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Gary May 10th, 2008

+ Biography:

Gary Bajaj is the Founder and Principal of BITNETS Inc., an award-winning Internet consulting business. He has always held senior management positions and has broad experience. Gary started learning and using computers in 1987, at which time one had to be resourceful due to high costs and limited availability, so he can implement cost-effective solutions with limited facilities.

+ Synopsis:

Computers experience since 1987
Internet experience since 1995
Mail server setups since 1996
Web server setups since 2001
Strong sense of web design
Applied servers and network security experience
FreeBSD experience since 2003
Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard experience
Applied Linux experience
Management experience since 1988
Accounting experience since 1990

+ Professional Experience:

1999 – Present

Principal and founder of BITNETS, an Internet consulting business. BITNETS Inc. operates as BITNETS Consulting [Internet consulting] and MAILHOSTING.CA [secure mail hosting] out of St. Albert, Alberta. BITNETS Inc. has operated a computer store BITNETS PC Express selling networking gear and computer peripherals, computer training BITNETS Cyber Kids for children of ages 2 to 6 and a strip mall City Plaza.

Job functions include accounting, finance, inventory, pricing, sales, invoicing, payroll, human resources, legal, administration, systems administration, web development and general management.

Accounting — Bookkeeping, ensuring GST/HST compliance, year-end finalizing and preparing financial statements.

Finance — Budget for expenses and allocate funds.

Inventory — Order and re-stock merchandise, determine products to be stocked or available for special order.

Pricing — Pricing of products and services, determine price match criteria, discounts and incentives.

Sales — Devise sales strategy, employee commissions and incentives and devise customer loyalty programs.

Invoicing — Administration of POS and invoicing integrated with bookkeeping system.

Payroll — Ensure payroll tax compliance, advise employees on and determine payroll deductions.

Human resources — Employed several personnel at BITNETS PC Express, prepared employment contracts, ensured compliance with human rights and employment standards and supervised two employees.

Legal — Drafting letters, notices and affidavits, filing court documents and representing the business in chambers.

Systems administration — Setup of and maintaining an elaborate secure e-mail hosting infrastructure with multi-homed Internet connectivity, multiple server locations hosting Mail, DNS, Web and FTP services and wireless infrastructure networks using a variety of network devices and across multiple platforms including Mac, Windows and FreeBSD.

Property management — Contracting sub trades, approving and paying bills, bookkeeping, preparing leases, financial statements, and budgets, administration, corresponding with tenants and ensuring compliance with codes and by-laws.

2000 – 2001

Computer Systems Technology at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), Edmonton, Alberta. Scored 92%–96% in most computer courses and over 80% in business courses.

1997 – 1999

Owner of PagePerfect Corporation. Pioneered the concept of high quality fax advertising using high resolution laser quality PC fax. Web development, web and mail hosting, site administration and consulting services that gave rise to BITNETS in 1999.

1988 – 1999

Director of Bajaj Brothers Pvt. Ltd. for eleven years. Supervised nine employees being in charge of its division Eskay Business Service Centre, a business providing executive suites and other business services. Implemented office automation, computerization of the business including export pricing, accounting, invoicing and payroll, set up local area networking in the early 90s, dial-in remote access for telecommuting and e-mail retrieval and established an Internet presence.

+ Software:

Operating Systems:

Desktop: PC/MS-DOS with Windows 16-bit, Windows 32-bit, IBM OS/2, openSuSe and Ubuntu Linux, PC-BSD and Mac OS X

P2P: MS-DOS with Windows for Workgroups, Windows 32-bit, Novell Personal Netware

Server: Windows 2000 Server, FreeBSD, Novell Netware, Red Hat Linux

Desktop Applications:

DOS: WordStar, Quattro Pro, Tally, Lotus 1-2-3, several other programs and tools circa 1987–1995

Windows: Microsoft Office [Word, Excel and Outlook], Quattro Pro, Quicken, QuickBooks, Microsoft Money, several other programs and tools circa 1990–2004

OS/2: Standard desktop applications bundled with OS/2 Warp and miscellaneous tools

Linux: Standard X-based system administration tools

Mac: Standard Mac OS X Leopard applications and utilities, iTunes, iPhoto, Microsoft Office Mac 2008 [Word, Excel and Entourage], OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice, Moneydance, third-party Internet applications and tools, VMWare Fusion, Parallels Desktop

Server and P2P Applications:

File/Print: P2P file and printer sharing tools for Novell Netware and Personal Netware, SAMBA FreeBSD/Linux

DNS: BIND

Web:
Win32: IBM HTTP Server, Apache 2, Microsoft IIS, Sambar Server, WebSite Pro
FreeBSD: Apache 2

Mail:
Win32: Post.Office, CommuniGate Pro, Merak, VisNetic MailServer, MDaemon, NTMail, IMail, Kerio MailServer
FreeBSD: Postfix with TLS/SSL, Courier-IMAP, Maildrop, Cyrus-SASL, AMaViS, SpamAssassin
Linux: Sendmail, IMAP, POP3, Fetchmail

Several other Internet servers including FTP, Proxy and SOCKS servers

+ Networking:

Configuring NAT appliances, firewalls, NAS, IP Cams and a variety of network devices

Planning and deployment of wired, wireless and bridged hybrid wired/wireless networks

Wireless: 802.11a/b/g wireless networks with WPA encryption

Wired: Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet over copper UTP CAT5/5e/6, Thin Ethernet RG58 and ARCnet RG62U

+ Repairs:

Minor repairs of PCs, NAIT-certified technician

+ Technical Writing

Documentation:
- Electronic training manual documenting the business processes at BITNETS Inc.

Publications:
- The monthly Ask an Expert — Computers and Internet column published in the St. Albert Gazette [November 2002 – July 2003]
- Internet Draft proposing fault tolerance and load balancing methods for e-mail retrieval, soliciting comment and possible publication as a Request for Comments (RFC) by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) [May 2003]

+ Honours and Awards:

BITNETS Inc. won the St. Albert Chamber of Commerce 2003 InfoTech Award of Distinction. Nominated by St. Albert Economic Development.

+ References:

John G Williams, MP [PDF]
Mary O’Neill, MLA [PDF]
St. Albert Economic Development & Tourism [PDF]

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