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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