Work Experience
June 2009 - ???? - Worked at NotSoBig Network Corp
Network Security Engineer
- Netscreen firewalls
- AAA
- Remote access/VPN
August 2006 - June 2009 - Pretired
Entire IT department
Chief Dishwasher
Groundskeeper
- After 18 years of life in a VeryBig Corporation, I actually quit a good job and decided to live in the woods.
- Maintained a small network of servers/clients and a small set of home grown applications -- most of which dealt with generating graphs of just about everything.
- Field and brush mowing
- Logging and splitting firewood
- Plumbing
- Electrician
- Auto mechanic
- Slow smoked meat preparation
- Cured meat preparation
- Dishwashing
February 1988 - August 2006 - Worked at VeryBig Corporation
Unix systems specialist/Network Security Engineer (1996-2006)
Senior Systems Programmer (1995-1996)
Systems Programmer (1993-1995)
- Unix systems support and systems programming primarily using Open Source solutions
- Installation/maintenance of internet and third party firewalls
- VPN installation/testing/maintenance using Netscreen (IPSec)
- Intrusion analysis/investigation and internal investigative work
- Perl and shell programming
- Design/Maintenance of a large Unix network of approximately 1300 client workstations and 1800 users
- Hardware/software maintenance for servers
- Acronym dump: Linux (Redhat/Fedora/Ubuntu), SunOS 4.x/5.x (Solaris), Perl, C,
C++, Juniper Netscreen, Checkpoint Firewall-1, Cisco Pix, Bourne shell,
DNS/Bind, HTML, CGI Scripts, NFS, NIS, Kerberos, automounters,
firewalls, Sendmail, Apache, Cacti/RRDtool/MRTG, Nagios, proxy servers,
Squid, Bluecoat, NetCache
Senior Software Engineer (1992-1993)
Software Engineer (1989-1991)
Junior Engineer (1988-1989)
- Data communications
- Design/testing of low level SS7 core functions
- GUI/Database applications: design, testing using C, C++, SQL with X-based graphical interface
- on site customer installation/troubleshooting/support
Education
BS in Computer Science