. Wrote many custom interfaces with other systems, as well as custom reports and file exports. Wrote code to perform several full A/R conversions from other systems. Wrote a system monitoring and paging program to signal operators when the system had problems or went down, including problems due to a power failure. Wrote many scripts to automate basic daily operator functions. Many of the systems I designed and coded are still in use today. Show less

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  DataConnect Solutions, Inc.

  Feb 2004 - Feb 2010

  Senior Network Engineer/Sales Consultant

  Network support and sales company. Specializing in Small to Medium Business in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Specialized in maintenance and sales of network components to various clients. Maintained networks consisting of more than 10 servers and over 100 workstations, as well as smaller workgroups with 4 to 5 PC’s and no server. Helped customers through the sales process for large telephone systems; ordered, assembled, and installed these systems in clients offices, and conducted detailed training sessions for both users and administrators. Installed new Servers and maintained existing servers in different offices. Maintained connections between domestic and foreign offices via VPN connectivity. Familiar with Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, and 2008. Maintained servers running Windows NT4, Windows Server 2000, and Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, including Small Business Servers. I have experience with Linux, Free BSD, and Mac OS Servers. Maintained and installed workstations running Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, and 98. Familiar with Novell Netware 3.11 servers and networks running DOS and Windows 3.1 workstations. Set up VPN’s between offices and between central offices and client’s homes. Utilized equipment from Cisco, Juniper (netscreen) and Sonicwall. Set up several SSL-VPN gateways to provide universal clientless connectivity. Utilized various methods of remote access, including and Citrix online, VNC, and RDP. Show less

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  The Well Connected Office

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2016

  Network Consultant
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  The Well Connected Office, LLC

  Feb 2011 - now

  Owner / Systems Administrator

  The Well Connected Office is an IT Sales and Support company. We specialize in maintaining IT systems and working with our customers to find out what sorts of IT services they need. We typically support small to medium business, but have supplied filler IT support for very large organizations. We sell and support Microsoft Products, including Office 365, Windows Server, and Azure. We have experience in all the latest Microsoft Desktop Operating systems as well. We also support Linux, Solaris, and BSD. Show less