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Summary :

Jose Vicente Ortega currently serves as Executive Director at Sekiur.

Sekiur is an IT Consulting Firm providing a wide range of solutions to businesses leveraging the use of open source and SaaS (Software as a Service).

From 2001-2002, Ortega held the Network Architect role at Texas Wesleyan. From 2002-2007, Ortega held the leadership role of IT Director at Texas Wesleyan and later served as Chief Technology Officer until June 2009.

Prior to joining Texas Wesleyan, Ortega was IT Projects Coordinator for Cerro Negro Upgrader Project (oil refinery) joint venture amongst Jantesa, ExxonMobil and Japanese Gas Corporation.

Earlier in his career he was founder and vice-president of Nexus Corporation, a security consultant firm in Caracas, Venezuela. Ortega also spent 4 years with Omnes (A Schlumberger and Cable and Wireless company) as Intranet/Security Specialist providing solutions and 3rd tier support to Fortune 500 clients.

voip, security, forensics, iphone, ipad, mobility, smb, entrepreneur, opensource, saas, information technology, network architecture, video conferencing, cloud computing, augmented reality.

Specialties :

voip, security, forensics, iphone, ipad, mobility, smb, entrepreneur, opensource, saas, information technology, network architecture, video conferencing, cloud computing, augmented reality.

Experience

Director

Sekiur

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2005 - Present (5 years 3 months)

• Consulting services.
• Unified Communications
• VoIP solutions including onsite appliances and hosted solutions.
• Data recovery and forensic services.
• iPhone & iPad software Development.
• Custom Applications and Web Development.
• Open Source Solutions.
• Software as a Service and Cloud Computing.

voip, security, iphone, ipad, mobility, smb, entrepreneur, opensource, saas, information technology, network architecture, video conferencing, cloud computing, augmented reality.

Chief Technology Officer

Texas Wesleyan University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 2007 - June 2009 (1 year 11 months)

Team and project management, creating visions and strategic roadmaps and developing, marketing and supporting IT services.

Leadership and management, providing support and solutions for business needs, Business Process Outsourcing and automation, Level-3 troubleshooting, Security Assessments, Project Management, High-Availability Systems, Open-Source Consulting, VoIP, Technical Reviews, Product Reviews.

Hired as Sr. Network Engineer, promoted to IT Director in 2002 with full responsibilities for the IT function supporting over 4,000 users including students, faculty and staff and then CTO in 2008.

Provided strategic and tactical management and oversight for IT department.

voip, security, mobility, opensource, saas, information technology, network architecture, video conferencing, cloud computing, iphone.

IT Director

Texas Wesleyan University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

June 2002 - August 2007 (5 years 3 months)

• Responsible for a $2.8 million budget and 22 people as well as multiple capital projects ranging from $1 to $7 million dollars in technology.
• IT Help Desk end-user support (Service Delivery ITIL) – local and remote users, local and remote data center, disaster recovery, business continuity, servers (Windows, Unix, Linux, Novell, etc.), network connectivity and telecommunications.
• Checkpoint Firewall Management R55 - R65
• Network upgrades from 10Mb to 10Gb backbone.
• Migration to Active Directory/Exchange 2003 for 4,000 users within a year.
• Implementation of ERP system (Datatel Colleague) and Web Portal WebAdvisor.
• Course Management System (WebCT, Moodle) integration with administrative system allowing students prompt access to coursework.
• Campus-wide photo ID Access Control system.
• Video Streaming services for students to review past classes.
• Camps wide wireless network.
• Video conferencing services including bridging and Polycom/Tandberg units broadcasting to over 20 sites nation-wide (mostly hospitals).
• Bio-Informatics cluster running iNquiry and Hmmr amongst 200+ applications.
• Network Access Control system automating policy enforcement for residence halls seeing an ROI within 6 months.
• Systems deployed (MRTG, Cricket, Intermapper, syslogd, Netflow) to pro-actively monitor network devices for early warnings and degradation.
• Emergency Notification System improving the ability to communicate timely, critical information to students, faculty and staff to protect their safety in the event of an emergency.
• Campus-wide Intranet system based on Microsoft Sharepoint allowing constituents a central place for accessing information.
• Unified Messaging VoIP telephone system using an Ayava IPOffice 412.
• Virtualization and systems consolidation using VMWare to optimize TCO and provide disaster recovery architecture.

voip, security, opensource, information technology, network architecture, video conferencing, cloud computing.

Network/Security Engineer

Texas Wesleyan University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

July 2001 - June 2002 (1 year )

Responsible for assessing, analyzing, designing, documenting and implementing network/security on university campus, including infrastructure, and Active Directory deployment as well as Datatel management system on HP 9000 server. Included firewall (FW-1), Websense, Router and OS hardening, IDS configuration among others.

security, opensource, information technology, network architecture, video conferencing.

ICIMS Project Manager

Jantesa/ExxonMobil/Japanese Gas Corp.

(Oil & Energy industry)

December 2000 - May 2001 (6 months)

Coordinate technlogy implementation at Jose (Cerro Negro Upgrader Project)
• Client relationship management.
• Supported critical business applications.
• Project and vendor management.
• Implementation of TIMS (Technical Information Management System) for Exxon-Mobil on field operation in Venezuela.
• RTIS (Real-Time Information System, LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System, CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System & DODS (Design & Operations Documents System).
• Coordinated and participated in configuration and installation of CiscoWorks and HP OpenView for monitoring oilfield network.

security, information technology, network architecture, video conferencing.

VP of Technology

Nexus Systems

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2000 - December 2000 (8 months)

IT Security Consulting providing a wide range of services for companies including penetration testing, risk management, security audits and software testing.

security, entrepreneur, opensource, information technology, network architecture, forensics.

Intranet Security Specialist

Schlumberger

(Privately Held; SLB; Oil & Energy industry)

December 1996 - May 2000 (3 years 6 months)

• Project management.
• 3rd level support for 2,000 users locally and 20,000 in North/Latin America. (Checkpoint FW-1, Cisco, Concord, CiscoWorks, Sniffer, Nokia IP.)
• Technical lead supporting main client (GeoQuest), resulting in a 50% improvement in SLA.
• Security audits and penetration testing for several banks.
• Performed 3rd level network troubleshooting, interfacing with VP’s at Mobil. (Caracas/Houston)
• Provided 3rd tier technical support at Cable & Wireless Caribbean Cellular and participated in the re-design of their network. (Antigua, Barbados, St. Lucia, Jamaica.)
• Implementation of pilot for major PKI-VPN deployment (Houston/Caracas)

security, opensource, information technology, network architecture, video conferencing.

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