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Lou Rinaldi

Wallingford, Connecticut

Yale University

Information Technology

Systems Alchemy

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About Me

Unix Systems Administrator/Engineer at Yale University

12 years' professional experience in Unix/Linux Systems Administration, Engineering and Design (small/medium business, corporate and higher education).

Lifelong public advocate of open source software. President of Connecticut’s largest and most successful Unix users’ group (CFUG) during the crucial "enterprise-level acceptance phase" years of 1996-2001. Hosted various speakers from industry (Red Hat), noted authors (Gary R. Wright; TCP/IP Illustrated, Lar Kaufman; O'Reilly's Running Linux), and evangelical luminaries (Eric S. Raymond).

Interests

camping, fishing, clay target shooting, barbecue, softball

Goals

MBA from Albertus Magnus College, March 2010

Favorite Quote

"If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember anything." -- Mark Twain

Specialties

application and OS level performance tuning, perimeter/penetration testing, post-intrusion forensic analysis and remediation, virtualization, flexible and secure data backup strategies, HIPAA/EPHI compliance, application and system log file analysis/reporting, security policy and firewall rule set auditing. Apache, mysql, tomcat, samba, postgres, NFS, Kerberos, OpenVZ, postfix, SpamAssassin, RT, mediawiki/drupal/wordpress/etc.