System Administration

I live for building and maintaining servers. It is just plain cool. It is something I've been enamored with since I built my first server in primary school. Architecting solutions and selecting the tools and systems required to make them happen is what wakes me up in the middle of the night.

The ability to provide a remote service that increases people's productivity through automation and availability is something I do well. Through my background in software development I know how systems really work under the hood. This plus years of experience in extremely diverse environments give me the capability to deliver software and technology that makes digital life better and business run more efficiently.

Operating Systems

The core of system administration, operating systems are what I know. There is hardly one I haven't at least tried, and I know the most popular ones forwards and backwards.

Linux

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS
  • Ubuntu Server and Desktop
  • Novell and Open SuSE
  • Debian
  • Fedora

Windows

  • NT Workstation and Server
  • 2000 Workstation and Server
  • XP and 2003 Server
  • Vista and 2008 Server
  • 7 and 2008 r2 Server

UNIX and Specialty

  • FreeBSD
  • Solaris
  • Cisco IOS
  • Juniper ScreenOS
  • Nokia IPSO
  • Checkpoint Secure Platform

Applications and Servers

Running servers is both my hobby and my profession. Thanks to my diverse employment background, I've had the privilege of running a large variety of applications and servers in different environments from small business to mission critical 99.999% up time enterprise data centers.

Web and Database

  • nginx
  • Apache
    • mod_wsgi
    • mod_php
    • mod_python
    • mod_proxy
    • mod_rewrite
    • WebDAV/svn
  • Tomcat
  • JBoss
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MS SQL Server
  • MS Sharepoint
  • Drupal
  • Wordpress
  • Plone
  • Concrete5

Utility and Infrastructure

  • BIND
  • DHCPD
  • VMWare ESX/ESXi
  • VMWare vCenter
  • Citrix XenServer
  • OpenLDAP
  • MS Active Directory
  • Cisco Secure ACS
  • Postfix
  • Courier IMAP
  • Zarafa
  • Windows Update Server
  • MS Configuration Manager/SMS
  • MS Data Protection Manager
  • Symantec Antivirus Server
  • Zenoss Monitoring
  • Paessler IPCheck

Desktop

  • Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Eclipse
  • Netbeans
  • GCC
  • Inkscape
  • GIMP
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • NMap
  • Wireshark
  • TCPDump


Networking and Storage

In addition to typical server and desktop administration, I've also been heavily involved in storage, file serving, storage area networking, and regular networking.

Networking

  • Cisco switches
  • Dell managed switches
  • Checkpoint Firewalls
  • Nokia Firewalls
  • Juniper Firewalls
  • Cisco routers
  • Checkpoint SecuRemote VPNs
  • Juniper Secure Access SSL VPNs
  • VLAN design and management

Storage

  • Dell MD3000i iSCSI SAN appliances
  • Microsoft Storage Server
  • Samba
  • Promise VessRAID iSCSI appliances

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