MARC RICHMAN
155 High Street
North Billerica, MA 01862
(978) 667-9147
mrichman@postdiluvian.org
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: Solaris 2.X 8 and 9, SunOS 4.1.X, RedHat, Debian, HP-UX, AIX, BSDI 3.0, OSF1,
Windows95/98, Windows NT, and Cisco IOS
Networking: TCP/IP, NFS, Cricket, Automount, DNS, Sendmail, FTP, SSH, and SNMP
Applications: Legato NetWorker, PDC Budtool, ArcServ, NAI Sniffer Pro, FlexLM license manager,
Platform LSF and TIS fwtk
Hardware: Sun Ultra 1/2/5/10/60, Sun Sparc 2/5/10/20, 3com SuperStack II switches, EMC Clarion
and Celerra, 3com CoreBuilder 3500, Cisco routers, DLT LTO and 8mm jukeboxes
EXPERIENCE
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 2002-Present
Senior UNIX Administrator
One third of the team that built the majority of the Unix computing infrastructure at the Institute.
Configure and maintain EMC Clarion/Celerra NAS.
Build and maintain scientific applications such as blast, genecards and R.
Build and maintain LSF clusters on RedHat 7.3 and 9.
Write maintenance and utility scripts in Perl and Shell to improve efficiency, monitor the network,
collect performance data and simplify tasks.
Configure and maintain BIND and NIS.
Build and maintain apache web servers.
Provide desktop support for Linux, OSX and Solaris.
Perform off-hours system maintenance.
Wrote and maintain an all system shutdown script to facilitate maintenance and disaster control.
Deployed serial console server to assist maintenance.
Mentoring junior administrators.
FUJITSU NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS, Acton, MA 1998-2001
UNIX and Network Administrator
Maintained 300+ Sun Workstations and servers.
Configured and maintained Solaris jumpstart server. Customized scripts allowing the company to
rapidly increase the number of workstations from 180 to over 300, and also allowed the company to
quickly upgrade the OS running on all the sun workstations.
Configured and maintained BIND and NIS.
Built and maintained GNU and other public domain applications.
Wrote maintenance and utility scripts in Perl and Shell to improve efficiency, monitor the network,
collect performance data and simplify tasks.
Performed network administration tasks including deploying and maintaining Cisco and 3Com
equipment.
Deployed new subnets and debugged network problems.
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Deployed and maintained backup solutions using Legato NetWorker and PDC Budtool, backing up
data located on over 200 computers.
PLAIN AVIATION, Nashua, NH 1996-1998
UNIX and Network Administrator
Maintained UNIX servers.
Built and upgraded operating systems and added hardware to various UNIX machines.
Configured and maintained DNS servers.
Used fwtk to construct firewall/proxy servers.
Created tools to assist administration in Bourne Shell, Expect and Perl.
Configured and maintained Legato servers to backup PCs and UNIX servers.
Maintained and configured Cisco routers.
NT and Win95 administration and backup.
Supported NFS, NIS (yp), DCE, and AMD.
FTP SOFTWARE, Andover, MA 1993-1996
Systems Support Specialist
Provided in-house support for PCs. Troubleshot software, hardware, UNIX and NT servers and
TCP/IP network problems, including telephone help desk support.
Built and maintained a NFS server including limiting access to some areas using UNIX file security.
Documented technical processes. Established and organized a centralized repository of I.S.
department documentation.
Built and maintained the company’s Lotus Notes 3.2 servers on NT 3.51 platforms.
Maintained a Lotus Notes-SMTP gateway on OS/23.0.
Maintained the company’s Biscom fax server.
EDUCATION
Celerra Management, EMC, Milford, MA, 2003
Troubleshooting with the Sniffer Pro Network Analyzer, Network Associates Education, Burlington, MA, 2000
JumpStart Software, Sun Education Services, Burlington, MA, 1999
Intro to Cisco Router Configuration, Global Knowledge, Burlington, MA, 1998
Unix Systems Administration Program, BOSTON UNIVERSITY Corporate Education Center, Boston, MA,
1995
Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Boston, MA, 1986-1987
General Studies, BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA, 1983-1984
Chemistry/Physics, NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Beverly, MA, 1982-