272 West Daniel Drive

435.843.5154 mobile: 435.850.9860

Tooele UT 84074

e-mail: matthew@barnson.org

SUMMARY

Career systems administrator in diverse industries including banking, e-commerce, telephony, and gaming. Supported systems from thousands of customers to a few dozen employees. Recognized for deep system knowledge and troubleshooting ability. With a book, I can learn anything!

SKILLS

Operating Systems:

GNU/Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Debian), HPUX, Solaris, AIX, Windows NT/2K/XP, NetWare 2.x-6.x

Network Hardware:

Cisco PIX, load-balancing hardware, routers, switches, various firewalls

Computing Hardware:

SAN storage and fabrics, Alpha, Sun (various models), x86 PC, HP Itanium and L/Z-class, IBM AIX M/B/P-series and x86 Blades, NetApp

Network Services:

DNS, DHCP, SMP (Postfix, Exim, Sendmail), CVS, RCS, VNC, CMS, Apache, clustering, OpenLDAP, IMAP (Cyrus, Dovecot, Groupwise), Tomcat, NIM, Kickstart/Jumpstart, license servers, Oracle Application Server, Symantec OpForce and NetBackup, Veritas Volume Manager

Languages:

PHP, Perl, Bash, SGML, XML, HTML, OpScript

Miscellaneous:

OpenOffice.org, Groupwise, tech management, Siebel, BMC Patrol

EXPERIENCE

UNIX System Administrator

Oracle USA/Siebel Salt Lake City, UT 2004-Present

• Maintained over 1,600 AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and Sun Solaris systems, including hardware troubleshooting, kernel updates, and operating system tuning

• Taught UNIX administration to UNIX novices and intermediates

• Managed NetBackup and Network Appliance VTL data recovery solution for multi-terabyte global storage

• Created rapid system deployment methods for Redhat, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and SuSE with Kickstart and OpForce

• Maintained over 1,600 AIX, HP-UX, RedHat/SuSE/Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Sun Solaris systems

• Trained and mentored system administrators overseas

Sr. UNIX System Administrator

Smith Johnson & Associates Salt Lake City, UT 2004

• Administered Sun Solaris, Linux, and Win32 systems to deploy custom device management application

• Documented administration and maintenance procedures

• Deployed SNMP-based systems monitoring application

Sr. UNIX System Administrator

American Investment Bank Salt Lake City, UT 2002-2003

• Architect over migration from legacy NetWare/Win32 to GNU/Linux infrastructure

• Implemented Cyrus IMAP, OPENLDAP, and WebCalendar, saving $18,000 verses GroupWise upgrade

• Replaced Checkpoint Firewall-1 with iptables, poptop, and IPSEC on GNU/Linux, resulting in a one-time $11,000 cost saving and $7,000 annual savings

• Designed and deployed Plone/Zope-based content management system to assist in IT training for 200+ person organization and 10-person IT staff

Engineering System Administrator

Talk2 Technology Salt Lake City, UT 2001-2002

• Integrated and administered HP-UX, GNU/Linux, Solaris, and Cisco PIX firewalls for VOIP and SS7 telephony applications

• Deployed CVS (Concurrent Versioning System)to replace Microsoft Visual Source Safe, reducing source repository downtime from several hours per month to nothing.

• Built HP-UX and Sun Solaris DS3-based telephony gateways, bringing expertise in-house and virtually eliminating vendor support calls.

• Sun Solaris administration for Oracle 8i on 440, proprietary telephony software and devices on Sun Blade hardware

VLSI Integrator (Member, Technical Staff)

Velio Systems Milpitas, CA 2001

• Glued perforce SCM and Bugzilla together, bringing software revision management techniques to VLSI silicon design on Sun Solaris back-end

• Built SAN ( Storage Area Network) on Sun StorEdge 3000 to house perforce database to store over three terabytes of chip designs

• Trained employees on bug life cycle, allowing integration of two formerly separate teams on opposite sides of the nation

Lead System Administrator

Excite@Home Orem, UT 1999-2001

• Managed sysadmin crew on 24-hour shifts, overseeing approximately fifty Sun servers and fifty Sun, GNU/Linux, and BSD workstation-class machines

• Designed Veritas NetBackup disaster recovery routine for seven terabytes on EMC and Network Appliance hardware; repeatedly prevented data loss despite hardware failures

• Wrote and enforced data security policies for e-commerce division; not a single customer record was ever exposed

• Reduced Apache memory footprint by nearly 80% (from 34 MB per fork to 7 MB) through optimization by use of virtual hosting database for over 3,000 customers

• Implemented WCCP (Web Cache Control Protocol) gateway services on Cisco 7200 & Cisco LocalDirector for web acceleration; handled several hundred nodes on Cisco 9600 switch

Assistant Network Administrator

Singletrac/Atari Salt Lake City, UT 1997-1999

• Drafted & implemented DLT autochanger backup system on Novell & Win32

• Administered C programming, Mac Protools audio, and SGI IRIX (UNIX) workstations

• Worked with team to design and build GNU/Linux & Apache-based content management system

Systems Engineer

Las Vegas Computers Las Vegas, NV 1996-1997

• Jockeyed a screwdriver in on-site, for hire PC consultation on Novell, SCO UNIX, and Microsoft Windows 3.X/95/NT systems

• Migrated 100-node legal firm from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, eliminating communication barriers between lawyers and clients

• Implemented fax gateway with optical character recognition

Sales & Technical Support

Interactive Satellite Internet Service Rigby, ID 1995-1996

• Deployed and serviced satellite-based Internet delivery to remote locations

• Installed Internet software for homes and businesses

EDUCATION

AND

TRAINING

Symantec/Veritas OpForce

Oracle USA, Inc. Sandy, UT 2006

Siebel 7 Essentials

Siebel Systems, Inc. Sandy, UT 2005

Pre-Bachelors

BYU Idaho Rexburg, ID 1994

Networking with Windows NT

National Radio Institute Washington, D.C. 1996

Microsoft Certified Professional

1999

VOLUNTEER

SERVICE

GNU Organization Webmaster 2003-2004

Mozilla Foundation Doc Maintainer, Bugzilla 1998-2003

The <withheld> Foundation Webmaster 2004-Present

CONSULTING

• Bugzilla and CVS integration with SunONE LDAP, Albertsons, Inc. (2004-2005)

• Bugzilla installation and configuration, various (2004-present)

• Drupal installation, modification, maintenance, various (2004-present)