Professional Experience

Employment

Consultant Jul. 2001 - Dec. 2003 Netity Solutions Edmonton, Alberta Configured Linux and OpenBSD servers for web, email, and firewall deployments for various small and medium businesses. Researched solutions for reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in small and medium business IT solutions. Prepared and delivered demos of thin-client computing solutions based on Linux.

Consultant - Web Team Feb. 2001 - May. 2001 Telus Advanced Communications Edmonton, Alberta Investigated and reported on feasibility of deploying ASP, JSP, or PHP scripting for use by hosted web site customers on Sun Solaris systems. This involved careful examination of security and administration features in the Chilisoft and Halcyon ASP offerings. Tested web server support of LDAP authentication. The Web, Email, and other teams were migrating from NIS. We met weekly to discuss migration status and successfully deployed the new solution on schedule. Participated in weekly Web Team meetings, learning details of the environment and offering suggestions on difficult problems brought up by teammates.Participated in weekly Web Team meetings, learning details of the environment and offering suggestions on difficult problems brought up by teammates.

Senior Network Administrator Feb. 2000 - Dec. 2000 OA Internet Edmonton, Alberta Managed internet services on the core FreeBSD and Linux systems, serving OA Internet's customer base of over 20,000. Installed new systems and services. Supervised junior technical staff on tasks requiring substantial analysis and planning. Coordinated with other system and network administrators to complete complex tasks. Identified potential savings in support from deploying a unified platform. Determined suitability of Debian GNU/Linux for this environment, and focused team efforts on that platform. Implemented new mail server and backup systems to conform with uniform deployment of Debian GNU/Linux. Designed system cluster for authentication and mail, with support for migration of other services.

Senior Consultant Oct. 1997 - Jan. 2000 GDS & Associates Systems, Ltd. Edmonton, Alberta For GDS client Telus Advanced Communications, managed Sun UNIX servers for development of a billing system, coordinated with project teams and vendors to resolve issues. On the Sun Ultra 450 and Enterprise 3000 servers, introduced developers to the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and other open source development tools, configured Kenan Arbor/BP software and raw partitions for Sybase dataservers, set up IBM SSA to share drives between systems for high availability in a production environment. For Government of Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, developed Scan/Imaging interface for GDS LIMS system. For GDS hosted client web servers, established firewall security with port forwarding under Linux. Internally, as Technical Infrastructure Director, analyzed, designed and implemented technical infrastructure for multiple offices. This included set up of high-speed Internet access for multiple offices across Western Canada with Linux IP Masquerading firewall servers, DHCP services for each office, online documentation via Apache web server, and systems administration for Microsoft Windows NT, Novell, and Linux systems.

Instructor Jun. 1999 Northern Alberta Institute of Technologies Edmonton, Alberta Taught the full set of UNIX Administrator courses offered at the NAIT Microcomputer Institute.

Senior Applications Analyst Mar. 1997 - Jul. 1997 ArborText, Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan As a Senior Applications Analyst for Arbor Text, produced SGML solutions with ArborText software, provided primary support to major customers on IBM AIX RS6000 and Windows PC systems. Coordinated project activities of technical specialists, and recommended internal technical and process improvements for Sun Solaris and other UNIX systems involving shell scripting and PostScript.

Independent Consultant Nov. 1996 - Oct. 1997 various clients Ann Arbor, Michigan Identified and implemented solutions based on Linux, Windows, and IP network services to meet corporate requirements for internal and external communication and information services. Arranged for easy maintenance of these solutions through careful design and knowledge transfer. Clients included a major Detroit area manufacturer and a large Detroit-based law firm.

New Media Architect Apr. 1995 - Dec. 1996 CareerSite Ann Arbor, Michigan Designed and implemented World Wide Web user interfaces for the CareerSite product and Internet services using Perl 5 to construct many programs and participated in product and service definition and planning. Administrated SGI IRIX MIPS as well as Linux and Windows PC systems.

Technical Strategist Nov. 1992 - Apr. 1995 Ford Motor Company Dearborn, Michigan Introduced World Wide Web technology for distribution of internal documents, resulting in a Ford Systems Excellence Award. Coordinated WWW project introductions across the company. Conducted HP, IBM, and at times Sun, Digital, and SGI vendor review meetings. Set up and administrated company and departmental Web servers. Administrated workgroup Sun, Digital, HP, SGI systems. Consulted on other information technology deployment.

Customer Service Analyst Oct. 1988 - Oct. 1992 Cimage Corporation Ann Arbor, Michigan Trained customers to use and administrate Cimage products on Sun, Digital, and IBM UNIX systems, and on PC systems, integrated and installed customer systems, planned and supported trade show demo network and systems and provided primary support to key customers. Also wrote software error reports and managed customer-ready product releases.

Volunteer Experience

Promoted and participated in Linux Installfest event with the Edmonton Linux User Group, September, 1998.

Coordinated SEMiSLUG system/network administrators' forum meetings 1994-1997. Arranged monthly presentations on cutting-edge technologies and moderated meetings. Operated group's Web site, http://www.semislug.org/.

Supported public M-Net and Arbornet UNIX-based conferencing systems from 1986-1993. Set up initial Web server at http://www.arbornet.org/.

Professional Memberships

Edmonton user groups EJUG (Java), ELUG (Linux), and UGE (UNIX)

Electronic Frontiers Foundation

Netscape Developer Program

SGI DevEdge

USENIX/SAGE

Professional Development

Informatics 1999 conference	Oct. 1999
Canadian Information Processing Society	Edmonton, Alberta
SEMiSLUG system administration forum	Sep. 1991 - Jul. 1997
SEMiSLUG	Ann Arbor, Michigan
Second International WWW Conference	Oct. 1994
UIUC, NCSA	Chicago, Illinois
Perl training	May 1994
Tom Christiansen	Dearborn, Michigan
First International World-Wide Web Conference	May 1994
CERN	Geneva, Switzerland
Avalanche SGML product training	Jan. 1994
Avalanche (at Ford)	Dearborn, Michigan
World Class Timing training	Oct. 1993
Ford Motor Company	Dearborn, Michigan
Interop interoperability conference	Aug. 1993
Interop	San Francisco, California
Distributed Computing Environment (DCE & DME) training	May - Jun. 1993
University of Michigan Center for Information Technology Integration, Ford Motor Company, Digital Equipment Corp.	Ann Arbor and Dearborn, Michigan
USENIX Summer 1993 Technical Conference	Jun. 1993
USENIX Association	Cincinnati, Ohio

References

Many references from employers, clients, and professional associates available upon request.