Philip Brown's Resume

Philip Brown
5353 Josie Ave
Lakewood, CA 90713

OVERVIEW

"Senior Solaris System Administrator/Systems Programmer", with a wide range of administrator and programmer experience
A background of 24x7 mission-critical environments, full change control process, systems monitoring, and performance analysis.
A knack for cleaning up impossible messes, and making things Work Right.
A history of mentoring junior admins to reach senior level.
Well known in the Solaris community, for his public sysadmin resources, pkg-get script, and driver work.

WORK EXPERIENCE

University of Southern California (January 2004 - present)

Solaris System Administrator/Architect: Varied high level technical responsabilities

Internal technical "consultant" on various projects
Designed failover mechanisms for various campus services
Converted production Solaris deployment methods to use jumpstart

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

Solaris System Administrator: Senior technical member of team

Deployed multiple enterprise-level monitoring systems
Selcted and deployed ticket management system
Performed in-depth system analysis
Created and deployed inventory management system

MySmart.com (May 2001 - Nov 2001)

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

Managing the production web servers(apache+jrun)
Supporting internal java developers
Configuring cisco routers & RADIUS software
Sysadmin and minor DBA support for Oracle servers

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

Installed and configured Veritas Cluster Server on Solaris, with Veritas Volume Manager, and Oracle Enterprise Agent.
Installed Apache web server + "Raven" SSL & Jrun
Drove move from plaintext to ssh-encrypted authentication.
Installed firewalls and filtering for critical systems.
Proposed and provided tools for dev. team migration from "Source Safe" to CVS.

[unnamed startup company]

Installed Veritas Cluster Server on Solaris, with Oracle agent.
Integrated HA system with SAP, working with SAP consultant.

Boeing Satellite Systems

Rewrote customized SCCS front end (turned 4000+ lines of C code into 800 lines of ksh scripts) on HPUX/Solaris
Installed XNTPD for NTP time synchronization.

E-Perception.com

Set up dual-node NFS&Oracle HA cluster with fiber-attached RAID, on Solaris.

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:

Spearheaded creation of Intranet with IT info and systems performance.
Maintained internal DNS subdomain + mail server (sendmail + IMAP)
Oversaw company firewall (Checkpoint FW-1)
Coded a multi-tier enterprise-wide systems monitor in java, ksh, + SQL.
This covered a wide variety of systems,from database, ftp, email, to SAP monitoring.

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:

Kanjidrill -- Xaw-based program for testing the user on kanji <-> English translations.
Jdrill -- Java version of Kanjidrill
epsonscan -- USB scanner driver for Solaris
sbpci -- sound card driver for Solaris

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

Philip Brown
phil@bolthole.com