Nick Berry Resume

http://nickberry.com/resume/

3345 Mission Avenue
Carmichael, CA 95608

home:	(916) 359-5119
cell:	(916) 806-2876
[email protected]

Nicholas Berry

Relevant Skills:

Work Experience:

Operating Systems:

Solaris 7/8/9/10
Linux 2.2/2.4/2.6
FreeBSD 4.x
Mac OS X
Windows NT4/2000/2003

Daemons/Services:

NetBackup 3.4/4.5/5.0
VFS 3.3.3/3.5
Exchange 5.5/2000/2003
MS-SQL 7/2000/2003
iPlanet Directory Server 4/5
BIND 4/8/9
Apache 1.3/2.0
MySQL 3/4
Qmail / EzMLM / Vpopmail
SpamAssassin / ClamAV
Qpopper / Courier IMAP
Sendmail
NCFTPD / ProFTPD
MS IIS 3-5

Training:

Foundry Certified Network Engineer
Cisco / Introduction to Networks
Cisco / ICRC
Cisco / LAN - Design and Implementation
Cisco / WAN - Design and Implementation

Fluent in:

PERL
PHP 3 / 4
MySQL
Regular expressions
HTML 4.0 / CSS 1&2

Knowledgeable in

SQL programming
awk/sed scripting
shell scripting

References:
Available upon request.

Copart, Inc.

August 2004 - Current

4665 Business Center Drive
Fairfield, CA 94534

Title: Sr Unix Admin

Managed Solaris Jumpstart automation using FlashArchive. Managed NetBackup by automating backup image verification and media auditing, also including Vault configuration and implementation for off-site rotation. Rewrote NetBackup's distribution script to use SSH instead of RSH.

Wrote SCM, Support Contract Manager, as a repository for all support contract/contact information as well as notification for contract expiration. Rewrote Operators Turnover report in order to automate 45 minutes worth of work per shift and HTMLify (pretty up) the report into a nice HTML-email format. Rewrote VB² Monitor which monitors auction servers using a perl daemon and a PHP front-end (includes queries against DB2, updates to MySQL, TCP port checks, and custom log parsing). Wrote customized Nagios administrative panel (similar to the simplicity of Big Brother, only prettier) to parse the Nagios status.log and show service availability. Wrote a PHP-based plotter interface which mapped the connected user's to Copart's auctions onto a world map based on results from GeoIP. Wrote a transparent watermarking system which would display an appropriate watermark depending on the HTTP referer.

Internet49.com/Avantac

December 2002 - Current

687 Placerville Drive
Placerville, CA 95667

Title: 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.

January 2001 - January 2004

PO Box 348060
Sacramento, CA 95834-8060

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 (Microsoft RRAS for VPN and Lucent Max for dialup using Microsoft 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 RagingWire'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	October 2000 - Current
3345 Mission Avenue Carmichael, CA 95608 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

Scurvy.net

October 2000 - Current

3345 Mission Avenue
Carmichael, CA 95608

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	March 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 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).

Wavve Telecommunications

March 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 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	December 1999 - March 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.

JPSNet,
a OneMain.com Company

December 1999 - March 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

Febuary 1999 - November 1999

451 Parkfair Drive
Sacramento, CA

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.

March 2000

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	January 1999 - June 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.