Skills

• Operating Systems
  • Linux 1.3.x, 2.0-2.6
    • I have gathered a great deal of Linux experience since starting with it in 1996.
  • Solaris 2.X (SunOS 5.X), 7, and 8
    • Vencor purchased Prodata, the company which had previously managed its financial/payroll systems (Cyborg and Lawson) running on Solaris. This consists of approximately 400 servers which I supported. They ran Solaris 2.3 through 2.6. My position with 3Com primarily involved system administration on Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7. It also involves NIS+, DNS, and sendmail administration.
  • HP-UX 9.05, 10.10, 10.20, and 11
    • I helped maintain the Speed School HP-UX cluster from May of 1996 through June of 1998. My work at 3Com also involved HP-UX administration.
  • AIX 3.X, 4.X, and 5
    • At Vencor I helped run approximately 250 AIX servers. Most were running AIX 4.2.X, although there were several running 4.1.X or 3.2.X. Frequent tasks included account creation, filesystem maintenance (esp. expansion), etc.
  • SGI IRIX 5.X and 6.X
    • The Auto Channel is the largest automotive web site in the world. Its host machine, www.theautochannel.com, was an SGI Challenge-S running IRIX 5.3. My tasks included managing numerous cron jobs, 17 GB of disk space spread across 4 drives, 9 web sites, several SQL databases, and more. At 3Com, I helped manage various SGI servers and workstations running IRIX 6.2 through 6.5.
  • Windows 3.X, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5 and 4.0
    • I have been working with Windows since version 3.0 came out. My most extensive experience comes with Windows 95 and 4.0 Workstation, which I run and maintain on my home PC and work PC's, respectively.
  • Others
    • MS-DOS 3.3 through 7.0, MacOS System 7.1-7.5, IBM VM-CMS, DEC VAX VMS, DEC OSF/1
• Programming Languages
  • C/C++
    • C is definitely my best language. Probably my most well-known C project is Eterm, a highly-configurable vt102 terminal emulator for the X Window System. I am also the author of libast (formerly libmej), a general-purpose utility library. My C++ efforts include Black Widow, a web site crawler and link verification tool, and a music player for DOS. I have also contributed to a number of open source projects, including Enlightenment, Imlib, Imlib2, epplets (the library as well as several individual epplets), Feh, and VACM.
  • Perl
    • Since moving to 3Com, I have written several custom tools in Perl. Nightwatch is a ubiquitous system monitor and policy enforcer. It watches processes, daemons, filesystems, files, and ports. It compares its observations against a user-defined set of rules, and if any rule matches, it takes a user-defined set of actions. (For example, it could kill a process using more than 100 MB of RAM on certains systems, or it could page the sysadmin if a filesystem is getting full or growing quickly.) aladm and hpadm are system administration tools for NIS+-based Solaris and HP-UX, respectively. They allow for user creation and deletion (among other things) based on a minimum of information. For example, to create a user, you run "aladm add user -n 'Joe User'" (of course, "add user" can be shortened to "a u" if you wish). The user's full name (in this case, "Joe User") is used to generate the userid, home directory, etc. automatically. This lets the administrator create large numbers of accounts through, e.g., a shell for loop, to expedite the process.

      Much of my early Perl experience came from my work at Vencor. I wrote several Perl scripts while there. I built an entire Intranet web site, including a custom search engine, context-sensitive help engine, and automated web toolkits for sysadmins and customer support, all in Perl. The most sophisticated Perl tool I built for them is DSMon, a script which not only detects and reports disk space problems, but also performs an extensive analysis of the problem and generates the UNIX commands required to correct them in the most optimal way possible.

      I also wrote a couple Perl scripts for The Auto Channel, one of which interacts with AOLserver via HTTP POST, and the other of which acts as a mail handler agent invoked by sendmail.

  • Java
    • I have written several Java applets which were in prominent use on The Auto Channel, such as TCSButton/TACHButton, DropLink, and TACHTextBox.
  • UNIX shell programming (bash, sh, ksh, sh-posix)
    • Shell scripts are vital to any system administrator. I have written too many to discuss here. Suffice it to say that I am very familiar with Bourne- and POSIX-compliant shell syntax.
  • BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, x86 Assembler, IBM 370 Assembler
    • I have never used any of these languages for a market application, but have a functional familiarity with all of them.
• Software Packages
  • MySQL Relational Database and associated SQL language
  • Internet Services (FTP, WWW, Gopher, Archie, Telnet, NNTP, SMTP/POP3, others)
  • Veritas Volume Manager (a.k.a. Sun Enterprise Volume Manager)
  • Sun Solstice Backup (a.k.a. Networker Backup)
  • HP OmniBack II
  • SAMBA
  • Syntax TotalNET
  • Adstar Distributed Storage Manager (ADSM)
  • Microsoft Office 6.0, 95, 97 (including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Access)
  • Maple V Releases 3 and 4 for Windows and UNIX
  • AutoCAD R11 and R13
  • Borland C++ 3.0 and 4.51
  • Lotus Notes 4.5 and 4.6

Education

• National Merit Scholar
• 1994 Governor's Scholar
• Association for Computing Machinery
• National Poetry Contest Finalist
• UofL Honors Program Student
• Who's Who Among American High School Students
• College Board AP Scholar with Distinction
• Habitat for Humanity Volunteer
• Beta Club and National Honor Society Member

References

References available upon request.