Miscellany:
- MySQL (Solid working knowledge of the essentials)
- Veritas NBU
- VxVM/Solaris DiskSuite, Sun RM6
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Hadoop (setup ONLY)
Operating Systems:
- Solaris 2.x, Solaris 7, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris 10
- 4.1 through 4.4 BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, SunOS 3 and 4
- Linux/Debian, Linux/RedHat, Linux/Gentoo
- HP-UX 9, HP-UX 10
- MacOS 9.x, MacOS 10.x
- AIX 4.3, AIX 5.1
- Irix 3, Irix 5
- Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista (all user-end)
Hardware:
- SunFire E15K/E25K
- Sun Blade 100, 1000, 1500, 2500
- Sun 420R,440R
- Sun Fire V480, V490, V880, V890
- Sun A1000/D1000 disk arrays
- Dell EDGE 1u/2u servers (1750, 1950, 2650)
- Rackable Systems variants
(historical:)
- Sun 2, 3, 4, 4c, 4m, 4d
- HP/PA-RISC
- Silicon Graphics Indy, Cobalt, &c.
- VAX 11/730, VAX 11/750
- iMac/PowerMac
- Cisco Routers and Terminal Servers
- Xylogics Annex Terminal Servers
Medium-to-Large Scale Environments:
- SearchMe, Inc. (2500+ servers)
- Claria Corp. (20+ servers, 200+ machines)
- Avaya Corp. (20+ servers, 200+ machines)
- E-Loan (20+ servers, 200+ machines)
- Autodesk (40 servers, 500+ machines, 4 locations)
- Charles Schwab via Capital Technologies (500+ machines)
Experience:
April 2008 - August 2008
SearchMe, Inc.
Sr. Operations Engineer
Working in a team of 4; duties include:
- Management of 2500+ machines across 3 co-location facilities
- Scripting for auto-reporting on machine conditions
- Nagios configuration and administration
- Cacti configuration and administration
- Hadoop installation / basic set-up
- Statistics gathering
- Distributed information redistribution and collection
- Liaison to vendors to handle faulty machinery issues.
October 2007 - April 2008
Taos
Systems Administrator For Hire
Client: InnoPath
Worked in a team of 7; duties included:
- Nagios configuration and administration
- Cacti configuration and administration
- Assembly, configuration and administration of QA systems, including
HP and Sun
- Care and Feeding of a Subversion repository
June 2004 - September 2007
Claria Corporation (formerly known as Gator.com)
UNIX Systems Administrator
Worked in a team of 5; duties included:
- Setting up Nagios on RedHat8 Linux, and setting up the remote plugin
executor on Linux, Solaris and Windows
- Monitoring, with Nagios, a variety of systems (Linux, Solaris, Windows) for
disk space usage, memory usage, cpu usage, and service functionality
- Monitoring power strips
- Chief Backup/Archival/Restore Custodian
- Nightly Backups with Veritas NetBackup 5.x
- Troubleshooting scripts and machine conditions as needed
- Rotating On-Call pager responsibility
- Fiber Channel (SAN) cabling and device configuration
- Care and feeding of a CVS repository
December 2002 - Jan 2004
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
contracted through
Datum Software Technologies
QA Tester; part of a team of 10
Black- and white-box testing of newer hardware running older software.
[due to NDA cannot go into detail]
Duties included:
- Systems Administration and Troubleshooting within the confines of testing
- Compliance Testing
- Standards Testing
- Pre-Integration Testing, OS and Networking
- Load Simulation Runtime Testing
- Scripting front ends to front ends to test suites
- Evaluation of results and diagnosing of test suite issues
January 2002 - September 2002
Avaya Corp.
contracted through
PeopleSource International
Contract references: Robert Kolesar, Bart Burkhard,
Keith Fenech, Joy Williams
Systems and Network Administration and Configuration; part of a team of 6
- Consolidated two existing networks
- Built and configured/tested Solaris 8, AIX 4.3, AIX 5.1 servers
- Built and configured/tested an intradepartmental web server
- Diagnosed WAN issues between Austin, TX, Dublin, CA and Concord, MA
- Installed ClearCase on Solaris 8 servers
- Diagnosed NIS and NFS (automount) issues between AIX and Solaris
- Configured Veritas NetBackup
- Jointly spearheaded an NIS consolidation effort across 6 NIS domains
- Assisted in consolidation of DNS address space
- Diagnosed Networking issues between the three sites
- Configured Samba servers
- Installed Oracle, DB2, Informix databases
- Installed iPlanet
- Maintained existing NIS network including Automounter, user accounts,
mail aliases, groups, netgroups
October 2001 - December 2001
As You Like It Productions, Novato, CA
Contract References: Kevin and Leslie Patterson
- Data Entry, miscellaneous office
- Network and Desktop Sytem Troubleshooting
July 2001 - December 2001
Mesa Electronics, Richmond, CA -- Consulting Basis
Contract References: Peter Wallace, Katharine Wallace
October: Communications Troubleshooting
- Installed and tested a PPP Windows-to-UNIX connection
- Built and installed necessary communications software
August: Systems Programming
- Scripted a Compact Flash Installer
- Designated a local nightly-run script to mirror the system disk to a
backup disk.
July: Systems Configuration and Migration
- Migrated services from FreeBSD to NetBSD:
PPP,
Samba,
NFS,
HylaFAX,
lpd,
ssh, user accounts and data,
ghostscript/ghostview, X Terminal boot software.
December 2000 to June 2001
E-Loan, Inc., Dublin, CA
Systems Administrator; part of a team of 5
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Managed backups for Dublin office and Colocation facility.
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Brought NIS and DNS inline on internal corporate network.
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Set up and designed departmental web server.
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Replaced parts on systems as necessary.
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Set up mail server cluster behind a Cisco LocalDirector.
-
Worked with 20+ Sun servers including Ultra-2, E450, E250,
E420, paired with Sun A-1000 and D-1000 arrays managed with RM6.
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Assisted users with setting up CVS trees, shadow trees and merges
Plus additional user requests as they arose.
February 2000 to November 2000
siteROCK CORPORATION, Emeryville, CA
OpCenter Supervisor; part of a team of 4
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As Supervisor of the Reliability Operations Center, directed Customer
Service Representatives and Monitoring Staff on Trouble Ticket Entry
and Customer Services.
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Installed and deployed several VA FullOn 2x2 and assorted 1u boxes as
SiteScope monitoring servers.
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Wrote first-line cgi to present multiple frames in an intelligent manner
for client sites.
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Helped organize first internal web site for OpCenter staff.
Senior UNIX Systems Administrator; part of a team of 5
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Built and maintained a
JumpStart server which was used as a template from which a collection
of SUN Ultra 60 and Ultra 80 machines were built for deployment to a
colocation facility. Also installed on two E450 systems. Worked with
Security closely to prepare to launch the colocation facility.
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Handled day-to-day issues including printers, DNS/NIS, sendmail, exim, and
set up a Veritas Backup Server on an Ultra 2 with a tape stacker.
April 1995 to February 2000
CAPITAL TECHNOLOGIES, Emeryville, CA
(Senior) UNIX Systems Administrator/Scripter/Programmer
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Handled day-to-day operations including users, backups, printers and
networking at Vantage/VIEWlogic/Sunrise Test Systems (now Synopsys).
Worked with Solstice Backup and Solstice Volume Manager.
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Mail debugging at Cypress Semiconductor.
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Implemented, via "make" and shell scripting, the installer
for the SchwabLinkWEB project at Charles Schwab.
This concerned migrating and reverting a data tree with a minimum of
downtime. Worked with ClearCase.
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Designed a dependency tracker for a major build project at Uniteq, working
with gmake and perl.
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Worked with a team of tools integrators in a ClearCase environment
at EFI integrating the GNU tool suite.
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Ported ClearCase setup scripts from ksh to perl on an internal product.
Senior Internal UNIX Systems Administrator
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Set up
printers, maintained in-house backups, maintained and revised source control
for system database files, maintained and revised NIS and DNS maps,
adjusted sendmail as necessary, maintained a global tool and utility space
via the automounter, as well as occasional tool development and script
translation.
[Capital Technologies changed its direction from outsource filling to remote
monitoring in June, 1999, and changed its name to siteROCK in 2000.]
November 1992 to March 1995
AUTODESK, INC., San Rafael, CA
UNIX Systems Administrator.
Handled day-to-day desktop administration of a
heterogeneous UNIX and NT network; new users, printer administration,
and upgrades of multiple versions of Solaris. At a remote location, set up
NIS, DNS, automounter, sendmail and a hand-written
multi-tape backup solution for an environment consisting of AIX, Irix,
Ultrix, Solaris, SunOS and HP-UX machines.
June 1988 to October 1992
UNISOFT CORPORATION, Emeryville, CA
UNIX Systems Administrator, QA tester, Crash Tester,
Debugger, Software Librarian, Network Administrator, Configuration Manager
Ran the gamut of QA, crash testing, software debugging, software
librarian, systems administration, networking and configuration management
and systems administration.
Education:
1984 - 1987: College of Marin
2 years college work,
majoring in computer science, minor in electronic engineering.
Chronological Job Listing
2008 SearchMe, Inc. - Sr. Operations Engineer (4/2008 - 8/2008)
2007 Taos - Systems Administrator For Hire (10/2007 - 4/2008)
2004 Claria Corporation - UNIX Systems Administration (6/2004 - 9/2007)
2004 Sun Microsystems - Quality Assurance (12/2002 - 1/2004)
CONTRACT
2002 Avaya Corporation - System and Network Administration and Configuration
(1/2002 - 9/2002) CONTRACT
2001 As You Like It Productions - Data Entry, Network Troubleshooting
(10/2001 - 12/2001) CONTRACT
2001 Mesa Electronics - Systems Configuration and Administration
(7/2001 - 12/2001) CONTRACT
2000-2001 E-Loan, Inc. - Senior UNIX Systems Administrator
(12/2000 - 6/2001)
1994 - 2000 Capital Technologies/SiteROCK - UNIX Systems Administration
Consultant and Internal IT (3/1995 - 11/2000)
1992 - 1995 Autodesk, Inc. - UNIX Systems Administrator
(11/1992 - 3/1995)
1988 - 1992 UniSoft Corporation - UNIX Systems Administrator
(6/1988 - 11/1992)