Johan A. van Zanten
London, UK
Work Experience
| Systems and Network Administrator | September 2007 - Present |
| RGM Advisors, LLC | Austin, TX. and London, England, UK |
Part of a team managing a primarily Linux servers and Mac
OS X desktop environment. Large machine research cluster,
about many trading machines in machine rooms around the
world, Cisco and Arista network kit.
Sysadmin for the campus' main Blackboard
server. Involves writing some Perl and other shell scripts
to munge data from other UT sources into formats to load
into Bb. Also some patching of Bb in Perl and Java. Tuning
of Solaris, JVM, Oracle, and NetScaler configurations for
a heavily used system. (Roughly 80,000 users, and as many
as 40,000 unique logins per day.)
Contract Solaris and Sun system administration via my own corporation.
| System/Applications Administrator
| July 2000 - Dec. 2001
|
| Cidera, Inc.
| Laurel, MD
|
Primary sysadmin for 25 Solaris 7 machines running Oracle, Apache,
ColdFusion, and other in-house applications.
System administration contract work via my own corporation, primary customer: Northern Trust.
(Work typically as below.)
Primary liaison to Sun Microsystems for the team, specified large
($500,000+) purchases, trained junior team members, established and
documented local team procedures. One of two senior Unix sysadmins in
team of ten who managed and supported approximately 70 24x7 production
and development Sun & IBM Unix servers running NIS, Kerberos 5,
DNS, Sybase, Oracle, and other vended packages and in-house
applications for the 5,000+ employee, multi-national corporation.
Emphasis on large Sun Servers (Sun E10000, E5000, etc.). Also
administrated the corporation's firewall and Internet connection.
As below, but additionally: Managed system group as it grew to eight
people, and the company grew from 35 to 120 people.
One of two sysadmins responsible for the complete maintenance and
management of 60 Unix machines (Sun, HP, RS/6000, Pyramid and
Sequent), 120 DOS and Macintosh systems and all network equipment in a
small but fast-growing software company. Managed and improved Internet
connection, mail service, dial-up service, USENET news feed, backups
and data escrow. Installed and maintained all new hardware, operating
system and software packages on the Unix machines, as well as
recommended all machine purchases.
Junior admin in group that managed campus-wide, heavily-used Unix
systems (Ultrix, SunOS 4 and BSD), which had a collective user
community of about 15,000 people. Quickly took on additional
system administration duties, such as installation of operating systems
and other applications.
Computer-Related Skills
Operating System Experience
All versions of Solaris. SunOS 4, AIX 3 & 4, FreeBSD, HP-UX 9 &
10, NEXTSTEP 3, NetBSD, OpenBSD 2.x, Ultrix 4, A/UX 2 and 3, IRIX 6. All
versions of MacOS, including MacOS X. Linux (Fedora Core).
Environment and programming experience
Porting C. Extensive Bourne, Korn, C-shell, Tcl, TK, Expect, CGI and Perl
shell scripting experience. In-depth experience securing Unix machines
directly connected to the Internet, or behind firewalls. TCP-IP
configuration and troubleshooting.
Operation and configuration of the following:
Solaris Jumpstart, X11R4, 5 & 6, Apache (HTTP and HTTPS), Raven,
sendmail, Postfix, DNS, BIND v4, 8, and 9, Socks, NIS, Kerberos 4 & 5,
the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), ADSM, LDAP, Netatalk, IMAP, POP,
OpenSSL, OpenSSH, SSH, CorporateTime, Legato Networker, rdist, rsync, PAM,
PPP, NFS, AMD and other automounters, MH, GNU utilities, Majordomo and
many other free software packages. Blackboard. Extensive Sun hardware
experience.
Education
Completed 137 credit hours at the University of Texas, double-majored
in English and History.
Certification in various Sun System administration classes, including
the E10000. Completed NetScaler administration class. Attended numerous
USENIX and SANS conferences over the past 10 years.
References Available Upon Request
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