Jeffrey Schroeder
1850 Morton Avenue Apt 301
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Phone: (859) 509-9608
Website: http://www.digitalprognosis.com
Email:   

 
&bull Unix &bull Linux &bull System Administration &bull Computer Security Consultation &bull Custom Web Design

 

 Career Profile:
An ambitious task-oriented individual seeking employment in the system administration and computer security fields with future opportunities for advancement. Willing to work as part of a team with 24/7 on call rotations and travel if necessary. Currently only interested in part time consulting positions.
   
 Work History and Affiliations:
 
 Oct 2006 - Present Systems Administrator
Ticketmaster, Inc.
  • NetApp Filer Storage and SAN administration. NFS configuration and ongoing maintenance
  • Perl archive encryption script supporting key rotation and key retrieval from Ingrian Datasecure
  • RPM package creation for Ticketmaster proprietary software. Redhat Package Manager spec file creation
  • Initial setup of OpenLDAP to centralize network device authentication

 

 Jul 2005 - Present IEEE Computer Society
Member

 

 Mar 2006 - Sep 2006

Web Administrator
Comair, Inc.

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

 

 Aug 2005 - Mar 2006 Trasys, Inc.
IT Consultant for Comair, Inc.
  • Proactive hardening of Linux and HP-UX 11i Unix servers
  • Re-wrote the web server standard from scratch after and existing infrastructure security review
  • Customized Perl open source web metrics reporting software for intranet usage statistics
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 Mar 2005 - Present Lexington Professional Linux Users Group
Member
  • Hardware troubleshooting and Linux installation / support
  • Ohio Linuxfest 2005

 

 Oct 2002 - Sep 2006 Tacoma Linux Users Group
Member
  • Linux / Unix / Microsoft Windows network troubleshooting and misc. programming
  • Quality Assurance and contributions to various open source projects: vSecurity, Ubuntu Linux, gnome-schedule

 

 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
  • NIST SP 800-44, ITIL foundation
   
Fulltime employment offers will not be considered at this time but feel free to contact me with serious consulting or web design inquiries.

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