Curtis Starnes
Senior Network Administrator
Granbury, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis Starnes is a Senior Network Administrator with over 25 years of hands-on IT and network experience and eight years in his current senior role supporting an 8,000+ user, 10–15,000+ node K–12 environment. He designs and operates enterprise-scale networks and services—core-to-edge switching, dual-stack BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, firewalls, VPNs, and content/spam filtering—while leading network operations and user support teams. Curtis has driven infrastructure modernization projects including early IPv6 deployment (2012), a campus wireless upgrade to 802.11ac, and a future-proof fiber backbone supporting 10 Gbps+, alongside storage and virtualization platforms (EMC, Dell, Nimble, VMware, Hyper-V, KVM). He combines scripting and development skills (VB, Python, Perl, bash, SQL) with security research and penetration testing, and has practical SDN/DevOps experience using Puppet, Chef and Ansible. Based in Granbury, Texas, he brings a rare blend of network engineering, systems administration and field-service roots that helps translate complex technical strategy into reliable, operational solutions.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Tarleton State UniversityHS Diploma, HS Diploma at Dublin High School
Github Skills (13)
social-media2
bgp1
network1
pentesting1
network-tools1
search-engine1
community-management1
penetration-testing1
traceroute1
ipv61
networking1
security1
knife1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
r3p3r/ravada
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:90 branches in 1 day
r3p3r/paralax-w3af
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:29 branches in 1 day
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