Operating Systems:
- Linux: Slackware, Slamd64, RedHat, RedHat Fedora, RedHat Enterprise,
SuSE, Ubuntu, Mandrake, Familiar (iPaq/ARM)
- Dos: MSDos, DRDos, PCDos
- Microsoft Windows: Win3.1, Win3.11, Win98, Win98,
WinNT 4.0 WS, WinNT 4.0 Server,
Win2k Professional, Win2k AS, WinXP Home, WinXP
Professional, WinXP64, Windows 2003 Server
- BSD: BSDi (2.1, 3.0), FreeBSD
- Digital: Digital Unix
- Apple OS/X
- SGI: Irix
- Sun: Solaris, Solaris x86
- VN/Linux: My own Linux distribution, based on
Slackware.
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Networking:
- Cisco CCNA certified (Cisco ID: .....)
- Cisco Catalyst Switches (Cat5 and GigE) 2900, 3500,
3550, 5000, 5500
- Cisco Routers 1600, 2600, 7200
- Ascent/Lucent Pipeline 150
- LanMedia LMC1200 T1 card (PCI card in Linux router)
- Linux PC based Firewalls
- 802.11b Access Points, cards, and USB devices
- WAN: T1, T1, T3
- LAN: 10baseT, 100baseTX, 100baseFX, 1000baseFX(SH)
- Various home and small office networking products,
such as access points, hubs, and firewalls.
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Hardware
- Intel x86 based systems - 486 through P4 Xeon (1,2
and 4 CPU configurations)
- AMD based systems - 5x86 through Opteron 848 and
AMD64 (1,2 and 4 CPU configurations)
- SGI - Indy and Origin 200
- Sun - Netra
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Mail Servers:
- Sendmail (many versions)
- UW (University of Washington) POP3 and IMAP
- Dovect POP3 and IMAP
- IMail
- Microsoft Exchange
- Spamassassin, Mailscanner
- Lotus Notes
- Zimbra
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Web Servers:
- Apache (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.0)
- thttpd (acme.com)
- Microsoft IIS
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SQL Servers:
- MySQL (3.x, 4.x, 5.x)
- MSSQL (7.0, 8.0)
- Postgresql (7.x, 8.x)
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DNS:
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Programming Experience:
- PHP
- Perl
- ColdFusion
- Javascript
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9/2007 - Current
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Position held: Director of Information Technology
Location: Tampa, Florida
Duties in this position included:
- Technical infrastructure management
- Growth evaluation and planning
- Technical staff management
- Development and implementation of internal use software for all departments:
- Customer service flowchart system for workorder information collection
- Integration of CS flowchart with web site for online workorder submissions
- Online asset control system, for fleet vehicles and other equipment
- Design and implementation of custom customer information and workflow control system
- Re-development of public web site
- Design and implementation of LAN/WAN upgrade, utilizing
Cisco equipment and fiber optics (100baseFX) between buildings.
- Installation and configuration of GPS fleet tracking system (GE Security NavLogix)
- Coordination of bandwidth upgrade with new providers
- Coordination of VoIP phone system migration between providers and identification of company needs
- Migration of email server to industry standard system (from Zimbra to Sendmail & Dovecot)
- Implementation of backup system.
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2/2007 - 9/2007
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Position held: Systems Administrator
Location: Tampa, Florida
Duties in this position included:
- Configuration of new servers
- Debug problems with audio/video streamers for client sites
- Network diagnostics including connectivity trouble with Tier 1 and DSL providers
- Configuration of monitoring utilities and implemention of new utilities.
- LAN trouble diagnostics and redesign of office and intranet lan (80+ machines)
- Coordination with Tier 1 providers for remote server deployment (multiple cities)
- Custom coding of "intranet" web site, for systems details, documentation, and coordination of efforts.
- Design, build, and configure backup solution for moderately sized public network
- Troubleshooting and repair of all normal aspects of an Internet company (network, DNS, mail, web, etc)
- On call 24/5 + alternating weekends.
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8/1998 - 11/2006
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Position held: Senior Systems Administrator
Locations: Tampa, Florida; Glendale, California; N. Hollywood,
California; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada
Duties in this position included:
- Design, implementation and maintenance of a 150+
server network, for a wide variety of serving tasks,
including:
- Web site with regular traffic in excess of 2
million unique viewers daily across 15
redundant servers in 4 diverse locations.
- Free web hosting servers with several thousand
accounts per server using Apache, including PHP, SSI,
and mod_perl, with only FTP access for users.
- Mail servers which individual servers have exceed
180,000 Emails per day.
- DNS service for over 30,000 domains.
- Various SQL implementations, including mSQL,
MySQL, and MSSQL, including DBA responsibilities
- Entire responsibility for WAN and LAN networking
hardware purchase decisions, configuration, and
implementation, which included T1, E1, T3, 100Mb/s
copper, and GigE fiber.
- Insuring the ability of these servers to run
virtually maintenance free for an indefinite time, as
some locations had no locally available technicians.
- Perl programming for tasks including; daily
maintenance; full monitoring and paging solutions;
automated backup solutions.
- Multi-level file synchronization using rsync and
custom written perl scripts to synchronize between internal
and external networks.
- Maintenance and upgrades of Windows systems,
including WinNT 4.0 Enterprise Server, Win2k Advanced
Server, WinXP, MSSQL 6.0 and MSSQL 7.0, Microsoft
Exchange 5.0 and 6.0.
- Design and implementation of web based video, including
writing java and javascript video programming, and
writing a HTML based chat in Perl capable of managing
thousands of concurrent users.
- Web authentication, including flat file, DBM, and SQL
based solutions with .htaccess, and custom written solutions.
- Network security, including firewalls and proper
configuration, patching, and upgrading of software.
- Web site design and programming, including using
static HTML, and dynamically generated pages using Perl,
PHP, and ColdFusion.
- Design, hardware selection and configuration of
in-house built servers. Servers included x86
and x86_64/Opteron based Linux servers.
Other servers included, DELL, SGI, and Sun.
- Server Operating Systems used included Linux, IRIX, Solaris/x86, WinNT 4.0
Server, Win2k advanced server, and Win2k3 server.
- Worked closely with multiple Tier 1 access providers
for WAN T1 and T3 connectivity, as well as 100Mb/s and 1Gb/s fiber access.
The network utilized primarily Cisco equipment.
- Management of a small staff, which included technical
assignment, training, and review of completed tasks.
- Constant Email and Telephone communications between
owners, managers, and other staff to ensure smooth coordination
of technical operations.
- On call 24/7
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3/1996 - 8/1998
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Positions held: Systems Administration and Technical Support
Location: Tampa, Florida
Duties included but not limited to:
- Provided second level telephone and email based
support to customers regarding their web site
functionality, email, and html design
- Assisted in new user account creations, terminations
and maintenance on Unix and Windows NT based servers
- Configuration and operation of Intel and DEC based
hardware support
- Configuration and maintaince of Web, DNS, mail
servers, handing 5000+ accounts and 30,000+ domains
- Interacted with Tier 1 provider for issues with T3
connectivity on a Cisco 7200 series router
- System management on systems including BSDi 2.1, BSDi
3.0, Digital Unix, FreeBSD, Linux, and WinNT 4.0
Enterprise Server
- Wrote initial corporate Tier 2 Systems Administrators
Manual.
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1/1995 - 3/1996
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Position held: Senior Technician
Location: Tampa, Florida
Duties:
- Build new customer machines, based on in-house
predesigned templates, or customer requested configurations
- Repair customer machines, whether build in-house or
by another manufacturer
- Support customer issues, usually involving customer
created problem scenarios
- Recommend upgrades or purchase options, when the
questions were beyond the scope of sales staff
- Design templates for in-house builds
- On site repairs of customer servers and networks
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Other Jobs Jobs performed outside of the scope
of normal employment at various periods
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- LAN design and configuration.
- Internet server repairs, subcontracted from various
service providers.
- Internet server administrative assistance, including
repairing exploited servers (Linux, Solaris, and Windows)
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Wireless LAN (802.11b/g) installation and configuration < 20 devices
- Building and installing Linux PC based firewalls for
home and office use.
- Home PC repairs.
- Perl and PHP programming.
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