Chan Johnson

Teaneck, New Jersey, 07666

Cell: (201) 220-7817
E-mail: chanjohns@verizon.net

Summary: A hands-on technologist with 15 years of experience orchestrating solutions that support
award-winning SaaS Products and Emmy award-winning productions. Expert troubleshooting skills,
with a special focus on 1 and 10 Gigabit high-speed networks, storage systems and virtualization.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Industrial Color, New York, NY 7/2007-Present
Vice President of Technology and Security
Managed technology department with direct reports, budgeting, vendor management, contract
negotiations, and purchasing as well as client facing tier 3 Datacenter and Disaster Recovery site
Built several virtualized environments, which reduced operating costs and enabled faster server
deployments, a high-speed video production environment, and the award-winning globaledit.com
SaaS, digital workflow application
Created a Highly Available Microsoft and Apple network infrastructure that increased uptime
and efficiency as well as Isilon, NetApp, Dell, Promise, and Apple storage systems
Designed standard Server and Workstation images for Windows and Mac OS X and
policies/documentation that promoted the companys security
Oversaw the companys phone system and facilities

Zingy / Vindigo, New York, NY 8/2004-7/2007
Senior Systems Engineer
Built and supported a highly available Microsoft and Apple infrastructure that included Active
Directory, Exchange, IIS, Mac OS X, NetBackup, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Designed and migrated the Active Directory and Exchange environments from Windows 2000 to
2003 and migrated from a 100 Megabit to a 1 Gigabit, Cisco network
Introduced a NetBackup backup system, NetApp, Dell and Apple storage systems and Symantec
Antivirus Enterprise
Created standard Server and Workstation images for Windows and Mac OS X
Directed Policies and Documentation, Vendor Management, Purchasing and Phone System
management

Weil Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 4/2003-8/2005
Senior Server Manager
Built an environment that consisted of Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows, Mac OS X,
Symantec Antivirus, Tivoli Storage Manager, Tripwire and DocuShare
Designed and migrated the Active Directory infrastructure from Windows NT to Windows 2003
Created Policies and Documentation, Purchasing and Vendor management

Home Box Office, New York, NY 4/2001-4/2003
Senior Consultant/ Project Manager
Assessed the needs of business units and installed hardware and software solutions in a Windows
NT4/2000 and Mac OS 9/X environment
Executed Mac OS 9.2.2, Mac OS X and Windows 2000 upgrade projects and administered
Windows, Mac OS, FileMaker and Image Deployment servers
Supported Creative Departments that consisted of Print, Web Design and Avid Video systems
Sorceron, New York, NY 2/2000-4/2001
System Administration Manager
Managed two System Administrators, Budget, Purchasing, Vendors, and the Phone System
Built a Multimedia and Animation environment that consisted of Active Directory, Windows
2000, AppleShare, Backup Exec, and Symantec Antivirus
Created Max, Maya, and Avid video production systems and an Inventory and Helpdesk
ticketing system based on Track-It

USWEB/CKS, New York, NY 10/1997-2/2000
Technology Site Manager
Managed two System Administrators, Budgets, Purchasing, Vendors, Email, Websites, Print
Production and Y2k
Built a Mac, Windows, Exchange and Netware infrastructure

JP Morgan, New York, NY 7/1996-10/1997
Senior Consultant/ System Administrator
Supported Trading Floor and Software Development environments
Created an Ethernet network that consisted of AppleTalk, TCP/IP, NFS, Remote Access,
XWindows, Microsoft Mail, Lotus Notes, FileMaker, Hummingbird, Exceed and Exodus
Administered Mac OS, Windows and Netware servers and Windows NT4.0 migrations

Doremus Advertising, New York, NY 3/1992-7/1996
MIS Manager
Managed two System Administrators, Budgets, Purchasing, Vendors, Email, and Print
Production
Built an Advertising Media environment that consisted of Mac OS, Windows, Netware, HP and
Farallon switches, Farallon and Netway routers
Supported graphics production in QuarkXPress, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA 8/1984-8/1991
Assistant Professor
Taught practical applications of Music Theory, Harmony and Arranging techniques as well as
course development
Performed music copyediting for the music library, utilizing Coda Musics Finale music
production application and Macintosh computer systems

SKILLS & EXPERTISE
Servers: Active Directory 2008/2003, Windows Server 2012/2008/2003, Exchange 2010/2003,
Microsoft SQL 2012/2008/2005, Clustering, Mac OS X Server, Linux, IIS, NetBackup, Backup
Exec, Intermapper, Track-It, FileMaker, QuickBooks, DNS, WINS, DHCP, NFS, CIFS, SMB,
Dell, HP, IBM, Super Micro and Apple
Storage: Isilon\EMC, NetApp, Dell, Promise, Apple, SAN, NAS and DAS
Virtualization: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Parallels
Networking: 1/10 Gigabit Networks, Force10, Dell, and Cisco switches. SonicWall Firewalls.
1/10 Gigabit fiber and copper cabling, Wireless Networking, Monitoring, VPN, T1 and DSL
Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, Fiber Channel, iSCSI, NDMP, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL,
Telnet, SSH, and NTP

EDUCATION
B.M. in Composition & Arranging 1987-1991
Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
Studied computer systems (1987-1991)
G.P.A. - 3.58