• 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

• 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 jQuery / Javascript
• Rolled out a completely new monitoring system based on ZenOSS. Lots of custom integration using xmlrpc and python

• 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

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.

• 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

 

• 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)

• LPI LPIC-1 Linux Systems Administration
• Comptia A+ and Network+ Computer hardware and network troubleshooting

• Weblogic Server 8.1 System Administration
• Weblogic Server 8.1 Advanced System Administration

• HP-UX System Administration Script Writing
• Linux: Basic System Administration IV

• Advanced usage of sniffers for network troubleshooting and optimization
• tcpdump, ethereal, and ngrep all covered indepth

• 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