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WORK EXPERIENCE:
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WinView, Inc.,
Redwood City, CA - 2018/04 to present
- manager: Eric Vaugn, +1 650-533-4179, eric@winview.tv
- manager: Alan Pavlish, +1 310-666-1253, alan@winview.tv
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Deployed centralized system management services
for over 15 RHEL/CentOS 7 hosts into Amazon
EC2 (cloud services), using
Synto (CFEngine, rsync, perl, ksh and m4)
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Integrated configuration for
NTP, OpenSSH, Apache, Nginx, Sendmail, BIND, MySQL,
Postgres, OpenLDAP, OSSEC, iptables, login shell environment,
OS patches & updates (yum & mrepo), nagios,
rdiff-backup, and kickstart
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Migrated gaming application suite from a hosted service to
on-premises using the above infrastructure
FastModel Technologies (FastModel Holdings,
Inc)., Chicago, IL - 2017/06 to present
- manager: Randy Waters, +1 510-541-5480, randy@fastmodeltechnologies.com
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Deployed centralized system management services
for over 10 RHEL/CentOS 7 hosts into Amazon
EC2 (cloud services) using Synto
(CFEngine, rsync, perl, ksh and m4)
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Planned and assisted in the execution of a project
consolidate needless multiple VPCs into one
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Deployed VPN using OpenVPN to reduce exposure of
many services, especially AWS RDS to public IP access
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Migrated Atlassian all Jira and Confluence assets from Atlassian-hosted
to on-premises servers for improved flexibility, lower cost and integration
with on-presmises LDAP (OpenLDAP)
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Improved security by switching users to individual
credentials managed via LDAP vs ssh role keys shared
amongst a large number of present and ultimately former
company associates
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Integrated configuration for
NTP, OpenSSH, Apache, NGINX, Sendmail, BIND, MySQL, OpenLDAP,
iptables, jira, confluence, OpenVPN, login shell environment,
jenkins, OSSEC, JetBrains Upsource,
OS patches & updates (yum & mrepo), nagios,
rdiff-backup, and kickstart
BCH Technical Services, LLC,
Novato, CA - 1991/6 to present
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Deploy centralized system management services and
provide on-going maintenance
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Security analysis, performance tuning & monitoring
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Expert troubleshooting and special projects support
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Clients
with a wide variety of needs
Mobile Gaming Technologies,
Inc., Oakland, CA - 2013/03 to 2020-06
- manager: Mike Reaves, +1 415-939-9619, mreaves@mondobox.com
- manager: Ed Brennan, +1 408-768-5327, ebrennan@cashbet.com
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Deployed centralized system management services
for over 50 RHEL/CentOS 7 hosts into Amazon
EC2 (cloud services), followed by 16 more hardware
CentOS/RHEL 6 hosts into a colocation facility
Synto (CFEngine, rsync, perl, ksh and m4)
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Integrated Amazon EC2 factors into Synto to
handle seemless centralized system management
across traditional colocation-based hardware
and cloud computing virtual hosts
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Integrated configuration for
NTP, OpenSSH, Apache, Nginx, Sendmail, BIND, MySQL,
OpenLDAP, iptables, login shell environment,
OS patches & updates (yum & mrepo), nagios,
rdiff-backup, and kickstart & jumpstart
One Kings Lane,
Inc. (now Bed, Bath and Beyond), San Francisco, CA - 2010/12 to 2020-06
- manager: Justin Hill, +1 415-246-2356, justin@onekingslane.com
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Deployed centralized system management services
for over 30 RHEL/CentOS 5 hosts into Amazon
EC2 (cloud services), followed by 40 more hardware
CentOS/RHEL 5 hosts into a colocation facility
and and office-based machine room using Synto
(CFEngine, rsync, perl, ksh and m4).
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Integrated Amazon EC2 factors into Synto to
handle seemless centralized system management
across traditional colocation-based hardware
and cloud computing virtual hosts.
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Integrated configuration for
NTP, OpenSSH, Apache, Sendmail, BIND, MySQL, OpenLDAP,
iptables, jira, login shell environment,
OS patches & updates (yum & mrepo), nagios,
rdiff-backup, and kickstart & jumpstart.
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Integration testing of RHEL/CentOS 6 with use
of newer mainline kernels in progress.
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SKILLS & SPECIALTIES:
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Complete, Comprehensive UNIX System Administration
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Extensive experience with SunOS 5 (Solaris 2),
Linux (RedHat), HP-UX, Tru64 (Digitial Unix),
and Ultrix, AIX, BSD, Irix,
SCO
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Considerable VMS, BSD and Dynix/ptx
experience, and substantial Microsoft
Windows & MacOS experience
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Extensive interoperability work between UNIX
and other operating systems
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System administration - user management, file
systems (Veritas Volume Manager, Sun Solstice
Disk Suite), printing, software installation
and licensing (FlexLM, Elm), backups (amanda,
Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Backup EXEC, and
Legato), security & performance
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Design - complete strategies for heterogeneous,
distributed, single-point of management using
all bundled and free tools, including NIS, NIS+, NFS,
USC rdist, m4, perl, automounter, xdm, syslogd,
sendmail, amanda, identd, tcp wrappers and a
suite of fully portable Korn Shell (ksh) scripts for
configuring printing, log management and more.
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Hardware configuration - installation and
configuration of cards, peripherals (including
printers, disks, cdroms, tape drives monitors,
and more) and kernel rebuilds.
Network Services Management
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DNS & sendmail specialist, plus NFS,
NIS, NTP, INN, POP3, IMAP, SNMP, HTTP servers
(Apache) and more - site-wide, highly tailored,
heterogeneous setup, operation &
troubleshooting.
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Routing experience - router configuration, host
routing using gated and mixed protocol
networks.
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Experience with Microsoft Windows NT/2000
system management.
Programming, Applications and other Specialties
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Extensive C, Korn/C Shell, considerable Perl and HTML
programming- experience w/, DCL, Fortran, and SQL.
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Extensive data tape manipulation - ASCII,
EBCDIC, ANSI-labeled tapes - "I can read any
tape."
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Instruction - beginning UNIX/VMS, intermediate
UNIX in large class and one-on-one tutorials.
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Experience with Microsoft and other desktop applications
Publications
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Brian C. Hill,
"Priv: Secure and Flexible
Privileged Access Dissemination",
Proceedings of the 10th Large Installation Site
Administration Conference,
pp 1-8, Chicago, IL, 1996.
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Wrote complete documentation for C and oracle
SQL assignments and taught lab section of
Computer Science Dept. database course for 2
years.
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Contributed sections on compilers & network
tools to campus VMS documentation sold at
bookstore.
International Work
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Have permit to work in Germany.
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Fluent Spanish and nearly fluent German.
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Extensive travel experience in Europe and
Central/South America.
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