Overview

Enterprise Data Center Engineer and Architect, with Professional Computer and Information Service experience since 1992 in a variety of environments and responsibilities. Specializations include Systems Security, Enterprise Architecture, Storage Area Networks, Databases, High Performance environments, Software Engineering and managing projects, tasks and individuals.

Skills

• Datacenter Fabric: Experienced with storage area networks and datacenter fabrics, including Brocade, QLogic (HBA and Switches), Emulex, EMC Storage Arrays (CX, Symmetrix 3,4,5), ad-hoc SAN arrays (Sun) and Infiniband fabrics.
• RAID/Logical Volumes: Experienced with various Logical Volume systems including hardware (EMC, Sun) and Software (HP-UX LVM, Solaris Disksuite, Veritas Volume Manager, FreeBSD).
• Security: Experienced with security architectures, policy management and auditing. GIAC Certified. Firewalls (PIX, Checkpoint Firewall-1, Sunscreen, ipfw, iptables, ipchains). Intrusion Detection Systems (NFR, Snort). Author of Pig Sentry. Published papers on Stealth and Bological Network Security.
• OS: Unix Systems and System Administration since 1992. Highly skilled in Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD and HP-UX. Also experienced with: Windows, Tru64 Unix, Ultrix, SCO OpenServer and Unixware.
• Networking: Experienced with a wide variety of global and local networking. Including: Ethernet, Fibre-Channel and Infiniband.
• Web: Web system experience starting in 1993. Web and Application servers including Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, any J2EE and Oracle application servers.
• Languages: Experienced with C, C++, Perl, Postscript, Java, JavaScript, ColdC, PROGRESS, SQL, HTML, Pascal and numerous other unix scripting languages.
• Database: Experienced in deploying, managing and tuning MySQL databases. Experienced with interfacing and integrating with Oracle, as well as running systems hosting Oracle.

Formal Education

• 2008: VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
• 2001: Global Incident Analysis Center GSEC Certified
• 1998: SCO Unixware Certified
• 1991 - 1995: Utah State University, Computer Science/English Major

Professional Experience

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