Benjamin Kamen

Highly adaptive self-taught 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, my roles of employment since 1992 have been reporting directly to senior management/staff.

Past employments included 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 understanding of the company's product, their environment and the technology in it.

The roles that typically utilize this experience best are small companies or start-ups where a single person must wear multiple hats. Because I come with most of my own lab equipment obtained from my years of consulting or carrying on my hobbies at home, I can now offer my services as a more complete solution than most others in the market.

Inventions:

Scientific Papers/Publishings:

General Electronics: (Test & Measurement)

Specialty RF:

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 (Fedora, RedHat, YellowDog, Ubuntu) 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) ), WinXP (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 16/18/24/30-33/32 Series (Hardware and Firmware Design using CCS PIC-C and Microchip C18/C30/C32), Motorola 6805, Parallax Stamps I & II, ARM
• Languages: C, TCL/TK, Perl, VHDL, Verilog, 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:

• Private Pilot and Aircraft Owner
• Electronics Hobbyist (Schematic/PCB Design, Layout, fabrication, etc...)
• Designing & Operating personal Internet Domain/WebServer/MailServer

Consulting Engineer - Jun. 2005 to Present

HI-I, LLC- Feb. 2010 to Present Desc: Hardware, Firmware Design w/Product Prototyping Velaport, LLC.- Jun. 2010 to Aug. 2010 Desc: Hardware Design Engineer Embedded Solutions Group, Inc.- Feb. 2010 to Mar. 2011 Desc: Hardware Design Engineer Telezygology, Inc.- Feb. 2010 to Sep. 2010 Desc: Embedded Firmware Engineer Theraputic Alliances Inc. - Feb. 2010 to Jun. 2011 Desc: SCH/PCB layout, Product Prototyping (Assembly, CNC) University of Illinois- Jun. 2006 to present Desc: Hardware Design Engineer in various capacities to ECE and INHS departments NCAR/UCAR - Mar. 2006 to Nov. 2009 Desc: Consulting Hardware/Embedded Firmware Engineer

Assembly Alternatives, Inc.- May. 2011 to Jun. 2011 Desc: Hardware Redesign (w/SCH/PCB Layout) Brockway Engineering- May. 2008 to Sep. 2010 Desc: SCH/PCB layout, Product Prototyping (Assembly, Firmware, Testing) Eclypse International- Jun. 2008 to Present Desc: Consulting Design Engineer SPEC, Inc. - Nov. 2005 to Present Desc: Consulting Embedded Hardware/Firmware Design Engineer Bozsi Engineering, LLC.- Aug. 2005 to Jan. 2006 Desc: Consulting Hardware Design and IT Engineer Innotech, Inc. - Nov. 2005 to Jan. 2006 and Jan. 2006 to Jul. 2006 Desc: Consulting Hardware Design Engineer AZ Apps, Inc.- Jul. 2006 to Oct. 2007 Desc: Consulting Hardware/Embedded Systems Design Engineer Park Ridge School District 64- Feb. 2002 to Present Desc: I.T./Networking Consultant