Senior Linux/UNIX systems administrator with 10 years of experience.
History of managing and integrating heterogeneous computing environments and automating systems management.
Capable programmer in Open Source environments and practitioner of agile/XP methods.
Self-motivated, autodidact who is driven by curiosity of how rather than being satisfied with why.
SAGE Level IV, Senior System Administrator
LPI Certification Level 1
Operating Environments: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AIX, Solaris. Windows 2000/2003 Server. Cisco IOS.
Platforms: Standard PC, including IBM, Dell, HP and white box. Virtualization (VMWare, UML). IBM pSeries. Sun Microsystems. Embedded x86.
Applications: Web (Apache, Squid, Zope), E-mail (Sendmail, Postfix, Cyrus IMAP), LDAP (OpenLDAP, Active Directory), SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle), XMPP (Jabber), File & Print (NFS, Samba, CUPS), Kerberos (MIT, Microsoft). OS installation (KickStart, NIM).
Network/Infrastructure: DNS (BIND, Microsoft), DHCP (ISC, Microsoft), NFS, NIS, SSH/SFTP. IP routing, firewalling. Clustering (LVS/IPVS, LFS). IPSEC, OpenVPN VPNs. Switched and wireless Ethernet, T1, Frame Relay. Network security analysis and design. Network monitoring tools (Nagios, Cricket, Smokeping, SNMP, RMON, Big Brother, Tivoli). Cisco, 3Com, Lucent, SonicWall equipment. Host configuration management (cfengine). IBM ESS & SVC SAN.
Languages & Tools: Perl, Python, Ruby, UNIX shell (ksh/bash, awk, sed, etc). RCS, CVS, Subversion. GCC, GDB. SQL, C/C++. Make.
Documentation: HTML. TeX and LaTeX. XML/SGML DocBook. Web-based collaboration (Wiki).
Portland State University, Office of Information Technology, Portland, Oregon. UNIX Team Lead for the Computing Infrastructure - Enterprise group. July 2008 to present. Provided technical expertise and leadership for enterprise-wide infrastructure team. Primary admin for large e-mail farm on Solaris and Linux, which provided service for forty-thousand users.
The ODS Companies, Portland, Oregon. Senior UNIX Administrator. October 2005 to July 2008. Automated AIX deployment and regimented management practices to enable growth of triple the number of hosts of AIX and Linux. Monitored, tuned and maintained database, web and application servers. Integrated authentication on UNIX hosts with Active Directory servers. Managed DNS and Active Directory. Maintained and developed applications to control transfer of EDI data. Managed application and database storage attachments from IBM SAN products. Guided junior admins in process improvements and skill enhancement.
QCSI (formerly MyHealthBank, Inc., now a division of TriZetto), Portland, Oregon. Network and Linux/UNIX systems administrator. May 2004 to September 2005. Stabilized and automated maintenance of Solaris and Linux servers. Supported Windows and Exchange servers and integrated with UNIX systems using Kerberos and Samba. Managed firewall and VPN access for employees and off-shore developers. Deployed and managed web and J2EE application servers and assisted with management of Oracle servers in development, test and production environments for large health insurance providers. Supported software engineers and business desktops. Provided all-hours on-call support.
Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd., Portland, Oregon. Proprietor, consultant. Full-time 2001 to May 2004. Developed and supported business solutions and provided systems administration support for customers. Projects included implementing replicated domain controllers for Windows networks using OpenLDAP and Samba; developing e-mail filtering servers; developed a monitoring interface for first-level technical support for a national cable ISP. Managed relations with third-party vendors.
WireX Communications, Inc. (now Immunix, a division of Novell), Portland, Oregon. IT Manager, systems administrator. May 2000 to May 2001. Bootstrapped network infrastructure to support business and development of Linux-based security and server appliance software company. Managed desktop support personnel and corporate network resources. Drafted computing policies. Assisted with development of DARPA-funded projects.
GreetingGifts, Inc., Lake Oswego, Oregon. Systems Administrator. June 1999 to April 2000. Built infrastructure for e-commerce web application with Linux and AIX servers, HTTP load-balancers and routers for VPN and WAN connections. Built network to support application programmers and graphic, video and sound creatives. Managed desktop support personnel.
QCSNet, Inc., Gresham, Oregon. Systems administrator and programmer. Part-time June 1998 to November 2004. Managed core ISP services, including e-mail, web hosting and remote access. Developed web applications with Open Source tools. Assisted with initial deployment of municipal DSL service. Wrote documentation for and provided support to personnel and end users.
GCN Communications/Navi.Net, Portland, Oregon. Systems administrator and programmer. December 1996 to June 1999. Managed core ISP services, including e-mail, web hosting and remote access. Developed web applications with Open Source tools. Wrote documentation for and provided support to personnel and end users.
Reed College Software Development Lab, Portland, Oregon. Student systems administrator and programmer. August 1997 to December 1998. Assisted with management of servers and workstations; developed web applications.
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. January 2001 to present. Pursuing bachelor of science degree in computer science.
Reed College, Portland, Oregon. August 1997 to December 1998. Pursued major in mathematics.
College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. August 1993 to May 1996. Pursued major in mathematics, minor in computer science.