Objective:

Seeking a challenging position as a unix systems administrator or security administrator.

Work Experience:

Senior Member of the Technical Staff (Systems Administrator)
Computer Sciences Corporation
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 606.2, Greenbelt, MD
January 2003 to present

• Working with a team of administrators responsible for administration of several large Origin 3000 SGI supercomputers.
• Design and implement a Configuration Management system using cfengine and CVS used to manage several SGI systems.
• Assist with development and implementation of Nagios to monitor SGI systems and resources.
• Build and Configure the Altair Portable Batch Scheduling system for use with SGI systems.
• Configure and maintain a SGI CXFS cluster consisting of 6 systems managing over 14TB of fiber-channel disk.
• Install and maintain several large Altix 3700 systems running SGI ProPack.

Senior Technical Support Engineer
Interwoven, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
September 2000 to January 2003

• Handle support calls from customers for all products developed and produced by Interwoven. These include but are not limited to: TeamSite and TeamSite Templating (v 4.2.1-5.5.2), OpenDeploy (v 4.2-5.5.1), DataDeploy (4.5-5.2.1), Workflow Builder (4.5.1-5.5.2). Support for a variety of OS platforms (NT/Windows 2000, Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP/UX)
• Provide support to Interwoven and partner consultants. This may include general product support and/or general OS configuration support for NT, Windows 2000, Solaris (2.6-8).
• Complete beta testing of future products and service packs (so far TeamSite 5.0 field testing and regression testing for TeamSite 4.5.1 Service Pack 1).
• Technical lead for the support Triage team. Responsible for ensuring quality in cases escalated to engineering.

Systems Administrator
Raytheon Systems Company (ITSS)
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), HPCC/ESS code 931
March 1998 to September 2000

• Supports day to day operations of a Cray T3E supercomputer.
• Responsible for maintaining a training lab of NCD Xterminals and a Sun (Solaris 2.6) server.
• Responsible for building and maintaining system software for the Cray T3E, and supporting SGI and Sun Workstations.
• Assists with administration of NCCS Origin 2000 and Cray PVP systems.
• General Unix support for users on HPCC systems.
• Was a member of a special team responsible for improving the security posture of GSFC through vulnerability scanning of publicly accessible networks and design of a security training program for systems administrators.
• Maintains a Network Flight Recorder intrusion detection system.

• Responsible for maintaining a server (nfs,http,majordomo) and 10 workstations all running Irix6.2.
• Installation of new software and hardware.
• General consulting on PC/Mac related problems.

• Responsible for monitoring critical system services (sendmail, name servers, file servers, general login machines).
• Monitoring of student labs (SGI workstations) and fixing minor problems.
• User administration and general operations/troubleshooting of the main computer room.
• Maintaining general documentation (HTML).

• Responsible for grading of projects and homework for CMSC201 (Introduction to Computer Science).
• Responsible for grading of projects and homework for CMSC211 (Vax Assembly Language Programming).
• General help sessions for students.

Job Related Skills

Linux (Redhat, Debian), Irix 6.2-6.5, Solaris, Unicos/mk, Windows 95/NT Workstation, MacOS, programming languages(C, C++, Java, Vax Assembly) TCP/IP Networking, Shell Programming (sh,perl 5, tcl/tk), Majordomo, HTTPD Server (apache), Sendmail. Various Security tools: nmap, ISS Internet Scanner, Network Flight Recorder (NFR), ISS Realsecure IDS, CXFS, cfengine.

Interwoven specific software: TeamSite and TeamSite Templating (4.2.1-5.5.2), OpenDeploy (4.2-5.5.1), DataDeploy (4.5.1-5.2.1), Workflow Builder (4.5.1-5.5.2).

Education:

• The University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  4 years of study in Computer Science
  
  

Special Training

• ISS Internet Scanner Certification.
• ISS RealSecure Certification.

• Performance Evaluation and System Tuning for SGI 2000 series and Onyx2.
• Cray PVP System Administration.
• SGI CXFS/SAN/Failsafe training.

• NIAP Designing a Protection Profile.
• NASA System Administrator Security.