Summary:
Over fifteen years extensive and varied background in UNIX,
Macintosh and PC networking, project management, analysis and problem solving.
Over eleven years professional experience project management, administering
large networks, and System Administration of high traffic services - with
emphasis on access, integrity, and security. Five years experience managing
staff, through team building and leadership. Successfully designed and built
data centers, moved corporate and branch offices and networks. Performed daily
management functions including documentation, 24x7 system and network
monitoring, and consistently providing technical guidance and direction to
team.
Professional Experiences:
Art
Center College of Design, Pasadena,
California September
2003 – Present
Position:
Manager, Network Services (June 2004 – Present)
· Responsible for Network Administration, Unix
Administration, Windows Administration, and Telecommunications for Hilltop
campus and Raymond campus.
· Member of planning committee for Design
Resource Center, a new facility housing Techincal Service and Media Library.
· Supervised service and maintenance with
Vendors, such as VLSystems providing administration of Exchange and Active
Directory, and other Microsoft based services (DHCP, DNS, Domain Controllers,
etc), SBC providing network and the wireless assistance, Netfxr providing ad
hoc cable support at the Raymond and Hilltop facilities, and others.
· Managed and coordinated vendors in planning and implementing Art
Center’s needs, including Fluke Networks providing an evaluation monitoring
unit, and gathered cost comparisons between different vendors for specific
projects.
· Successfully identified requirements and met
interdepartmental needs, including Media Design Program wireless support,
Application Services server farm architecture, Client Services troubleshooting
documentation and Virus control support, and Educational Technical Services
determining roles and responsibilities.
· Designed security model, including policies,
firewalls, and combination network/host based intrusion detection. Designed
a network solution for Application Services which allows front end web servers
to talk to backend Database and Application Servers securely.
· Introduced network statistics, network maps,
and combination network/host based intrusion detection.
Position:
Senior Network Engineer, Network Services (September 2003 – June 2004)
· Acted as backup to Network Manger for all
network and system support issues, including backup to Unix Systems
Administrators for Network Appliance and NetBackup, and as backup to Windows
System Administrator provided principal administration of Exchange and Active Directory,
and other Microsoft based services (DHCP, DNS, Domain Controllers, etc).
· Provided guidance to junior analysts for
technical direction while providing documentation
resource both for Audit and for staff access, including basic network
troubleshooting, bandwidth issues, tracking virus outbreaks, and port based
issues.
· Principal administration of Firewall,
Switches, Routers and other Internet related services. Introduced scheduled
monthly maintenance windows.
· Identified pre-existing
deficiencies in network layout and documentation, including bad ports, failed
network devices, rogue wireless devices. Designed redundant and fault tolerance
for network hardware, servers and services.
· Successfully migrated public network to new service provider, coordinating
IP cutover and introduction of 4 T1 Inverse Multiplexing over ATM (IMA).
· Consolidated Backbone connections on Black Diamond, effectively
upgrading ACCD backbone from 10Mbs to
100Mbs.
· Implemented the DS3 install between Raymond and Hilltop campuses with
SBC.
Moviso, Los Angeles, California February
2003 – September 2003
Position:
Manager, Systems Engineering
· Managed a team of five whom administered the
80+ servers that power the Moviso network.
· Planned and managed a complete migration of
Moviso’s production servers and services from VUnet network to the Moviso
network without interruption of service.
· Budgeted complete migration of services and
servers from Vunet to Moviso’s control.
· Negotiated Contracts and Service level agreements
for corporate and co-located networks and services.
· Documented justification support for transfer
of servers to Moviso’s co-located data center.
· Designed redundant and fault tolerance for
network hardware, servers and services.
· Built and networked a
co-located data center to house the Moviso network and servers.
· Developed network statistics, documentation
resource, network maps, parts & server inventories.
· Designed security model, including policies,
firewalls, and combination network/host based intrusion detection.
· Principal administration of DNS, WWW, FTP,
database and other Internet related services.
· Migrated load balanced services from Cisco
ArrowPoint to F5 BigIP solution.
· Completely migrated networks and services from
Vunet to Moviso’s control.
· Completed migration of Moviso’s Development
and Quality Assurance server farms from Vunet to Moviso’s corporate data
center.
ARTISTdirect/CNP
Technologies, Los Angeles/Encino,
California October 1999 –
March 2003
Position:
Manager, Network Operations (September 2001 – March 2003)
· Managed a team of six, whom administered the
80+ servers that power the CNP network.
· Managed complete migration of ARTISTdirect's
servers and services from CNP's network to the ARTISTdirect network without
interruption of service.
· Built and networked a
co-located data center to house the ARTISTdirect network and servers.
· Completely migrated infrastructure from leased
equipment to scalable, non-leased solution.
· Developed and maintained network statistics,
documentation resource, network maps, parts & server inventories, as well
as automated switch portmap database.
Position:
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (October 1999 - September 2001)
· Provided Guidance and leadership to a team of
six, whom administered the 70+ servers, which powered the ARTISTdirect network,
including training help desk personnel who successfully transitioned to the
system administration team.
· Designed and implemented network for corporate
headquarters, collocation facilities, and branch offices.
· Designed security model, including policies,
firewalls, and combination network/host based intrusion detection.
· Principal administration of all backups,
Email, DNS, WWW, FTP, database and other Internet related services and reporting,
based on marketing and business needs.
· Designed redundant and fault tolerance for
network hardware, servers and services.
· Provided secure VPN solution for clients in
addition to network VPN for branch offices.
· Maintained, and later
consolidated multiple remote collocation facilities.
· Installed and managed
Enterprise backup solution.
Marshall
Industries, El Monte, California June
1997 - August 1999
Position:
Systems Analyst
· Responsible for redundancy and fault tolerance for
network services and servers.
· Performed project management of operational
procedures, such as automating scheduled maintenance, log analysis, and backup.
· Recommended and implemented firewall and
database server changes including kernel modifications to provide optimal
security and availability.
· Designed back end email services; applied
Anti-relay and SPAM control measures.
· Implemented Anonymous and Virtual FTP
services.
Geocities, Santa Monica, California January
1997 - June 1997
Position:
System Administrator
· Presented and developed security policies and
procedures. Identified potential vulnerabilities associated with existing and
projected environments.
· Coordinated load balancing efforts across
multiple networks and servers.
· Administered the 60+ servers that powered the
Geocities network.
The
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois September
1993 - September 1996
Position:
Network Administrator (August 1994 - September 1996)
· Responsible for all aspects of AIC/SAIC's
Internet connectivity and services including project management and
implementation of T1 circuit to operational analysis and maintenance
diagnostics to ensure proper and secure operations.
· Evaluated, installed, and coordinated
implementation, and subsequently maintained new network services in response to
network user needs.
· Selected, installed, and maintained network
access security devices and software, as required.
· Developed and conducted ongoing network user
educational and training programs.
· Provided technical guidance and assistance to
network users in the resolution of hardware and software problems.
· Created and maintained network user accounts
and privileges.
· Performed all System Administration on Primary
and Secondary Email, Domain Name Servers and World Wide Web servers, including
institutional html guideline development.
Position:
Media Center Assistant (September 1993 - July 1994)
· Provided principal
consultation for faculty, staff, and students (a community composed of over
2,000 people), providing product specifications, pricing, compatibility and
reliability evaluation of computer hardware, peripherals, and software.
· Acted as SAIC student and
Media Center representative on institute-wide committees such as the Internet
coordination group, network services committee, Email committee, and user
policies committee.
· Assisted academic departments
with local area networking issues.
Computrends
- University Of California, Irvine,
California April
1990 - November l991
Position:
Sales Associate
· Provided primary consultation for faculty, staff,
and students (a population composed of over 20,000 people), providing product
specifications, pricing, compatibility and reliability evaluation of Apple,
AST, IBM, Zenith, Toshiba, Hewlett Packard, and NeXT personal computer
hardware, peripherals, and software.
· Assisted academic departments in obtaining
computing resources such as documentation and technical specifications.
· Supervised and guided users in the Computrends
Computer Laboratory.
Technical Skills:
Operating Systems: Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Slackware Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, ESIX,
MacOS: 6, 7, 8, 9, X, Windows: 98, NT 4, 2000, XP
Server Hardware: Multitude
of Sun Ultra Enterprise servers, and Rave/Tatung sparc clone servers, HP 9000
systems, various Compaq Dell and SGI IRIS/INDIGO servers, VA Linux 2230, Cobalt
Qube, Cybex Commander
Network Devices: Cisco 7000 and 3000 Routers, Cisco 2900 and 6500 Switches,
Cabletron SSR8600 and SS6000, Extreme Black Diamond and Summit switches, F5
BigIP, Packeteer Packetshaper 4500, Network General Sniffer, Spectrum Element
Manager, HP Openview, Cisco Works, Cisco Pix, Checkpoint Firewall 1, TIS
gauntlet 3.0, Nortel Networks Contivity Extranet switches, Bay Extranet Switch
1000, Checkpoint Secure VPN, Cisco Secure VPN using IPSEC and PPTP, Cisco
Secure IDS (formerly NetRanger)
Storage: Network
Appliance F760, MTI Gladiator 3200, MTI 9300, StorEdge A1000/D1000, Maxtor MaxAttach
3000 and 4000 Network Storage Appliance, Quantum
ATL 7100 and 4000 tape library, Veritas NetBackup 4.3, Veritas Volume Manager,
Online Disk Suite 4.2, Solstice Backup 5.01, Legato Business Suite Module for
Oracle, Veritas Databases Edition, Veritas BackupExec 9.0
Server Software: Sendmail, Apache, Bind, WU-ftpd, Samba, NTP, OpenSSH, iPlanet,
Netscape Enterprise Server, SunLink SNA 9.1, Oracle, PeopleSoft, MySql, PHP,
Pandesic, Marketfirst, IIS 5.1, Exchange 2000
Other Software: MailScanner,
F-Prot, Spam Assassin, Squirrelmail, Big Brother, MRTG, NetSaint, Nmap, Nessus,
UBBS, vBulletin, Digichat, VNC, Analog, Expect, Bourne Shell, Ksh
Education:
* The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
Master
of Fine Arts, 1996
* University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
Bachelor
of Arts, 1993
Professional Development:
* Veritas Software, Mountain View, CA,
"NetBackup Unix 3.2" - 2000
* Microsoft QuickStart Technologies, Irvine, CA,
"Designing a Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure" - 2000
* HP Training Center, Naperville, IL,
"HPUX System Administration" - 1995
* American Research Group, Inc., Skokie, IL,
"CISCO Router Configuration" - 1994
*
HP Training Center, Naperville, IL, "HPUX System Security" – 1994