3 month contract at LAN Service Group as a Senior UNIX Systems Administrator. I was responsible for our clients' NexentStor SANs, Solaris 10 and Linux servers. This is a remote job as the clients are in California. Access is via VPN. My job was to verify the hardware and O/S configuration of the servers and repair (replace) some failed ZFS disks. Reconfigured Windows AD domains to provide authentication for Windows users via LDAP and Cifs.

Permanent position at Nexenta Systems as a Senior Support Engineer. The product is NexentaStor, a cutting edge storage appliance running on OpenSolaris with ZFS as the storage media. In depth knowledge of ZFS and zpool configuration and troubleshooting is a requirement for this position. Protocols utilized were NFS, Cifs and iSCSI.

Permanent position with Bechtel SAIC in Las Vegas, NV on the Yucca Mountain Project. See prior Bechtel SAIC contract. I am working in IS&T / Server Operations. I have installed Solaris 10 U3 on twelve Sun machines and Solaris 10 U4 on another five. Most have mirrored zfs file systems, many have multiple zones installed. I was responsible for introducing zfs and zones to Bechtel. All new machines have the boot disks mirrored either with Sun LVM or hardware raid 1. I wrote a ksh patching program which cut the time required to patch from six hours to one hour. I am mentoring a Junior UNIX Systems Administrator. We are responsible for 95 servers, Solaris 2.6 – 10, Hp-UX 11, Redhat ES4 and Irix. I have also installed OpenSolaris (Solaris 11) on one machine for evaluation. Hardware also included two multi-terabyte Network Appliance NAS servers for both UNIX and Windows storage.

Three month contract at Rainmaker in Campbell, CA. supporting 30 Solaris (8 – 10), 9 Redhat Linux and 4 SCO servers. Projects include implementing NIS, then LDAP, cleaning up the configuration of all servers and mentoring a Junior System Admin.

Three month contract at OpenTV San Francisco & Mountain View supporting 43 servers, 37 Solaris (2.5.1 – 10), 4 RedHat EL4, 1 Fedora Core and 1 FreeBSD. Projects include NIS domain merge, YUM repository build, Veritas Netbackup support.

Two month contract at Yahoo as UNIX Systems Administrator. Responsible (with others) for over 4000 FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris machines. I have just completed beta testing Sun Solaris 10 upgrade 2 6/06 software for Sun. I am an active participant in the OpenSolaris project. I am very familiar with the new Solaris ZFS file system and Solaris Zones.

Five month contract with Bechtel SAIC on the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Yucca Mountain Project in Las Vegas. I was a Senior UNIX Systems Administrator with responsibility for approximately 55 Sun Solaris (5.6 to 9) and 15 HP/UX machines with some Linux in the mix. I worked on many critical, backlogged projects, including automating root password changes, a massive data migration, boot disk mirroring, SSH upgrade from source code, anonymous FTP creation, Solaris 10 evaluation among the 60 or so projects awaiting completion. SSH and rsync are used extensively in the network.

Two month contract as the sole UNIX Administrator at Xoma, a bio-pharmaceutical company in Berkeley. I was responsible for 64 Solaris machines. Fixed rsync over ssh problems for pushing web content to the servers. Maintained 4 Linux DNS servers, making IP changes, zone transfer updates, etc. Fixed SAN disk problems. Performed SOX compliance testing / remediation on the company’s financial database server (Oracle).

Six month contract at IBM. I am part of the Security Assurance Test team. Duties include testing many different platforms (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, among others) for compliance with security standards and correcting deficiencies when necessary. I will again be joining the Sun Solaris 10 07/05 Beta Team in May

Continued education in Solaris, Linux (Fedora Core 2-3) and Windows releases by constantly working on my SOHO network. I was an active member of the Sun Solaris 10 Beta Team from October to January.

UNIX and Windows NT / 2000 Systems Administrator in the Internet Services Group. Equipment included 7 Sun Servers running Solaris 7 and 8 and 5 Windows NT and 6 Windows 2000 servers. Also responsible for installing and maintaining Apache and MS IIS servers, network monitors. Installed Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) for Raid 5 stripes. Created many Solaris pkgadd application packages for easier and uniform installations. Installed and tested Windows XP workstations. Performed the normal day to day Sys Admin duties for the developers. Troubleshoot and fix hardware, software and network problems.

UNIX and Windows NT systems administrator at the new San Francisco 911 emergency call center. Equipment includes 14 RS/6000 servers running AIX 4.3.1 and 15 Compaq Windows NT 4.0 servers. The UNIX machines were clustered using 7133 SSA disk subsystems and HACMP. I installed Samba on 5 of the AIX machines.

Solaris and Windows NT Systems Administrator. The UNIX side consists of 3 E5500 servers running Solaris 7, NIS, DNS, NFS, Apache Web server, Samba, Checkpoint Firewall 1, and Sun DiskSuite RAID 5. The remaining servers are a mix of E450, Ultra 10, Sparc 5 and Netras. Workstations are all Ultra 10s. I supported 40 users. The Windows NT side had a PDC, BDC, Exchange server and approximately 20 users. I defeated a Denial of Service attack in their Cisco router.

Senior UNIX and Windows NT systems administrator responsible for 120 servers, 265 users and 1.2 terabytes of data worldwide. The network is made up of Sun Sparcs and Ultras, HP 9000 computers, Network Appliance Filers configured as NFS servers. Networking is TCP/IP, NIS and DNS and Web servers. Made configuration changes in the router (Cisco).

A pre-IPO internet service provider as a UNIX (Solaris) and Windows NT system administrator. I built numerous NT and Solaris servers, 2 Apache web servers with 4 virtual hosts, a DNS server and a network monitoring station. I also designed and built a large e-mail server using 3 Sun servers, a Cisco Local Director, Cisco gigabit switch and a Network Appliance NT / NFS file server as well as a Redhat Linux file NFS file server.

Six week project as Senior UNIX Systems Administrator. Worked with Sun Solaris 2.6 and NCR MP-RAS UNIX. Worked on various projects fixing networking problems (NIS Netgroups) and optical jukebox control software. Handled the day-to-day administrative duties common in a UNIX environment. I performed extensive Y2K testing on all servers.

UNIX and Windows NT Systems Administrator. Installed and configured Solaris file servers and Windows NT tape backup server.

Duties included building application installation packages for SMS distribution as well as building Windows NT servers and workstations for a 30,000 seat NT 4.0 roll out.

Performance analysis of Windows NT and Microsoft Exchange servers. Wrote KSH scripts to automate the collection of performance data. Wrote many documents suggesting changes to server configurations for performance optimization. This work was done on both NT 3.51 and NT 4.0.

Solaris and Windows NT System Administrator. Built Database servers and Application servers for the Education Division. Wrote many KSH shell and batch scripts to automate the building process.

Duties included building and installing Oracle Database and Applications servers on UNIX (Solaris) and Windows NT. This was for a different project than below. Wrote many KSH shell and batch scripts to automate the building process.

Solaris / Windows NT Systems Integrator at the agency. The project involved migrating from a Prime mini-computer to a client / server LAN environment. My design utilized a new Solaris UNIX server and a large Windows NT server LAN employing the complete Microsoft Back Office suite. The client side consists of 250 Windows 95 and 25 UNIX workstations. Integration between Windows NT and UNIX was accomplished using Samba and WinDD. Back Office includes the MS Exchange, SMS and SQL server.

Supported three other mid-level administrators on a large UNIX and PC network. Implemented WinDD, a multi-user Windows NT application server to give UNIX users access to Windows applications. This replaced Sun's Wabi. SunOS and Solaris were the operating systems. Acted as mentor to the mid-level admins.

Senior SunOS UNIX and Windows NT Systems Administrator. Designed a large Windows NT LAN and MS Systems Management Service (SMS) network for automated software distribution and installation, hardware and software inventory.

System and Network Administrator on a 400+ user LAN employing Sun servers and workstations running SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.4 as well as many PCs using DOS, Windows and Windows for Workgroups. Installed a small Windows NT LAN. Configured and administered sendmail and UUCP.

Solaris 2.4 alpha test hotline support. Duties include solving problems related to installation, configuration, system administration and operating system bugs.

Providing pre-sale engineering and Systems Administration support of AT&T SVR4 UNIX and Windows NT systems to the Intel account team.

Providing engineering support of UNIX computers and PCs to the AT&T Computer Systems sales team in Hawaii. Taught UNIX to US Navy personnel at Pearl Harbor, HI. Set up small Windows NT network for demonstrations.

Two week contract teaching LAN Manager, the precursor to Windows Server to NCR Systems Engineers in San Francisco.

Five month subcontract on US Air Force contract as AT&T SVR4 UNIX Systems Administrator of a large LAN at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. This included networking via TCP/IP and UUCP for email.