Resume
Not looking for a job right now
Objective
Grow my UNIX skills in a rewarding environment where I can make a positive impact.
Experience
3/2007 - Now Pelago, Inc. Seattle, WA
UNIX Administrator III
- You know - this and that
9/2006 - 2/2007 Speakeasy Seattle, WA
UNIX Administrator III
- Large scale Qmail administration and maintenance
4/2003 - 8/2006 Amazon.com Seattle, WA
UNIX Administrator II
- Primary owner/maintainer of Corporate DNS
- Operations Support of Amazon.com website
- Large scale (35k+ systems) scripting and automation (Perl, Python)
- Implemented any cast DNS solution
- Production Linux installation, configuration, support, and troubleshooting
- Compaq/HP hardware support and configuration (DL360, DL380)
1/1999 - 4/2003 AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. Bothell, WA
UNIX Administrator III
- Excellent customer interaction skills
- Excels in a team environment
- Advanced Solaris (2.6-8) support and configuration (Installation, troubleshooting, tweaking)
- Intermediate Perl (5.x) and shell (Bourne) scripting
- Sun hardware support and configuration (U5, U10, U60, U250, U420, U450, Blade, Netra T1, Netra 1125, Netra 1405, V880, T3 Drive Array)
- WKS configuration, implementation, and support (Well Known Services: DNS (BIND 4.x, 9.x) SMTP (Sendmail 8.x, Postfix) NTP FTP)
- Sun Enterprise Cluster Administration (Sun Cluster 2.2 and Veritas Cluster Server 2.0)
- eCommerce Application support (iPlanet/SunONE Enterprise Server, iPlanet/SunONE Directory Server, Apache, Macromedia JRUN 2.x, Macromedia ColdFusion 4.x-4.5.x, ATG Dynamo 5.x)
- Performance tuning (OS, TCP/IP Stack, and Web Servers)
- Systems architecture planning and implementation
- UNIX Backup and Recovery
- GNU Tools, Compiling sources, packages installation and creation (Solaris & RPM packages)
- Knows what it means to support mission critical applications
- Minimal Sybase support
4/1998 - 1/1999 Redmond Technology Partners Bellevue, WA
Network Consultant
- Helped Devise and implemented GroupWise 4.x and Exchange 5.5 co-existence leveraging SMTP and a UNIX (Solaris) Server
- Assisted in the migration of 350+ workstations from GroupWise 4.x to Exchange 5.5
- Provided Exchange Public Folder architecture
- Designed Exchange disaster recovery procedures
12/1995 - 4/1998 Excell Data Corp. Bellevue, WA
Network Consultant
- Windows NT 4.x network administration including installing, troubleshooting, optimization
- Setup, configured, maintained WINS, DNS, & DHCP servers/services
- 4.x (Internet Information Server)
- Basic to intermediate Solaris 2.6, Linux (SuSE and RedHat)
- Internet security experience. (Checkpoint Firewall-1 2.x, Hardening an OS’)
- Hands on knowledge of CISCO, Livingston, and Bay Networks LAN/WAN hardware from this time frame
- Basic HTML & CGI development with Perl and JavaScript
- Enterprise level (60+ servers;13,000 users) Exchange/NT administration and support
5/1994 - 12/1995 The Computer Connection Silverdale, WA
Service Technician
- Repaired, configured, and upgraded Apple, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Epson, and Clone Computers
- Windows 3.11, Windows 95, OS/2 2.x, 3.x, and Novell network administration/support
- Network mail management, Microsoft Mail 1.x
- Methodical and common sense problem solving in software/hardware
- Intense customer service, focusing on satisfaction
Interests
Movies, Computer games, Board games, Anything UNIX
Summary
Knowledge in LAN/WAN, Internet, Messaging, UNIX, and System Administration
Technologies
- Internet (WWW (Apache), FTP (proftpd/wuftp), HTML, CGI, TCP/IP, Perl, Python)
- LAN (Ethernet, TCP/IP, NIC’s)
- WAN (TCP/IP, Routers, Switches, Packet Filters)
- UNIX (Linux, Solaris)
- Firewalls (Implementation, Configuration, Rules, Filters, Testing)
- Messaging (SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail, MS Exchange)