Nicholas Berry
3345 Mission Avenue
Carmichael, CA 95608
(916) 485-6585
(916) 397-3050
[email protected]
 

Relevant Skills:   Work Experience:
Operating Systems:
  • Solaris 7/8/9
  • Linux (Debian, RedHat, SuSe)
  • BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD)
  • Windows NT 4 (workstation/server)
  • Windows 2000 (professional/server)
  • Daemons/Services:
  • BIND 4/8/9
  • Apache 1.2-1.3.x
  • Qmail (with ezmlm)
  • Sendmail 8.9.x-8.10.x
  • MySQL 3.x-4.x
  • Qpopper
  • WU-FTPD
  • ProFTPD
  • IIS 3.0-5.0
  • FP 97-2002 extensions (NT/UNIX)
  • Training:
  • Foundry / FCNE
  • Cisco / Introduction to Networks
  • Cisco / ICRC
  • Cisco / LAN - Design/Implementation
  • Cisco / WAN - Design/Implementation
  • Additional:
     Fluent in
  • PERL
  • PHP 3/4
  • MySQL
  • regular expressions
  • HTML
     Knowledgeable in
  • awk scripting
  • bash scripting

  • References:
       Available upon request.
     
    RagingWire Telecommunications, Inc. January 2001 - current
    Wavve Telecommunications April 2000 - January 2001
    9332 Tech Center Drive
    Sacramento, CA

    Title: UNIX Systems Engineer
    Designed redundant services solution covering Radius, Web, FTP, DNS, News, and Mail. Worked with EMC in designing scalable storage solution for over 30 servers. Designed, implemented and administered systems interacting with MS-SQL, Oracle 8, L4 switches, and Cold Fusion. Secured all Linux servers; optimized (and fixed) DNS servers. Designed and implemented current VLAN setup/configuration on BigIron 8000 to decrease broadcasted/unnecessary traffic. Increased security for public NT servers (MS Exchange server, MS SQL server).


    JPSNet / OneMain December 2, 1999 - April 4, 2000
    595 Menlo Drive
    Rocklin, CA

    Title: Cisco Engineer
    Managed nation-wide network - which included Cisco routers (25xx,72xx,75xx series), Catalyst (26xx,29xx,55xx series), PIX 520, Ascend SA 100 and 600 CSU/DSU bridge, Ascend TNT (1/2/3 generation), Ascend Max 4000-4048, NetApp; managed Net-Cache via WCCP. Managed point-to-point connections (from DS0 to DS3). Performed system administration over BSDI (3.x-4.0.x). Managed 9 UNIX web servers. Optimized and administered 4 DNS servers. Migrated DNS servers from BIND 4.9.7 to 8.2.2p5. Created PERL web interface front-end to allow Level2 technicians to administer web servers and DNS servers. Managed RADIUS, SMTP, POP-3, and HTTP servers. Created custom scripts to monitor bandwidth usage via reports from SNMPwalk.


    Ulink Internet March 5, 2000 - March 23, 2000
    451 Parkfair Drive
    Sacramento, CA

    Title: Consultant
    Consulted and assisted in converting an NT based ISP to UNIX, as well as configured Ascend Max 4048s. Advised and implemented current network layout for increased security and performance. Assisted with the creation of a web-based user management interface to create/modify/delete users from the system. Set up Lucent RADIUS, BIND, Qpopper, and Sendmail.


    Ulink Internet February 10, 1999 - November 24, 1999
    451 Parkfair Drive
    Sacramento, CA

    Title: Sr UNIX Adminstrator
    Managed DNS (BIND 4.9.2), converted to BIND 8.1.2. Began process of migrating all services from Windows NT 4 to Linux (Red Hat 6.0). Implemented and managed hold music server via developed CGI interface with PERL. Implemented conversion to new billing software (Quickbooks to ISP Companion) through a series of PERL scripts. Also administered Livingston Radius 2.3, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, and IIS 4.0.


    San Juan School District Januarary 15, 1999 - June 6, 1999
    2925 Mission Avenue
    Sacramento, CA

    Title: Systems Administrator
    Managed and upgraded 89 Macintosh and 4 PC (running Windows NT) computers. Performed system support for teachers to help them and students to improve their skills for multimedia presentations. Managed all systems through remote applications (ANA,Timbukto). Optimized network layout of school for frame-relay T1. Worked with HP Procurve switches for interconnecting all computers within the location.