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2002-Present: Saint Paul's School for Girls-  Upgraded Windows 2000 servers to 2003 and ongoing network consulting including Microsoft NOS, Exchange, WAN connectivity and security.

2001-Present: Federal Government Facility, Columbia, MD (High Frequency Direction Finding) - Designed a fault-tolerant file system that included the design and construction of the hardware to implement a Microsoft cluster solution. Installed and configured hardware and software to provide firewall, networks stabilization, WAN link connectivity through T1 channel mapping, mission critical and disaster recovery methods. Ongoing consulting LAN/WAN and maintenance services.

From recent press release in the
Baltimore-Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce Newsletter, June 2002.

"Connectioneers, Inc. announces receipt of a contract with the Federal Government. Over the next six months, they will be installing firewalls, stabilizing networks, implementing mission critical and disaster recovery methods, and serving as consultants on further hardware and software improvements. Connectioneers, Inc. provides computer network consulting, support, and sales from their office located in Columbia, MD. For more information, call 410-772-8000 or visit the web at http://www.connectioneers.com."

2001, 2002, 2003: Benchmark Appraisal Group  -  Upgraded Netware 4 network to Netware 5.1, then Netware 6.0 and GroupWise 6.5.

1998-1999: Montgomery Community College- Rick Merriken, lead engineer and project manager for Phase II of a large-scale migration for Montgomery College. Over 2000 machines were migrated in a six month period in multiple locations countywide. In this position, he developed all migration protocols and provided guidance to a team of 5 engineers. Met regularly with the college staff and delivered periodic status and exception reports. The project was completed successfully ahead of time and within the specified budget.

1998: Bigdough.com, Inc.  - Staffed, trained and managed a team that designed, installed and configured a Windows NT 4.0 network and WAN. This was an upgrade from a Windows NT 3.51 Server with Windows 95 workstations (which required data migration) to Windows NT 4.0 Server and Windows NT 4.0 workstations. Also added, were 20 new workstations, configured software and installation of wiring, patch panels and hubs for the new network.

1996: FSY Microwave, Inc. - Designed, installed and configured a Novell NetWare network including server and workstation software installation, server hardware construction, and network cabling. Setup a GroupWise e-mail server with Internet access.

1995: Pharmaco, LTD  -  Performed server upgrades over time from NetWare version 3.11 to 3.12 to 4.01 to 4.1. Rolled out corresponding client software as well as 5 complete upgrade packages over a 4 year period.

1997- 2005: Maryland Historical Society  - Project manager, Rick Merriken was in charge of the evolution of the Society's network from a 2 server Windows NT 3.51 network to a 10 server Windows 2000 network. The projects included building all hardware and installing all software on 90 workstations and 10 servers. This includes an ongoing sole source support contract.

1997: Maryland Historical Society  -  Rick Merriken, staffed, trained and managed a team that designed, installed and configured the Windows NT network at the Society. Since then several packages of workstation software have been rolled out to update and improve e-mail, centralized fax service, data management, file and printing services. A 300 page website was also created which includes secure pages for web commerce.