Ray Watters, MCNE, MCSE, CCP
is a information systems and programming professional with 25+ years’ experience in business, government, and scientific environments. He has extensive experience and certifications in network operation systems with a strong grasp of current and emerging networking technologies. Ray’s expertise includes: Wide Area and Local Area Network design, implementation, and administration: Network Security including Firewalls, Proxy serving, and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) system, as well as hardware; Storage Area Networks (SAN) systems and Network Accessed Storage (NAS); Deployment and administration of all types of servers including: web (IIS and Apache); E-mail, application front-end, middleware transaction, database, file and print servers; Backup and Data recovery; E-mail systems Administration including: SendMail. Novell GroupWise, Microsoft Exchange, and Lotus Notes; SMTP and MIME (Internet) E-mail administration and management; Planning and deployment of Instant Messaging systems; Planning and deployment of unified communication solutions; SMTP based monitoring and management systems including HP OpenView, Tivoli, and What’s Up. He holds many of the industry’s most pretegious certifications including Master Certified Novell Engineer (MCNE), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 2003 (MCSE), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), and most of the Comptia “+” certifications. Ray is a certified project manager and has too many successful deployments to enumerate. He believes rock-solid planning and deployment leads to solid and dependable operations.