Nick Schumacher
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Bob Askey
Started working with Nick when he was hired as a College Student during the summer. I later had two surgeries and Nick was asked to stay on for an extended amount of time. Later he was hired full time. Due to Nick's expertise with SQL Database Administration he was assigned to maintain the SQL database and software used to manage order management and maintenance. Later people were cut and Nick and I were the two IT people remaining and worked to maintain all systems in the mill. Systems consisted of four software packages, production system that used SQL to store all the information from order entry to billing. There were over 200 workstations and around 15 servers that we took care of. Main server room and switches throughout the mill connecting the mill network. Several production systems were linked into the mill network ex. PI Server collected AllenBradley data and could be retrieved for reports. We later had a program named Captstone installed that combined all the data sources into one system. The result was one reporting software could be used by employees for data from all sources PI, Honeywell, AllenBradley, Majiq SQL. We worked with contractors to maintain phone system, Network crisis along with our main office in Atlanta Georgia. We took care of other sites besides the paper mill. We did some travel when necessary to the recycling plants. Nick was very knowledgeable about networking and resolved issues that we had to rush to fix before production had to shut down. Nick also did real well programming barecode readers on the shipping forklifts. He also did really well working with the mill networked WiFi systems around the mill. Several buildings did not have network cable and the WiFi was used to get to these areas. We worked on some Visual Basic code to do tasks around the mill. Nick did some other programming I wasn't knowledgable in. Over all Nick was a very talented guy and easy to work with. Never angry or hostile towards anyone. Very friendly to everyone he worked with. If I had a question he usually had an answer or would find it.
Bob Askey
Started working with Nick when he was hired as a College Student during the summer. I later had two surgeries and Nick was asked to stay on for an extended amount of time. Later he was hired full time. Due to Nick's expertise with SQL Database Administration he was assigned to maintain the SQL database and software used to manage order management and maintenance. Later people were cut and Nick and I were the two IT people remaining and worked to maintain all systems in the mill. Systems consisted of four software packages, production system that used SQL to store all the information from order entry to billing. There were over 200 workstations and around 15 servers that we took care of. Main server room and switches throughout the mill connecting the mill network. Several production systems were linked into the mill network ex. PI Server collected AllenBradley data and could be retrieved for reports. We later had a program named Captstone installed that combined all the data sources into one system. The result was one reporting software could be used by employees for data from all sources PI, Honeywell, AllenBradley, Majiq SQL. We worked with contractors to maintain phone system, Network crisis along with our main office in Atlanta Georgia. We took care of other sites besides the paper mill. We did some travel when necessary to the recycling plants. Nick was very knowledgeable about networking and resolved issues that we had to rush to fix before production had to shut down. Nick also did real well programming barecode readers on the shipping forklifts. He also did really well working with the mill networked WiFi systems around the mill. Several buildings did not have network cable and the WiFi was used to get to these areas. We worked on some Visual Basic code to do tasks around the mill. Nick did some other programming I wasn't knowledgable in. Over all Nick was a very talented guy and easy to work with. Never angry or hostile towards anyone. Very friendly to everyone he worked with. If I had a question he usually had an answer or would find it.
Bob Askey
Started working with Nick when he was hired as a College Student during the summer. I later had two surgeries and Nick was asked to stay on for an extended amount of time. Later he was hired full time. Due to Nick's expertise with SQL Database Administration he was assigned to maintain the SQL database and software used to manage order management and maintenance. Later people were cut and Nick and I were the two IT people remaining and worked to maintain all systems in the mill. Systems consisted of four software packages, production system that used SQL to store all the information from order entry to billing. There were over 200 workstations and around 15 servers that we took care of. Main server room and switches throughout the mill connecting the mill network. Several production systems were linked into the mill network ex. PI Server collected AllenBradley data and could be retrieved for reports. We later had a program named Captstone installed that combined all the data sources into one system. The result was one reporting software could be used by employees for data from all sources PI, Honeywell, AllenBradley, Majiq SQL. We worked with contractors to maintain phone system, Network crisis along with our main office in Atlanta Georgia. We took care of other sites besides the paper mill. We did some travel when necessary to the recycling plants. Nick was very knowledgeable about networking and resolved issues that we had to rush to fix before production had to shut down. Nick also did real well programming barecode readers on the shipping forklifts. He also did really well working with the mill networked WiFi systems around the mill. Several buildings did not have network cable and the WiFi was used to get to these areas. We worked on some Visual Basic code to do tasks around the mill. Nick did some other programming I wasn't knowledgable in. Over all Nick was a very talented guy and easy to work with. Never angry or hostile towards anyone. Very friendly to everyone he worked with. If I had a question he usually had an answer or would find it.
Bob Askey
Started working with Nick when he was hired as a College Student during the summer. I later had two surgeries and Nick was asked to stay on for an extended amount of time. Later he was hired full time. Due to Nick's expertise with SQL Database Administration he was assigned to maintain the SQL database and software used to manage order management and maintenance. Later people were cut and Nick and I were the two IT people remaining and worked to maintain all systems in the mill. Systems consisted of four software packages, production system that used SQL to store all the information from order entry to billing. There were over 200 workstations and around 15 servers that we took care of. Main server room and switches throughout the mill connecting the mill network. Several production systems were linked into the mill network ex. PI Server collected AllenBradley data and could be retrieved for reports. We later had a program named Captstone installed that combined all the data sources into one system. The result was one reporting software could be used by employees for data from all sources PI, Honeywell, AllenBradley, Majiq SQL. We worked with contractors to maintain phone system, Network crisis along with our main office in Atlanta Georgia. We took care of other sites besides the paper mill. We did some travel when necessary to the recycling plants. Nick was very knowledgeable about networking and resolved issues that we had to rush to fix before production had to shut down. Nick also did real well programming barecode readers on the shipping forklifts. He also did really well working with the mill networked WiFi systems around the mill. Several buildings did not have network cable and the WiFi was used to get to these areas. We worked on some Visual Basic code to do tasks around the mill. Nick did some other programming I wasn't knowledgable in. Over all Nick was a very talented guy and easy to work with. Never angry or hostile towards anyone. Very friendly to everyone he worked with. If I had a question he usually had an answer or would find it.
Experience
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Custom Interface, Inc.
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United States
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Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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System Administrator
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Aug 2017 - Present
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Self-Employed
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Portland, Oregon Area
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IT Consultant
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Jul 2015 - Aug 2017
Various IT jobs including developing SQL reports, setting up new PC's and transferring files/settings, removal of viruses and other malware, Windows 8/10 training, determining and resolving software/hardware issues, installation and/or troubleshooting of home networks, hard drive data recoveries, reconfigured a small business' network devices when the router provided by their new internet provider changed the network subnet and the machines could no longer talk to each other, share files/printers, etc. Most work performed for small businesses in the area such as Delta Auto Glass in Gladstone, and Hometown Hearth & Grill in Gresham as well as work in Goldendale at Ekone Ranch. Tasks included your typical troubleshooting of networks and hardware, as well as consulting on new software/hardware purchases as well as implementation of the same. Show less
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Interactive Northwest, Inc.
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United States
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Network and System Administrator
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May 2014 - Jul 2015
Managed and maintained all servers and network equipment related to daily operations of staff, including phones, email, databases, printers, servers, switches/routers, network security (firewall, IDS, policy, web filter, patches & updates, etc.) Selected Contributions: - Engineered, purchased, and implemented new on-site backup SAN in order to mitigate limitations of slow internet backups and disaster recovery - Upgraded Microsoft Sharepoint through two versions - Implemented WSUS Server for bandwidth saving Security upgrades - Server consolidations (VMWare) - Managed all internal servers (Exchange, File/Print, Group Policy, AD, Network Security, etc.) - Increased VM capacity and transitioned servers for space/cost effectiveness Show less
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SP Newsprint Co.
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Newberg, OR
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Senior Systems & Network Analyst
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Jul 2006 - May 2014
Moved up from a summer college internship to head of on-site IT department. Responsibilities included being the resident SQL expert where I managed several SQL Server instances, and was in charge of such tasks as backups (Veeam), indexing, optimization, replication, clustering, login permissions, encryption keys and certificates, and wrote countless queries from very basic to advanced. I maintained and developed many MS Access databases and Excel files with extensive backend VBA procedures. I also gained experience administrating a Windows Server environment including Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, DNS, DHCP, DFS, and enterprise Anti-virus using Symantec's Endpoint Protection. We ran a mostly virtualized environment using VMWare ESXi servers managed through vSphere and stored on a MD3000i iSCSI SAN device. I replaced their aging phone system with a VOIP ready solution, and have extensive knowledge of network processes, devices, common issues, and troubleshooting procedures. Key Accomplishments: - Converted daily statistics report from a complicated text parsing process to a much more reliable and efficient SQL query out of the source data. - Developed several real-time dashboards out of DCS database to allow department operators to quickly see and react to results in process changes. - Implemented system-wide monitoring and alerting solution in order to decrease troubleshooting time by 60% and increase system reliability/uptime to 99.9%. - Replaced aging site phone system with a VOIP ready solution at 50% the cost ($250,000 savings) of retrofitting the existing PBX system. - Reconfigured site fiber topology to current standards resulting in a 33% decrease in network latency. - Developed truck gate check-in system to reduce on site truck inventory time from several hours a day down to just minutes. Show less
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Education
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2002 - 2006
Portland State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science -
1999 - 2001
DeVry University Phoenix
Computer and Information Sciences, General
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