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. 


Experience:
11/02 - current     Network Operations Manager - Motorola Good Technology Group (formerly Good Technology, Inc.)
02/04 - 06/04Author - Wiley Puslishing [concurrent]
06/01 - 11/02Senior UNIX/Network Administrator - Auspex Systems, Inc. (CIT)
04/00 - 05/01Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant - Promatory Networks/Nortel Networks
11/99 - 04/00Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant - Auspex Systems, Inc. (CIT)
09/99 - 11/99Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant - SanMina Corp. (IT)
06/98 - 09/99Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant - HAL Computers (CSA)
05/98 - 10/98Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant - Mylex Corp. (Engineering) [concurrent]
11/97 - 06/98Ventana Technology, Inc. Consultant - BayNetworks (DataCenter)
05/97 - 11/97Ventana Proactive Consultant - Silicon Graphics (World Wide Field Support)
04/97 - 05/97Ventana Proactive Consultant - Netscape Communications Corp.
06/96 - 04/97Senior Systems Administrator - Oracle/Network Computer, Inc.
02/96 - 06/96TAOS Mountain Consultant - LSI Logic (DataCenter)
07/95 - 01/96TAOS Mountain Consultant - Datron Transco, Inc. (Imaging Systems Division)
07/93 - 07/95DCSLIB Maintainer - UCI Office of Academic Computing
07/91 - 07/93System Administrator - UCI Office of Academic Computing







References available upon request