System Administrator Software

Gerald Oskoboiny's ResumeStatus

I am an independent consultant located in Whistler, Canada,

specializing in Web publishing and collaboration tools and

online communities. I have very thorough knowledge of Web

standards, email and other Internet protocols, and am a

skilled Linux system administrator. I am available for

interesting short term contract work via telecommute

and/or short site visits.

Education

B.Sc. with Specialization in,

Edmonton, Canada

December 1995

Experience

- present

Systems Programmer

The World Wide Web Consortium

(W3C), Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (telecommuting since August 2000)

(Full time to Oct 2004; half-time since then)Maintain the computing infrastructure of a busy,

high-profile research group, including their web servers,

email systems, mailing lists, user accounts, and publishing

tools.

Responsibilities include Linux system administration,

backups, security, network administration,

tool development, user support.

Created the .

Work daily with staff and collaborators that are distributed

around the world.

Apr 1996 - July 1997

WWW Programmer/Analyst

Office

of the Registrar and Student Awards,

.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

(Full time)Provide advice and guidance to the office on all Web-related issues.

Design, create, and administer online application forms for

students, staff, and faculty (example: Application

for Undergraduate Admission.)

Liaise with other campus and government-related organizations on

the technical aspects of collaborative Web projects.

Administer the office's Web server (running Apache on Linux.)

Jan 1996 - Aug 1998

System Administrator

HTML

Writers Guild, Inc.

(Part time, volunteer position)Duties included: sendmail maintenance, Majordomo mailing list

installation and administration, creation of new user accounts,

advice on server structure and HTML standardization issues.

Creation and maintainence of for

authors to collaboratively maintain the HWG Web site, including

flexible access control and an automatic,

hidden interface to Unix's revision control system (RCS).

Creation and ongoing maintenance of the mailing list

archives (over 175,000 messages, 550 MB of text.)

Aug 1995 - Nov 1997

Independent WWW Consultant, various contracts

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

(Miscellaneous contract work)Miscellaneous programming and system adminstration projects,

primarily for local businesses, including,,, and

the Alberta Law Reform

Institute.

May 1995 - Aug 1995

Software Testing & QA,

Myrias

Computer Technologies Inc.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

(Full time, summer position)Write software to test the Parallel Application Management

System (PAMS).

Wrote Perl scripts to automate testing within a complex Unix

test environment.

Provided advice on various Web-related issues, including

server maintenance and document management.

May 1992 - Aug 1993

Information Developer

Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

(16 month Industrial Internship Program)Wrote a large reference manual for

a

new proprietary CASE tool.

Wrote software to convert this manual from its SGML-like tagged format

(BookMaster) to the Unix nroff language for man pages.

Wrote software to automatically extract

files from a central repository, format them according to their

tagged markup, and generate the entire text of our product's

online help.

Regularly performed basic system administration, installation, and

programming tasks as needed by the department.

Received several awards for outstanding performance.

Dec 1991 - Apr 1992

Computer Consultant

University Computing

Systems, University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

(Part time position: about 16 hours per week)Operated the University's main consulting desk and phone line.

Answered general questions on the Michigan Terminal System (MTS),

MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Unix operating systems.

May 1991 - Aug 1991

Computer Programmer

Forestry Canada

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

(Full time, summer position)Developed software for a fire management information system.

Wrote programs to manipulate a database of geographical information.

Programmed in C on MS-DOS computers.

June 1988 - Jan 1991

Systems Analyst / Typesetter

Ed-Web Printers (1986) Ltd.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

(Full time for 3 summers, part time while in school)Responsible for planning, installation, and maintenance of the

composing department's computing resources and networks.

Trained almost all new employees from 1989 to 1991.

Typeset advertisements on Linotronic 300-series machines and

Macintosh computers.

Skills15+ years of experience with various Unix systems, including Linux,

Solaris, SunOS, AIX, IRIX, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, and others;

10+ years of experience as a full-time Unix system administrator.

10+ years of experience running -like web servers,

maintaining servers with millions of documents serving

tens of millions of hits per day.

Extensive Web application programming experience, including text search

software, database interfaces, interactive games and interfaces to

large data archives.

Extremely thorough knowledge of the Internet, including Web standards,

email and other Internet protocols, open source software, and online

communities.

Thorough knowledge of Unix shell utilities, Perl, and automation

in a Unix environment.

Partly bilingual in French (spoken & written.)

Extra-Curricular ActivitiesGoverning

Board member, HTML Writers

Guild, Inc., 1995-2001.

Contributing

author, HTML

& CGI Unleashed,

1995 .

Created the Kinder,

Gentler HTML Validator and W3C HTML Validation

Service, online services that check Web pages

for mistakes.

Online activism in the areas of public information archives (Usenet

and mailing lists), free software and HTML standardization.

President, Undergraduate

Association of Computing Science (UACS),

University of Alberta, 1991-1992.

Hobbies include,, billiards,, snowboarding,,,

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