Professional Summary

Technical skills include system administration, cross-platform integration, Internet related technologies, local and wide area network management, application monitoring, middleware, network analysis and design. Soft skills include project analysis and implementation, communication on multiple levels of technical understanding, project management, people management, and the ability to develop and maintain successful customer relationships.

Skills Summary

Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, SCO, Free BSD, LynxOS, NetWare, Total Net Advanced Server, Samba, netatalk, OS/2 LAN Server, LANtastic, DEC Pathworks, VMS, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9x, Windows 3.x, MS DOS, Novell DOS, OS/2, MacOS

Hardware

Ultra Enterprise 10000, Ultra Enterprise 5000, Ultra Enterprise 4000, Ultra Enterprise 3000, SPARCcenter 2000E, SPARCserver 1000E, Ultra Enterprise 450, Ultra Enterprise 2, Ultra 10, Ultra 5, Ultra 2, Ultra 1, other SPARCstations, Netra I, Netra J, JavaStations, IBM RS6000, IBM PS2, IBM AT and compatibles, Compaq, HP, DELL, Macintosh, VAX 4400, SPARCStorage Array, Miscellaneous RAID Arrays, Terminal Servers

Networking Protocols

TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, AppleTalk, NetBEUI, NetBIOS, LAT, DECnet, SMTP, HTTP, DHCP, POP, IMAP, PPP, WINS, DNS, NIS, NIS+, NFS, NNS, NDS

Networking Topologies

Ethernet over 1000Base-SX, 1000Base-T, 100Base-T, 802.11b wireless, 10Base-T, 10Base-2, 10Base-5, and FOIRL, TokenRing over Cat 5 and Type 1 shielded, FDDI, ARCnet, ISDN, T1, Frame Relay

Applications and Programming

Perl, bash, sed,awk, ksh, sh, csh, HTML, PHP, CGI, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL, SQL*Plus, C, Turbo Pascal, FORTRAN 77, Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, IPChains, IPTables, Nmap, BMC Patrol, BMC Patrol Scripting Language, Dazzle, IPRoute, Legato Networker, ARCServe, Retrospect, Palindrome, WordPerfect Office, Novell GroupWise, NOV*IX IPX to IP Gateway, HP JetAdmin, PVCS, ODS, Veritas Volume Manager, DCE 1.1, Mercury WinRunner and LoadRunner, Platinum Technologies WireTap, MS Internet Information Server, Intel LAN Desk Manager, Ornetix CD-ROM server, Microtest CD-ROM server, MDI CD-ROM server, Central Point Anti-Virus, McAfee Anti-Virus, Norton Anti-Virus, MS Access, MS Access Basic, Paradox, Basic, Saber Menu scripting, DOS batch files.

• Sun Certified Solaris Administrator
• Sun Competency 2000 Certified
• Sun Ultra Enterprise 10000 Certified
• Novell CNE
• Microsoft MCSE
• IBM CLSE
• Transarc - DCE 1.1 Secure Core System Administration
• American Research Group - Implementing T1 and T3 services
• Graduate of The Art Institute of Dallas

Projects and Responsibilities: Permanent Employment and long term Contracting

• Foundry Guide for the Clustering Foundry on SourceForge - OSDN (a VA Linux company), August, 2001 to Present
• Read the Clustering Foundry Press Release
• Project Manager for the VA Enterprise Management project - VA Linux, December, 2000 to July, 2001
  
• Pre-Sales SE Manager, Western half of the United States - VA Linux, June, 2000 - December, 2000
• Pre-Sales SE, High Performance Computing, VA Linux, December, 1999 - June, 2000
  
• Pre-Sales SE, Western Region, VA Linux, May, 1999
  
• Senior System Administrator for 150+ Solaris, SunOS, and AIX systems across a nationwide network. These systems used NIS, NIS+, DCE, CDE, NFS, and automounting with travelling home directories. Server systems ran ODS or Veritas Volume Manager and supported large Oracle databases. - PrimeCo, Westlake, TX - 1996 and 1999
• Senior Systems Engineer/Technical Manager for a large imaging shop. Responsible for Windows NT, NetWare, LAN (physical), and WAN. Projects included Windows NT RAS implementation, creation of corporate DNS, setup of Windows NT multi-domain trust relationship (Master-Slave), LAN backbone redesign, and protocol migration among others. - ACS Dataplex, Dallas, TX - 1998
• Lead Analyst supporting a mission critical middleware system using DCE and a proprietary transaction monitor running on Solaris and AIX. This middleware system allowed for secure transactions to flow between multiple companies in a reliable and fault tolerant manner. - PrimeCo, Westlake, TX - 1996-1997
• Designed, developed, and implemented a client/server tool for monitoring the health of a proprietary transaction monitor using ksh, nawk, SQL*Plus, Oracle, and BMC Patrol. The tool monitors error output from the transaction monitor and based on information specified in updateable tables, is capable of automatic problem resolution, trouble ticket entry into a Scopus help desk system, and alpha paging the individual tasked with responsibility for the system. When an individual is paged, the error message is sent to the pager along with the trouble ticket number. - PrimeCo, Westlake, TX - 1997
• Configured an Ultra Enterprise 3000 to run TotalNet Advanced Server allowing Microsoft clients to connect to a Solaris based PVCS repository hosting cross-platform development middleware code. Other clients to this repository included Solaris 2.x, and AIX 4.x. This project also involved installing a Windows NT 4.0 Primary Domain Controller to provide case-sensitive password authentication to the TotalNet Advanced Server system.
• Assigned as a member of a SWAT team to resolve complex production issues with a mission critical billing system. The system involved providing customers of this cellular phone company with automated, real time calculation of their phone bills. All issues were resolved.
• Acted as a senior level System Administrator managing and directing other System Administrators in their day to day responsibilities. This included bringing lower level System Administrators up on their skill sets and introducing them into a high pressure production environment.
• Developed and implemented security, access, and naming standards.
• Developed disaster recovery plans and contengency systems including evaluating and recommending appropriate backup and archival software, hardware, media, off site storage, and media rotation schemes.
• Sole System Administrator at a major educational institution for 3000+ clients on 16 NetWare servers running 4.1, 3.12, and 3.11. Authentication systems included Bindery Services, NetWare Name Services, and NDS. Some servers were running GroupWise and NOV*IX TCP/IP gateways connecting IPX/SPX clients to the Internet. Client types included most everything. - UTSouthwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX - 1992 to 1996
• WebMaster for the Dallas chapter of the Network Professionals Association - 1994 to 1995
• Normalized and converted a flat DB3 database into a relational MS Access database. This database is used to track diabetes patient information for medical research at The Molecular Immunology Center at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. - UTSouthwestern, Dallas - 1993

• Add dynamic partitioning support to SystemImager. - Hewlett-Packard - In progress
• Add Compaq Smart Array 5xxx series (/dev/cciss/ devices) support to SystemImager v1.5.0 and v3.0.0. - Compaq - Completed June, 2002
• Add GPT (GUID Partition Table) support to SystemImager on the IA64 architecture. - Hewlett-Packard - Completed June, 2002
• Add Compaq Smart Array series (/dev/ida/ devices) and Intel module only Ethernet driver support to SystemImager v1.5.0. - Compaq - Completed March, 2002

• Diagnosed and resolved IPX network numbering problem on NetWare and Windows NT. Evaluated network design and made recommendations regarding protocol consolidation, secure internet access, and physical network architecture. - UniStar, Dallas, TX - 1999
• Installed Linux as a DNS and proxy server.  Fetchmail was also used to retreive Internet mail using a dial-up ISDN link and deliver it to GroupWise on a NetWare 4.1 server. - Cochran and Cochran
• Installed and configured PGP Certificate Server on Solaris and the Apache Web Server (for access to the Certificate Server). - Verilite
• Evaluated switched ethernet network, isolated bottlenecks, made network design change recommendations, evaluated NetWare 3.x servers and made performance and fault tolerance recommendations. - Allied Marketing Group
• Isolated the bottleneck in a system involving 10BaseT, 100BaseT, switches, NetWare 4.11, Windows NT, SQLServer, FoxPro, and Windows 95 stations scanning and indexing documents - Document Imaging Services, DataPlex
• Configured RedHat Linux v4.2 as a DNS and POP mail server replacing MS Mail on NT - ThermoServ
• Configured Sendmail and DNS on a second Linux server for a company purchased by ThermoServ - ThermoServ
• Installed Samba on AIX - Professional Services, DataPlex
• Consulted on Internet connectivity, firewalling, and DNS. Installed DNS and the Apache web server on an HP 9000 K-250 - HeartPlace
• Consulted on Ultra Enterprise 3000/Oracle performance tuning, Windows NT/Unix connectivity and file sharing, Internet connectivity, firewalling, NIS, NIS+, DHCP, PGP Key Server, Legato Networker problems, and set up caching DNS server - VeriLite
• Installed Netra I/J, JavaStations, and configured Java based vt320 terminal emulation software for VAX connectivity - Network Operator Services
• Configured an AdTran TSU 100 (CSU/DSU) for fractional T1 - Malibu Entertainment Wordwide
• Troubleshot Windows NT DNS issues - Olicom
• Troubleshot hardware problem on Sparc 20 - memory sticks were in the wrong order - GIS Department, City of Dallas
• Analyzed and redesigned network involving switches, routers, FDDI, 10BaseT, 100BaseT, centered around an Auspex NFS server - GIS Department, City of Dallas
• Assisted in configuring a Compaq 7000, configured WINS, DHCP, recommended bootp forwarding, stop bridging, and assign default gateways for remote networks - Choice Homes
• Installed Pipeline 75 ISDN router with firewalling software connecting client to the Internet - Cochran & Cochran
• Configured a Compaq 2500R w/Smart SCSI Fast Ultra Wide RAID 5, installed SCO v5.04, installed Oracle WGS v7.3, network analysis and design - Malibu Entertainment Worldwide
• Reconfigured SAPS and DigiModem pool on replacement Windows NT server - Trinity Universal Life
• Diagnosed and repaired a NetWare 3.12 server taken down by client that never came back up - Cochran & Cochran
• Established an NT Domain model and server naming standard, installed a Windows NT PDC, 16 Modem modem pool, SpartaCom SAPS software, DNS on NT, DHCP and WINS, diagnosed high NetWare CPU utilization - Trinity Universal Life
• Diagnose and resolve NetWare mirroring problem over phone - Cochran & Cochran
• Diagnose and resolve Oracle on AIX over IPX/SPX problem, traced problem to two Windows NT machines using inappropriate IPX network numbers and a weak IPX implementation on AIX - DataPlex
• GroupWise 4.x administration - Cochran & Cochran

• SystemImager
• Author, Project Manager, and Lead Developer
• Coordinate a development team distributed around the globe
• SystemImager is a popular tool for installing and updating Linux clusters
• Here is an article on SystemImager that ran on Linux.com and the Clustering Foundry.
• Here is the Press Release announcing the merger of IBM's LUI software and SystemImager.
• The current official SystemImager release is x86, but ports to the Itanium, PowerPC, and s390 architectures are in progress.
• Some of the organizations that use SystemImager are: AT&T, Bristol Myers Squibb, Dell, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Los Alamos National Lab, NBCi, NCSA, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oracle, SGI, Verio
• System Configurator and System Installer
• Established a collaboration with IBM's Linux Technology Center that resulted in the creation of these projects
• These two software tools integrate with SystemImager to provide additional functionality
• System Installation Suite
• The umbrella project that represents the collaboration of SystemImager, System Installer, and SystemConfigurator
• OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resources)
• My company, Bald Guy Software, is a member of the OSCAR group.

• Article - Brian Writes about His BOEL, Part 2: Kernel and Booting - Embedded Linux Journal, May 2002
• Article - Brian Writes about His BOEL, Part 1 - Embedded Linux Journal, March 2002

• Pre-Sales SE Training covering physical networking and SystemImager - VA Linux, Toronto, Canada - June, 2000
• On the job, site specific customized training - The Unix Group, PrimeCo, Westlake, TX - November, 1998 to May, 1999
• 2 Day class on PC Hardware and Troubleshooting - Multiple Clients, Berger & Co. - August, 1997
• 2 Day class on Solaris for Users - GIS Department, City of Dallas - July, 1997
• 3 Day class on Solaris for Administrators - GIS Department, City of Dallas - July, 1997
• 2 Morning classes on DCE 1.1, middleware, and a proprietary transaction monitor called Nexus - Production Support Department, PrimeCo, Westlake, TX - May, 1997
• All day class on TCP/IP - The Network Professionals Association of Dallas - May, 1997
• All day speed training class on Legato Networker - Enterprise Services Department, PrimeCo, Westlake, TX - November, 1997
• All day class on NetWare 4.1 - The Network Professionals Association of Dallas - May, 1996

• Presenter - Hacking Embedded Linux - Dallas Fort-Worth Linux Users Group, August 2002
• Presenter - Abstract on SystemImager - Hack Linux Track - Atlanta Linux Showcase 2000
• Seminar Schedule
• Abstract
• Panelist - Cluster Administration Has Been Solved, or Has It? - Extreme Linux Track - Atlanta Linux Showcase 2000
• Seminar Schedule
• Building Linux Based Virtual Private Networks - ISPCon Spring 2000
• Seminar schedule
• Abstract
• Listen to the presentation
• How to Compile a Linux Kernel - DFW Linux Users Group - 2000
• Using Software and Hardware RAID in Linux - DFW Linux Users Group - 1999
• Creating a Web Enabled Interface to a Database using Linux, MySQL, Apache, and PHP - Nashville Linux Users Group - September, 1999
• Creating a Web Enabled Interface to a Database using Linux, MySQL, Apache, and PHP - DFW Linux Users Group - July, 1999
• Linux Specific Servers and Developer Systems - DFW Unix Users Group - July, 1999
• Installing Linux to multi-boot with Windows NT - DFW Unix Users Group, Linux SIG - February, 1999
• Setting up an email listserver using SmartList - DFW Unix Users Group, Linux SIG - February, 1999

• Mentioned in Linux Journal's ''The OSCAR Revolution'' article by Rich Ferri of IBM - June, 2002
• Official "UberGeek" - VA Linux - May, 1999 to July, 2001
• Complete UberGeek listing
• My entry
• Participant in the "by invitation only" Large Scale Cluster Computing Workshop at Fermi National Lab - May, 2001
• Participant List
• President of the DFW Linux Users Group - 1999 to 2000
  
• Member - Computer Networking Advisory Committee, Dallas County Community College District - 1995 to 1999
• Guest Speaker Netware 4.x Security - InfoShare '97, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Nominated for the position of Secretary - The Network Professionals Association of Dallas - 1997
• Nominated for the position of President - The Network Professionals Association of Dallas - 1996