Philip Brown
5353 Josie Ave
Lakewood, CA 90713

OVERVIEW

WORK EXPERIENCE

University of Southern California (January 2004 - present)

Solaris System Administrator/Architect
Varied high level technical responsabilities

[Fortune 100 financial services company] (April 2002 - January 2004)

Solaris System Administrator
Senior technical member of team

MySmart.com (May 2001 - Nov 2001)

Contractor (Solaris System Administrator)
A wide range of responsibility, including:

Collective Technology (May 2000 - March 2001)

Consultant [Full time W2 employee of Collective Technology, a consulting company]
[Varied responsibilities, including day to day administration. The highlights are extracted here]
Satisfusion.com
[unnamed startup company]
Boeing Satellite Systems
E-Perception.com

Merisel Corp (July 1998 - April 2000)

Solaris System Administrator
Kept mission-critical warehouse application and database servers running. (Solaris, ultra 1s through E3000s)
Used Remedy for trouble tickets and change management.
Additional accomplishments:

Aegis Star Corp(July, 1994 - June 1998)

System administration and programming (strong in both)
Primarily Solaris flavor of Unix, with initial SunOS deployment. I was responsible for all UNIX functionality, both on the development, and production networks (24x7 uptime required)

Software responsibilities:
Developed significant parts of custom internal software. Development included work with MIME(RFC1521), and TCP/ip communications. Also wrote programs designed to copy and archive all incoming email. This required integration with sendmail, and a separate database. (ndbm-format). Miscellaneous shellscripting was also necessary, for a wide variety of functions.

UC Santa Cruz (1993-1994)

Managing the "gnu" software @cats.ucsc.edu
Compiling and maintaining gnu software packages as they are released, for each of the system architectures on the network.

PROJECT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

President, UNIX Users Association of Southern California, LA

Team Lead for the Utah-GLX project
Lead for blastwave.org solaris packaging site

Skills

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Solaris, SunOS, Linux, MS Windows NT, Cisco IOS, MacOS

FIREWALLS

Checkpoint FW-1, SunScreen, IP filter

PROTOCOLS AND SERVICES

HTTP, SMTP, NFS, DNS, NIS+, RAID, DHCP, JumpStart, Veritas Cluster, Veritas Volume Manager, Legato Networker, RADIUS, WebDAV, Solstice DiskSuite

OTHER COMPUTER SKILLS

NIS+, NFS, Jumpstart, DNS, HTML, NTP, SKIP (VPN), Cisco, Ascend, Sun Net Manager (SNMP)

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND PLATFORMS

C, C++, java, SQL, Sybase, Oracle, lex, yacc, AWK, csh, sh(Bourne shell) & ksh(korn shell) scripting, Xaw, Motif

SOURCE CODE CONTROL

SCCS, RCS, CVS, Sun Codemanager

PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE PROGRAMS AND DOCUMENTS

The pkg-get auto-download tool used by blastwave.org and sunfreeware.com
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html
The original "Secure LDAP on Solaris" guide
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/LDAP.html
Various highly popular solaris utilities at
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/

CERTIFICATES & DEGREES

Bachelor of Arts in CIS (Computer Science); UC Santa Cruz
Solaris Administrator Level I
Solaris Administrator Level II
Sun Certified Solaris 8 Network Administrator

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

French (8 years, passed Advanced Placement exam)
Japanese (1 year)

Device Drivers

Commercial: November, 2002 - Contract, SSP Litronic
Wrote Solaris driver for USB attached custom PCMCIA card reader
Commercial: (NDA-private) 2003 - Contract
Wrote USB driver for custom hardware
Free:
Assorted free drivers at http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/

PERSONAL PROJECTS:

Source code for all of the above can be found at http://www.bolthole.com/

Philip Brown
phil@bolthole.com