Antonio Gomez

Antonio Gomez

Technical Support Engineer at Adaptive Information Systems - IT Services

Salinas, California, United States
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About

"I really enjoy working together with clients as their trusted advisor to understand their business and figure out ways to make their day to day operations and processes more efficient. When a client calls me stressed with a difficult business problem, it feels really good to assist them to resolve their issues.” Experienced Client Experience Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Excellent Customer Service, Technical Support, and Customer Relationships. Strong information technology professional with education focused in Customer Service, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from various colleges and technical schools

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Experience

  • Adaptive Information Systems - IT Services Graphic

    Client Experience Engineer Independent Contractor

    Adaptive Information Systems - IT Services

    - Present 5 years 8 months

    Salinas, California Area

    As a Technical Support Engineer I help businesses with the streamlining of their business processes and help them improve their technology development. I work with a team of highly skilled engineers to help clients to figure out ways to make their day to day operations more efficient utilizing technology. Our company specializes in servicing companies in a wide variety of industries including Agriculture, Financial Services, Government, Education, and small to medium sized businesses as well.

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    Business Analyst Trainee

    GCE - Global Connections to Employment

    - 1 year 6 months

    Monterey California

    As a Business Analyst Trainee, I had training in Java, Python and SQL programming. The courses also included classes, instruction and training in General IT principles as well as hard ware, security and the Software development life cycle. This was further ingrained and reinforced through group projects working with teams consisting of a Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, IT Generalist and Project Managers to complete assignments in preparation to do contract work for the…

    As a Business Analyst Trainee, I had training in Java, Python and SQL programming. The courses also included classes, instruction and training in General IT principles as well as hard ware, security and the Software development life cycle. This was further ingrained and reinforced through group projects working with teams consisting of a Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, IT Generalist and Project Managers to complete assignments in preparation to do contract work for the Department of Defense. I was in charge of collecting the business requirements from clients and then working with the Project Manager to translate these requirements into technical specifications so that the teams could start working on their areas of expertise.

  • Alvarez Technology Group

    Alvarez Technology Group

    3 years 1 month

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      Client Experience Engineer

      Alvarez Technology Group

      - 11 months

      Salinas, California Area

      As the Client Experience Engineer, I was responsible for applying ITIL and SLA metrics to the client service request and trouble tickets for their applications, systems and networks in order to resolve issues quickly and effectively. I also ensured that the contracts were within the Gross Margin of the monthly contractual value to meet profitability. We had weekly KPI (Key Performance Indicator) meetings where I had to report all service-related numbers. I monitored the Service Level Agreements…

      As the Client Experience Engineer, I was responsible for applying ITIL and SLA metrics to the client service request and trouble tickets for their applications, systems and networks in order to resolve issues quickly and effectively. I also ensured that the contracts were within the Gross Margin of the monthly contractual value to meet profitability. We had weekly KPI (Key Performance Indicator) meetings where I had to report all service-related numbers. I monitored the Service Level Agreements for all Platinum Contracts to maintain that they were within the 60 – 70% profitability margin. I maintained the ITIL standards for the company and was in charge of all issue related calls with clients that were unhappy.

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      Field Engineer

      Alvarez Technology Group

      - 1 year 7 months

      Salinas, California Area

      As a Field Engineer, I am dispatched the client site locations to deal with escalated issues where the client was unhappy with their equipment or software installation. Once onsite with the client, I would talk with them assuring them that I would take care of the situation and make their issue go away. Then I would configure, troubleshoot or work on issues for their systems and networks in order to resolve them quickly and efficiently. I did all of this while meeting ITIL and SLA metrics. I…

      As a Field Engineer, I am dispatched the client site locations to deal with escalated issues where the client was unhappy with their equipment or software installation. Once onsite with the client, I would talk with them assuring them that I would take care of the situation and make their issue go away. Then I would configure, troubleshoot or work on issues for their systems and networks in order to resolve them quickly and efficiently. I did all of this while meeting ITIL and SLA metrics. I was also the escalation point for higher end problems, including, Server 2003 and 2008. With over 70 clients I received exposure to a lot of different environments. Installed and configured backups and disaster recovery using the Axcient hardware solution as well as Storage Craft software. Also familiar with Intronis, Backup Exec and iSafe backup solutions.

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      NOC (Network Operations Center) Engineer

      Alvarez Technology Group

      - 7 months

      Salinas, California Area

      As the Network Operations Center Engineer, I was the Escalation point for higher end problems, including, Server 2003 and 2008. I received calls from upset customers where their software installs were not working as expected, including QuickBooks migrations up to version’s 2014. In the Network Operations Center, I regularly handled the call volume of 70+ clients, assuring all calls are answered in a timely manner adhering to the SLA’s set in the contract. I was also an escalation point for the…

      As the Network Operations Center Engineer, I was the Escalation point for higher end problems, including, Server 2003 and 2008. I received calls from upset customers where their software installs were not working as expected, including QuickBooks migrations up to version’s 2014. In the Network Operations Center, I regularly handled the call volume of 70+ clients, assuring all calls are answered in a timely manner adhering to the SLA’s set in the contract. I was also an escalation point for the junior engineers in the Network Operations Center when a problem was above their level.

  • Network Consultant

    Spherion Staffing Solutions

    - 5 years 4 months

    Salinas, California Area

    As a Network Consultant, I was doing short term network engineering contract consulting jobs while in technical school to refresh my Cisco Certified Network Professional Certification that had expired. I took jobs on an on-call basis to resolve customer network issues.

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    Director of Information Technology

    Alisal Union Elementary School District

    - 1 year 7 months

    Salinas, California Area

    As Director of Information Technology, I was responsible for ensuring that all of our clients throughout the 13 different campuses to include the district office were happy and satisfied with the technology purchased and implemented. I oversaw the SLA and ITIL metrics used to keep our KPI’s within profitable ranges. Most importantly I performed the function of technical liaison between staff, teachers, administration and my technical team of 12 support staff whom I supervised and mentored. Was…

    As Director of Information Technology, I was responsible for ensuring that all of our clients throughout the 13 different campuses to include the district office were happy and satisfied with the technology purchased and implemented. I oversaw the SLA and ITIL metrics used to keep our KPI’s within profitable ranges. Most importantly I performed the function of technical liaison between staff, teachers, administration and my technical team of 12 support staff whom I supervised and mentored. Was also responsible for departmental budget, purchases and requisitions.

  • Network Coordinator / Systems Administrator

    Alisal Union School District

    - 2 years 6 months

    Salinas, California Area

    As a Network Coordinator / Network Architect I traveled to client’s sites around the 12 campuses and district office headquarters to implement the Architectural solutions that I designed to implement Internet and VOIP services to the school district. I built a rapport and trust with staff, administration and teachers at each of the locations as they were now my clients for the new services. Since I was the architect for the new technology solutions, I was the person who had to explain what the…

    As a Network Coordinator / Network Architect I traveled to client’s sites around the 12 campuses and district office headquarters to implement the Architectural solutions that I designed to implement Internet and VOIP services to the school district. I built a rapport and trust with staff, administration and teachers at each of the locations as they were now my clients for the new services. Since I was the architect for the new technology solutions, I was the person who had to explain what the new technology would deliver for the client. I would trouble shoot any IT related problems that would arise as I was the person that the technical support staff escalated to. As I was also the senior network engineer, I would manage the team of 12 technical support workers and direct them on what needed to be done. I would also write all of the technical document procedures to a level that non-technical clients could read and follow.

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    Senior Security Engineer

    eWorld Partners

    - 2 years 1 month

    San Mateo, California

    As a Senior Security Engineer I was responsible for monitoring all incoming applications and requests from MS Windows 2000/2003 servers, Application Servers, Print Servers, Access Points, Routers, Exchange servers, and all critical Data Center servers that are crucial for operations of the eWorld Partners environment. Responsible for locking down all of the ports for the servers, routers, switches and programing of the firewall to inspect all incoming and outgoing traffic.

  • Data Center Manager

    CenterBeam

    - 2 years 2 months

    Sunnyvale, California

    As a Datacenter Manager I was responsible for designing, implementing and supporting Cisco Enterprise Networks utilizing the hierarchical design for redundancy and failover. I also analyzed, planned, designed, implemented and supported Cisco Enterprise Campus Networks for high availability. I built network configurations on core and distribution switches and routers for all Windows and Linux data center platforms. My responsibilities also included building custom SQL, Application and File…

    As a Datacenter Manager I was responsible for designing, implementing and supporting Cisco Enterprise Networks utilizing the hierarchical design for redundancy and failover. I also analyzed, planned, designed, implemented and supported Cisco Enterprise Campus Networks for high availability. I built network configurations on core and distribution switches and routers for all Windows and Linux data center platforms. My responsibilities also included building custom SQL, Application and File servers to house the data that we warehoused for our global clients. This also included implementing clustering of the servers into the design for redundancy and failover of services.

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    Senior Systems Engineer

    Zip2 Corp. (Acquired by Compaq / Alta Vista)

    - 3 years 1 month

    Mountain View, California

    As Senior Systems Engineer I supervised the first escalation point engineers for all Web Server, Data Integration issues. I also oversaw the Systems Engineers of Bellsouth Network Operation Center (NOC) build out designed to serve approximately 6 million-page views per month, including Front End Web Servers, File Servers and Data Base Servers. I managed the team responsible for building and racking the Servers, configuring F5 BigIP load balancer and configuring Front End Web Servers.

Education

  • Stanly Community College (SCC) Graphic

    Stanly Community College (SCC)

    Completed the VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) Certification Computer Engineering Technology

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  • Alliance Career Training Center

    MCSA (Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate) Windows Server 2008 Certification Computer Systems Administration IT Certification

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    Hartnell College

    Completed the Information Systems Network and Security Certification Training Information Systems Network and Security Completed

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  • OfficeStar Computer Training Center

    Completed the Cisco Certified Network Professional Routing & Switching Certification Training Computer Networks Administration Certificate

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  • OfficeStar Computer Training Center

    Cisco Certified Network Associate Certification / Security /Voice / Wireless/ Routing & Switching Computer Networks Administration IT Certification

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    Sacramento City College

    Certified Internet Webmaster Security Certification Computer Information Science IT Certification

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  • Mission College Graphic

    Mission College

    Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Windows Server 2000 Certification Computer Science & Information Technology IT Certification

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    Unitek College

    Linux System Administration Certification Information Technology IT Certification

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  • Hello Computers

    Cisco Certified Network Associate Certification / Routing & Switching Information Technology & Services IT Certification

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    Hartnell College

    CompTIA A+ Certification Computer Science & Information Systems IT Certification

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Languages

  • English

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  • Spanish

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  • German

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  • Japanese

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