Work Experience
Internet49/Avantac
687 Placerville Drive
Placerville, CA 95667
December 2002 - Current
Title: Sr Unix Admin
Designed/documented/implemented L4-balanced Qmail with Vpopmail on FreeBSD systems which
included custom Qmail-Scanner/SpamAssassin/ClamAV performance tweaking to handle
1,000,000+ emails per day. Set up dns, mail, and web hosting automation. Setup
FreeRadius with huntgroup restrictions to restrict dialup users to their respective
service as well as to "jail" unpaid accounts.
Managed/upgraded UNIX web hosting (Apache with PHP/mod_perl/mod_ssl/Frontpage)
and upgraded/tuned centralized NFS server used for email, web and log storage.
Implemented network-based monitoring utility, Nagios (formerly NetSaint) with NRPE to
check service and server availability as well as notification when services/servers fail.
Currently working part-time (less than 6 hours per week) as an on-call admin and perform
occassional upgrades/tuning of unix systems.
RagingWire Telecommunications, Inc.
PO Box 348060
Sacramento, CA 95834-8060
January 2001 - January 2004
Title: Systems Engineer
Designed/documented/implemented all system infrastructure using Solaris 8 on 18 Sun servers
ranging from Netra T1 to SunFire 4800 as well as helped design network infrastructure to
provide complete redundancy. System infrastructure included HDS Lightening 9960, 3Par
Inserv, NetApp F840c filers (clustered, using NFS and CIFS), Veritas NetBackup 4.5
(upgraded from 3.4) using Spectra Logic Gator 64k robotic library, load-balanced and
replicated LDAP for Solaris authentication, BIND for DNS, load-balanced Apache,
load-balanced and replicated MySQL, as well as remote access capabilities (MS RRAS for
VPN and Lucent Max for dialup using MS IAS).
Managed the clustered Exchange environment and handled all improvements to Exchange ranging
from migrating Exchange database to a larger volume to adding capabilities to Outlook Web.
Managed and defined Active Directory users/user roles/security policy, implemented roaming
profiles/folder redirection within the domain policy for specific departments.
Designed/implemented's intranet website based on PHP and ported employee information into a
centralized Oracle database.
Wrote several management scripts to automate tape duplication and rotation with Veritas
NetBackup for off-site storage to improve disaster recovery plan. Implemented Qmail
spooling server to identify spam and provide a localized buffer in case Exchange became
unavailable. Wrote procedures to perform any administration task within Solaris, NetBackup,
NetApp and SAN storage. Provided level 3 (end-of-line) support for the Operations
department.
Scurvy.net
3345 Mission Avenue
Carmichael, CA 95608
October 2000 - Current
Title: Systems Administrator
Built web/email hosting solutions under Debian Linux. Utilized Qmail with Vpopmail
for email infrastructure, tied in qmailadmin to allow customers control over their
email administration. Built several automation scripts to minimize time spent building
and managing websites and email.
Designed and coded an online photo gallery with the abilities of assigning photographer,
description and people of each photo with full search capabilities for all fields ::
CANDIDv2 (http://candid.scurvy.net)
Designed and coded a template based mailto CGI which allows users to process information
from a HTML form, process the input and send an email with the information formatted
to a specified template. Additional features include timezone translation and script
execution for futher processing of data.
MailTO Template
Script
Wavve Telecommunications
9332 Tech Center Drive
Sacramento, CA
March 2000 - January 2001
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 Sun 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,
a OneMain.com Company
595 Menlo Drive
Rocklin, CA
December 1999 - March 2000
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,
POP3, and HTTP servers. Created custom scripts to monitor bandwidth usage via reports
from SNMPwalk.
Ulink Internet
451 Parkfair Drive
Sacramento, CA
Febuary 1999 - November 1999
Title: Senior 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.
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.
San Juan School District
2925 Mission Avenue
Sacramento, CA
January 1999 - June 1999
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.