| Objective: | To obtain a challenging and fulfilling position in the
field of System Administration that allows me to apply my
Computer Science background and my knowledge of and passion
for Unix-based Operating Systems and Open
Source to work with as well as develop and support software
on and for these platforms. The ideal work place provides
a creative and ethical environment, encourages
independent research, should not resemble a Dilbertesque
cubicle farm and be located in
either New York City or Los Angeles. (Other locations considered for extraordinary
opportunities: Buenos Aires, Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid.) I offer an extensive background in all things Unix, enthusiasm to learn new technologies, a thorough interest in Computer Science and an appreciation of the flexibility that is part of a System Administrator's job; strong interpersonal and communications skills, a curious and open mind and strong work ethics. |
| Skills: | OS/Architectures:NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux (various distributions), IRIX, MacOS X, some Solaris; x86, sparc, mips, PowerPC, amd64 Software:Fluent in all common unix userland tools including shell-scripting (sh, csh, ksh, sed, awk, regular expressions etc.), cvs, ssh, etc.; Programming Languages:C, Perl, shell, Java, PHP, Python, C++, SQL, some Tcl/Tk Protocols, Services and Standards:TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, HTTP, SMTP, NIS/YP, NFS, FTP, CVS Solid understanding of SUSv3 Familiarity with routing and switching (Cisco, Extreme hardware). Markup LanguagesLaTeX, HTML, some XML, some *roff Spoken Languages:English (fluent), German (native) Willing and able to quickly understand and learn other programming languages, software skills, protocols etc. based on solid Computer Science background, years of work experience and general enthusiasm and personal interest in the area. |
| Publications: |
"DST '07 @ Yahoo!",
BayLISA [video], May 2007
"Useless Use of *", SCALE5x, February 2007 "Pondering Live CDs", BSDCan 2006, May 2006, PDF [ slides] "NetBSD/SoC -- Google's Summer of Code within NetBSD", NYCBug, October 2005, Talk [ slides] Report of EuroBSDCon 2004, ;login:, The USENIX Magazine, February 2005 [ PDF ] "pkgsrc - The NetBSD Packages Collection", NYCBug, February 2005, Talk [ slides] "NetBSD/Desktop: Scalable Workstation Solutions", EuroBSDCon 2004, October 2004, PDF [ slides] "Managing Third-Party Software Installation with pkgsrc", Sysadmin Magazine, May 2003 "More than Word(s)" Linux Journal, November 2001 Editorial Technical Review of Chapter 22-26 of "Linux System Administration" by Marcel Gagne, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-71934-7 "Usenet is still a strange place", Linux Journal online, February 2001. "Using Linux to Develop Software for the Palm OS", Embedded Linux Journal, November 2000. |
| Experience: |
YAHOO! Inc.Sunnyvale, CA September 2006 until present Senior System Administrator, System Architecture Kept too busy writing configuration management and rapid deployment software, maintaining tens of thousands of hosts in dozens of datacenters around the world to write a detailed job description here. ;-) STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYHoboken, NJ September 2001 - July 2006 System Administrator Administration of the Imperatore School of Sciences and Arts Scientific Computing resources, supporting some 3000 users; maintaining, in addition to about 85 NetBSD desktop workstations:
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYHoboken, NJ Summer 2003 - May 2006 Instructor Taught Graduate level class `` Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment'', based on the well-known book by W. Richard Stevens, covering such topics as the user/kernel interface, fundamental concepts of UNIX, user authentication, basic and advanced I/O, fileystem, signals, process relationships, and interprocess communication. Developed from scratch and taught graduate level class ``Aspects of System Administration'', covering topics such as hardware configuration, operating system installation, shell programming, security policies, backup deployment and disaster recovery, network design, software installation and maintenance, operating system tuning. (This class played an important role in the certification of Stevens's Computer Science Department as an NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.) ZENTROPY PARTNERSNew York, NY June 2000 - September 2000 Senior Programmer
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUMNew York, NY September 1999 - September 2001 Webmaster
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| Education: | CISCO SYSTEMSCisco Certified Network Associate / CCNA (2005) STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYHoboken, NJ Master of Science in Computer Science (2004) STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYHoboken, NJ B.S in Computer Science (2001) PHILIPS-UNIVERSITÄT MARBURGMarburg, Germany M.A. studies in Contemporary German Literature and American Studies (1996-1998) |
| Other: |
Developed Open Source Software available at http://www.netmeister.org Joined the The NetBSD Project as a developer in January 2002:
Member of USENIX and SAGE. (USENIX Campus Liaison 2005 - 2006.) Member of EFF. |