| Russ Caslis | ||||||||
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| Critical Skills: | Experienced System Administrator Manager with strong technical skills. Extensive background in supporting mission critical production environments including enterprise mobility systems. Experience in change management and wireless communication. Strong workstation installation, configuration, and troubleshooting skills. Solid working knowledge of several operating systems with extensive knowledge of Solaris . Supported SAN infrastructure including multi-pathing software and high-availability systems. Direct day-to-day expererience with the technical details of all aspects of system management. Capable of quickly leaning undocumented software and applications. |
| Operating Systems: | Solaris 2.x - 10, Auspex NetOS 1.8 - 5.01, SunOS 4.x, Windows XP, Linux, SPARC64/OS, IRIX 3.x - 6.x, HPUX 9.x - 11.x, Ultrix 4.x, NCD Ware, Data OnTAP 4.x - 5.x |
| Technologies: | NIS, DNS, DDNS, NFS, SSH, SFTP, RSYNC, DHCP/BootP, Automounter, SMTP, POP, IMAP, HTTP, NNTP, RIP, TCP/IP, NAT, packet filtering, RAID, VPN, VLANs, TFTP, PPP/SLIP, TIS toolkit, plus others |
| Platforms: | SUN Enterprise servers (including T1000/T2000, V1280, 4500, blade servers, V210, V240, 220R, 420R, & more), x86 based systems, Hitachi 9570/9585, SGI servers & desktops, Digital StorageWorks Arrays, Network Appliance Arrays, Auspex servers, NCD X-terminals, Cisco routers & switches, 3com switches, Nortel switches, HP switches, DLT & 8mm tape loaders |
| Software: | Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), BigBrother, Veritas Filesystem (vxfs), Solaris Jumpstart, Sendmail, Qmail, Nmap, Cfengine, DiskSuite/LVM, Squid, FlexLM, Veritas NetBackup, Compaq SecurePath, tripwire, HP JetAdmin, Apache, Samba, & many others |
| Languages: | C, sh/csh, HTML (with some JavaScript), Perl, Pascal, 68k assembly, BASIC |
| Education: | B.S. candidate in Computer Science, University of California at Irvine. |
| Typical Duties: | Usually works in a small to medium sized teams (2 to 10 direct reports) supporting all aspects of a site's system administration and operations duties. This includes 24x7 support (on-call and pager duty) and backups/restores. Able to excel in high-pressure environments including those with or without change management policies. Experience managing remote teams as well as local personal. Specialty in system installation and re-architecting undocumented systems for additional functions long after the original architects have left. Has experience leading large, cross-functional projects such as Y2K or other time sensitive functions. Works on policies and procedures, including documentation for such. Has experience in integration of systems during and through acquisitions. Can successfully communicate technical issues to non technical people outside the IT field. |
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Network Operations Manager 11/02 - current Motorola - Good Technology Group (formerly Good Technology, Inc.) Supported the mission-critical customer facing servers that provided wireless message flow between handheld devices and Outlook or Domino based email servers. The production environment consisted of several "clouds" of machines, each well over a hundred machines. Support work included administering Veritas Cluster Server and other High Availability systems. Functioned as team lead and manager for 9 direct reports, including teams for system administration, securtity, and internal tools. Work included very restrictive on-call duty, weekend maintenance schedules, and on-site hours. During time there, evaluated several new technologies such as blade servers, OpsWare SAS, and several other large scale administration packages. Responsible for the day to day functioning and capacity planning of the complete system and application infrastructure. | |
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Author 02/04 - 06/04 [concurrent] Wiley Puslishing Over the space of several months, wrote a book titled "Going Mod" about the techniques used to upgrade and enhance personal computers. The book was part a discussion of techniques and part gallery of existing case mods. The work included all aspects of the book from developing the modding technqiues, to photgraphing the mods, to editing several chapters written by guest modders. The book became available around November 2004 and is well over 400 pages. | |
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Senior UNIX/Network Administrator 06/01 - 11/02 Auspex Systems, Inc. (CIT) Implemented many new network and system related services (world-wide VPN solution, new email infrastructure, among others) all while sustaining legacy systems using a minimum of resources (i.e. money & other system admins) and maintaining high uptime. Implemented a system monitoring facility with uptime reporting. Provided support and IT experience to a engineering-heavy company with many legacy issues. Continued support thoughout several layoffs including protecting data against sabotage. | |
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Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant 04/00 - 05/01 Promatory Networks/Nortel Networks Worked to transition the company from a small start-up to a divison of Nortel Networks, including moving into a new facility. Worked with Nortel to integrate the mis-match of current servers into a leg of their network. Projects included the installation and configuration of Veritas NetBackup, new NIS servers, license servers, and a jumpstart server. This included retraining users in how systems are to be setup and run, the importance of policies, and supportability issues. | |
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Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant 11/99 - 04/00 Auspex Systems, Inc. (CIT) Upgraded all Sun systems to be Y2K compliant. Also worked as the primary architect for a method of moving from the existing old servers to modern equipment and software. This entailed a high degree of having to decommission or redesigning of custom legacy scripts and procedures throughout the CIT department. Redesigned NIS, printing, DNS, system monitoring, system installation procedures, some of the mail system, plus more. Did research into dynamic DNS, web proxy services, and security, and the feasibility of integration of existing UNIX mail servers and MS Exchange servers. Also provided day-to-day support of the UNIX servers (answering help desk questions, providing answers to other staff members, general UNIX support, etc.). | |
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Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant 09/99 - 11/99 SanMina Corp. (IT) Functioned as a system administrator in a small team that supported world-wide manufacturing facilities. Major project included architecting an NIS implementation for the core servers, setup of a highly automated jumpstart server, and design and implementation of a consolidated printing service that was used by both UNIX & PC printing world-wide. Also helped to support day-to-day operations of the core servers and helped train the existing UNIX sysadmins. | |
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Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant 06/98 - 09/99 HAL Computers (CSA) Worked as the manager of a team of up to 8 sysadmins supporting both data center (24x7 mission critical servers) and desktop support for ~1000 hosts. This included managing staffing levels, working with the divisions on upgrading systems and networking, security issues, and crisis management. Worked closely with the CIO to help smooth relations between the IS dept. and the other divisions. Managed the Y2K project and several other large projects. | |
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Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant 05/98 - 10/98 Mylex Corp. (Engineering) [concurrent] Team lead for a consulting group doing an infrastructure audit and redesign of the UNIX network for the engineering department. Evaluated security and addressed concerns about possible security breaches. Re-installed and re-deployed systems and resources for a more robust, more manageable system architecture. Worked through setup of NIS, NFS, automounters, etc. while maintaining compatibility of existing services. Added additional services, such as printing and unified software library. Also, merged two separate NIS domains into one larger, more functional domain. | |
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Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant 11/97 - 06/98 BayNetworks (DataCenter) Team lead for Operations Systems Administration group responsible for supporting over 100 Enterprise Servers and desktop systems. Administered production and development servers in a data center environment. Handled projects which included new server setups, upgrades, and migrations. Troubleshot problems with servers as well as desktop systems. Interfaced with Application Groups and Database Administrators to complete projects. Provided 24 hour/ 7 day support. Managed NIS, DNS and large RAID arrays (423GB per box). Provided insight into the direction and function of the data center as a member of both the standards and and architecture teams. | |
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Ventana Proactive Consultant 05/97 - 11/97 Silicon Graphics (World Wide Field Support) Worked supporting the Entertainment Marketing group and as team lead for a group of 4 sysadmins spread across 6 buildings. Tasks included working on backup servers and providing support of artists and entertainment industry people. Worked on centralizing accounts (using NFS servers) and various system-level scripts for automated monitoring. Helped institute pro-active support of systems, recognizing and solving small problems before they became large ones. Worked with various custom applications and integrating them with the UNIX environment. | |
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Ventana Proactive Consultant 04/97 - 05/97 Netscape Communications Corp. Worked in a team of several sysadmins working around the Netscape campus providing support for engineering. Tasks included the usual addition of accounts and workstation installations, but also included maintaining Network Appliance servers. Supported a wide range of platforms. | |
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Senior Systems Administrator 06/96 - 04/97 Oracle/Network Computer, Inc. Administered & maintained a network of Suns, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Windows 95 machines. Tasks ranged from standard system administration (setup of sendmail, DNS, NIS, backups, etc.) to all aspects of network administration. Designed and implemented NCI's first company network, involving multiple T1 setups, switching ethernet hubs, livingston and other vendor's routers, 100bT backbone setup, packet filtering and firewall setup, proxy servers, and the physical installation of patch panels and punch down blocks. Designed next generation of NCI company network, based on cisco routers and involving a 200 percent increase in capacity over the original network, intended to support video streaming and expansion to include ATM support. Worked on setup of ISDN links between demo sites and main NCI network. Worked on dial-in access to NCI network, including both analog and ISDN connections. Also maintained standard Network Computer demo setups, including demo support both local and around the country. Managed a group of 4 people doing MIS work, including database administration and standard PC/UNIX support. Helped debug network computer installations and even wrote major portions of the code of the 1.1 release, including but not limited to smartcard programming software. | |
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TAOS Mountain Consultant 02/96 - 06/96 LSI Logic (DataCenter) Administered a large network (200-500 machines) of SunOS, Solaris, & Auspex systems. Provided lead technical and management support of a group of 7 sysadmins, including aspects such as hiring and scheduling. Work entailed cleanup of hundreds of systems administered in incredibly poor methods for years, while not allowing current running services to fail. This included being on call 24 hours, 7 days a week. High stress environment. | |
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TAOS Mountain Consultant 07/95 - 01/96 Datron Transco, Inc. (Imaging Systems Division) Administered a mixed environment network of Suns running SunOS 4.x and Solaris 2.x, an HP running HPUX 9.x, SGIs running IRIX 5.3, and PCs running Windows 3.11 and NT. Tested and analyzed various network security packages including COPS, SATAN, and ISS. Composed shell scripts to check user login validation, system file integrity, and to automate administrative tasks. Compiled and configured Sendmail for whole domain, including internal net & the outside world using UUCP. Installed SPARCcenter 1000 server. Installed workstations, including kernel configuration and security patches. Conducted system backups using dump & restore. Provided technical user support. Helped in moving the company from one building to another, including a complete redesign of internal net with FDDI and cat 5 cables. | |
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DCSLIB Maintainer 07/93 - 07/95 UCI Office of Academic Computing Maintained a UNIX software library mounted on over 400 machines. Activities ranged from compiling programs (X11R6, emacs19, LaTeX), installing licensed software (matlab, AVS) and administering licenses, performance monitoring, system upgrades (OS upgrades, hardware replacements, adding memory), disk management (partitioning, formatting, adding/removing drives), installing a UPS, and trouble shooting problems with individual programs (often involving source code modifications). This library existed on 4 different NFS servers around campus, each server having between 2 and 6 gigabytes of disk space. The library encompassed over 5 active architectures at a time. Duties included managing private NIS & DNS domains, as well as NFS activities. Other activities included designing and implementing an email to alphanumeric pager gateway using the ixo/tap pager protocol. | |
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System Administrator 07/91 - 07/93 UCI Office of Academic Computing Sysadmin for a heterogeneous network of computers at UCI, involving over 400 workstations. Installed SGI IRIX 4 & 5, installed SunOS 4 & Solaris 2, added memory to all types of workstations (including SPARCstations, DECstations, and various SGI boxes). Routed ethernet cables between rooms, attached systems to the UCI backbone (both installing hardware & configuring software), trained users on various aspects of UNIX, and trouble-shot problems. |