Chad Langston
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chad@chadl.com
(434) 293-9418
focusedresults oriented
enthusiastichard working
decisivenatural leader
attentiveproblem solver
interpersonalgoal driven

Objective   Manage a successful company with the highest standards of quality in order to maintain and exceed the goal of sustainable growth
 
Experience   2007 – Present
President / Owner / Senior Network Engineer
Easy IT Solutions, LLC [Charlottesville, VA]
   
- See http://easyitnow.com for further details
 
    2004 - 2007
Operations Manager / Systems Administrator / CRM Specialist
IntoHomes Mortgage Services [Springfield, VA]
Operations Manager
   
- Played a key role in saving the company after the existing operations manager prematurely left during a large expansion in early 2005
- Re-staffed the office; hiring 10 and terminating 5 during my tenure
- Increased office productivity and efficiency by establishing clear employee responsibilities, writing office policies and procedures, and by creating business accountability and workflow systems
- Managed payroll, branch profitability, and staff daily activities
- Managed the creation of all company marketing material and sales training modules
- Re-structured, hired, and managed three sales origination teams composed of both outside and inside sales professionals
- Created detailed excel forecasting tools for modeling the expansion and sustainability of all company activities
- Re-organized 30 person office bottom to top establishing clear file management procedures and organizational guidelines
   
Systems Administrator / CRM Specialist
   
- Maintained a Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 domain infrastructure
- Managed the domain controller, server closet, switches, wiring, offsite backup system, desktop configuration, desktop support, machine imaging, and rollouts
- Installed and managed the company loan origination system and customer relationship management system
- Designed and directed all recurring print and email marketing
- Assisted in office build out and IT rollout, including seminar room with projector and sound system, wireless network, conference room with plasma, four shared office printers, and purchasing a new multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax
- Built and maintained the first company intranet / file sharing system for internal office collaboration and centralized file storage, internally and externally accessible
- Designed a company website with a focus on referral partner development and link exchange
 
    2002 - 2004
Computer Security Consultant / Software Engineer / Hacker
Gemini Security Solutions [Fairfax, VA]
   
- Worked extensively with disk imaging, system maintenance, network configuration, software testing; including apps such as Domino, Exchange, Oracle, Windows Server 2003, MS Active Directory, IIS, (see the skills section below for more details)
- Employed divide & conquer / process of elimination techniques in order to pinpoint software and network related problems
- Performed technical overviews and testing of cryptographic / PKI enabled software
- Edited and maintained an LDAP directory application developers guide for Johnson & Johnson
- Coded various system maintenance tools in C++
- Created an LDAP directory browse tool for Johnson & Johnson using ADO and ASP; currently in use by over 200,000 people
- Created an IR based crypto transfer device for Pocket PC 2002 using C++ and MFC (NSA proof of concept)
- Wrote a .NET S/MIME data extraction tool using CDO, MAPI, PInvoke, and COM Interop
- Wrote a program to analyze flight data and weather forecasts using C++ and MFC, lots of math
- Created sample code and training material for CAPICOM (Cryptographic API Component Object Model) and ASP
- Fixed a very messy S/MIME web mail application written in ASP, C++, & Java
- Wrote an S/MIME signature verification tool using C# and CAPICOM
- Performed various ASP security related programming tasks including ADSI authentication, and Oracle TCPS connections.
 
    Summers 1996, 1997, 1998
Systems Administrator / Engineering Assistant / Lab Rat
Naval Research Laboratory [Washington, D.C.]
   
- Configured NT systems to be C3 secure on a network
- Set up, configured, and managed three NT Domains on different physical networks
- Set up PPTP and Altavista Tunnel to allow an authorized user to Browse two NT Domains simultaneously, the local Domain and the “virtual private Domain”
- Designed a web based instruction manual
- Set up a BSD VPN over IPv6
- Held a secret clearance
 
Skills   Applications   TCP/IP Protocol Suite & Related Applications (DNS, HTTP, FTP), Microsoft & Unix Networking, MS Terminal Services, MS Active Directory, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, MySQL, Exchange, Lotus Notes, Domino, Certificate Authorities & Other PKI Related Software, MS Visual Studio .NET 2003/6.0, Forte/Net Beans IDE, JDK, Photoshop, MS Office 2003/2007/2008 (Mac)
 
    Operating Systems   Windows Vista/XP/2000 Pro/2000 Server/2003 Server/2008 Server/NT/9x, MS-DOS, RedHat Linux, HP-UX, MacOS 9.0/X (Tiger, Leopard)
 
    Standards   ASN.1, PKCS #7 #9 #11, MIME, S/MIME, COM, CFR Part 11, IrDA, Full Lifecycle Development (problem definition, formal requirements, user analysis, task analysis, design, prototype, evaluation, robustness, maintainability, cost, usability, goals)
 
    Platforms/APIs   .NET (PInvoke, COM Interop), J2EE (RMI, Servlets), ASP, JSP, MFC, STL, JNDI, ODBC, MAPI, CAPI, LDAP, ADO, ADSI, CDO
 
    Languages   C, C++, C#, JScript, VBScript, Java, SQL, CSS, DHTML, WML, XML, XSL, CGI, Perl, PHP, Shell Scripting, Visual Basic, Pascal, Scheme, Prolog, Assembly
 
Education   B.S., Computer Science, 2001
Virginia Tech (VPI & SU)
Blacksburg, Virginia USA
 
    Courses   WWW The Underlying Technology, Network Architecture Programming, Microprocessor System Design, Algorithm Analysis, Operating Systems, Data Structures & File Management, Object Oriented Programming, Programming & Problem Solving, Comparative Languages, Human Computer Interaction, Public Speaking, Professionalism in Computing
 
    Projects   File Sharing System (like Napster), Instant Messenger System, Online Course Management System Interface, Automated Stepper Motor & Heat Detection System, HTTP Server, File Transfer System, Text File Indexing System, Hashed User Database System, Process Scheduler w/ Deadlock Avoidance, UNIX Shell, Sorting Algorithms
 
    In Major GPA   3.4 out of 4.0
 
References   Available upon request
 

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