Looking for work.

From: Steve Mertz (steve@dragon-ware.com)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 09:12:21 PDT

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    Hi All.
    
    I am currently looking for work in Silicon Valley, San Deigo, or any
    place
    in Texas.
    
    I have been in IT for over four years, with most of that as a Solaris
    admin.
    But I have also had Linux, BSD (Net, Free and Open) and Windows in my
    various positions.
    
    My dream job is a security administrator, but I am happy just being a
    system
    administrator who looks out for security.
    
    Quick summary of my skills:
    
    Networking: nis, dns, nfs, ldap (with network authentification),
    sendmail, apache.
    
    Operating Systems: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux,
     SunOS 4.1.3 ->Solaris 8,   Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000,
     DOS, and a little MacOS.
    
    Hardware: Intel, Athlon, Sun (Ultra's, Enterprise 250->1405, older [ss1,
    ipc,etc])
    
    Programming/Scripting: sh, csh, Perl, Python, Tcl, C, C++, Objective C,
    Java
      Others.  (Please note that I may need a day to refresh myself with
    some of
      these languages.)
    
    Below is my resume, thank!
    -- Steve
    
    Steve Mertz
    1081 Beach Park Blvd #209   ph: 650 572 8274
    Foster City, CA     94404                       steve@dragon-ware.com
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    A system administrator with over four years of industry experience,
    who is quick to solve problems, gets projects done on time and works
    well with others.  A hobbyist programmer who is working on several
    projects in several languages (feel free to ask about them.)
    
    
    EXPERIENCE
    
    EdgeNet Communications, Corporation, Burlingame, CA     November 2000 to
    May 2001
    System Administrator (Solaris/NT/2000) / DBA
    Reported to IT manager: contact number available on request.
    Reported to Senior Oracle Developer: contact number available on
    request.
    
    Projects:
     * Set up DNS for engineering building
     * Set up NIS for engineering building
     * Set up Samba for engineering building
     * Update Solaris 2.7 servers with latest software/patches for engineers
    
     * Installed Radiator, a Radius server written in Perl
     * Installed Rational Quantify and Purify
     * Set up a CVS Repository
     * Installed Bea's WebLogic Enterprise Server
    
    Day-to-day:
     * Account maintenance for UNIX/NT/Netscape Messenger Server/Meeting
    Maker
     * Software Installs (for Solaris and NT/Windows 2000 Pro)
     * System Installs: Windows NT and Windows 2000
     * When busy with UNIX, delegate Windows work to co-worker
     * DBA Work: Upgrade, modify, install, benchmark Oracle servers and
    schemas
    
    
    Digital Integrity, San Mateo, CA                  February 2000 to
    November 2000
    System Administrator (UNIX/NT/Phone)
    Report to IT manager: contact number available on request.
    
    Projects:
     * Set up NIS server for company
     * Replaced NIS server with LDAP server for authentification and
    address-book
     * Retired old server with many new servers (mail/web/DNS/printing/NFS)
     * Set up secure web mail (Squirrel Mail) for the company
     * Set up and ran a Usenet server (innd)
    
    Day-to-day:
     * Account maintenance for NT and UNIX (NIS and LDAP)
     * Patched Linux and NT against various security holes that appeared
     * Backups (Amanda and Seagate Backup Exec)
     * Machine installs (Linux/RH, Windows NT/2000)
     * Machine upgrades
     * Email maintenance - sendmail (aliases, virtual users, virtual hosts)
     * Created voice mail and assigned phones to new employees
    
    
    Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC           November 1998 to
    February 2000
    Network Specialist (union title); System Administrator (real title)
    Reported to Technical Services Manager: contact number available on
    request.
    
    Projects:
     * Y2k readiness (Solaris/SunOS server upgrades)
     * Replaced the PC-NFS system with a Samba system and stabilized the
    network
     * Upgrade major servers (hardware and software)
    
    Day-to-day:
     * Kept network printers running happily
     * Kept NIS and DNS running happily
     * Applied OS patches (Solaris/SunOS) when needed
     * Windows NT and Novell maintenance (minimal)
     * Terminal Server maintenance (minimal)
     * Unix backups (ufsdump and Net Backup)
     * NT/Novell backups (ArcServ)
    
    
    Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC                May 1997 to
    November 1998
    Systems Support Generalist
    Reported to User Services Manager: contact number available on request.
    
    Projects:
     * Helped with three major network upgrades
    
    Day-to-day:
     * Installed, supported and maintained hardware and software
     * Covered help-desk (gave support over the phone and delegated work to
    the
       appropriate people)
     * Supported all versions of Windows, DOS, and SunOS/Solaris
     * Watched over open labs (helped students out with problems and watched
    over
       printers)
    
    
    SKILLS
    Programming:
     * C/C++/Objective C * Java   * Tcl/Tk
     * Smalltalk  * COBOL  * Python
     * Perl   * Lisp  * Shell scripting
     * Visual Basic         * HTML   * Pascal
     * PL/SQL
    
    Operating Systems:
     * UNIX: SunOS/Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux
     * Windows: 3.x, 9x, NT, 2000 Professional
     * DOS: OpenDOS, PC-DOS, MS-DOS
    
    
    EDUCATION
    University College of the Cariboo, Kamloops, BC        1994 - 2000
     * Computer Systems: Operations and Management -- diploma
    
    
    INTERESTS
     * Home network (http://www.dragon-ware.com) running an OpenBSD
    firewall,
       and an OpenBSD server (mail, web, mailing lists, secure web mail,
    shells
       and virtual hosting)
     * Writing programs:
         o Adaptive network agents with a natural language interface
         o Others... please feel free to ask
     * Reading books (Computer, Sciences, Math and more)
    
    
    PUBLICATIONS
     * C Scene (http://www.cscene.org) - an electronic magazine for C/C++
       programmers. I have two articles about code optimization in issues #5
    
       and #6.
    
    
    RECOGNITIONS
     * Chief Scout Award (Highest Scouting award in Canada)
     * Brainbench Certifications
       - Linux Administration (General) -- 4.17
       - Unix Administration (General)  -- 4.44
       - Unix Administratoin (General)  -- 3.38
    



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