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Date:      Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:58:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      David Raistrick <keen@icantclick.org>
To:        freebsd-jobs@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD sysadmin looking for work (Orlando, telecommute)
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.0.999.0903061252080.47048@murf.icantclick.org>

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My last job just moved to Long Island without me.   Anyone need a sysadmin 
or network engineer?   Telecommute or Orlando Florida area.  Open to short 
travel projects as well.

Email if you are interested or have any pointers. ;)  keen@icantclick.org




- Network and Systems Architect -

I analyze and diagnose troubled networks and redesign them to be 
efficient, reliable, and scalable. What I bring to systems and network 
design is the knowledge that each component is part of the system-users, 
applications, software, developers, and hardware-and every one has to be 
taken into account.

- Skills And Qualifications -

* 10+ years in networking and systems.
* Rapidly fire-fight in unfamiliar environments.
* Support developers to ensure that software, network and system work 
together.
* SAGE Level III systems administrator and charter member of LOPSA.
* Operating Systems: UNIX (FreeBSD, BSDi, BSD/OS, Mac OS X), Linux (Red 
Hat, CentOS, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu), Windows XP/2000/2003, and others.
Network Products: Cisco, Foundry, Extreme, and HP routers and switches; 
Trango and other wireless gear; Cisco PIX and ASA, WatchGuard, SonicWALL, 
NetScreen, Fortinet, GNAT Box, SnapGear firewalls; CacheFlow cache 
engines; Acucomm DSLAMS; Foundry ServerIron, F5 BigIP, and Cisco CSS load 
balancers, Internap FCP route controller.
* Network Technologies: BGP, RIP, OSPF, RADIUS, DNS (BIND, djbdns), ATM.
* Email: Email servers (qmail, Sendmail, NTMail, IMail), mailing list 
managers (ezmlm, Smartlist, Majordomo), AV/AS (F-Prot, AntiVir, Sophos, 
Kaspersky, AMaViS, SpamAssassin, Commtouch, Mailshell), development of 
GNAT Box Mail Sentinel, Courier IMAP.
* Programming/Scripting Languages: Shell (sh, tcsh, bash, ksh), awk/sed, 
PHP, Perl, Python.
* Backups: Amanda, rsync, Retrospect, bacula.
* Web: Apache, PHP, CacheFlow, RT, ColdFusion, JRun, JBOSS, Apache Tomcat, 
DBRocket DBML, Microsoft IIS.
* Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Filemaker, MS SQL Server, Oracle.
* Storage: SAN (FibreChannel and iSCSI), NFS using EMC, Pillar, Brocade, 
Dell hardware.
* Virtualization: VMware Virtual Infrastructure, VMware ESX, VMware 
Server, Xen hypervisor.

- Related Experience -

 	Systems Administrator / Network Engineer	July 2007 - 
present
 	NeuLion and JumpTV Inc., Sanford FL

Performed role of both Systems Administrator and Network Engineer as 
needed, focusing on revamping and stabilizing the server and network 
infrastructure. Team lead for four sysadmins and one DBA, manager for one 
network engineer.

With my team, maintain an environment of 250 servers in seven colocation 
facilities, supporting a complex website and content management 
infrastructure that serves several hundred college athletic department 
websites, streaming video, and the jumptv.com online television portal. 
Maintain streaming video content delivery network (CDN) for JumpTV's 
online television platform.

Configure and debug Cisco PIX and ASA firewalls, Cisco CSS, and F5 BigIP 
load balancers.

Architected expansion of one site to 19 racks including cooling, space, 
and power budgets, including fully redundant core and internal network 
with diverse internet transit connections.

Initiated push for virtualization of server environment, with one third of 
the servers converted to virtual servers.

Maintained peering (BGP) relationships at the TorIX in Toronto, Any2 
Exchange in Los Angeles, LINX in London, Equinix in Ashburn, and NAP of 
the Americas in Miami.

Built extensive monitoring and statistics gathering system to warn of 
failures and provide scaling data.

Built central script toolkit for maintenance of system that works with 
unique environment features.

Assisted with phone system consolidation, moving from a mix of Cisco and 
3com to an Asterisk open source solution.

Initiated Operations and Development documentation repository (wiki) using 
MoinMoin.

Researched and documented system, network, and software architecture for 
complex 100-server web application using Red Hat, CentOS, Apache, Tomcat, 
ColdFusion, DBML, and Oracle.

Built a trouble ticket tracking system for the Operations team using OTRS.

 	Network Engineer / Systems Administrator	 December 2005 - 
July 2007
 	SKYRIM Inc., Daytona Beach FL

Designed a network for a wireless ISP start-up and built a team to install 
and maintain it.

Designed two-city metro Wi-Fi network.

Designed, built, and deployed PtMP network for wireless ISP using Cisco, 
Extreme and Trango.

Researched and selected transit providers, colocation facilities, and 
tower sites.

Initiated company-wide documentation project using pbwiki.

Hired and managed systems administrator and installation technicians.

Performed systems administration of FreeBSD, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows 
2003 Servers.


 	Network Architect/Engineer	 July 2005 - December 2005
 	PowerCentric Software Inc., Orlando FL

Working with the development team, specified a detailed system and network 
architecture to meet the reliability, redundancy, and availability 
requirements for the design of web-based software for the insurance 
industry.

Proposed network designs, specified desktop and network hardware for 
development office.

Researched network and database security requirements for SOX and HIPAA.

Outlined office and test lab environments.

Installed Windows 2003 Servers with JBoss Java Application Server, 
BlueDragon, and IIS.

Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux with JBoss, BlueDragon, and Apache.


 	Systems Administrator	 December 2001 - July 2005
 	Global Technology Associates, Inc., Orlando FL

Maintained and upgraded 11 FreeBSD servers, three Windows 2000/XP servers, 
and a mix of FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X, and Mac OS9 workstations. 
Configured, maintained, and upgraded three Cisco routers and three 
production GNAT Box firewalls, including four High Availability firewall 
pairs. Responsible for configuration and performance testing competitor 
firewalls including Cisco PIX, Watchguard, SonicWall, and NetScreen. Wrote 
design specifications and performed Quality Assurance testing on prototype 
hardware. Responsible for all internal and external DNS using BIND and 
djbdns.

Built a IPv6 firewall using ipf and an IPv6 lab network for use by the 
development department using IPv6 routing, subnetting, and firewalls.

Designed distributed and highly available network and systems 
infrastructure for Surf Sentinel content filtering. Worked with 
development to ensure software functions were compatible with the network 
and system architecture.

Provided significant input into the design and feature set for the Mail 
Sentinel AV/AS email proxy. Researched, evaluated, and benchmarked AV and 
AS SDKs from vendors, providing data that aided in the selection of 
partners.

Installed a second T1, configured BGP, procured an ASN from ARIN, 
registered route objects, and performed BGP tuning to balance traffic.

Designed a company-wide backup system using Amanda, including extensions 
to maintain 10 days of firewall configurations.

Developed a simple High Availability solution for corporate webserver and 
database server utilizing VRRP.

Upgraded existing mailservers and mailing lists to qmail and ezmlm-idx.

Redesigned and updated mailing list archives and implemented MnogoSearch 
for archives and website.

Installed spam and virus filtering using qmail-scanner, f-prot, and 
SpamAssassin. Customized qmail-scanner to redirect tagged spam in 
accordance with evolving company policy.

Installed SSL web-based email for traveling employees using SquirrelMail.


 	Systems Administrator (Contract)	 2001 - 2004
 	Atlasta Networks, Seattle WA

Sendmail, BIND and Apache configuration and maintenance under FreeBSD and 
BSDi. Machine upkeep, and installation and repair of software for clients.

 	Systems Administrator (Volunteer)	 1998 - present
 	Type2.Com

Hardware and software installation, configuration, and maintenance of a 
FreeBSD 4.3-R server running Apache, qmail, ezmlm-idx, and procmail 
serving a hobbyist mailing list with 1500+ subscribers and associated 
websites.

Senior Network Engineer/Systems Administrator	 June 2000 - April 2001
Digital Wireless Communications, Savannah GA

Supported and maintained two Metropolitan Area Networks, customers, and 
all related equipment, 24x7. Responsible for DNS and emails servers. Built 
a web-based email interface for customers. Managed three technicians and 
an admin.

Designed and planned migration to a dynamic multi-homed network including 
three diverse DS3s, BGP, and OSPF.

Deployed aDSL through BellSouth.

Designed ATM nationwide network using PPPoEoA across dynamically deployed 
Adaptive Broadband radios for last mile.

Designed, configured and deployed Adaptive Broadband ATM topology wireless 
routers and bridges using both CLIP routing and RFC1483 bridging in two 
cities.

Designed and installed a streaming audio and video server using FreeBSD, 
Apache, and RealServer 7.

Configured, monitored, and maintained multiple Cisco 7206VXRs, 2600 
series, and 1600 series routers, as well as Acucomm iDAC DSLAMs and iRACER 
DSL Modems.

Installed, planned and programmed wireless WANs using BreezeAccess 
Ethernet bridges, Wireless-Inc WaveNet 2458 wireless routers, Wireless-Inc 
N2X/WaveEX wireless bridges.

Instituted a complete network status and stability monitoring system using 
a combination of Big Brother and MRTG.

Configured and installed two CacheFlow cache engines in a forward/reverse 
proxy setup using WCCP.

Recommended email virus scrubbing system using AmaVis, AntiVir, and 
sendmail.

 	Systems Administrator (Contract)	 1998 - 2001
 	Digital-Galaxy Networks, Seattle WA

Maintained and administered BSDi and FreeBSD 3.X servers.

 	Network Engineer	 1997 - 1999
 	Atlasta Networks, Grovetown GA

Designed and configured a dialup ISP using Livingston Portmaster 3s, and 
BSDi servers running Sendmail, RADIUS, and Apache, as well as providing 
shell space to customers. Installed and configured a Cisco 2525 to our 
upstream provider.

- Certifications -

TCP/IP Administration - 2000, Brainbench
Linux Administration (General) - 2001, Brainbench

If the network was an orchestra, I'd be the guy who makes sure that all 
the instruments are in place; there are enough flutes, but not too many 
tubas; and the drummer doesn't end up with a trombone.


--
         David Raistrick    http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
keen@icantclick.org	   http://www.expita.com/nomime.html



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