Resume

Objective

Grow my UNIX skills in a rewarding environment where I can make a positive impact.

Experience

3/07 - Now Pelago Seattle, WA UNIX Administrator III

Designed and built out the entire network
Dell PowerEdge 1950, 2950, F5 BigIP Load Balancers, Watchguard Firewalls, Java6, Tomcat, Mysql, Nagios 2.x, Monit, Amanda, CGI scripts, automation, oncall 24/7

9/2006 - 2/07 Speakeasy Seattle, WA UNIX Administrator III

4/2003 - 8/2006 Amazon.com Seattle, WA UNIX Administrator II

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