System Administrator

Brian Kei Tanaka

Email: *****.******@*****.***

Telephone: Available upon request

Postal: Available upon requestSummary

I’ve been working in the Internet and IT field since 1993. I’ve

worked for notable companies such as: SGI, Intuit, RealNetworks,

the Well, and Nintendo. I do server-side and client-side web

development, Unix systems administration, and management. I have

team leadership, project management, and customer relations skills.

I’m an effective communicator, and I write excellent documentation.

I have been published in Linux Journal, LinuxWorld, Sys Admin

Magazine, and I have published a book. (“Take Control of Permissions

in Mac OS X”; Take Control; ISBN: 1-933671-00-9.)Critical SkillsWeb development technologies, including: PHP, Apache,

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python/Django, CSS, HTML, XML.Multiple flavors of Unix, including:

Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Slackware), IRIX, Solaris, Mac OS X, FreeBSD.Assorted tools and technologies, including: standard

Unix utilities and programs, Git, Perl and shell scripting,

Cisco IOS, RealServer, NFS, LDAP, BIND, security.Excellent written and verbal communication skills.Excellent management skills (people, project, and customer).Career History

Martingale-Oak, LLCBrian Tanaka Consulting Services, LLC

Owner

Seattle, WA / Emeryville, CA

June 2002 - present

I provide Internet technologies consulting to individuals and

businesses. Services include: back-end web application development

(LAMP; primarily PHP, but also Perl, Django), client-side web

development (HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX), server configuration

and administration (email services, Apache, MySQL/PostgreSQL, LDAP,

system security), training and documentation. Currently, I’m the

sole consultant in this LLC, so all responsibilities within the

company fall to me and include: programming, server configuration

and administration, marketing and business development, client

relations, project management, graphic design, and copy writing.

RealNetworks

Manager of Systems Automation, RBN Division

April 2001 - June 2002

Seattle, Washington

Provided leadership and advocacy for a team that included junior

network and systems administrators as well as developers responsible

for devising and implementing new automation tools and systems.

Developed team from inception to maturity. Interviewed candidates,

performed annual performance reviews, lead weekly team meetings.

Facilitated and initiated intra- and inter-group communication.

Provided technical and career-development mentorship to team members.

RealNetworks

Systems Administrator, RBN Division

July 1998 - April 2001

Seattle, Washington

Member of a small team of system administrators responsible for

a large (200+ servers), distributed (continental US with small

European presence), installation of primarily Linux and Solaris

servers in a rapidly changing, high-availability, high-profile

(clients included ESPN, ABC News, etc) environment. Majority of

servers provided services directly to the public. All standard

services required (e.g. DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, et cetera) but marked

emphasis placed on RealServer and in-house developed content

distribution and client redirection systems. Wrote Perl scripts.

Developed web-applications (PHP, Oracle). Attended to diskspace and

other resource management issues as well as security measures. Ad

hoc team leader/manager for junior network and systems administrators.

Primary responsibilities of senior systems adminstrators can be

summarized as follows: maintain high levels of availability, develop

infrastructure for new services, and develop enhancements for the

in-house content distribution and client redirection systems.

Nintendo of America Inc.

Network Integrator

April 1998 - July 1998

Redmond, Washington

Performed system administration tasks for a network of 30 SGI

workstations and servers. Wrote Perl and shell scripts to automate

tasks. Administered backups and restorals. Installed software and

hardware. Provided technical support to a user population of engineers

and graphic designers. Helped design a company-wide data encryption

infrastructure. Wrote CGI programs. Wrote documentation. Recommended

software and hardware purchases. Performed system and network

troubleshooting.

Intuit Inc.

System Administrator

April 1997 - March 1998

Mountain View, California

(via Taos Mountain a system administration consulting firm in the Silicon Valley.)

Performed system administration tasks for three groups: Online

Financial Exchange (online banking) server quality assurance,

Information Services and Technology (IS&T), and Quicken.com. Set

up and maintained seven Windows NT Server 4.0 SP3 servers with

multiple virtual web servers on each. Set up and maintained

approximately 25 Sun servers and workstations running both Solaris

and SunOS. Provided guidance to other groups. Trained users.

Participated in project planning. Gathered requirements from

participating groups. Recommended hardware and software purchases.

Performed DNS updates. Wrote documentation. Compiled and installed

software. Set up and removed user accounts. Administered backups

and restorals. Performed server and network trouble shooting.

Configured SSL-enabled servers and adminstered in-house Certificate

Authority. Wrote shell scripts and CGI programs to automate tasks.

Micronics Computers, Inc.

System Administrator

January 1997 - March 1997

Fremont, California

(via Taos Mountain a system administration consulting firm in the Silicon Valley.)

Sole system administrator for five UNIX servers and two Windows

NT servers. Services provided by these servers included WWW, FTP,

SMTP, and DHCP. Migrated FTP server and DHCP server from Linux and

HP-UX respectively to Windows NT. Monitored system performance.

Performed system backups and file restorals. Created site-specific

technical documentation. Created and modified web pages and wrote

cgi scripts. Planned web site maintenance streamlining. Trained

other employees in technical matters. Monitored diskspace usage.

Created and removed user accounts. Configured and performed

troubleshooting on POP3 accounts. Installed software. Administered

DHCP server. Configured VirtualHost Web servers. Wrote scripts to

automate administration tasks.

SGI (nee “Silicon Graphics, Inc.”)

System Administrator

May 1995 - December 1996

Mountain View, California

(via Taos Mountain a system administration consulting firm in the Silicon Valley.)

Designed and developed shell and web-based (CGI) tools for the

IS Assistance Center staff using Perl, sh, and ARSPerl. Developed

OnLineISAC, a web-based tool that allows SGI employees to initiate

and review service request tickets stored in an Oracle database via

Remedy Action Request System. Supplied system and application support

for SGI employees via phone, email, and pager. Installed software.

Performed system administration tasks on department systems and

user systems.

The WELL

UNIX System Administrator

October 1994 - April 1995

Sausalito, California

Administered small site network of Sun SPARCstations running

Solaris and SunOS, along with midsized site network of Macs and

PCs. Provided technical support for 30 staff users and 10,000 paying

users. Monitored system security (using COPS and Tripwire). Monitored

system conditions (load averages, disk usage). Backed up and restored

filesystems (using both Legato Networker and ufsdump/ufsrestore).

Wrote technical documentation. Installed software. Wrote shell

scripts to automate administrative tasks. Removed inactive user

accounts. Provided system usage data for accounting. Cleaned tape

drives. Ordered supplies.

The WELL

UNIX System Support

March 1993 - September 1994

Sausalito, California

Designed, developed and implemented new billing and accounting

database in Revolutionary Software’s /rdb (relational database),

using shell scripts, Perl, sed, awk, and /rdb’s family of commands

and functions. Automated office procedures using shell scripts and

Filemaker Pro databases. Assisted customers on phone and via email.

Printed bills, submitted batched credit card transactions, provided

technical support for accounting, and generated reports on demand

from R:Base database. Processed new registrations.

Wildwood Computer Consulting

dBaseIII+ Developer, Owner

June 1992 - February 1993

San Francisco, California

Designed and developed tools and applications in dBaseIII+

Developer’s Languarge. Conducted technical writing, technical

support, computer training, and project management. Designed,

developed, maintained and administered inventory control system for

two retail companies and accounts receivable system for commercial

printing shop. Advised clients on software purchases, installing

software, and training.Publications, Articles“Book Review: Ajax Construction Kit - LinuxWorld, April 14 2008“Book Review: Google Web Toolkit Solutions by David Geary with Rob

Gordon - LinuxWorld, January 17 2008“Book Review: Ruby By Example - LinuxWorld, September 2007“Free Your Mind with Freemind - LinuxWorld, October 2007“Book Review: Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks - LinuxWorld, July 2007“Track Project Time with OfficeTime - TidBits, July 2007“Book Review: Object-Oriented PHP Concepts, Techniques, and

Code - LinuxWorld, April 2007“Book Review: The Design of Sites” - LinuxWorld, Pending publication“AJAX applications with jQuery” - LinuxWorld, November 2006“An Introduction to GNU Screen” - LinuxWorld, October 2006“Automatically Reattaching to a Screen Session” (sidebar) -

LinuxWorld, October 2006“Monitoring Virtual Memory with vmstat” - Linux Journal, December 2005“Oddmuse” - March 2005, Linux Journal.“Counting With Uniq” - January 2005, Linux Journal.“Monitoring Virtual Memory with vmstat” - December 2005, Linux Journal. “Writing Maintainable Perl Programs and Shell Scripts” - December

1998, Sys Admin Magazine.“Acquiring and Installing Server Certificates” - April 1998,

Sys Admin Magazine.Publications, Books“Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X”; Take Control;

ISBN: 1-933671-00-9. Technical Editor, “Practical Firewalls”, Terry William

Ogletree; Que Education & Training; ISBN: 078*******; June 2000.EducationB.A. in English Literature / Creative Writing, San Francisco

State UniversitySolaris 2.X System Administration Essentials course, SunServiceAssorted tutorials, LISA’96Cisco: Introduction to Cisco Router ConfigurationCisco: Installation and Maintenance of Cisco Routers Other Skills

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