network engineering
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Taylor
Hastings Kimball
******@*******.***
Objective:
Seeking
a challenging position in a comfortable environment that will allow
me to increase my knowledge
in
the area of systems administration, network engineering, and software
development.
TECHNICAL
SKILLS
+
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION +
Architectures:
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Intel x86
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Sun UltraSparc
Operating
systems:
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Linux v2.0.x/2.2.x/2.4.x/2.6.x w/ SMP
(Redhat/Fedora/Slackware/Gentoo)
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Sun Solaris v8/9/10
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Windows XP
Vendor
platforms:
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Sun Enterprise 450
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IBM xSeries x330, x335, x336
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NetAPP F760, 3020
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Dell PowerEdge 750, 1650, 1750 (1U)
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Dell PowerEdge 2550, 2650 (2U)
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Sun x4100/x4600 Series
Storage:
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Technologies: IDE, SCSI, iSCSI
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Redundancy: RAID levels 0 - 5
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Filesystems: ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, UFS, NFS, FAT32, NTFS, SAMBA suite
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Management: fsck, LVM
Desktop
applications:
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Microsoft Outlook
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Open Office
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Microsoft Office/Word/Excel
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Gimp
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Adobe Photoshop
Server
Applications:
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Apache v1.3.x/2.0.x/2.2.x
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BIND 4/8/9 (DNS)
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dhcpd
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xinetd
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Proftpd
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IBM JDK
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ntpd
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Postfix v1.x/2.x
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Sendmail 8.x
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Courier IMAP
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Squid
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XFree86
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OpenSSH
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POP3d
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portmapper
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RPC suite
Backup
software: dump
Apache
modules: mod_rewrite, mod_ssl, mod_php, mod_proxy, mod_mmap_static,
mod_perl
Diagnostic
tools: top, tcpdump, traceroute, mtr, vmstat, lsof
Unix
Shells: bash/sh, tcsh/csh
Database
software: MySQL, PostgreSQL
Software
management: RPM, CVS, kickstart.
Systems
monitoring: Nagios, Netsaint, Ganglia, Nimbus
+
NETWORK ENGINEERING +
Load
balancing, Redundancy, and Clustering:
Software:
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Cisco Software Load Balancing
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Cisco CSM (Content Switching Module) Load Balancing
Algorithms:
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(Weighted) Round Robin
Mid-Level
Systems Engineer
West
Hollywood, CA
March
2006 - Present
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One of two engineers responsible for building and maintaining the
internal Ticketmaster PKI infrastructure using RSA Cerfiticate
Manager software.
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Responsible for majority of internal rpm packaging and spec file
builds for RHEL3/4/5 systems. Head enigineer of CentOS 5 migration.
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Wrote multiple bash and perl scripts/wrappers to automate mail
statistic gathering and rpm installation over nfs for multiple
distros.
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Jettis,
Inc.
Senior
Systems Engineer
Westlake,
CA
August
2002 - March 2006
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Maintained and managed a cluster of Linux web servers that provided
services for such clients as Larry Flynt Productions, Vivid
Entertainment and WebQuest, Inc. Responsible for all aspects of the
system architecture, and the initial purchase of the necessary
hardware, configuration of all network nodes, redundant internal and
external monitoring, and documentation.
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Responsible for packaging all software using redhat package manager.
Built kickstart files for imaged clusters as well as a kickstart ftp
server.
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One of the key engineers involved in designing a new datacenter to
house redundant web clusters and all production systems
infrastructure at the Equinix facility in Los Angeles.
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Responsible for the availability, and security of three Linux
clusters that provided top-quality web, video streaming, and mail
services to clients.
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Trained a junior engineer in the areas of apache administration and
nagios configuration.
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Migrated two biggest clients on to the production system
infrastructure, setup two highly available MySQL/PostgreSQL databases
with nightly dumps and architected the staging environment for the
client web developers. Setup content synchronization scripts to keep
web data consistent across client web clusters.
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Assisted in deploying a gigabit-capable SAN that supported up to 4+
terabytes of storage for streaming media.
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Responsible for Apache configurations that hosted roughly one hundred
sites. This included Cisco virtual IP setup along with server load
balancing, and sometimes CSM load balancing.
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Responsible for the tracking of all malicious activities directed at
client websites and/or servers.
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Junior
Systems Engineer
Jalan
Network Services
March
2002 - August 2002
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Responsible for building Intel and IBM xSeries servers for clients
such as Search123.com.
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Responsible for junior administration such as adding accounts,
creating new dns records, and maintaining the UltraDNS account.
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Maintained the tape backup library at the Equinix facility. Rotated
tapes for backups on an every other day basis.
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Setup the initial netsaint monitoring system to monitor both internal
and external machines.
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Junior
Systems Engineer
Commodity
Forwarders, Inc.
January
2002 - March 2002
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Recovered the Linux mail server after being hacked and trojaned.
Replaced all suspicious binaries and brought system back into
production.
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Responsible for creating pop3 and imap accounts for new employees.
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Responsible for migrating the mail server to new hardware after an
unexpected hardware failure.
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Maintained the mail server with regards to security, and keeping
sendmail up-to-date.
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Also responsible for configuring and maintaining sendmail.
REFERENCES
References
available upon request.
EDUCATION
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2002-Present, Moorpark College, Computer Network Systems Engineering
Major
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2001-2002, Cal State University Northridge, Computer Science Major
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1997-2001, El Camino Real High School, Woodland Hills, CA, 91306
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