Objective:

• To make system administration as boring as possible.

• Unix system administration and programming: NetBSD on various platforms (i386, arm, alpha, ppc, macppc, mac68k, pmax); FreeBSD; GNU/Linux; Solaris; SunOS; Ultrix; Digital UNIX; SCO
• Programming languages: perl; C; 68k, ARM, PIC, PPC assembly
• Network programming/configuration: DNS (bind), mail (postfix, sendmail), YP/NIS, IPF and firewalls, WWW (apache, HTML, CGI), RT (trouble ticketing)

• Yahoo! Inc, Jun 2004 - present

Retrofitted infrastructure designed for a smaller organization to scale gracefully; reduced the amount of "hands-on" maintenance required for various systems; forensic sysadmin work on critical machines whose functions have been lost in the mists of time.

Main projects: Designed and implemented tools for configuration and failover of network services (DNS, DHCP, VMPS/VQP); developed tools for IP allocation and tracking; completely rewrote the majority of internal DNS infrastructure tools; did aggregation and analysis of network and other data.
 

• Kataname Inc, Apr 2003 - Jun 2004

Built and maintained cross-platform build tools. Managed source tree for embedded OS - vendor imports, patches, releases. Developed board-level firmware and interface software. Ported various programs to an embedded environment. Administrated disk, network, and computer infrastructure.

Main projects: bootstrapping custom hardware into operation, porting NetBSD to custom hardware, cross-compilation infrastructure.
 

• Redback Networks, Oct 1999 - Oct 2002

Architected and implemented IS infrastructure. Redesigned and implemented the IS infrastructure to scale for a rapidly growing company - IP allocation, mail, DNS, firewalls and network topology, OS support and maintenance.

Main projects: designed campus network architecture, implemented netboot methodology for NetBSD i386 boxes, mail server architecture with postfix, firewalls with i386 boxes and ipf, general automation of routine system administration tasks, customized NetBSD kernels and binaries.
 

• Frontier GlobalCenter, Oct 1998 - Oct 1999

Worked on IS infrastructure and network backbone statistics collection and analysis.

Main projects: LDAP-based list software, a multiple-host ping program with bells and whistles, reimplementing myriad shell scripts in perl, general system administration.
 

• Merit Network/University of Michigan, Oct 1996 - Oct 1998

Did network programming/research and system administration for various units throughout the university.

Main projects: On-call support for RSng, Merit's Route Servers at various exchange points; analysis of prescribed and actual BGP data (PAIR); automated GateD/rsd configuration; database software for the Routing Arbiter Database (RADB); "hired hand" for many units inside the university who needed their systems cleaned up.

• NetBSD developer
• Member of the 2002, 2004, 2006 NetBSD Foundation Board of Directors Nomination Committees
• Embedded microcontroller (PIC) work for various projects
• Ported perl5 to BeOS
• Worked on FreeAmp portability and Makefile/autoconf structure.
• Fanime Conventions Operation staffer, 2003-2006

• References and salary requirements on request.