System Administrator Management

MATTHEW P BARNSON

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Tooele UT 84074

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Nine-year systems administrator in diverse industries including banking, e-commerce, telephony, and gaming. Supported systems from thousands of customers to a few dozen employees. Recognized for deep network knowledge and troubleshooting ability. With a book, I can learn anything!

TECHNICAL

SKILLS

Operating Systems: GNU/Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Debian), HPUX, Solaris, AIX, Windows NT/2K/XP, NetWare 2.x-6.x

Network Hardware: Cisco PIX, load-balancing hardware, routers, switches, various firewalls

Computing Hardware: SAN storage and fabrics, Alpha, Sun (various models), x86 PC, HP Itanium and L/Z-class, IBM AIX M/B/P-series and x86 Blades, NetApp

Network Services: DNS, DHCP, SMP (Postfix, Exim, Sendmail), CVS, RCS, VNC, CMS, Apache, clustering, OpenLDAP, IMAP (Cyrus, Dovecot, Groupwise), Tomcat, NIM, Kickstart/Jumpstart, license servers, Oracle Application Server, Symantec OpForce and NetBackup, Veritas Volume Manager

Languages: PHP, Perl, Bash, SGML, XML, HTML, OpScript

Miscellaneous: OpenOffice.org, Groupwise, tech management, Siebel, BMC Patrol

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UNIX System Administrator

Oracle USA/Siebel

Salt Lake City, UT 2004-Present

Maintained over 1,600 AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and Sun Solaris systems, including hardware troubleshooting, kernel updates, and operating system tuning

Taught UNIX administration to UNIX novices and intermediates

Managed NetBackup and Network Appliance VTL data recovery solution for multi-terabyte global storage

Created rapid system deployment methods for Redhat, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and SuSE with Kickstart and OpForce

Maintained over 1,600 AIX, HP-UX, RedHat/SuSE/Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Sun Solaris systems

Trained and mentored system administrators overseas

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. UNIX System Administrator

Smith Johnson & Associates

Salt Lake City, UT 2004

Administered Sun Solaris, Linux, and Win32 systems to deploy custom device management application

Documented administration and maintenance procedures

Deployed SNMP-based systems monitoring application

Sr. UNIX System Administrator

American Investment Bank

Salt Lake City, UT 2002-2003

Architect over migration from legacy NetWare/Win32 to GNU/Linux infrastructure

Implemented Cyrus IMAP, OPENLDAP, and WebCalendar, saving $18,000 verses GroupWise upgrade

Replaced Checkpoint Firewall-1 with iptables, poptop, and IPSEC on GNU/Linux, resulting in a one-time $11,000 cost saving and $7,000 annual savings

Designed and deployed Plone/Zope-based content management system to assist in IT training for 200+ person organization and 10-person IT staff

Engineering System Administrator

Talk2 Technology

Salt Lake City, UT 2001-2002

Integrated and administered HP-UX, GNU/Linux, Solaris, and Cisco PIX firewalls for VOIP and SS7 telephony applications

Deployed CVS (Concurrent Versioning System)to replace Microsoft Visual Source Safe, reducing source repository downtime from several hours per month to nothing.

Built HP-UX and Sun Solaris DS3-based telephony gateways, bringing expertise in-house and virtually eliminating vendor support calls.

Sun Solaris administration for Oracle 8i on 440, proprietary telephony software and devices on Sun Blade hardware

VLSI Integrator (Member, Technical Staff)

Velio Systems Milpitas, CA 2001

Glued perforce SCM and Bugzilla together, bringing software revision management techniques to VLSI silicon design on Sun Solaris back-end

Built SAN ( Storage Area Network) on Sun StorEdge 3000 to house perforce database to store over three terabytes of chip designs

Trained employees on bug life cycle, allowing integration of two formerly separate teams on opposite sides of the nation

Lead System Administrator

Excite@Home Orem, UT 1999-2001

Managed sysadmin crew on 24-hour shifts, overseeing approximately fifty Sun servers and fifty Sun, GNU/Linux, and BSD workstation-class machines

Designed Veritas NetBackup disaster recovery routine for seven terabytes on EMC and Network Appliance hardware; repeatedly prevented data loss despite hardware failures

Wrote and enforced data security policies for e-commerce division; not a single customer record was ever exposed

Reduced Apache memory footprint by nearly 80% (from 34 MB per fork to 7 MB) through optimization by use of virtual hosting database for over 3,000 customers

Implemented WCCP (Web Cache Control Protocol) gateway services on Cisco 7200 & Cisco LocalDirector for web acceleration; handled several hundred nodes on Cisco 9600 switch

Assistant Network Administrator

Singletrac/Atari

Salt Lake City, UT 1997-1999

Drafted & implemented DLT autochanger backup system on Novell & Win32

Administered C programming, Mac Protools audio, and SGI IRIX (UNIX) workstations

Worked with team to design and build GNU/Linux & Apache-based content management system

Systems Engineer

Las Vegas Computers

Las Vegas, NV 1996-1997

Jockeyed a screwdriver in on-site, for hire PC consultation on Novell, SCO UNIX, and Microsoft Windows 3.X/95/NT systems

Migrated 100-node legal firm from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, eliminating communication barriers between lawyers and clients

Implemented fax gateway with optical character recognition

Sales & Technical Support

Interactive Satellite Internet Service

Rigby, ID 1995-1996

Deployed and serviced satellite-based Internet delivery to remote locations

Installed Internet software for homes and businesses

EDUCATION

AND

TRAINING

Symantec/Veritas OpForce

Oracle USA, Inc

. Sandy, UT 2006

Siebel 7 Essentials

Siebel Systems, Inc

. Sandy, UT 2005

Pre-Bachelors

BYU Idaho

Rexburg, ID 1994

Networking with Windows NT

National Radio Institute

Washington, D.C. 1996

Microsoft Certified Professional

1999

VOLUNTEER

SERVICE

GNU Organization Webmaster

2003-2004

Mozilla Foundation Doc

Maintainer, Bugzilla 1998-2003

The Foundation Webmaster

2004-Present

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Bugzilla and CVS integration with

SunONE LDAP, Albertsons, Inc

. (2004-2005

)

Bugzilla installation and configuration, various (

2004

-present)

Drupal installation, modification, maintenance, various (2004-present)

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