bill@terasyn.com

Title: Senior UNIX System Administration

Project Experience:
 

June 2000 to February 2001       Avolo Inc.
Senior UNIX System Administrator I was the senior system administrator at Avolo. In this roll I had primary responsibility for developing and implementing a Highly Available 7*24 Production Server environment and a highly dynamic Developmental Server environment. The server environment included Linux, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 Server and Oracle 8i. Avolo’s application was based upon Java with some limited use of ColdFusion. My responsibilities included all aspects of administering the server environment and included:

• Server hardware/software selection, purchase and installation
• Facilities design, development and management
• Developing/Implementing Administration Practices
• Disaster Recovery and Security
• Project Planning and Project Management

1995 to June 2000      The Boeing Company
Senior UNIX System Administrator I supported a number of servers hosting critical line of business applications. When these servers are down, airplane production stopped at Boeing. From 1995 through 1997, I supported mainly HP-UX servers with some Sun support. From 1998 to June 2000, I primarily supported IBM NUMA-Q servers running Oracle and Web based applications. I also continued to provide support to HP-UX and Sun servers. Responsibilities included:

• Hardware/software installation, configuration, and upgrade
• User support, troubleshooting and problem resolution
• Performance tuning and product evaluation
• Participate in application design, development and implementation
• Security, backup/restore and network integration
• System Monitoring, korn shell scripting, process design and integration
• Develop and maintain system documentation
• Mentoring less experienced System Administrators
• Process design, development and implementation
• Capacity planning
• 7 X 24 On Call support

1992 to 1995      The Boeing Company
UNIX System Administrator I supported a number of UNIX workstations used in engineering design, analysis and testing in support of commercial airplane design and certification. The workstations were primarily HP but also included some Sun workstations. The number of workstations I supported varied from 35 to 150. Responsibilities included:

• Hardware/software installation, configuration, and upgrade
• User support, troubleshooting and problem resolution
• Consultation on hardware/software requirements
• System Monitoring, korn shell scripting, process design and integration
• Security, backup/restore and network integration

1981 to 1992      The Boeing Company
Design Engineer I worked on a number of projects early in my career including: the design/development of test and repair facilities for avionics components; design/development/implementation of an automated circuit card factory; design/development/implementation of computers for electronic circuit design (CAE Tools); and the design/development/implementation and support of an office automation system.

OS:                  DYNIXptx; HP-UX; Solaris; Linux; Windows NT, Win 2000 Server
Programming:    Korn Shell; Learning Perl
Networking:      TCP/IP, NFS, NIS, DNS, Network Design
Hardware:         Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting
Other:              System Design, Project Management, Training, Technical Writing, Fibra Channel, VeritasVolume Manager, Veritas File system, Veritas Netbackup

1977 to 1981 BS-EET (Electrical Engineering Technology)
Milwaukee School of Engineering; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1983 to 1986 Seattle University; Seattle, Washington
Pursued an MBA and made it about half way through the program until the arrival of first daughter which re-prioritized my life.
 

USENIX (Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association)
SAGE (The System Administrators Guild)
Seattle SAGE