Benjamin Kamen

Highly adaptive Engineer/Analyst with over 25 years of computer/electronics engineering experience. Knowledge covers a wide range of concepts at levels of complexity ranging from circuit level electronics design to computer systems to large scale networks enabling the ability to view situations from a multitude of perspectives.

Culminating from all this previous experience, I've learned to architect, plan, provision, implement and maintain complex systems which helped bring success to the companies I've worked for through either the realization of substantial savings in operating costs or through the systems requiring little maintenance or repair.

As an excellent self starter typically needing no guidance/supervision, since 1992 my roles of employment have been reporting directly to senior management/staff at the companies I've worked.

Past employments include supervisory and instructional roles as I have also managed project groups as well as trained employees through seminars, training sessions and one-on-one assistance bringing better productivity through employees which have a better understand of the company's product, their environment and the technology in it.

Inventions:

Scientific Papers/Publishings:

General Electronics: (Test & Measurement)

Computer Technologies:

• Operating Systems: (Alphabetical Order)

  AIX (IBM) Unix Atari TOS (Atari 8-bit & ST series) Commodore 64 & Amiga MS & IBM DOS HP-UX Unix Interactive Unix Linux (RedHat, YellowDog) MacOS

  NCDware Novell Netware OS/2 SCO Unix Sun Solaris/SunOS Unix (Sparc & x86) VMS Windows (1-3, 3.11(WFW), 9x, NT 3.51-4.0 (plus TermServ), Win2000 WkStn/Server (w/TermServ) ) (Apps Used: MS Office, Exchange, Outlook... you name it.)

• Hardware Platforms: Intel x86, Dec Alpha, Motorola 680x0 & PowerPC (Mac & IBM RS/6000), Sparc/Ultra-Sparc (Sun), 6502, 6800.
• Embedded MicroControllers: MicroChip PIC Series (programming and design), Motorola 6805, Parallax Stamps I & II, ARM
• Languages: C, TCL/TK, Perl, VHDL, Basic, Assembler (for 6502 & MicroChip), Unix Shells(ksh,bash)
• Networking:
  • TCP/IP, IPX, PPP, NetBIOS/NetBeui, 10/Fast/Gigabit Ethernet using both Copper and Single/Multi-mode Fiber (and some Token Ring), 802.11 (w/WEP, AUTH and more), IPsec, VPN Tunnels
  • Services: NFS, NIS, DNS, TFTP/FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, SMB, DHCP/BOOTP, NTP, RADIUS, RSYNC, SMTP w/AUTH & STARTTLS, VoIP, Legato Networker, Veritas Products, WebSense and more.
  • Hardware:
    L2/L3 Switches(Routers): Extreme Networks (Summit) and
    Cisco (16xx,17xx,25xx,26xx,45xx,72xx Routers / Catalyst 1900,2900,3500,4000,5000 Switches)
    L2 Switches: 3Com, SMC, Linksys and others
    Packet Sniffers: Shomiti, GN NetTest, Niksun, Ethereal, Unix (tcpdump)
    Packet Generator/Analyzers: Ixia
    Firewalls: Netscreen, Cisco (PIX), LinkSys, Netgear and others..
  • Cisco Certifications: Cisco IP Telephony (Call Manager 3.x - VoIP)
  • Email/Anti-SPAM: Norton SMTP Gateways, Sendmail (UNIX), SPAMassassin, MIMEdefang
  • VPN, IPsec (Netscreen/Unix/Windows)

Telecommunications Technology:

• Resources: POTS, T1/E1 (ISDN-PRI/BRI, Robbed Bit Signalling - E&M Wink/Immediate Start, FrameRelay, ETS300, DASS2 and more...), T3
• Hardware:
  Adtran Switched Products(Atlas800/800+ & Atlas550, L128T)
  Ascend MAX/Pipeline products (Max1800, Max4000 & 6000 series, MaxTNT)
  W&G and TTC T-BERT Analyzers
  Gordon Kapes, Inc. Series 920 & 930 PFT/Simulators
  TelTone TLS Series Simulators
  Other various CSU/TSU/DSU product lines (Adtran, ADC/Kentrox)
• PBX's:
  Mitel SX-200Light (5 yrs) supporting ~185 lines/~150 users.
  Lucent Definity G3SI(light exposure) supporting Multi-T1/E1 Test Environment
  Nortel Meridian Series(light exposure) consulting customers on Trunk Config
  Lucent 5ESS Series(light exposure) consulting customers on Trunk Config

Other Skills of Interest:

• Aviation (Presently hold a current Private Pilot's License - If needed, I can hop in a plane and go where needed.)
• Electronics Hobbyist (Schematic/PCB Design, Layout, fabrication, etc...) (Surprising, eh? It's not just a job)
• Designing & Operating personal Internet Domain/WebServer/MailServer

Consulting Engineer - Jun. 2005 to Present