• Operating System Experience:
• Linux: Fedora, Redhat, Caldera eServer and Slackware)
• Solaris 9, 8, 7, 2.6, 2.5.1 and SunOS 4.1.x
• HP/UX 11.11, 11.00, 10.2
• Digital Unix
• Mac OSX 10.x (server and workstation); MacOS 5.x-9.x, Apple A/UX
• Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 server/professional, Windows NT 3.5.x/4.0 Server, Windows 95/98, and Windows 3.1
• BeOS
• NeXT OS

• Programming Language Experience:
• Unix shell scripting (sh/ksh/bash, SED and AWK, various command line utilities)
• HTML/CGI, PHP
• C, Pascal, ADA, FORTRAN, BASIC

• Networking/Software:
• TCP/IP-Internet: DNS/BIND, Sendmail, SSH, NFS, FTP, TFTP, DHCP, Socks firewall, Kerberos 4 and 5, LPR, HTTP, NIS
• Veritas Netbackup backup system in a large network environment (version 2.1-current)
• Apache and Netscape Web server administration
• Veritas Volume Manager/Foundation Suite
• FORE and Cisco ATM switches
• Cisco and Cabletron routers and switches
• WindowsNT/LAN-Manager and Samba administration
• SL/IP and PPP management
• Many video conferencing systems over ISDN, ATM and other high speed networks
• Apple LocalTalk/Ethertalk, Internet Gateway management, Appletalk Router management

• Hardware:
• SUN SPARCstations and Enterprise Servers (from Sun/360s to Ultra Enterprise 6000s)
• Intel-PCs; Hewlett-Packard (HP), Compaq, Dell, Gateway, IBM, Generic
• HP Server Hardware
• Various ATL, StorageTek (including Powderhorn and ACSLS tape management software), Breece Hill, Sun and Compaq tape libraries (in SCSI attached and a shared SAN environment) and standalone tape drives
• Tape drives: DLT4000, 7000, 8000, SDLT220, SDLT320, STK 9840B and 9940B, LTO series, DAT
• Apple Macintosh (from Mac SEs to current PowerMacs)
• Netapp file servers (Nearstore and F series)
• MTI, Sun, HP, Compaq, Dell hardware RAID systems
• MTI SAN storage
• Various Cisco and Cabletron/Riverstone switches and routers
• Telephone systems and various network wiring installations and repair
• PictureTel Venue2000 and Live50 systems, V-Tel TC-2000, Apple Video Conferencing, Technovision (Bitfield), Nemesys (FORE) ATV/AVA Motion JPEG over ATM fiber, and Cheetah MPEG video systems

Employment Experience:

• September 19, 2005 - present: DBTS, Inc.
• September 19, 2005 - present: Contract with the DC City Government - Backup and Storage Engineer
• Performance Evaluation of current environment
• Performance tuning of Solaris and Netbackup
• Developed performance monitoring tools and web site to view graphs
• Implement automated reports
• Add monitoring process
• Daily monitoring of Netbackup and Backup Exec systems
• Training team on UNIX
• Configuration and maintenance of ACSLS server to control STK Powderhorn shared with open systems and Mainframe clients
• Administration of Solaris master and media servers

• June 27, 2005 - September 02, 2005: Enterprise Solutions
• June 27, 2005 - September 02, 2005: BankOne/JPMorgan-Chase, contract through Enterprise Solutions for StorageTek
• Installation and rollout of 3 datacenter Veritas Netbackup 5.1 master server solutions to back up a variety of servers, ranging from HP/UX, AIX, Solaris Enterprise servers (e450s on up to e15k) and Microsoft servers
• Created and maintained documentation of the process, including "dynamic" mapping tables that update automatically.
• In depth performance tuning of differing tape technologies, STK 9940B and LTO2 technologies, by adjusting various Solaris kernel and Netbackup tuning parameters to find optimal settings.

• March 01, 2004 - May 19, 2005: Constellation Energy Group
• Developing and implementing process improvements in the form of documentation and building new tools for operations group to use in daily management of the backup and disaster recovery system.
• Responsible for testing and patching of the Netbackup software (both 3.4, 4.5 and 5.0) on the servers and clients; Solaris based servers and clients of Microsoft, HP/UX and Solaris enterprise servers, from e420s up to E10Ks.
• Capacity Planning
• Manage interaction of SAN HBAs and Solaris
• Development and implementation of staged disk based backups and creating workarounds for bugs in the Veritas software.
• Implementation and testing of vaulting system based on Veritas Netbackup
• Developed scripts and tools to improve the backup process
• Managed volumes, Q-Trees, snapshots and NFS exports on Netapp Nearstores

• Contractor February 24, 2003 - February 29, 2004: TEKsystems
• Contract: Backup Administrator February 24 2003-August 29 2003 (6 month contract): Alcoa
• Support of the HP/UX clients for multiple Veritas Netbackup masters, in multiple datacenters.
• Developing and implementing process improvements in the form of documentation and building new tools for operations group to use in daily management of the backup and disaster recovery system.
• Responsible for testing and patching of the Netbackup software (both 3.4, and 4.5) on the servers and clients.
• Responsible for configuration and troubleshooting of SAN tape drives
• Provide support for UNIX related problems
• Contract: Backup Administrator August 29 2003 - February 29, 2004: BG&E/Constellation Energy Group
• Developing and implementing process improvements in the form of documentation and building new tools for operations group to use in daily management of the backup and disaster recovery system.
• Responsible for testing and patching of the Netbackup software (both 3.4, and 4.5) on the servers and clients.

• Senior Storage Engineer, April 16 2001-November 12 2002 (left due to layoffs): U.S. Internetworking (USi)
• Brought in to review and improve a Veritas Netbackup backup system
• Level 3 support of trouble tickets
• Development of various scripts, utilities and a website to improve and monitor the system
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of Solaris servers
• Aid the level one and level 2 UNIX Administrators (act as level 3 UNIX tech when needed)
• Gathering and parsing of statistics to load into a database for trending
• Developed methods for managing large quantities of media (12,000+ tapes)

• Senior Systems Engineer, July 1999- April 15, 2001: Utenzi (formerly Interlan Communications; Company no longer exists)
• Designed, installed and maintained a Veritas Netbackup backup solution in a mixed Solaris, Linux, NT 4.0, and Windows2000 environment
• Primary installation and support for Linux installations
• Designed, implementation and maintenance of Solaris Jumpstart server for customer builds
• Created and maintained a suite of web based utilities (shell script CGI and PHP) and command line scripts for monitoring, managing and reporting various aspects of the backup system
• Compliled and generated custom Solaris packages for various software packages to be part of standard customer build
• Troubleshooting various server and network problems on a daily basis
• Development of a Kerberos 5 (Solaris SEAM) authentication scheme
• Secondary support for customer SAN (primarily MTI) disk storage

• Senior Operations Engineer, Jun 1997-July 1999: Digex, Inc.
• Architecture, installation and maintenance of a Veritas Netbackup backup solution for a large server farm (1000+ machines) of Solaris, SunOS, and Compaq WindowsNT servers onto several large ATL DLT libraries and custom tailored backup solutions for individual clients using a variety of tape libraries.
• Installation and buildout of Solaris servers
• Level 3 UNIX support
• Diagnosing and fixing problems on a diverse group of Sun (Solaris) and Compaq (NT) servers
• Created suite of web utilities, reporting tools, and internal scripts for the backup system
• Troubleshooting network, routing and firewall problems
• Spearheaded internal network upgrade to 100/1000Mbit Cisco switches to improve backup performance, with web based configuration system

• Senior Installation and Repair Technician, Jan 1997-Jun 1997: Virginia Tech
• Duties included troubleshooting FORE and Cisco ATM switches, Cisco and USRobotics modem pools, installation and testing of assorted network interfaces, including ISDN, T-1s, and OC-3 fiber, the integration and testing of many video conferencing systems, including PictureTel, V-Tel and Apple systems, and developing an internal web site documenting the Network Virginia ATM network.

• Systems Administrator, Feb 1996-Jan 1997: NRVnet (Company no longer exists)
• Duties included the administration of Digital Unix, DEC Terminal Servers, Multi-Tech and USRobotics Modems, writing the Macintosh client software, the conversion to Kerberos 4 authentication, account maintenance, DNS maintenance, setup of a Linux based printer server, and re-wiring of the office phones and network.

• Systems Administrator, 1993-1995: Radford University
• Responsible for setting up and repairing various Macintosh, PC and Sun configurations, Windows NT and 95 administration and integration, and the installation and setup of a video editing station.

• SUN System Administrator, 1992: Virginia Tech
• Job entailed the installation of SunOS, configuration of NFS, NIS, DNS and FTP services, as well as user account management.

• Student Representative for Virginia Tech, 1991-1992: Apple Computer
• Duties included installation and maintenance of Macintosh computers on campus, managing Macintosh help desk, and writing the modem scripts to enable communication with the campus network.

• Apple Network Technician, 1990-1992: Virginia Tech
• Duties included installation and maintenance of the department's AppleTalk network and file/printer services, plus several Unix systems (SunOS and A/UX).

• Created and administer in-house network

Home Lab

Set up and maintain an OSX Tiger Server, a Linux server and a Solaris server. I have a Cisco router acting as a firewall/NAT router to the internet. Services include an Apache web server, FTP (mirror several sites), printing, NFS, DNS, sendmail services, PPP dialup, VPN, DHCP, SSH, Samba services, and user accounts. The internal network consists of multiple network protocols (TCP/IP, IPX, Appletalk) over multiple cabling systems (10/100/1000 Mbit switched, Localtalk, dialup), and the integration of multiple operating systems, all backed up to a central Solaris server, running Veritas Netbackup using an ATL P1000 DLT tape library.

• Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, December 1995, Radford University

• Attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Computer Science, 1988-1992;1994

• Veritas Vision Technology Conferences (formerly Vericon), 1999,2000,2001,2002