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Charles K. Chear's Resume Resume #18020219

OBJECTIVE Looking to apply my management and information technology experience,
working within an administration and/or management department as a
consultant or director.

TARGET JOB Desired Job Type: Employee, Temporary/Contract/Project
Desired Status: Part-Time
Site Location: No Preference
Description of my perfect job:
My ideal job is pretty simple. I can pretty much get along in any reasonable office environment, and be with people who are willing to teach and learn from each other.
Career Level: Mid Career (2+ years of experience)
Date of Availability: Less than 1 month

TARGET COMPANY Company Size: No Preference
Category: Information Technology

TARGET LOCATIONS Relocate: No
US-PA-Philadelphia

WORK STATUS US I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

EXPERIENCE 11/2001 - Present CONFIDENTIAL Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Content Administrator
Basic administration of news content at http://www.hackinthebox.org, a general and very popular technology/security portal.

12/2000 - 7/2001 Okayplayer, LLC. Philadelphia, Pa
Systems Administrator and Consultant
Secured linux services and applications on main webserver. On a daily basis, was responsible for patching, logging, and system redundancy (average of 100,000 unique requests per day on webserver). Handled in-office and server application requests and managing daemons/services. General Server conditions: Redhat Linux, SSHd, WU-FTPd, Apache, and Sendmail.

3/1999 - Present CONFIDENTIAL Upper Darby, Pa
General Manager and Consultant
Doing general technology and security research, and applying studies to the actual industry field via consulting and lectures. Worked mostly with Linux (various distributions), OpenBSD, and Windows NT/XP.

7/1998 - 7/1999 AntiOnline Beaver, Pa
Journalist
Write and contribute articles relating to the IT security scene, both industry wise and underground. Investigated cases and spoke with people within the security scene.

1/1993 - 12/1998 RN Diamonds Philadelphia, Pa
Inventory Manager
Assisted with customer and inventory archiving. Handled floor sales when needed to.

EDUCATION 6/2001 Upper Darby High School US-PA-Upper Darby
High School or equivalent
Public high school in Philadelphia suburbs. Relevent activity would be writing for school newspaper (The Acorn). Relevent courses: Systems Engineering and Networking, Academic Programming (C Language), and the Business/Finance program.

Drexel University US-PA-Philadelphia
Bachelor's Degree
Dual major in Computer Information Systems and Business. Currently still attending.

SKILLS Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience
C Intermediate Currently used 3 years
SQL Intermediate Currently used 2 years
PHP Beginner Currently used 1 years
Linux Intermediate Currently used 4 years
Solaris Intermediate 1 year ago 2 years
OpenBSD Beginner Currently used 1 years
Windows NT/XP/9x Expert Currently used 6 years
Chinese (Chiu Chow) Expert Currently used 18 years

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Meritable efforts:
-Accepted to Drexel University *solely* of faculty recommendations and IT experience.

-Assisted Upper Darby High School in the implementation of Unix oriented studies