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Christopher Knutson's Online Resumé
Career Profile
- Bottom-line-oriented executive with over 10 years of comprehensive experience in innovative oversight of teams and technology; including sales, marketing, operations and personnel. Utilize an anticipatory management style to drive results in a rapidly changing industry.
- Produce consistent achievements in cutting-edge information systems management, team management, contract negotiations, purchasing and expense reduction.
- Managed information systems group supporting production and business operations for SparkLIST.com Corporation, the worlds leading email list hosting provider. Supervised over a dozen direct reports and controlled the operating budget.
- Researched, assessed and approved technology purchases. Implemented system improvements to maintain profitability, competitive, and quality-driven production processes.
Key Management and Technology Abilities
- Advanced Technologies
- Resource Management
- Project Planning/Budgets
- Project Management
- Expense Reduction
- Team Building/Motivation
- Presentations
- Systems Configuration
- Systems Implementation
- Disaster Recovery
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- Technology Needs Assessment
- Technology Rightsizing/Upgrades
- Contract Negotiations
- Vendor Partnerships
- Network Administration
- Project Lifecycle
- UNIX, Windows, LAN, WAN
- Intranet Development
- Technology Integration
- Systems Security
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Summary of Major Accomplishments
- Relocated Network Operations Center (from Green Bay to Wauwatosa) with minimal downtime.
- Expanded Network size from Multiple T1's to dual 100Mbps Fiber feed; while increasing Email List Hosting from 20,000 deliveries per month to over 750,000,000 deliveries per month.
- Increased global Network uptime from 90% to 99.985%.
- Personally hired and trained the entire IT staff.
- Planned and implemented strategies for deploying and converting to new List Hosting Software for all clients and staff members.
- Developed and implemented a CMS for one of the largest online Article Directories in the world. Submissions from 0 - 100,000 in less than 1 year.
- Designed and implemented load-balancing for blazing fast response times and fail-over systems.
Career Development
| SparkNET Interactive, Green Bay , WI |
1998 - 1999 |
- Technical Support
- Systems Administrator/Web Developer
- Sr. Systems Administrator/Web Developer
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| SparkLIST.com Corporation, Green Bay , WI |
1999 - 2002 |
- Sr. Systems Administrator/Web Developer
- Chief Technology Officer/Anti-Spam Officer
- Vice President of Technology
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| List-Universe.com Corporation, Green Bay , WI |
2002 - 2003 |
- Vice President of Technology/Web Developer
- Vice President/Sales Manager
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| SparkNET Corporation, Green Bay , WI |
2003 - 2004 |
- Vice President of Technology/Web Developer
- Vice President/Sales Manager
- President of Technology
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| EzineArticles.com, Green Bay , WI |
2004 - |
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Network, Client Server and Software Technology
- Fiber Optics
- LAN and WAN
- Wide Area Networks Through T1 Lines
- TCP/IP
- Switched and Shared Ethernet Circuits
- Microsoft Office
- Frontrange Goldmine
- Heat Support System
- Perl
- PHP
- Qmail
- Majordomo
- Lyris ListManager
- HTML
- IIS
- Adobe Pagemaker, Photoshop, Acrobat
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- UNIX Operating Systems
- RAID Disk Technology
- Microsoft SQL and mySQL
- Windows 3.1, 95, 98
- Windows NT Client/Server
- Windows 2000 Pro/Server
- Windows XP, 2003 Server
- Norton Anti-Virus Client/Server
- Blue Ocean Ticket Tracking
- Sendmail
- Apache/SSL
- Active Directory Services
- Veritas Backup Client/Server
- CGI Scripting
- DNS (Windows/UNIX)
- Javascript, DHTML
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Education and Professional Development
Associates in Business Management
- University of Phoenix (GPA: 3.92)
Certifications
- Microsoft TCP/IP Networking
- Redhat Linux Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- MySQL Performance and Tuning Training
Rev. 2008.01.22
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