----- Skills List (latest http://www.zeitgeist.net/edgar/edgar-nielsen-skills.txt ----- Version $Id: edgar-nielsen-skills.txt,v 1.16 2003/11/07 07:04:59 edgar Exp edgar $ OS/Platform Experience ====================== A/UX 3.0 Macintosh AIX IBM PC-RT, IBM PS/2 BSD 4.[23] VAX*, IBM PC-RT* BSDI [12].x Various Intel platforms* DOS Various Intel platforms FreeBSD 3.x Various Intel platforms IRIX SGI MacOS [6789].x Various Macintosh models* MacOS 10.x Various Macintosh models OS/2 Warp 4.0 Various Intel platforms* OSF/1 DEC DECstations RedHat [5678].x Various Intel platforms* SCO UNIX IBM PC-AT* Solaris 2.[346] Sparc 5*, Sparc 10*, 250*, and 450* Solaris 2.7 Sparc 5, 250, and 450 SunOS 4.x Sun 3/60, Sparc I*, Sparc 5* SUSE Linux 8.2 Various Intel platforms SUSE Linux 9.0 Various Intel platforms Ultrix DECstations*, MicroVAX, VAX* Windows XP Various Intel platforms Windows 2000 Various Intel platforms* Windows 3.11 Various Intel platforms* Windows 9[58] Various Intel platforms* Windows ME Various Intel platforms Windows NT 4.0 Various Intel platforms* XENIX IBM PC-AT* (Platforms with an * indicate 2+ years continuous administration experience) MANAGEMENT ========== Experienced planning and carrying out critical network and system deployments. [Site moves, server moves, new system rollouts, major network topology changes, etc.] Managed and trained junior administrators. NETWORKING ========== Very experienced with 10base2, 10base5, 10baseT, and 100baseT ethernet technologies. Some FDDI experience. Considerable experience with SLIP/PPP connections for routers and workstations as well as experienced with UUCP connections. Experienced with Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX-based sniffers to monitor/debug EtherTalk and TCP/IP. Extensive experience managing multiple routers, especially configuration management. Administered BGP on multi-homed Cisco 75xx routers Extensive experience with Cisco and Livingston routers and terminal servers. Experience with many other routers from vendors such as 3Com, ACC, Ascend, etc. Experience with installation, configuration and maintenance of the LVS load balancer. Experienced configuring Cisco and Livingston terminal servers for modem pools, UUCP, and outgoing connections. Experienced with both NT and UNIX-based DHCP/BOOTP clients and servers. Extensive experience with tftp. Extensive experience with NIS; some NIS+ experience. Experienced with NFS clients and servers. [No automounter experience] Extensive experience with UW IMAP and POP servers, including mbx format. Extensive experience with sendmail installation and configuration. Extensive experience with DNS and SMTP on many different OS's. Extensive experience configuring apache on UNIX systems. Experienced using SNMP to monitor routers, switches, hosts, etc. using a variety of packages. [OpenView, SNMPc, Nocol, Big Brother, MRTG, Cricket, NetSaint, Nagios, etc.] Experience with installing and configuring OpenLDAP on both linux and solaris. Some experience installing and administering Novell NDS on solaris. TELECOM ======= Extensive experience with DS0 and DS1 leased lines, as well as Frame Relay. Some experience with DS3 leased lines and FDDI. Experienced with ISDN, including D-channel packet data with X.25. Extensive experience with a variety of CSU/DSU equipment. Experienced with paging systems and the TAP paging protocol. SECURITY ======== Extensive experience with UNIX security issues. Familiar with tcpd, xinetd, tripwire, kerberos, ssh, COPS, crack, etc. Experience with Windows security issues. Increased NT security by locking down filesystem and registry ACLs, group memberships, shutting down services, etc. Experienced with lockdown of various types of routers such as Cisco and Livingston. Installation and configuration of various NAT, proxy, and firewall systems both open-source and commercial. Checkpoint, ipchains, Cisco access lists, etc. Experienced with BIND and sendmail security issues. Experienced with IPSEC, PGP, and ssh tunnels. Experienced with a variety of anti-virus packages in a corporate environment. Have written security policies, performed basic security audits. Experienced with router and host-based packet filters, NAT, and proxies X WINDOWS SYSTEM ================ I am well versed in X11 and Motif installation, configuration, and support. Experienced with X security issues, especially in a heterogeneous environment. I have also worked on X11R4 and X11R5 X-terminals from NCD and NDS vendors. Experienced with many window managers/desktop systems such as twm, MOTIF, CDE, GNOME, and KDE. CONFIGURATION AND MAINTENANCE ============================= Configured modem pools on terminal servers. Installed/configured NCD and NDS X-terminals. Configured UNIX workstations as servers and X-terminals. Experienced with PostScript laser printers connected via RS-232, Ethernet, LocalTalk, and EtherTalk. Extensive serial line experience. Extensive experience trouble-shooting and repairing X-terminals, Macintoshes, Intel, and IBM PC-RT workstations. Some Sun 3/60 and Sparc hardware trouble-shooting experience. Written backup scripts; performed system backups using tar, cpio, dump as well as commercial products such as Arkeia and ArcServe. Extensive experience with DAT, 8mm, DLT, and AIT tape technologies and libraries. Extensive experience installing major software packages such as TeX and X11R5 from source code. UNIX kernel configuration and rebuilding on many UNIX platforms. Extensive experience with package systems on multiple platforms. Very extensive use of SCCS, RCS, rdist, cfengine, etc. to maintain multiple UNIX machines. Experienced using KickStart and JumpStart to install and configure Linux and Solaris machines. Experienced with both software(such as DiskSuite) and hardware RAID systems on a variety of platforms. Experienced with a variety of Open Source ticket systems. MACINTOSH ==================================== Installed/modified the Columbia AppleTalk Package for UNIX-based file, time, and print serving. Managed a Cayman Gatorbox for AppleTalk routing and tunneling via TCP/IP. Installed/configured RevRDist(similar to UNIX rdist). Extensive experience locking down macintoshes in a lab environment. Configured MacTCP(with bootp) and related applications such as NCSA telnet and MacX. Trained users in Macintosh skills and applications. MICROSOFT ===================================== Installed/configured samba for UNIX-based file and print serving, as well as WINS and PDC servers. Configured Crynwr packet drivers and Winsock for both dialup and LAN-based TCP/IP. Setup all versions of Windows for both dialup and LAN-based TCP/IP. Installed/configured NT PDC/BDC's in a multidomain environment. Experienced installing and securing IIS 4.0. Trained users in Windows skills and applications. E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS ================== Experience wth troubleshooting WebLogic servers. Experience with Interwoven TeamSite. Experience with AltaVista. Experience wth troubleshooting JRun servers. Experience wth installation and troubleshooting of IIS 4.0. Extensive experience with installation, configuration, maintenance of Apache. PROGRAMMING =========== Extensive experience writing C, TCL, perl and shell scripts for commercial products and system administration. Extensive awk, sed, etc. experience. Some experience with Pascal, Fortran, and BASIC. Extensive experience with UNIX portability issues at both the C and shell level. Very familiar with POSIX 1003.1 and 1003.2. Designed and implemented test plans for testing third party software for ULTRIX. Extensive SCCS and RCS experience, as well as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. Experienced at porting software between UNIX flavors. Perl-based CGI scripting. DOCUMENT PRODUCTION =================== Extensive experience with troff macros and templates. Knowledge of TeX and LaTeX. Extensive vi/vim experience, some emacs experience. Experienced with PostScript, both programming and debugging PostScript. Extensive Microsoft Word and Adobe PageMaker experience, as well as knowledge of Quark, Photoshop, Excel, Visio, and Illustrator. Eperienced with Digital Origin EditDV and Adobe Premiere. Experienced with HTML. SUPPORT/TRAINING ================ Trained users in both UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh skills and applications. Given informal talks about UNIX applications. Provided support via ticket systems, electronic mail, telephone, and in person. DATABASE ======== SQL programming (both C and shell APIs). On Macintosh and UNIX systems, I have experience with relational databases and flat file databases. [Access, FileMaker, Berkeley db, etc.] Extensive experience with QDDB, some with MySQL and Postgres. Some Oracle administration on NT and Solaris platforms. Some Postgres, msql, and MySQL installation and configuration experience. LEGACY SYSTEMS ============== Experienced configuring and maintaining ICVerify for credit card authorization using both modem and ISDN D-packet, including debugging with CompuServe network staff. Considerable experience configuring and administering CICS for OS/2. Considerable experience configuring Communications Manager for OS/2 with Token Ring and Frame Relay connections to a credit bureau. Limited experience with MPE on the HP3000 platform. Extensive experience installing, configuring and maintaining OS/2 Warp 4. Familiar with Token Ring. Familiar with SNA.