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Anthony Lauts |
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West Chester, PA 19382 US |
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Senior I.T. staff responsible for strategic planning, organization, and design.
Analyze, solve, recommend, and lead teams to implement business solutions. Regional IT Manager overseeing all aspects of IT operations. Experience in company acquisitions as they relate to computer systems, networking and IT personnel. Hands on manager with the ability to train others in an effective manner. |
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1997 - Present |
Tweeter Home Entertainment Group |
King of Prussia, PA |
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Manage and maintain the core application systems in regards to hardware and software installation, troubleshooting and maintenance.
Negotiate and approve vendor support contracts. Oversee and customize with scripts and programming the interaction between all core systems and auxiliary systems and vendors. Document and create maintenance procedures for critical systems. - |
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Tweeter Home Entertainment Group |
Mid-Atlantic, Atlanta, North Carolina and Florida |
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Regional IT manager for Mid-Atlantic, Atlanta, North Carolina and Florida regions having primary responsibility for 75 of the 175 total retail locations, 3 corporate offices and 5 distribution centers.
Managed regional I.T. staff of those regions. Decision maker on equipment, policies and procedures required for supporting these locations. - |
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Tweeter Home Entertainment Group |
King of Prussia, PA & Canton, MA |
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Designed, Installed and tested a disaster recovery/ business continuity datacenter.
Created and tested all disaster recovery procedures. Installed all hardware, applications, and interfaces to disaster recovery/ business continuity systems running on IBM Blade Center servers utilizing iSCSI SAN hardware and VMWare technologies [systems included SAP, Point of Sale, Yantra scheduling, Active Directory/ DNS, Exchange, and other critical servers]. - |
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Tweeter Home Entertainment Group |
King of Prussia, PA |
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Re-engineered complete network infrastructure due to substantial growth of the company. Took the company from a nationwide bridged network over point to point circuits to a routed network utilizing public Frame Relay.
Implemented Voice over Frame Relay to over 170 locations and several corporate offices. Configure network equipment and trained regional I.T. staff on the programming and support of those devices. Played a key role during company acquisitions to integrate disparate networks and systems into existing infrastructure. Created documentation and procedures for Sarbanes-Oxley compliancy. - |
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Tweeter Home Entertainment Group |
King of Prussia, PA |
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Was primary person responsible for supporting end users, stores and regional offices in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Maintained end to end communications from datacenter to all locations nationwide. Based out of main datacenter, supported all equipment and applications in the datacenter. - |
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1995 - 1997 |
Lauts Unlimited |
Horsham, PA and West Chester, PA |
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Provide web hosting and email services to small and medium sized businesses on Linux based servers.
Performed web site design for effective point of presence on the web. Host servers for Disaster recovery for Linux based systems. - |
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1990 - 1995 |
Anacomp, Inc. |
Pennsauken, NJ |
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Supported the complete sales cycle, installation, programming, customer software training and continued support of mainframe peripherals such as optical systems, microfiche printers, document scanners, and mainframe and PC software products.
Provided technical assistance thruought ought the sales cycle and performed technical research for the regional sales team. Area of coverage included eastern PA, New Jersey and Delaware. - |
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Anacomp, Inc. |
San Diego, CA |
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International software/ hardware support specialist for same systems listed under Systems Analyst above for over 1500 national product service representatives.
Created a LAN based help desk system to track problems and resolutions of support calls from the field using FoxPro. Created a hypertext information retrieval system for that same data using Folio Views for use in the field by all service representatives. - |
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1988 - 1990 |
Prudential Insurance Company |
Ft. Washington, PA |
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Evaluated, recommended and implemented new hardware and software for use in mainframe and PC environments. Trained user community on those new products. Provided custom integration of computer products to meet the needs of the data center.
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Prudential Insurance Company |
Ft. Washington, PA |
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Performed systems maintenance on IBM 3090 mainframe systems and peripheral devices. Also acted as a liaison between computer operations and the user community.
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Prudential Insurance Company |
Ft. Washington, PA |
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Operated mainframe peripheral devices such as DASD, Xerox 9700 printers, IBM tape and reel to reel drives, and punch card devices on a 2 week rotating shift basis.
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AWARDS AND HONORS |
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Many achievement and perfect attendance awards thruought my career.
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TRAINING |
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Multiple training certificates including:
1988 - Xerox - 9700 OCM certification 1989 - PTS - Programming in Structured C 1989 - PTS - Novell System manager 1990 - Microsoft University - Microsoft Windows Programming Environment 1991 - Anacomp - Anatreive System Specialist 1992 - Anacomp - COM Programming 1993 - Anacomp - COM Software Analyst II 1998 - New horizons - Mastering Visual Basic 1998 - Hewlet Packard - Netserver Technical Training 1999 - Netscreen - Netscreen Firewalls 2005 - New Horizons - Linux Professional Institute Certification Level I 2005 - New Horizons - Linux Professional Institute Certification Level II Many self paced courses including: PHP, MySQL, Apache, Lunix (Suse, Redhat, Centos), Linux Security, HPUX, AIX, Server 2003 & Active Directory, Sharepoint, Datacenter Mangement, Employee Management, Cisco CCNA, among many others as new technologies become available. |
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