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SAGE Level IV System Administrator with 22+ years experience in Unix System Administration.
I have been actively involved with many Unix-based (or related) operating systems over the past 22 years. This list is only the most recent.
| Apple, OS X 10.2 - 10.5 | BSD, FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x, 6.x |
| Linux, Red Hat 7.3, RHEL 3 & 4 | Sun, SunOS 4.x, 5.x (Solaris 1, 2.2-2.7, 8, 9) |
| AIX, 4.3.3 |
This list is only the most general and most recently used. Other protocols might take a few days to come up to speed.
| Automounters / am-utils | AFS | DHCP (isc-dhcp3) | DNS (BIND, named) | HTTP/HTTPS |
| NFS | NIS/YP | NTP | SMTP / sendmail / mailman | |
| Trouble Tracking / WebRT | LDAP (user side) | Kerberos (user side) |
I have used a lot of technologies in the past 22+ years. I don't list them all here because some of them are no longer relevant and many of them are older versions that would take me a short while to come back up to speed.
Compute Clusters: I've been building compute clusters (desktop and dedicated nodes) since 1985.
High Performance Computing (HPC): I've used several different batch systems. I am currently most familiar with Condor.
Chat services: I've established IRC, dragonmud, and other chat systems to keep disparate system administrators and others in regular communication.
LDAP/Kerberos: I've set up many systems to use Kerberos and LDAP and had training in them but I've never set up a server.
Ethics: Wrote a previous version of and strongly adhere to the current System Administrators' code of Ethics.
Founding member of the System Administrators Guild and the League of Professional System Administrators
Very active in Seattle Area System Administrators Guild.
CAcert certifier
SAGE, 2003 Outstanding Achievement Award "for service to SAGE and the system administration profession as a whole"
Who's Who Registry, Platinum Edition, 1992
Who's Who Registry, Sterling Edition, 1991
Instructor, Ethics and Professional Conduct for System Administrators
Instructor, Unix Infrastructure Architecture
Co-Instructor, Habits of the Highly Effective System Administrator
Co-Instructor, Release Engineering & Project Lifecycle
Past Chair, policies working group, System Administrator Guild (SAGE)
Past Chair, ethics working group, SAGE
Past member, security working group, SAGE
Chair LISA '04
BOF Coordinator, LISA V, LISA VIII
BOF & Guru Coordinator, LISA IX
Guru Coordinator, LISA '97, '98, '99, '00, '01, '02, '03, USENIX ATC '01 USENIX ATC '02 USENIX ATC '03
Workshop Coordinator, LISA '07.
Volunteer - Society for Creative Anachronism (non-profit educational)
Regional VP supervising multiple direct and anywhere from 40 to 60 indirect reports providing heraldic consultation and voice services throughout Oregon, Washington, and the three western-most Canadian Provinces.
MAR 2001 - : University of Washington, Electrical Engineering Department. Senior Computer Specialist.
Manage a professional staff System Administrator (Senior Computing Specialist). Manage and train between two and five student system administrators who are responsible for daily activities like backups, end-user-support, web services, software installation and related tasks.
Manage over 250 Unix (Linux, Solaris, OS X) servers, desktops, & compute nodes and one windows host for the Signal, Speech and Language Interpretation and MTML labs at the University of Washington. Responsible for all day-to-day service and user support, purchasing, and related tasks.
Install, configure, manage and maintain services like AFS, NFS, DHCP, E-Mail, Condor, and license servers.
Developed and maintain the Nikola Unix infrastructure for SSLI, MTML, and VLSI-related research labs.
Maintain documentation for all of the above.
SEP 2000 - JAN 2001: amazon.com. ERP Senior System Administrator.
Architect for Financial, HR (STG), and Legal UNIX systems. Support Customer Service as well as the above. Encourage the development and use of standardized systems. Spackle-man for CS/Finance/HR/Legal.
JAN 2000 - AUG 2000: QUALCOMM Incorporated. Information Technology. Staff System Administrator.
DMZ admin for IT Engineering & Support. Responsible for security and general operations of Unix hosts in the corporate extranets.
Supported data-mode activities on QUALCOMM cellphones, including Unwired Planet (aka phone.com) and pdQ-related services. System Administrator responsible for internal Unwired Planet and pdQ mail servers.
Wrote and maintained policies and other documentation as needed.
JUL 93 - DEC 99: QUALCOMM Incorporated. Information Technology. Sr. System Administrator.
Supervised co-op system admin.
Lead, Certification & Q/A for IT Engineering & Support. Responsible for coordinating and implementing Q/A and testing and certification of all Enterprise-wide software and hardware distributions. This includes OS and applications for Solaris, HP-UX, w95, NT, and Novell.
One of the key technology people involved in QUALCOMM's Year 2000 testing process. Responsibilities included assisting in the design of the test lab, developing (and, in some cases, implementing) test plans, assisting with the technology side of remediation planning and other tasks as necessary.
Some of my other previous tasks were:
In 1993-1994 I developed the GrapeVine distributed Unix system administration environment. I have ported GrapeVine v1.0 to SunOS-4, SunOS-5, IRIX-5, and IRIX-6. It also runs on HP-UX. I have documented the use and administration of GrapeVine and taught classes in it every few months.
My responsibilities have included being the primary admin supporting QUALCOMM's Analog VLSI, CDMA wireless Network Planning and several other groups. I was a specialist on AMD (automounter), rdist(1), and distributed system administration. I also performed second line support for other system administrators, operators and hotline. In addition, I supported NCD Xterminals, and to a lesser extent supported PCs and MACs.
JAN 93 - JUL 93: Gulfstream Aerospace, Engineering Dept. Lead, Unix System Support. Charged with overall vision of engineering Unix computing. Developing a global computing environment out of chaos involving HP 700s & 800s, A Convex C3840, IBM RS/6000s and 5 SGI boxes. Worked with admins in other departments to coordinate global image.
DEC 90 - DEC 92: IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Sr. System Administrator (term contractor).
First with the MathNet network, then Release Engineer in the newly-formed Agora project (workstation support). Last with WATAIX compute farm.
In MathNet I was directly responsible for nameservice, mail, and printing. Most of the day-to-day high level operations were my responsibility.
With Agora, I was the point man for development of the AIX 3.1.5 cluster and related services. We had 140 BSD RTs, 40 Suns and 80 IBM RS/6000s.
Lastly with WATAIX, a compute farm of 45 IBM RS/6000s. I was responsible for release engineering, tool/cluster design and higher level system management/administration.
JUL 89 - OCT 90: Convex Computer Corporation, Marketing Computer System Administrator. Responsible for the day-to-day operations of Convex supercomputers and mini-supercomputers used for vendor code development, benchmarking, and general use.
Also dealt with diskless Sun workstations, NCD Xterminals, and a localtalk net with over 30 Macintoshes. I also maintained sendmail.cf and nameservices for many Convex sites, as well as assisting with UseNET administration.
APR 88 - JUL 89:Verdix Corp., Technical System Administrator (contractor). Handled mail, networking, and general system/network administration. Dealt with most of the day-to-day system operations tasks and was first line of assistance to the users. Also responsible for the network, including the SL/IP link to the main office.
JUN 85 - MAR 88: Oregon State University Computer Science Department, Student Technician, System Administrator. Ran HP-UX systems, assisting in the administration of BSD 4.{2,3} systems. Established and maintained the department's Internet links including gateway operation and nameservice. Was also responsible for hostmastery.
Bachelor of Science - Speech Communications - MAR 1988
Oregon State University; Corvallis, Oregon
US Navy, Basic Electricity & Electronics - June 1983
Live Oak High School - June 1981
Morgan Hill, CA
U.S.: Pacific North West (Oregon & Washington) only.
Internationally: Northern or Western Europe, Canada, cold-climate areas.
References Available on request.