Jonathan J. Wallace
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Skills
Group manager, project manager, and vendor liaison UNIX System Administrator and Engineer with experience administrating heterogeneous UNIX networks: Solaris, RedHat Linux, Digital UNIX, IRIX, SunOS 4.X, SCO, Sequent, and Xwindows administration High volume website engineering and operations SAN and NAS engineering and maintenance Design, coding, and maintenance for enterprise backup of heterogeneous networks with multi-TB daily capacity using Veritas NetBackup software and robotic tape libraries such as the ATL P3000, ADIC Scalar 1000, and ADIC AML/J. Oracle RMAN and raw file system backups. Network Appliance NDMP backups Installation and configuration of SUN Solstice Suite and Veritas Volume Manager Custom Jumpstart server setup and configuration for Solaris 2.x Veritas File System and AdvFS configuration and maintenance TCP/IP Network design and engineering Installation and configuration of Cisco routers, switches, local director, and distributed director Hardware installation and configuration including gigabit ethernet, network cabling, installation of frame-relay WAN connections, fibre channel and SCSI devices (tape drives, JBOD shelves, hardware RAID arrays, and disks), modems, X terminals, printers, terminal servers, and workstations Installation of remote access dialup system with Livingston Portmaster 2E using radius authentication Internet security tools and firewall setup (Snort, Tripwire, NTOP, Nessus, http proxy servers, Eagle Raptor, Sun EFS, Cisco ACL, TCP wrappers, Symark PowerBroker) OS hardening, security patches, checking for insecure passwords, maintaining user awareness of security issues TCP/IP protocols, including debugging and network troubleshooting Network troubleshooting and debugging with the Fluke 683 Enterprise Lanmeter Network file system configuration (NFS, CIFS/SMB). Using NFS and automounter to provide a uniform view of shared file systems across workstations PC and Macintosh internetworking with UNIX: Samba and PC-NFS NIS, NIS+ DNS/BIND configuration including split level DNS Apache web server setup and configuration E-mail (Sendmail , POP, IMAP, procmail), act as postmaster for a site with external connections Integration of public key encryption into mail user agents Print server maintenance and configuration using standard Unix printing services Languages: perl (automate system administration tasks, produce resource usage reports, network monitoring, and source code revision control), C shell scripting (bash/sh/ksh) and m4 Supporting users by answering questions, standardizing and configuring their environments, obtaining tools, writing scripts to automate tasks, writing appropriate documentation and other support materials, and helping people develop reasonable processes Preventative maintenance, proactive system administration, performance tuning Configuration management and software distribution Write purchase justifications and project plans
Employment
June 2005 – March 2006 Senior Security Engineer Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Member of security group with responsibility for Extranet and Internet gateway architectural assessment and access control. Internal and external audit compliance. Symark PowerBroker administration and maintenance. Maintenance of OS hardening scripts for Solaris servers including E25k, E15k, E10k, and Sun Cluster systems. Internal and external system vulnerability assessment. Additional system and network security consulting as required. November 2003 – January 2005 Systems Engineering Manager Amazon.com, Seattle, WA Manager of the systems engineering group supporting the Amazon.com Oracle database, MySQL database, software development, software deployment, content deployment, and catalog build environments. Group provided level three engineering support to the Systems and Network Operations Center. Supervising manager of the design and architectural review process. June 2002 - June 2003 Security Engineer Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Member of UNIX Internet Access Control Group with responsibility for Extranet and Internet gateway architectural assessment and access control. Member of e-Banking security team. Completed Solaris OS hardening project for all SAP servers including E15k, E10k, and Sun Cluster systems. Internal and external system vulnerability assessment. Firewall engineering and administration. CyberGuard Firewall evaluation and assessment. Symark PowerBroker pilot project. Member of SAP computing center disaster recovery team. June 2001 - March 2002 Sr. Unix System Administrator Celltech R&D, Bothell, WA Administration of Solaris and Linux servers supporting a Bioinformatics research group. Configuration and management of NetBackup 3.4.1 enterprise backup system that includes file system, NDMP, and Oracle backups. Administration and maintenance of Network Appliance. Third-party bioinformatics software installation, configuration, and management. Member of corporate UNIX system and network security team.
September 2000 - April 2001 Sr. Unix System Administrator-Consultant Nordstrom, Seattle, WA Project to setup Sun Microsystems servers ranging from E220R to E6500 for a new perpetual inventory system deployment. Setup and integration of VeritasNetBackup 3.4 with Storage Tek L700 using STK 9840 fibre channel drives and Brocade fibre channel switch. Design and deployment of centralized configuration management scripts. Engineering consulting for Sun E10000 deployment. Third-party software installation and management. UNIX system and network security consulting. Installation and configuration of mail system to allow UNIX systems to deliver mail to MS Exchange server.
August 2000 - August 2000 Consultant
ATT Wireless Services, Kirkland, WA
Design and re-architecture of enterprise backups for production environment scaling. Evaluation of Veritas GDM for use with Veritas NetBackup multiple master servers. May 2000 - July 2000 Project Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Bellevue, WA
Design and specification of systems to meet customer need. Primary focus was E10k server consolidation and storage. Technical advisor to sales and project management staff. October-1998 - April 2000 Systems Engineer Amazon.com, Seattle, WA Started as on-call system administrator for Amazon.com production website with first contact responsibility for maintaining the integrity of the retail website. Designed and documented procedure for building Amazon.com retail webservers. Firewall installations and maintenance, data warehouse (Sun Ultra E10000) system administration, design and implementation of enterprise network backup. Promoted to Manager of Systems Engineering in May 1999 with hands-on technical and managerial responsibilities for website operational engineering and enterprise backups. Moved to Security group in March 2000 to work on system and network security issues. June 1996 - September 1998 Network Administrator/Software Engineer Primex Technologies, Inc., Redmond WA Network Administrator for a 900+ node network for Primex in Redmond. Responsible for network infrastructure (routers, switches, etc.), Internet connectivity and firewall, and about 100 UNIX based servers. Setup corporate T-1 Internet connection and Firewall that acts as Internet gateway for company sites in seven US cities. Completely reworked company's backup system with full supporting documentation. Setup dialup remote access system using Portmaster 2E. Installation and maintenance of Network Appliance F520 file server. Installation and configuration of Cisco 5500 Catalyst switch acting as network backbone. December 1995 - June 1996 Technical Support/Systems Administrator Accessone Internet Services , Kirkland, WA Technical support to over 3000 frame-relay, World Wide Web, and dialup customers. On-site installation technician for new corporate frame-relay connections. Cisco router set-up and configuration for corporate frame-relay customers. System administration duties included new account construction, domain name service, Sendmail administration, World Wide Web server maintenance, and other general system administrative duties. On-call technician for corporate frame-relay connections. Technical support for HTML, Perl, and CGI for individual and corporate World Wide Web customers.
December 1994 - June 1995 Internet Consultant
Whidbey Internet Express , Langley, WA
Website construction and maintenance of World Wide Web site with associated graphics. Consulting on available slip/ppp software for client use and its configuration, consultation on various other client software such as news readers, web browsers, ftp clients, archie clients, and viewers, etc. On request, response to customer software problems. September 1994 - May 1995 Manager of Quality Control Royal Seafoods Inc., Seattle, WA Ongoing project to move all quality control activities to computer automation. Designed and implemented a variety of microbiological and statistical computer programs. End user support. Technical manager of all quality control activities, including staff supervision, capital and operations budgeting, computerization activities. Responsible for compliance with all applicable inspection and quality requirements imposed by government agencies. September 1993 - June 1994 Microbiologist (GS-7 Temporary Term)
NOAA/National Marine Fisheries NW Science Center Seattle, WA
Applied and molecular microbiology research work in seafood safety. Developed computerized data analysis tools for ongoing use by research personnel.
Education
University of Washington
Department of Microbiology B. S. Microbiology. June 1991 - June 1993
Shoreline Community College
Associate of Arts and Science Degree. January 1990 - June 1991
Computer Training
Sun Ultra Enterprise E10000 Administration Course-December 1998 SDRC-IDEAS CAD Unix Administration Training-May 1997 Large Installation and System Administration Conference-September 1997 System Administration, Networking, and Security Conference-May 1998 Usenix Technical Conference-May 1998 USENIX Technical Conference-May 1999 Veritas Advanced Netbackup Training-October 1999 Veritas Cluster Server Training-January 1999