Jeffrey Schroeder
Los Angeles, CA

Website: http://www.digitalprognosis.com
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&bull Unix &bull Linux &bull System Administration &bull Computer Security Consultation

 

 Career Profile:
An ambitious task-oriented individual interested in the systems administration and computer security fields . Willing to work as part of a team with 24/7 on call rotations and travel if necessary. Not currently interested in new employment offers at this time.
   
 Work History and Affiliations:
 
 May 2009 - Present The GNOME Foundation
Volunteer Systems Administrator
  • Setup web-based open source software such as Piwik, CiviCRM, and Drupal
  • Learned and managed systems with the puppet configuration management system
  • Volunteered to run the gnome booth at the Southern California Linux Expo 6x, 7x, and 8x
  • Setup a mock chroot rpm build environment. Backported rpm packages from Fedora to RHEL5

 

 Feb 2008 - Present Madison Tyler LLC
Senior Systems Administrator
  • Re-implemented the global dns/ldap setup for higher availability. Used keepalived for auto-failover
  • High performance computing, benchmarking, and kernel tuning. Constant review of upstream kernel activity
  • Maintenance and engineering on a from scratch Linux distribution in support of high volume electronic trading
  • Authored many internal tools and django web dashboards. Used a mix of python, perl, and bourne shell scripting
  • Architected and rolled out a completely new monitoring system based on ZenOSS. Lots of custom integration scripting

 

 Oct 2006 - Feb 2008 Ticketmaster, Inc.
Linux Systems Administrator
  • NetApp Filer Storage and NAS administration. NFS configuration and ongoing maintenance
  • Perl archive encryption script supporting key rotation and key retrieval from Ingrian Datasecure
  • Initial setup of OpenLDAP to centralize network device authentication. Also looked into RSA products
  • RPM package creation for Ticketmaster proprietary software. Redhat Package Manager spec file creation
  • Advised on best practices and spearheaded an upgrade project from older linux distributions to CentOS/RHEL5

 

 Jul 2005 - Present IEEE Computer Society
Member

 

 Mar 2006 - Sep 2006

Comair, Inc.
Web Administrator

  • Configured and administered fault tolerant java application clusters
  • Personal interview posted on Newsforge.com and syndicated on linux.com
  • Automated repetitive tasks using bourne shell scripting on HP-UX 11i, SLES9, and AIX
  • Assisted with and implemented a migration from Tomcat 3 -> Tomcat 4 -> Bea Weblogic Server 8.1
  • Utilized open source software to meet business needs: awstats, Squid / Squidguard, Mediawiki, Bugzilla, etc.

 

 Aug 2005 - Mar 2006 Trasys Inc.
IT Consultant
  • Vulnerability scanning and network penetration testing of customer facing applications
  • Proactive hardening of SLES9, Novell OES9 Linux and HP-UX 11i Unix servers. Ongoing evaluation
  • Re-wrote the web server standard from scratch after and existing infrastructure security review
  • Customized and branded Perl open source web metrics reporting software for intranet usage statistics
  • Moved internet facing IIS servers internally and fronted them with the more secure Apache using mod_proxy
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 Jul 2001 - Jul 2005 United States Army
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operator / Team Leader
  • Hardening Apache webservers to NIST SP 800-44 (Guidelines on Securing Public Web Servers )
  • Flight Hours: 474 total, 460 of which were during combat in a year long overseas deployment
  • Wrote a 17 page technical paper detailing GCS software improvements (Solaris 7 shell scripts)
   
 Education and Professional Development:
 
 Industry Certifications
  • LPI LPIC-1 Linux Systems Administration
  • Comptia A+ and Network+ Computer hardware and network troubleshooting

Bea Education Services
  • Weblogic Server 8.1 System Administration
  • Weblogic Server 8.1 Advanced System Administration

 

 Hewlett Packard Unix Training and Education Courses
  • HP-UX System Administration Script Writing
  • Linux: Basic System Administration IV
SANS Institute - Mastering Packet Analysis
  • Advanced usage of sniffers for network troubleshooting and optimization
  • tcpdump, ethereal, and ngrep all covered indepth
   
 Network, Client, Server, and Software Technologies:
  • Redhat, Debian, SUSE Enterprise Linux, HP-UX 11i
  • Linux and Unix proactive system hardening
  • tcpdump, ntop, ethereal / wireshark
  • Apache Web Server, Bind DNS, Fedora Directory Server
  • mysql, Oracle Enterprise Manager Console
  • ISO 17799 Information Security Compliance
  • Perl, Bourne, Bash, Posix, advanced shell scripting
  • nmap, snmpwalk, nessus, dnswalk, libwhisker, strace
  • HP Openview, Nagios, ZenOSS
  • Automated Web Application Stress Testing
  • Tomcat, and Bea Weblogic java application servers
  • openldap, slurpd to syncrepl migration, ldapsearch
   
Fulltime employment offers will not be considered at this time. Madison Tyler LLC is a great company that takes good care of me.

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