Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

Oscar Wilde once said "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." However, I'm going to attempt to be as truthful, and forthcoming as possible here. If you're looking for the straight sales pitch on why you should hire me as a Unix Administrator, please look at my attached resume. It's complete, it's accurate, and it's more to the point.

So, who am I? I'm a guy that solves problems.

Work History

• Self Employed
• Consultant / Dance Instructor / Photographer
• November 2007 to Present

• I am available for computer consulting working on Unix, Linux, and MS Windows installations.

  In addition I am a part-time dance instructor teaching Lindy Hop, East Cost Swing, Charleston, and Blues styles.

  I am also a part-time photographer specializing in event, and group photography.

• Office of Science and Technical Information
• Unix Administrator
• June 2006 to November 2007

• OSTI is a US Department of Energy program within the Department of Science. OSTI hosts the Science.gov portal as well as a dozen other science related websites, providing “the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States.”

  While working for OSTI, I have deployed and managed over 20 terabytes of storage spread over a Sun Microsystems 6130 array (FC, SATA, SAS), and two T3 storage trays of Fibre attached SCSI drives. All of this storage was accessed through McData (now Brocade) fibre SAN switches, and managed by Veritas Volume Manager on the servers.

  In addition to the SAN management, I administered a collection of Sparc, and x86 boxes running Solaris 9, and 10. I oversaw the general administration, and deployment of necessary applications (Java, Apache TomCat, Apache httpd, Google Mini), and patch maintenance. I also acted as backup administer for a EMC Legato Networker, and a dozen Red Hat Enterprise 4 servers, and desktops.

• UT Medical Center
• Unix Administrator / PACS Technical Lead / Lab Manager
• April 2002 to January 2006

• While at University of Tennessee Medical Center I administered the Radiology department’s production systems, managed a medical image research lab, administered network peripherals, and acted as technical liaison to the vendors of our PACS (Picture Archive & Communication System), SAN, and medical modalities.

  In general, I was responsible for project management, new system installation, and development, projected growth plans, cross-platform backups, patch and software updates, network vulnerability scans, general system stability, vendor coordination, and system monitoring across the Radiology department.

  I am a certified system administer of GE PACS systems with 3.5 years experience on the GE's Pathspeed, and Centricity products lines. I am versed in the administration of their ISU server software running on a Sun V480 with attached HP EVA-SAN, GE tape archives, and their Enterprise Archiver including an attached EMC Centera SAN archive.

Education

• Ohio State University
• Business, CIS
• 1993 - 1994

• I majored in Business, with a minor in CIS. My GPA was 3.75.

• AT&T / Lucent Technologies Mentor Program
• Unix, Programming
• 1988 - 1992

• While I was involved with the program, as a student, I took courses in the UNIX operating system (System V, and Sun OS), shell scripting (Borne, Korn, and Berkley shell), Pascal, and C. I spent most of my time working on Amdahl, Sun 4, Sun Sparc (2, 5, 10, and 20’s), AT&T's 3B2 series (300, 400, and 600), and the Intel series.