Philip Brown 5353 Josie Ave Lakewood, CA 90713 I am a "Senior Solaris System Administrator/Systems Programmer", with a wide range of experience, both with 8 years of UNIX system administration, and a programming background. I am a Sun Certified Solaris 8 network administrator with mission-critical server experience. I have strong shellscripting experience, and can mentor others; a search for "ksh tutorial" brings up my website as the #1 link. Additionally, I have Solaris driver writing experience. I am willing to relocate. Thank you for your interest. Philip Brown phil@bolthole.com Summary of skills OPERATING SYSTEMS Solaris, SunOS, Linux, MS Windows NT, Cisco IOS, MacOS FIREWALLS Checkpoint FW-1, SunScreen, IP-filter, General security PROTOCOLS AND SERVICES HTTP, SMTP, NFS, DNS, NIS+, RAID, DHCP, JumpStart, Veritas Cluster, Veritas Volume Manager, Legato Networker, RADIUS, WebDAV, Solstice DiskSuite 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 SunFreeware.com auto-download tool 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/ PROJECT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE President, UNIX Users Association of Southern California, LA Team Lead for the Utah-GLX project Capacity planning Performance analysis Mentoring OTHER COMPUTER SKILLS NIS+, NFS, Jumpstart, DNS, HTML, NTP, SKIP (VPN), Cisco, Ascend, Sun Net Manager (SNMP) 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 AP exam) Japanese (passed first year UC Berkeley extension course) WORK EXPERIENCE [Fortune 100 financial company] (April 2002 - present) Solaris System Administrator MySmart.com (May 2001 - Nov 2001) Contractor (Solaris System Administrator) A wide range of responsability, 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) Summary of experience: * Set up all Sun Solaris boxes * Set up email between multiple facilities/domains, and multiple platforms,using SMTP, sendmail, and POP3. * Deployed NFS environment for applications distribution, software development, and "auto_home" * Set up USENET news (INN server) * Set up Internal web server, for filesharing, and automated reports. * Internet connectivity - Design and set up of firewall systems, and DNS servers from scratch. * General networking - LAN & WAN: set up inter-office T1, and internet T1/ISDN connectivity. 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. I was also occasionally subcontracted to a large client, (Fortune 1000 company) to help them with their email systems. 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. 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