Management Manager
Resume:
Brian Charles Hill
San Francisco, CA 94114-2450
fax: +1-415-***-****
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OBJECTIVE:
I am interested doing UNIX system administration and
architecture with an emphasis on scalable operations.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Owner,
BCH Technical Services, LLC,
Novato, CA - 1991/6 to present
Deploy centralized system management services and
provide on-going maintenance
Security analysis, performance tuning & monitoring
Expert troubleshooting and special projects support
Clients
with a wide variety of needs
UNIX Consultant,
Zonelabs, Inc.,
San Francisco, CA - 2003/9 to 2004/3
overhauled external mail gateway systems to
improve perforance, reliability and reduce spam
- all with free software
installed the latest sendmail for
flexibility and proven track record
handling mail.
configured sendmail with SASL/SSL and
DRAC to authenticate roaming users in
conjunction with qpopper and wu-imap
MIMEDefang Milter used to remove
dangerous attachments (e.g. .exe's, .bat's)
3 blacklists (called from sendmail) and
SpamAssassin (called from MIMEDefang in
multiplexor mode) used and extensively
confiugred to blocks over 95% of incoming spam
wrote spam reporting tool in perl
File:Scan (called from MIMEDefang) used
to successfully block 99% of all
virusues
worked thrrough numerous post-deployment
issues relating to blocked mail - all
worked out with configuration changes
and no increase in spam/virus throughput
integrated all software and configuration
with existing centralized rdist infrastructure
that I set up here last year (see client
references in references attachment)
developed Red-Hat Linux rollout fully integrated
with existing centralized rdist infrastructure
Senior Systems Administrator,
Ecast, Inc.,
San Francisco, CA - 2003/2 to 2003/7
Played key role in merging UNIX operations from two
companies into one
Played key role in opening of new colocation facility,
merging from two existing facilities
Extensive security performance tuning/monitoring
Deployed my standard centralized system management
infrastrucure.
Support C, C++ and Java developers and related tools,
gcc, cvs, gdb, etc..
30 SunOS 5 (Solaris 2) systems and 20 users
Senior Systems Architect,
LookSmart, Ltd.,
San Francisco, CA - 1999/2 to 2002/3
Played key role in the opening of 3 colocation
facilities.
Apache web servers with ATG Dynamo with millions of
hits per day
Extensive security performance tuning/monitoring
Deployed my standard centralized system management
infrastrucure.
Support C, C++ and Java developers and related tools,
gcc, cvs, gdb, etc..
170 SunOS 5 (Solaris 2) and Linux systems and 300 users
Lead Systems Administrator/Architect,
University of
California, Davis
(various departments - ask for references) - 1987/10 to
1999/7
300 UNIX ssytems (mostly SunOS 4, SunOS 5, HP-UX and
Digital UNIX) and 30,000 users
Centralized system management development of all
configuration, including DNS, sendmail, logins
(using LDAP), NTP, etc. with USC rdist, m4, ksh and
perl
UNIX/VMS/DOS/MAC consulting, instruction and
programming, for staff, faculty and students.
SKILLS & SPECIALTIES:
Complete, Comprehensive UNIX System Administration
Extensive experience with SunOS 5 (Solaris 2),
Linux (RedHat), HP-UX, Tru64 (Digitial Unix),
and Ultrix, AIX, BSD, Irix,
SCO
Considerable VMS, BSD and Dynix/ptx
experience, and substantial Microsoft
Windows & MacOS experience
Extensive interoperability work between UNIX
and other operating systems
System administration - user management, file
systems (Veritas Volume Manager, Sun Solstice
Disk Suite), printing, software installation
and licensing (FlexLM, Elm), backups (amanda,
Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Backup EXEC, and
Legato), security & performance
Design - complete strategies for heterogeneous,
distributed, single-point of management using
all bundled and free tools, including NIS, NIS+, NFS,
USC rdist, m4, perl, automounter, xdm, syslogd,
sendmail, amanda, identd, tcp wrappers and a
suite of fully portable Korn Shell (ksh) scripts for
configuring printing, log management and more.
Hardware configuration - installation and
configuration of cards, peripherals (including
printers, disks, cdroms, tape drives monitors,
and more) and kernel rebuilds.
Network Services ManagementDNS & sendmail specialist, plus NFS,
NIS, NTP, INN, POP3, IMAP, SNMP, HTTP servers
(Apache) and more - site-wide, highly tailored,
heterogeneous setup, operation &
troubleshooting.
Routing experience - router configuration, host
routing using gated and mixed protocol
networks.
Experience with Microsoft Windows NT/2000
system management.
Programming, Applications and other Specialties
Extensive C, Korn/C Shell, considerable Perl and HTML
programming- experience w/, DCL, Fortran, and SQL.
Extensive data tape manipulation - ASCII,
EBCDIC, ANSI-labeled tapes - "I can read any
tape."
Instruction - beginning UNIX/VMS, intermediate
UNIX in large class and one-on-one tutorials.
Experience with Microsoft and other desktop applications
Publications
Brian C. Hill,
"Priv: Secure and Flexible
Privileged Access Dissemination",
Proceedings of the 10th Large Installation Site
Administration Conference,
pp 1-8, Chicago, IL, 1996.
Wrote complete documentation for C and oracle
SQL assignments and taught lab section of
Computer Science Dept. database course for 2
years.
Contributed sections on compilers & network
tools to campus VMS documentation sold at
bookstore.
International WorkHave permit to work in Germany.Fluent Spanish and nearly fluent German.
Extensive travel experience in Europe and
Central/South America.
EDUCATION:
B.S., Computer Science (Minor, Political Science),
University of California, Davis
- June, 1993
REFERENCES:
Additional, and personal references
available upon request.
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